• Romanian Literary History at a Crossroads: Mihai Iovanel's History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1900-2020 and the Cultural-Materialist and Transnational Turn in Literary Studies. [Editorial] 

  Gârdan, Daiana; Modoc, Emanuel; Moraru, Christian (2022)

  As intellectual projects, literary histories hold a particular significance in Romanian culture; they recover authors and relegate them to anonymity, make and break canons, and promote and undermine ideologies and political ...
• Minden Nemzeti Irodalom Valójában transznacionális Beszélgetés a Transhirol projektről. [Interjú] 

  Terian, Andrei (Korunk Baráti Társaság, 2022)

  A román irodalom transznacionális története (TRANSHIROL) a nagyszebeni Lucian Blaga Egyetem (koordinátor: Andrei Terian) nagyszabású ERC-Consolidator projektje. Mi a projekt fõ célja? Milyen elõnyei lehetnek egy ilyen ...
• An Ethos of Attunement: Ruxandra Novac Among Objects 

  Moraru, Christian (2023)

  A buzzword of the first post-Cold War decade, “transition” held out the promise of a fresh start for most countries of the former Eastern Bloc and, as such, seemed preferable to the inanely retweeted “end of history.”¹ ...
• Planetáris poétikák 

  Moraru, Christian (Korunk Baráti Társaság, 2021)

  Többször is hangsúlyoztam (s ezt a jelen, elméleti kritikai sorozatban megjelent kötetben is érdemes újra megtennem) hogy az olyan kifejezések, mint a „világ” (world), a „földgolyó” (globe) és a „bolygó” (planet) ...
• Neoextractivism, or the birth of magical realism as world literature 

  Terian, Andrei (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2021)
• Operaționalizarea experimentului în critica literară românească 

  Pojoga, Vlad (Editura „ASTRA Museum” Sibiu, 2021)

  This study has a two-fold structure, in its first part exploring various models of experimental literature, proposed by researchers such as Gerald Prince and Warren Motte, as well as theoretical attempts to define and ...
• Critica ideologică în epoca limbajului administrativ de stânga: o istorie New Left a literaturii române contemporane Articole RTR 

  Baghiu, Ștefan (Editura „ASTRA Museum” Sibiu, 2021)

  As Teodora Dumitru (2016) has convincingly argued in the case of Romanian literary critic Eugen Lovinescu, the evaluation of literature he proposed along his History of Contemporary Romanian Literature (1926-1929) was ...
• Literary Historiography as Event: Mihai Iovănel’s History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020 

  Moraru, Christian (Editura „ASTRA Museum” Sibiu, 2021)

  In his essay, Moraru contends that Mihai Iovănel’s 2021 History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020 is a breakthrough in Romanian literary historiography and criticism overall. According to Moraru, the History ...
• The Post-National Celan: The Imperfect Triangulation from (Abandoned) Romanian Poetry to World Literature and Back 

  Vancu, Radu (Publisher Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2022)

  This article focuses on the (dis)continuities between the German-language work of Paul Celan (integrated into a “large” literature where he becomes “Europe’s foremost poet after World War II”, in George Steiner’s opinion) ...
• Rhizomes, Forms, Rhythms, and Other Transportation Systems. An Attempt at Introducing Constructalism in Literary Theory 

  Dumitru, Teodora (Editura Centrului de Studii Transilvane, Cluj Napoca, 2022)

  The present study sets out to integrate the constructal theory set forth by physicist Adrian Bejan’s in his Design in Nature (2012) with literary theory. To this end, I selected two works that have the potential to engage ...
• Children’s Literature in Romania 

  Iovănel, Mihai (Editura Centrului de Studii Transilvane, Cluj Napoca, 2022)

  The present paper traces the evolution of children’s literature in Romania from the nineteenth century to the present day. It suggests the existence of four phases that are associated with the political and ideological ...
• „Geniul” la Eminescu și „geniul” lui Eminescu. Problemă cosmologică și afacere național(ist)ă (I) și (II) 

  Dumitru, Teodora (Editura „ASTRA Museum” Sibiu, 2022)

  In this paper I investigate how the interpretation of the Romantic poet Mihai Eminescu’ work verifies the European transition from a rationalist conception of “genius” (according to which “genius” is a phenomenon subjected ...
• From Capitalist Aspirations to the National Project. The Inter-Imperial Transylvanian Compromise 

  Olaru, Ovio (2022)

  In the present article, I address two novelistic productions set in late 19th century and early 20th century Transylvania, discussing the different intersections of class, ethnicity, and culture underlying the constructed ...
• Eminescu-thermosof sau cum intră știința în poezie (I) și (II) 

  Dumitru, Teodora (Editura „ASTRA Museum” Sibiu, 2022)

  In this essay I show that the picture of universal extinction in the poem Satire I of the Romantic poet Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889) is deeply and rigorously inspired by a theory of thermodynamics of the 1870s, more precisely ...
• World History, Literary History: Postmodernism and After 

  Moraru, Christian (2022-09)

  World History, Literary History: Postmodernism and After. The basic question Christian Moraru raises in his contribution is about the direction in which literary history and criticism overall may be going after postmodernism. ...
• New Scales for Regional Studies in Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires 

  Balázs, Imre József (Editura „ASTRA Museum” Sibiu, 2022)

  This review article tries to formulate some general remarks about the most innovative elements of Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires, published by Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă in 2022 at Cornell ...
• A Szürrealista Földrajz Implikációi : Transznacionális szempontok a Surrealism Beyond Borders címû kiállításon 

  Balázs, Imre József (Korunk Baráti Társaság, 2022)

  A szürrealizmus elsõ éveitõl kezdve a váratlan találkozásokra épített. A Surrealism Beyond Borders ezeknek a találkozásoknak kifejezetten geográfiaikartográfiai keretet ad. A szürrealizmuskutatás legutóbbi évtizedeinek az ...
• Poezie, crimă și capital internațional. Geo Bogza și petromodernitatea interbelică 

  Mironescu, Doris (Editura Tracus Arte, 2022)

  Petromodernity refers to a stage of development in Western societies which signals an unprecedented level of social and ecological integration. Its features are the global reach of civilizational modernity and the capacity ...
• Can the Foreigner Speak? Reflecting the World in the Romanian Novel 1844-1947 

  Olaru, Ovio (2023)

  The following article will attempt a partly quantitative analysis of the Romanian novel from 1844 to 1947, drawing on the archive of the Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel. I will try to deliver an insight into how a ...
• Trauma locuirii ca traumă identitară în literatura română a deceniilor 2010-2020. Duțescu, Braniște, Novac 

  Dumitru, Teodora (Editura „ASTRA Museum” Sibiu, 2023)

  In this essay I address a particular case of economic trauma, housing anxiety, the difficulty of obtaining housing, as reflected in Romanian literature published after 2008, the year of the global financial crisis. The ...

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