Gramatica Critică Sau Critica Gramaticii?

Gramatica critică a limbii române (The Critical Grammar of the Romanian Language), authored by Ștefan Găitănaru, was published in 2018, at the University of Pitești Publishing House. The launch of this book took place during the National Conference on Adaptation, Conservation and Rejection in the Evolution of the Romanian Cultural/ Linguistic/ Literary Phenomenon, held at the Faculty of Letters in Sibiu, on May 24, 2019. The purpose of the book, mentioned by the author in the Preface, is to update the grammar research, emphasizing the normative aspect. Thus, we witness a descriptive-normative grammar, with a classical structure: part I - Morphology and part II - Syntax, each section comprising the description, analysis and interpretation of specific components. This Critical Grammar brings to the surface controversial aspects regarding the grammatical structure of the Romanian language, with pertinent observations and recommendations, with solid arguments, for or against, from case to case.

“Unicul Lucru Capabil Să Surprindă Un Crâmpei De VeȘnicie, Este Arta” Forestiera Feltrinelli, De Joachim Wittstock, Traducere De Maria Sass

Joachim Wittstock’s novella Forestiera Feltrinelli, translated into Romanian by Maria Sass, appeared under the aegis of the Honterus publishing house in Sibiu, in 2019. Combining present-day economic realities, with a parallelism of temporal planes, and the antonimy between the mythical past and the disillusioning present, Wittstock manages to interweave in his most recent volume social and historical analyses, love stories and subtle eroticism, existentialist concerns and political dimensions. The volume can be regarded as an important contribution to a better relationing of the Romanian readership with German literature in Romania, and to a better understanding of the complex thematic and narrative mechanisms in Joachim Wittstock’s works. A fascinating page of the history of Sibiu, of the Romanian Saxons, and of the author’s biography, the volume is a succesful and innovative attempt in the landscape of contemporary Romanian and European literature, and its Romanian translation a welcome and necessary initiative in view of a multicultural understanding of the literatures of ethnic minorities in Romania.

Despre (Post)Comunismul Românesc. Trei Formule Narative Și Trei Studii De Caz: Petru Cimpoeşu, Dan Lungu Și Patrick Mcguinness

This paper aims to analyze the (post)communism era in Romania, as it is portrayed in the novels of Petru Cimpoeșu, Dan Lungu and Patrick McGuinness. The study wants to highlight three different perspectives on the communist regime, depending on the vision of each writer: the existential shades of gray, in the case of Cimpoesu’s novels, the nostalgia of Dan Lungu’s characters, but also the perception of the foreign eye on the totalitarian reality in our country, as for Patrick McGuinness. The paper also emphasizes the reasons why the literary theme of communism still arouses such great interest in contemporary literature and the importance of reading such works through the filter of the present.

O Analiză Discursivă Asupra Celor Două Diate Ale Mariei Cantemir Și a Unui Model Testamentar Inedit De La Sfârşitul Secolului Al Xviii-Lea

The present paper endeavours to offer a brief analysis of two wills written by the princess Maria Cantemir (1700-1757) during 1725 and 1757. Using discoursive concepts such as „scene of enunciation”, „discursive scenes” and „discursive ethos”, followed by stylistics devices, our attempt aimed to capture the process of (re)constructing the self. Thus, comparing the two wills with an unedited testamentary letter sample (Romanian manuscript no. 2120 from Romanian Academy Library Bucharest) and to the process of writing and rewriting, our approach delineates how in articulo mortis Maria Cantemir (re)presents herself as „sister princess Maria Cantemirova”.

Politica Prozei Fracturiste

This paper is aiming to analyze the prose of the early 2000s’ young authors from an ideological and political point of view. Fracturism was a literary movement with anarchist and insurgent purposes, but the nature of their values was not clarified by the local literary criticism. This thesis suggests a redefinition of the anti-systemic attitude proposed by the Fracturists. Also, another objective is to clarify the relationship of Fracturist prose to the aesthetics’ domain. In this sense, inconsistencies can be observed between the anti-postmodernist obsession of “The Fracturist Manifesto” and the literary works themselves. Moreover, the subcultural themes as used by the young prose writers become a means of self-promotion in the Romanian literary field from post-Communism.

Faţete Ale Feminităţii În Dramaturgia Blagiană – (De) Limitări

The aim of this paper is to identify the way in which Blaga’s feminine characters deconstruct the canon of feminity imposed at the time. This deconstruction is based on the theory of performative gender imposed by Judith Butler, who emphasized the fact that gender is not innate, but rather constructed. In the second part of the essay, in the form of an ecocritical approach, we proved the idea that there is a tight connection between women and nature on the one hand and natural disasters and patriarchy on the other hand.

Valenţele (Re)Duplicării. Configuraţii Postumaniste La Philip K. Dick Și Ian Mcewan

The present study aims to analyze the conceptual perspective on the metamorphosis of the human under the process of duplication and the restitution of the robotic hypostasis. Following the posthumanist theories, this paper focuses mainly on the literary manifestations that envisage the many-sided topic about the human identity’s surcease, namely Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Machines Like Me. In both cases, the central function of restructuring reality through the symobol of technological alterity is emphasized; the simulacrum comes within the purview of building versions for a universe where creation does not lead to progress, but, to a certain extent, to destruction and the entanglement of human conciousness. This fact implies that the fictional robots have to be interpreted as an integrant part of a system that ecompasses the lost sense of self. Essential for understanding the cited narratives is the questioning of the Cartesian belief that animals do represent a mechanical behaviour. I argue that the reconstruction of a techological identity bears a double scheme of approaching empathy and identity and accordingly the existence is to be interposed within new frames of thought.

Riegl, Worringer Și „Lecturile Infidele” Ale Stilului În Estetica Lui Lucian Blaga

This study aims to illustrate the original assimilation of style in Lucian Blaga’s philosophy. His concept (or idea) of style is developed from the Philosophy of style to the Trilogies, being tributary to the idealistic philosophy and to the Vienna School of Art History. Of course, this inspiration does not represent an innocent reading of different German studies. By invoking Alois Riegl’s “will of art” or Wilhelm Worringer’s dichotomy between “abstraction” and “empathy”, Blaga identifies the weaknesses from their work. Without giving up the contradictory and vulnerable aspects, he integrates and assimilates them in his philosophical and aesthetic system.