👤Author Name: Ștefan FiricăAffiliation: Facultatea de Litere, Universitatea din București; Institutul de Istorie și Teorie Literară „G. Călinescu” al Academiei Române. 📄Article Citation Recommendation: FIRICĂ, Ștefan. „Autenticitatea și simulacrele ei în noile contexte culturale, politice și economice”. In: RITL, New Series, XI, No. 1-4, January-December 2017, p. 361–373.Titlul: AUTENTICITATEA ȘI SIMULACRELE EI ÎN NOILE CONTEXTE CULTURALE, POLITICE ȘI ECONOMICETitle: (SIMULACRA OF) AUTHENTICITY FACING NEW CULTURAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC CHALLENGESPages: 361–373Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2017/22_S_Firica.pdf Abstract: After Theodor Adorno’s rebuff of authenticity in 1964, theories of identity underwent major changes in the attempt to address the new challenges of the economic, political, and cultural environments. This article is intended to take a look into three discourses on identity, showcasing a shift of perspective in the American cultural studies of the 1970s, 2000s, and 2010s. Lionel Trilling’s mostly culturalist approach, in the 1970s, gave rise to critics coming from intellectuals affiliated to the whole political spectrum, from the neo-con to the New Left. Charles Guignon transferred the concept of identity from the “high” territories of elite culture to the “lower” field of pop-culture, from self-help literature and media to punk rock and heavy metal. Somogy Varga followed its trace from the first self-help manual (in…

👤Author Name: Ana-Maria BănicăAffiliation: Institutul de Istorie și Teorie Literară „G. Călinescu” al Academiei Române. 📄Article Citation Recommendation: BĂNICĂ, Ana-Maria. „Istoria literaturii române contemporane: o teorie implicită a romanului”.In: RITL, New Series, XI, No. 1-4, January-December 2017, p. 351–359.Titlul: ISTORIA LITERATURII ROMÂNE CONTEMPORANE: O TEORIE IMPLICITĂ A ROMANULUITitle: THE HISTORY OF ROMANIAN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE: AN IMPLICIT THEORY OF THE NOVELPages: 351-359Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2017/21_A-M_Banica.pdf Abstract: In this article we aim to identify the main features, essential, in Lovinescu’s opinion, necessary in building a genuine novel. Thus, concepts like lyricism, inner analysis of characters, urban vs. rural material will be presented by developing the lovinescian ideas and then we try to find out a correspondent in the current practice of narratology. Therefore, we will discover that Lovinescu’s implicit theory, presented by an inductive endeavor, pleads for an objective novel, with an omniscient, omnipresent narrator, and for characters presented from an unlimited perspective concerning the exterior life, but also the inner life, and voice of the narrator must be without emotional implication. Keywords: lyricism, analysis, objectivity, urban, rural. Bibliography: Călinescu, G., Istoria literaturii române de la origini până în prezent, București, Editura Minerva, 1986.  Lintvelt, Jaap, Încercare de tipologie narativă. Punctul de vedere,…

👤Author Name: Simona GalațchiAffiliation: Institutul de Istorie și Teorie Literară „G. Călinescu” al Academiei Române. 📄Article Citation Recommendation: GALAȚCHI, Simona. „Secretul doctorului Walter (eseu psihanalitic)”. In: RITL, New Series, XI, No. 1-4, January-December 2017, p. 337–349Titlul: SECRETUL DOCTORULUI WALTER (ESEU PSIHANALITIC)Title: THE SECRET OF DOCTOR WALTER (PSYCHOANALYTIC ESSAY ON HORTENSIA PAPADAT-BENGESCU’S CHARACTER)Pages: 337–349Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2017/20_S_Galatchi.pdf Abstract: The article offers a synthetic sheet of the character Dr. Walter in Hortensia PapadatBengescu’s novels (Fecioarele despletite [The Dishevelled Maidens], Drumul ascuns [The Hidden Way] and Străina [The Stranger Woman]). The analysis of the data recorded in this sheet resorts to the psychoanalytic grid, envisaging at the same time some concepts of analytical psychology. It can be noticed, from this perspective, that Dr. Walter displays a prevailing death instinct (Thanatos instinct) which explains the path of his existence. He is a (self-)sacrificed savior, a lover of death. A man who always walks with death in his soul, with his attention almost totally absorbed by death, a man who offers himself, indifferently and without protest, contemplating death. Here lies “the secret” of Doctor Walter. Keywords: Dr. Walter, Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu, psychoanalytic criticism, analytical psychology, interdisciplinary perspectives on literature. Bibliography: Papadat-Bengescu, H., 2012. Opere. vol. I, II, III….

👤Author Name: Raluca DunăAffiliation: Institutul de Istorie și Teorie Literară „G. Călinescu” al Academiei Române. 📄Article Citation Recommendation: DUNĂ, Raluca. „«Ultimii» critici, între geometrie și finite”. In: RITL, New Series, XI, No. 1-4, January-December 2017, p. 331–336.Titlul: „ULTIMII” CRITICI, ÎNTRE GEOMETRIE ȘI FINEȚETitle: THE “LAST” CRITICS, BETWEEN GEOMETRY AND REFINEMENTPages: 331–336Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2017/19_R_Duna.pdf Abstract: This article is focused on major ideas of a book discussing the destiny of European XXth century criticism. „Geometry and Refinement”, by Mircea Martin follows the fundamental tensions of French criticism, mainly the intellectual versus the sensitive trend, the balance between the quest for the particular and individual element versus the opposite search for the generic form, a system of oppositions that may be resumed into one formula: ‟esprit de finesse” versus „esprit de géometrie”. Mircea Martin demonstrates that the Pascalian duality is in fact contradicted by the subtle paradoxes of those great, last critics who reinvented literature in their effort to render the dialogue with themselves into a relevant, transparent dialogue with the otherness of literature. Keywords: literary criticism, individual consciousness, influence, the imagination of geometry/ of refinement. Bibliography: Bloom, Harold, Anxietatea influenței, Pitești, 2008. Martin, Mircea, Geometrie și finețe, București, 2017. Martin, Mircea, Critică…

👤Author Name: Ioana CostaAffiliation: Facultatea de Limbi și Literaturi Străine, Universitatea din București; Institutul de Istorie și Teorie Literară „G. Călinescu” al Academiei Române. 📄Article Citation Recommendation: COSTA, Ioana. ”Hieronymus on Hermits”. In: RITL, New Series, XI, No. 1-4, January-December 2017, p. 323–329.Title: HIERONYMUS ON HERMITSPages: 323–329Language: EnglishURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2017/18_I_Costa.pdf Abstract: Hieronymus wrote three portraits belonging to the hagiographic tradition: Vita Beati Pauli, monachi Thebaei, [Vita Malchi] De monacho captiuo and Vita Hilarionis. The solitude of the three hermits is adorned with moments of intense encounters in human and divine dimensions: different as they are, Paulus, Malchus and Hilarion share a sense of harmoniously living, either among people or in secluded places, in the desert or in the mountains. Keywords: Hieronymus, hagiography, hermit. Bibliography: Jérôme, Trois vies de moines (Paul, Malchus, Hilarion), eds. Edgardo M. Morales, Pierre Leclerc, Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 2007. Ieronim, Viața Fericitului Pavel, monahul tebeu. Despre monahul captiv. Viața lui Ilarion, trans. Ioana Costa, Bucharest: Editura Institutului Biblic și de Misiune Ortodoxă, 2011, p. 47–134.

👤Author Name: Nicolae BârnaAffiliation: Institutul de Istorie și Teorie Literară „G. Călinescu” al Academiei Române. 📄Article Citation Recommendation: BÂRNA, Nicolae.„«Afacerea» Mihai Călin – un episod pitoresc al vieții literare la sfârșitul anilor șaizeci”.In: RITL, New Series, XI, No. 1-4, January-December 2017, p. 317–321Titlul: „AFACEREA” MIHAI CĂLIN – UN EPISOD PITORESC AL VIEȚII LITERARE LA SFÂRȘITUL ANILOR ȘAIZECITitre: «L’AFFAIRE» MIHAI CĂLIN – UN ÉPISODE PITTORESQUE DE LA VIE LITTÉRAIRE À LA FIN DES ANNÉES QUARANTEPages: 317-321Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2017/17_N_Barna.pdf Résumé: En février 1968, la revue littéraire « Amfiteatru » publie un récit reçu d’un lecteur (prétendument nommé « Mihai Călin »). Celui qui était chargé par la rédaction de recevoir, évaluer et, s’il y a lieu, faire publier des créations littéraires en prose reçues de la part de particuliers inconnus, aspirant à une carrière d’écrivain, l’écrivain Fănuş Neagu, fait un bref éloge du texte publié. Peu après, il appert que le récit en question appartenait en fait à l’écrivain onirique Dumitru Țepeneag, qui ne l’avait pas encore publié jusqu’à ce moment-là (l’écrivain se trouvait en France, pour un séjour de trois mois, mais ses amis, qui connaissaient ses écrits, même inédits, ont remarqué l’incident et l’ont signalé dans une revue littéraire). Les causes…

👤Author Name: Vlad-Ion Pappu 📄Article Citation Recommendation: PAPPU, Vlad-Ion. „Câteva considerații asupra receptării protocronismului românesc”. In: RITL, New Series, XI, No. 1-4, January-December 2017, p. 287–316.Titlul: CÂTEVA CONSIDERAȚII ASUPRA RECEPTĂRII PROTOCRONISMULUI ROMÂNESCTitle: FEW CONSIDERATIONS ON ROMANIAN PROTOCHRONISM’S CRITICAL RECEPTIONPages: 287–316Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2017/16_V-I_Pappu.pdf Abstract: The present paper represents a remake, on a wider scale, but far from being exhaustive, of the problem of Protochronism, as originally thought by Edgar Papu (1908-1993), her creator. The same problem was widely debated by the author of this work, Vlad-Ion Pappu, in the literary file Edgar Papu and Protochronism in the space of the “Luceafărul” magazine, Eikon Publishing House, Cluj, 2016. The occasion for this academic recurrence was the celebration of a quarter century after Edgar Papu’s extinction, as well as the recent occurrence of a new contribution to the theme in the monumental synthesis elaborated by Acad. Eugen Simion, Posterity of Eugen Lovinescu, Tracus Arte Publishing House, Bucharest, 2017. Conceived tripartite, the current considerations examine the reception of the work History of Modern Romanian Civilization (1924–1925) by Eug. Lovinescu in the interwar critique, present the landmarks that unified Edgar Papu’s vision of Romanian literature, emphasizing the homogeneity of his judgments from the interwar period (1932)…

👤Author Name: Edgar Papu 📄Article Citation Recommendation: PAPU, Edgar. „Problema protocronismului. Precizări”. In: RITL, New Series, XI, No. 1-4, January-December 2017, p. 267–286.Titlul: PROBLEMA PROTOCRONISMULUI. PRECIZĂRITitle: THE PROBLEM OF PROTOCHRONISMPages: 267–286Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2017/15_E_Papu.pdf Abstract: We are dealing with the ultimate variant of the Romanian Protochronism theory, conceived by the scholar Edgar Papu (1908-1993), reproduced serially in the newspaper “Românul” between March and July 1991. His idea about the Romanian aesthetic forms anticipating or preparing currents, motives or procedures that were later to be experienced and dealt with by the Western culture was published twice before (1977 and 1989), but this one is the first uncensored text diffused after the fall of the communist regime in Romania. Running chronologically, the paper starts with a 16th c. work – contemporary to Machiavelli’s The Prince (1513) – due to the Lord of Walachia, Néagoé Bassarab, entitled The Lectures meant for his son Theodosius (1519-1521), which establishes a canon of reigning principles and skills at hand to his heir to the throne, considered by the author Edgar Papu to anticipate the appearance of the Baroque type of “hombre secreto” described in the treaties of the Jesuit monk Baltasar Gracián, called El Discreto (1646) and Oráculo…

👤Author Name: Paul CernatAffiliation: Facultatea de Litere, Universitatea din București; Institutul de Istorie și Teorie Literară „G. Călinescu” al Academiei Române. 📄Article Citation Recommendation: CERNAT, Paul. „Geo Bogza și provincia ca aventură – note despre O sută șaptezeci și cinci de minute la Mizil”. In: RITL, New Series, XI, No. 1-4, January-December 2017, p. 255–265Titlul: GEO BOGZA ȘI PROVINCIA CA AVENTURĂ – NOTE DESPRE O SUTĂ ȘAPTEZECI ȘI CINCI DE MINUTE LA MIZILTitle: GEO BOGZA AND THE PROVINCE AS AN ADVENTURE – NOTES ON ‘O SUTĂ ŞAPTEZECI ŞI CINCI DE MINUTE LA MIZIL’ [A HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE MINUTES AT MIZIL]Pages: 255–265Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2017/14_P_Cernat.pdf Abstract: This study reinterprets an inter-wars text from the prose of Romanian writer Geo Bogza – the experimental reportage One Hundred and Seventy Five Minutes in Mizil [O sută şaptezeci şi cinci de minute la Mizil], from a multiply focused perspective. Unlike the minor or satiric prose about the Romanian townlets of 1900, Bogza’s piece of writing is regarded as a form of paradoxical rehabilitation of the provincial anonymity by a grid partly indebted to the vanguard. Without ceasing to represent a space of failure and unfulfillment, the province thus becomes a space of unusual experiences and of…

👤Author Name: Bianca Burța-CernatAffiliation: Institutul de Istorie și Teorie Literară „G. Călinescu” al Academiei Române 📄Article Citation Recommendation: BURȚA-CERNAT, Bianca/ „Itinerariu spiritual. cum se autoconstruiește un «șef» de generație”. In: RITL, New Series, XI, No. 1-4, January-December 2017, p. 225-253.Titlul: ITINERARIU SPIRITUAL. CUM SE AUTOCONSTRUIEȘTE UN „ȘEF” DE GENERAȚIETitre: ITINERAIRE SPIRITUEL. COMMENT S’AUTOCONSTRUIT UN «CHEF» DE GENERATIONPages: 225-253Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2017/13_B_Burta-Cernat.pdf Résumé: Cette longue étude propose une relecture de l’Itinéraire spirituel de Mircea Eliade, après 90 ans depuis la première parution – dans le journal Cuvântul/Le Mot – du manifeste de la jeune génération d’intellectuels roumains d’entre les deux guerres, en analysant en détail et, en quelque sorte, d’une manière critique les principales thèses de ce texte. On insiste, en même temps, d’une manière significative, sur une lecture en parallèle de l’article écrit par le jeune Eliade et d’un essai très important, publié, au début des années ’20, par le philosophe espagnol José Ortega y Gasset, Le thème de notre temps – comparaison dont on n’a pas tiré jusqu’aujourd’hui toutes les conséquences. Mots-clés: Itinéraire spirituel, Mircea Eliade, Le thème de notre temps, José Ortega y Gasset.