Critical Dossier (13 articles in this section)
Universitatea din Pisa, Italia — emilia.david@unipi.it
Introducere
Abstract: Introduction to the Critical Dossier "Literature as Performance: From Text to Intertext, via Staging".
Keywords: literature, performance, intertext, staging.
Universitat Pisa, Italien — lidiia.astapenko@phd.unipi.it
Tenderenda der Phantast: Ein Roman, der zum Theater des Geistes wird / Tenderenda the Fantast: A Novel that Becomes Theater of the Mind
Abstract: This article explores Hugo Ball's novel Tenderenda der Phantast as an intermedial text, written between 1914 and 1920, in a period marked by the First World War, exile in Switzerland, and Dada performances at the Cabaret Voltaire and Galerie Dada. The novel embodies the essential components of a total artwork — text, music, dance, and painting — translated into language and recombined in an experimental structure. Through these devices, the work not only destabilises silent reading processes but also simulates a "theatre of the mind," where the reader is invited to re-stage a synaesthetic performance.
Keywords: Hugo Ball, Dada, Tenderenda der Phantast, Totentanz, Gesamtkunstwerk, multimediality, sound poetry, avant-garde.
Universitatea din Pisa, Italia — edoardo.giorgi@phd.unipi.it
Impresiile și performanțele "africane" ale lui Tristan Tzara: de la Mpala Garoo la Poèmes nègres / Tristan Tzara's "African" Impressions and Performances: from Mpala Garoo to Poèmes nègres
Abstract: This paper aims to analyse the most peculiar components of Tristan Tzara's 'black' production, trying to identify a certain evolution between his very first collection of poems, never published in its entirety by the author, Mpala Garoo, and the later Poèmes nègres, also never published in their entirety by Tzara. Great importance will be given to the concept of Dadaist performance, which differs from that of aboriginal performance, and to that peculiar concept of intertextuality that Tzara applied to these poems.
Keywords: primitivism, Tristan Tzara, performance, Mpala Garoo, poèmes nègres.
West University of Timișoara, Romania — bobaru.nicolae@gmail.com
Ulysses as an Intertextual Performance: Figuration, Travesty, and the Staging of Text
Abstract: This article explores the figure of Ulysses as an intertextual performance rather than as a stable character or heroic archetype. Drawing on Julia Kristeva's and Tiphaine Samoyault's theories of intertextuality, as well as Erika Fischer-Lichte's concept of performance as a transformative, autopoietic event, the study argues that Ulysses functions not as a subject but as a dynamic textual operator.
Keywords: fragmentation, intertextuality, performance, restored behaviour, spectrality.
Universitatea "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" din Iași, România — tituleac_roxana_gina@yahoo.com
Intertextul de autor în proza lui Mateiu I. Caragiale / Authorial Intertextuality in Mateiu I. Caragiale's Prose
Abstract: This paper develops the concept of intertextuality with applicability in the prose of Mateiu I. Caragiale. Our approach is specific, as it captures in particular the authorial intertext, oriented towards the correspondence between the writer's works. The main method of creating the author's intertext is allusion, which we discussed both by referring to the examples given by Matei Călinescu and also by referring to additional examples.
Keywords: intertextuality, authorial intertext, metatextuality, macrotext, self-referentiality.
Universitatea "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" din Iași, România — tituleac.georgiana.adriana@gmail.com
Epifanii intertextuale în poezia lui Emil Botta / Intertextual Epiphanies in Emil Botta's Poetry
Abstract: The aim of this study is to provide a succinct analysis of intertextuality as a method of creating literary works, both in form and meaning. Emil Botta's poetry is deeply intertextual, because it extracts its substance from a vast network of cultural, mythological and literary motifs. This study will subject the text to a reception analysis.
Keywords: intertext, intertextuality, dialogism, discourse, dynamics of the text.
Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava — abel.mindrila@student.usv.ro
Coded Performance: Literary Resistance in Romania Under Ceaușescu's Censorship (1960s–1970s)
Abstract: This paper explores the innovative literary strategies employed by Romanian writers Marin Sorescu and Ana Blandiana during the 1960s and 1970s under Nicolae Ceaușescu's repressive communist regime. Facing stringent censorship and the pervasive surveillance of the Securitate, these authors developed a form of "coded performance" through absurdism, allegory, and metaliterature.
Keywords: Romanian literature, Censorship, Coded performance, Communist resistance, Eastern European dissent.
Università di Pisa, Italia; Institutul Limbii Române, București; UMF "Iuliu Hațieganu", Cluj-Napoca — cristinagogata@gmail.com
Ana Blandiana, Sertarul cu aplauze — poetica Döppelgängerului / Ana Blandiana's The Applause Drawer — The Poetics of the Döppelgänger
Abstract: This research paper aims at mapping the context in which Ana Blandiana's novel, Sertarul cu aplauze [The Applause Drawer], appeared and the connections between the above-mentioned book and the poetry volumes written by Ana Blandiana in the '80s. The novel fits in the category of unpublished literature of dissent, due to the fact that, in the late '80s, Ana Blandiana became a persona non grata for the communist regime.
Keywords: Ana Blandiana, Sertarul cu aplauze, literatură română, literatură de sertar.
Universitatea "Babeș-Bolyai", Cluj-Napoca, România — corina.croitoru@ubbcluj.ro
De la Caragiale la Eminescu — intertextul în poemele politice ale Magdei Cârneci / From Caragiale to Eminescu — Intertextuality in Magda Cârneci's Political Poems
Abstract: The paper discusses the political poetry of Magda Cârneci, one of the most representative postmodern Romanian poets, in order to underline the evolution of her poetic discourse from irony and sarcasm against the communist regime to irony and deception provoked by the social context after the Romanian Revolution of December 1989.
Keywords: communism, revolution, transition, politics, poetry, Magda Cârneci, intertextuality.
Universitatea "Ștefan cel Mare" din Suceava, România — otiliaungureanu83@yahoo.com
Verbalizarea ca act performativ. Lumea "la feminin" sau "libertatea trăită pe propria piele" în Omul de la fereastră de Alexandru Vlad / Verbalization as a Performative Act. The "Feminine" World or "Freedom Experienced Firsthand"
Abstract: After reconfiguring the world according to Adam's vision, I now offer an analysis of Monica's perspective, without which the map of individualities — shaped at the intersection of past and present, communism and democracy, oppression and freedom — would remain incomplete.
Keywords: Alexandru Vlad, communism, postcommunism, identity, female perspective.
Universitatea "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" din Iași, România — loredana.cuzmici@uaic.ro
Doi scriitori din Est și mozaicul lor cu amintiri / Two Writers from the East and Their Mosaic of Memories
Abstract: Ioan Groșan and Florin Iaru are not only representative figures of the so-called '80s generation of Romanian writers, but also storytellers who share significant stylistic and thematic affinities. Their principal subject is Romania before and after 1989, a perspective made possible by their lived experience of two radically different political regimes.
Keywords: Balcanic postmodernism, short-stories, memories, identity and alterity, intertextuality.
Institutul de Filologie Română "B.P. Hasdeu", Chișinău, Republica Moldova — oxana.gherman@yahoo.com
Romanul lui Emilian Galaicu-Paș: dimensiunile ludice ale experimentului estetic / Emilian Galaicu-Paș's Novel: The Playful Dimensions of the Aesthetic Experiment
Abstract: Establishing Emil Botta's identity in a way that facilitates the reception of the self is a challenge, because a writer's identity is a complex set of interrelated voices. With regard to the connection between the self and the other, it is important to observe how it is achieved and, above all, how it is received.
Keywords: personal identity, narrative identity, self, other, discourse.
Universitatea "Ștefan cel Mare" din Suceava, România — ioanapelea44@gmail.com
Ecouri muzicale și literare în romanul Ioanei Pârvulescu, Aurul pisicii / Musical and Literary Echoes in Ioana Pârvulescu's Novel, The Cat's Gold
Abstract: Ioana Pârvulescu's novel Aurul pisicii delves into themes as love, time, and transformation, offering a profound meditation on ephemerality and the ways in which temporal currents shape human destiny. The romance between Monica and Sebastian transcends mere plot, becoming a layered exploration of how intense feelings and the passage of years forge identity.
Keywords: Ioana Pârvulescu, postmodernism, allusions, time, intertextual.
Exegesis (5 articles in this section)
Université "Ștefan cel Mare" de Suceava, Roumanie — cameliabiholaru@litere.usv.ro
L'identité littéraire ou le défi d'une transmutation — du déni de la lecture à l'impératif de l'écriture / Literary identity or the challenge of transmutation
Abstract: The article examines the complex dynamics that underpin the metamorphosis of a literary identity in the specific case of French writer Agnès Desarthe. By attributing the value of an authorial palimpsest to the corpus of study, based mainly on the autobiographical narrative Comment j'ai appris à lire (How I Learned to Read, 2013), the analysis identifies the points of rupture, transgression, and conversion in the construction of literary identity.
Keywords: autobiography, literary identity, creative process, reading, writing, Agnès Desarthe.
Universitatea "Ștefan cel Mare" din Suceava, România — farmusioan@yahoo.com
Un caz de "anxietate auctorială": Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu II / A Case of "Anxiety of Authorship": Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu II
Abstract: This article revisits the challenging question of how to situate the Romanian writer Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu in relation to Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's concept of the "anxiety of authorship," here read alongside Laura Mulvey's notion of the "male gaze."
Keywords: Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu, woman writer, anxiety of authorship, male gaze, interwar Romanian fiction.
Școala Doctorală de Studii Filologice, Iași, România — cristinaudrea031@gmail.com
Emoție, conflict, moralitate: reperele melodramei ca gen / Emotion, Conflict, Morality: The Hallmarks of Melodrama as a Genre
Abstract: Emerging in a period marked by changes, melodrama appears as a response to the loss of the tragic vision specific to the modern era, where truth and morality are questioned. In a society where classical tragedy no longer finds its place, melodrama becomes the way of expressing feelings.
Keywords: melodrama, exaggeration, feeling, performance, spectator.
Universitatea "1 Decembrie 1918" din Alba Iulia, România — ralucanicoara2000@yahoo.com
Poetica resemiotizării mitului jertfei pentru creație în dramaturgia românească a secolului al XX-lea: viziuni anamorfotice / The Poetics of the Resemiotization of the Myth of Sacrifice for Creation
Abstract: Assuming that the theatrical domain is essentially a symbolic and revelatory mirror of the phenomenal reality, this paper aims to examine several experimental movements and techniques that marked twentieth-century dramatic literature, with a central emphasis on the concept of the mythical imaginary.
Keywords: poetic drama, anamorphosis, mythical imaginary, metaphorization, re-semiotization.
"Ștefan cel Mare" University of Suceava — codrutserban@litere.usv.ro
Historicizing the Horse in Native American Cultures (IX). How the Crows Got Their First Horses (Crow)
Abstract: A Siouan-speaking tribe, the Crow traditionally occupied lands in the area of Yellowstone and were renowned buffalo hunters, whose nomadic lifestyle was profoundly transformed by the acquisition of the horse. The story relies on the pattern of mythicizing historical reality in the attempt to culturally internalize the acquisition of the horse.
Keywords: horse, historicization, mythicization, collective identity.
Language and Communication (4 articles in this section)
Universitatea "Ștefan cel Mare", Suceava, România — monica.coca@usm.ro
Limbajul, între libertate creatoare și constrângere formală: competență umană versus simulare algoritmică / Language, Between Creative Freedom and Formal Constraint
Abstract: The paper examines how freedom manifests itself in the construction of meaning in the case of human competence, in opposition to algorithmic language simulation (AI). Starting from the distinctions proposed by Eugenio Coșeriu regarding the operations of determination and the types of framework, two ways of producing language were comparatively analyzed.
Keywords: freedom, determination, frame, journalistic text, artificial intelligence.
Universitatea "Ștefan cel Mare" din Suceava, România — monica.timofte@litere.usv.ro
Lingvistica textului ca hermeneutică a sensului. O aplicație din perspectivă coșeriană / Text Linguistics as Hermeneutics of Meaning
Abstract: In this paper we aim to adequately resolve a semantic dilemma regarding a controversial statement of the sacred text: "All things are lawful for me" (1 Cor 6:12; 1 Cor 10:23). The interpretation of this statement is guided by the five linguistic research principles described by Eugeniu Coșeriu: the principles of objectivity, humanism, tradition, antidogmatism and social responsibility.
Keywords: linguistic principles, semantic hermeneutics, pragmatic semantics, absolute meaning, relative meaning.
Université "Ștefan cel Mare" de Suceava, Roumanie — crina.prodan@usm.ro
De l'articulation graduelle des séquences dans le discours / The Gradual Articulation of Sequences in Discourse
Abstract: This article aims to briefly and schematically describe the sequence theory proposed by linguist Jean-Michel Adam. This theory undoubtedly contributes to the fundamental ambition of discourse analysis to understand the mechanisms by which texts produce meaning and act upon their recipients.
Keywords: discourse, sequence, discursive approach, textual linguistics, hierarchy.
Université "Ștefan cel Mare" din Suceava, Roumanie — nicoletamorosan@litere.usv.ro
L'exploitation des récits littéraires de déménagement transnational dans le développement de la compétence plurilingue et pluriculturelle / The Use of Literary Narratives of Transnational Relocation
Abstract: Relocation narratives recount the experience of expatriates who have voluntarily left their home countries in search of a lifestyle endowed with qualities they could not find in their countries of origin. This paper aims to highlight the rich potential of the corpus represented by accounts of transnational relocation.
Keywords: travel literature, transnational relocation narrative, heterolingual discourse, plurilingual and pluricultural competence.
Book Reviews (3 articles in this section)
Universitatea "Ștefan cel Mare" din Suceava — ioana.rostos@usm.ro
Călin-Horia Bârleanu, Introducere în psihologia comunicării: note de curs, Editura PIM, ISBN 978-606-13-9189-9, 2025, 188 p.
Universitatea "Ștefan cel Mare" din Suceava — simonamanolache@litere.usv.ro
Henri Boyer, Pour un traitement interdisciplinaire des représentations et idéologies sociolinguistiques, Paris, L'Harmattan, ISBN 978-2-336-42037-0, 2024, 214 p.
Universitatea "Ștefan cel Mare" din Suceava — madalinatoma@litere.usv.ro
Irina-Emilcia Ştefan, Otilia Hedeşan (coord.), Interferenţe culturale. O perspectivă tânără asupra culturii materiale şi a patrimoniului cultural, Timişoara, Editura Universităţii de Vest, 2024, 196 p.
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