Conceptul lovinescian de „intelectualizare” a literaturii față cu ipoteza postbelică a țăranului „intelectualizat”

In this essay I investigate the multiple and ambiguous ways in which the Romanian critic Eugen Lovinescu instrumentalized one hundred years ago the concept of „intellectualization” regarding the process of Romanian literature evolution towards modernity, a process associated with abandoning its rural roots in order to become thematically more urbane oriented. I also investigate the polemical echoes of Lovinescu’s action during the Interwar period and after, especially during the Communist era (1948-89), when his texts and thesis were largely deformed in order to both subvert and accommodate the Communist regime agenda towards peasant and rural literature.

The Character Network in Liviu Rebreanu’s Ion: A Quantitative Analysis of Dialogue

This study revisits what is widely considered “the first modern novel” in Romanian literature, Liviu Rebreanu’s Ion, from a network theory perspective. Isolating the dialogue and quantitatively analysing the interventions of every character and their interactions in the fictional world, it provides a blueprint for the exploration of social and personal dynamics between characters. In recent years, rural literature in Romania has undergone a recontextualization process. Following in the footsteps of these approaches, our research provides the first character network of Ion and outlines who talks, how much, and to whom. It also explores how differences in social class influence speaking time or the structure of the individual discourses, taking an in-depth look at the relationship between and roles of the two characters who talk most.

A literatura urbana de Guimarães Rosa

Resumo: Este artigo tem por objetivo examinar algumas características presentes em escritos de ambiência urbana de João Guimarães Rosa publicados em seus livros póstumos – Estas estórias e Ave, palavra –, agrupando-os segundo certas afinidades formais ou temáticas: o estilo fragmentado e a atitude ambivalente com relação à cidade; à representação dos males do regime nazista; e à figuração de sujeitos opressos pelo sistema de sociabilidades que a urbe impõe. Num segundo momento, os textos urbanos são contrapostos à literatura sertaneja de Guimarães Rosa e distinguidos, especialmente, pelo enfraquecimento do modo ficcional promovido pelo recurso amplo à voz autobiográfica e pelo emprego de um discurso mais reflexivo ou sentencioso.Palavras-chave: Guimarães Rosa; cidade; discurso autobiográfico; literatura sapiencial.Abstract: This paper aims to examine some traits found in João Guimarães Rosa’s urban writings published in his posthumous works – Estas estórias e Ave, palavra –, by grouping them according to certain similarities of form or theme – the fragmentary style and the ambivalent posture in relation to the city, the approach of the World War II strains, and the depiction of individuals oppressed by the urban sociabilities. Thereafter, urban texts are compared to Guimarães Rosa’s rural literature and distinguished mainly by the dilution of the fictional model, verified by the extensive appeal to an autobiographical stance and the use of a more reflexive and preceptive diction.Keywords: Guimarães Rosa; city; autobiographical discourse; wisdom literature.

Warden Oom, Regionalist: Authorial Ethos, Generic Functions

Recent scholarship in Dutch literature of the interwar years has revalued to an important degree the genre of regional or rural literature. Whereas existent research in this field mainly zooms in on the thematic motives and rhetorical structures of the regional text, this paper aims at combining a textual and contextual approach. It hopes to do so by linking the functions of the regional genre to the construction of the regional author’s ethos or authority outside his oeuvre. One author here functions as a representative case in point: Warden Oom (Edward Vermeulen), a once successful but now forgotten Flemish folk writer and regionalist. This paper analyzes how Vermeulen, in autobiographical documents and interviews, embodies both an encyclopedic and an artistic authority. These two forms of extra-literary authority are a means to guarantee, so the argument goes, the efficacy of the informative and documentary as well as the esthetic functions of Vermeulen’s regional oeuvre. In this way, this paper not only pays attention to the rarely documented and therefore highly neglected voice of the regional author himself but it also grasps these autobiographical writings to situate the regional text in its broader context. Moreover, this article’s focus on the esthetic ambitions and functions of the regional author and his oeuvre may shed a new light on a genre which is usually considered to be heteronomous in the first place.