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Enciclopedia Imaginariilor din România [The Encyclopaedia of Romanian Imaginaries], vol I., Imaginar literar [Literary imaginary], ed. Corin Braga (Iași: Polirom, 2020)
This article explores the inter-peripheral relationship between Romania and the Republic of Moldova, focusing on two aspects: a sociological perspective and a literary analysis of four Bessarabian authors—Vasile Ernu, Iulian Ciocan, Liliana Corobca, and Tatiana Țîbuleac. Sociologically, I examine how institutions like the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) increase Bessarabia’s visibility and reduce its peripheral status by promoting its literature in transnational fields. Also, the internationalization of Bessarabian literature is seen in the alignment of Moldovan prose with Romanian literary trends, particularly in the tension between memory-focused and “presentist” novels. This process involves both identification with post-2000 Romanian literary changes and an exoticization linked to the authors’ Soviet, Russophile aesthetics, clearly reflected in their narratives, and this topic will be the focus of the article’s second part.
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This article aims to investigate the depiction of living space(s) and architecture in the Romanian novel between 1844 and 1947. It has a descriptive dimension, discussing the construction of fictional worlds through a series of key-issues: a fascination with urban spaces (with the centralization/ provincialization of urban imagery), the function allowed to women vs. men in various social spheres (certain rooms, certain public fora), the disintegration of urban families, precarious living on the fringes of urban society etc. The authors map the occurrence of such new phenomena or spatial mutations, commenting on their historical context and scope (through statistical analysis). At the same time, there is a more reflexive, theoretical side to our research. Drawing on the work of theorists like Bertrand Westphal, Henri Lefebvre, Nirmal Puwar, and Habermas (to name but a few), this article asks many vital questions pertaining to geocriticism and sociocriticism alike: what is the difference between a place and fictional space; how can we define the public and the private sphere in the Romanian novel through issues like political participation and representation, exclusion, agency, and the right to leisure; how exactly do social norms and relationships contribute to the construction and the organisation of novelistic space?
The Thread Metaphor in the Linguistic Imaginary of Folklore. In our study, we analyse the conceptualization of the idea of creation in the linguistic imaginary of traditional Romanian communities, with the help of certain metaphors from the sphere of household industry, namely the thread, the linen, the towel, the handkerchief, the kerchief, the girdle and others. By exploring a number of theories from the field of cognitive linguistics and ethnolinguistics, we research not only the manners of representing genesis, but also those of other forms of “creation”, such as creating human connections, both between the living and between the living and the dead. To this end, we follow certain linguistic data that encode the concept of creation, identified in folkloric texts, such as dirges, incantations, carols, fairytales, or cosmogonic legends. For their correct interpretation, we invoke their relation with popular beliefs, with ritual practices or elements of material patrimony, without which we would not be able to understand the deepest meanings. Finally, the results of the analysis highlight the significance of the seed-thread, as a core-metaphor responsible for the production of several types of creation, at different levels of existence. The thread metaphor supports the imaginary scheme of warping and weaving, which has modelled the representations about the birth of the vast canvas of the world. By analysing the multiple items, the connections and correlations created with the thread’s help, we can better understand that the folkloric world is itself a vast canvas whose threads often remain visible only to the initiated. Keywords: creation, cosmogony, thread, linen, towel, handkerchief, kerchief, girdle, footbridge, bridge, connection.
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