OPENING LECTURE

Prof. dr. Pompiliu Crăciunescu, Imagini din „patria vieţii”

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I. EXEGESIS

Ioana Hodârnău, Cluj-Napoca, The historical and social hypostatis in Geniu pustiu. The rhetorical imaginary at the confluence of the concepts of rational and irrational

Abstract

This research paper tackles Eminescu’s novel Geniu pustiu in order to analyze the complex narrative layers that are created by an untimely narrator. Thereby, the rhetorical imaginary function as a discursive mechanism, first in order to substantiate a historical and social reality (the action of the novel is subjected to this first level of understanding), and second as a method of configuring a metanovel, a metatext). In fact, our research thesis intends to demonstrate that with this 19th century novel, Eminescu manages to create a text that exceeds beyond the initial fictional premise or the moralistic considerations. The exceptionality of this prose, Geniu pustiu, lies in the eclecticism of the form. Likewise, the motifs typical for the romantic period prose are used in the benefit of constructing a different narrative scheme.

Key-words: rhetorical imaginary, social imaginary, alterity, rational, irrational.

 

Anastasia Fuioagă, Iaşi, The chimerical dream. Reflections of Eminescianism in Contemporary Poetry

Abstract

Starting from the premises that philosophy and poetry are impossible to separate and that all the ideas are recycled, this paper succeeds to demonstrate that Stoicism and Hedonism, two of the most important philosophical models of the Antiquity, have a powerful influence in Mihai Eminescu’s lyrical creation.

The process is based on both, philosophical and literary, analysis of four poems of the poet, Pajul Cupidon…, De pe ochi ridici…, Ca și Stoa ce pretinde… and Glossă, each one of them being framed in one of the three creation phases, established depending on the particularities of the poetic vision expressed in each of the poems: The hedonistic visage (Pajul Cupidon…), The transition (De pe ochi ridici…, Ca și Stoa ce pretinde…) and The stoic visage (Glossă). If for the first and the third phases the subject is clear, the second one brings forward a third influence, of another philosophical pattern, the Epicureanism.

However, the point of interest does not consist only in the demonstration of the antique philosophy’s influences, even if it is the main thesis, but also in the metamorphosis of the poet’s attitude, from a verve quite libertine, to a deep sensitivity, generated by the refinement of his poetic vision and, why not, by maturity of judgement.

Key-words: dream, existence, reality, projection, affective.

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Georgiana-Alexandra Alexe, Bucureşti, Substructures of Eminescu's works: from ψῡχή to psychic

Abstract

This paper examines the semantic features of Mihai Eminescu’s creations, starting from the configurational pylons of the heart (ψῡχή) and the mind (psychic). The author's work can be structured according to these two principles in three distinct stages of creation. The relation of the heart with the mind develops according to a dialectical equation. The goal is to demonstrate how this type of dynamic is what actually shapes the tragic character of Eminescu’s late works and his rattling transition from Romanticism to Modernity. The semantical mutations of the poetry are analysed regarding the author’s relation with Philosophy, nominally with Plato’s, Schopenhauer’s and Hegel’s thought systems.

Key-words: Heart, Mind, Dialectic, Romanticism, Modernity.

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Mihaela-Oana Gogoșeanu, Timişoara, The Demiurge River and the falling into time

Abstract

This paper adopts a comparative approach and analyzes the issue of time in five Eminescu poems (Scrisoarea IV, Coborîrea apelor, Amicului F.I., Melancolie and Stelele-n cer) and in several writings by Cioran, with accent on the well-known volume of the author, Falling into Time. The main objective of the analysis is to expose the perspectives on subjective time (from the mentioned texts), under the aegis of two metaphors: the "Demiurge River", which marks what Rosa Del Conte called becoming separate from cosmic duration, but in its presence, and, respectively, "of the falling into time", as it is outlined in the homonymous essay.

Key-words: The Demiurge River, the falling into time, khronos, melancholia, cosmic time.

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Elena Stanciu, Braşov, Ambivalent representations: visionary effervescence and intellectual burnout  in Eminescu’s poetry

Abstract

Starting from the portrait of the ’’romantic mad poet’’, which is so controversial in the history of literature, I will present in this essay the fluctuations of the Eminescu`s visionary and the possibility of their correlation with the unstable psychic and intellect of the poet. It is true that the classification in the insane category has an alternative, in other words, it being self-induced, with the purpose of fitting in the literature themes of that time, which didn’t give much space to expressing one’s creative self. Whichever the valid explanation might be, it is certain that  Eminescu’s imaginary has a sinusoidal process and it oscillates continuously between intense artistic passion and psychological caution. Both in Eminescu’s prose and poetry there is a continuous conflict between fast and intense emotionalism, that generates outstanding artistic, idyllic universes and elimination of this sensitivity by ternal rationality, limited, empty. All in all, no matter the alternative, their textual realization stays one really close to perfection, due to the fact that there are no syntactic breaks or discontinued verses, just absolute harmony and symmetry.

Key-words: ambivalence, relation, imbalance, fluctuation, sensory.

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Florina-Maria Andercău, Timişoara, Forms and images

Abstract

In this thesis on form (morphē) and image (eikōn) I analysed the way in which these two concepts function in Eminescu’s poetry. The main focus was on a specific piece of writing – A frumusetii tale forme – which illustrates Eminescu’s view on love, its shapes and sizes, and- primarily- its beauty. For the poet, love is beautiful, and beauty is loved. He is amazed by their power and by the manner in which they affect him. The soul and the mind are charmed, hypnotized, chained. He loses himself in love’s arms, forgetting about the world. The loved one becomes his universe, and her shapes-lovely contours with which he decorates his “book of life”. She and her love sweeten his bitter destiny. Consequently, he memorizes all her forms and transforms them in images. But these images will become poetic images, as this case is one of a poetic soul. The entire poem is a dance of love and shapes that metamorphose into a beautifully poetic game.

Key-words: beauty, form, image,  love, romantic poetry.

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II. THE CRITIQUE OF CRITICISM & CULTURAL STUDIES

Diana-Cristina Teieru, Cluj-Napoca, I. Negoițescu şi provocările eminescologiei

Abstract

In the present paper I try to prove how two of the most known reasearches written by D. Popovici, professor at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy in Cluj-Napoca in the first half of the XXth century, were discussed in the field of literary criticism. Altough D. Popovici delivered this lectures during the 40’s, their publication will be delayed until the 70’s-80’s. As a result, these texts will be welcomed with two different approaches: authors either confirm their scientific value, either appreciate them according to unsuitable criteria. Some of them see D. Popovici as an important voice in the history of eminescology while others think his place among the reseachers in this field is still questionable.

Key-words: eminescology, literary criticism, literary research, XXth century..

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Alexandra Olteanu, Iaşi, Geniu Pustiu – Presiunea tradiției și reabilitarea modelului melodramatic în narațiunea istorică

Abstract

Starting from Adrian Tudurachi’s critical study, The Genius Factory. The Birth of a Productivity Myth in the Romanian Culture (1825-1875), our research will investigate the way in which the notion of genius is perceived throughout the 19th century. Although it was initially understood as an individual’s capacity to create literary texts using the sense of sight or hearing, this concept has undergone a series of changes which act in accordance with the dogmas of the times – tabula rasa, Saint-Simonianism, the Romantic figure of the genius, and so on. Is there a relation between Eminescu and all these senses? And why Eminescu? We tried to find an answer to these questions.

Key-words: genius, Adrian Tudurachi, latency, literature, eminescian myth.

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Gabriela-Raluca Duță, Timişoara, Petru Creția, exeget al dramaturgiei eminesciene

Abstract

In the following paper we illustrated how the discourse about Eminescu had evolved, over the past decades, in two directions: the discourse sustained by critics, historians and anthropologists, and the e-discourse. But, both reflect how a cultural identity, represented in this case by Eminescu as a national ideal, still exists even if we try to overcome it.

These discourses have a lot of similarities, because, in fact, the e-discourse is a copy-discourse. Both are developed starting from the same schema: they revolve around Eminescu’s biography and his creation. If the form is important for the e-discourse, for the other, the idea is important. But, even if the idea is still important for the critics or anthropologists, the discourse related to Eminescu from the last decades reflects just copy-ideas.

Therefore, the discourse about Eminescu’s myth from the last twenty years does not resolve our problem: we want to overcome our minor culture complex to be able to create new national emblems, but it is not possible without Eminescu’s myth.

Key-words: cultural identity, discourse, digital, myth, traditional.

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Ciprian Handru, Cluj-Napoca, Eminescu fără Eminescu – o simptomatologie a internaționalizării „poetului național”, în mediul virtual

Abstract

The aim of this  paper is to analyze the poem Luceafărul from the perspective of Italian criticism, on the basis of two critical analysis books Eminescu sau despre Absolut by Rosa Del Conte and Luceafărul de Mihai Eminescu. Portretul unei zeități întunecate by Gisèle Vanhese.

It should be appreciated the fact that one of the most critical cultures such as the Italian one, is interested in Romanian literature, especially in the poem Luceafărul by Mihai Eminescu.

Rosa Del Conte is concerned with the issue of the Demiurg's refusal. She manages to decode the poetic meaning of this poem and to focus her attention on the explanation of this refusal which is under the sign of mercy of the demiurgical principle.

Gisèle Vanhese pays attention to more problems: the relationship between the angelic and the demonic hypostasis, avantexts and après-texts of the macropoem, Eminescu - the figure of the Night Poet, analyzing all the variants of the poem Luceafărul.

Key-words: Luceafărul, the Demiurg's refusal, avantexts, après-texts, symbolic polarity.

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Ioana-Amalia Carciuc, Iaşi, Malaxor. Receptarea lui Mihai Eminescu în manualele școlare

Abstract

The aim of this  paper is to analyze the poem Luceafărul from the perspective of Italian criticism, on the basis of two critical analysis books Eminescu sau despre Absolut by Rosa Del Conte and Luceafărul de Mihai Eminescu. Portretul unei zeități întunecate by Gisèle Vanhese.

It should be appreciated the fact that one of the most critical cultures such as the Italian one, is interested in Romanian literature, especially in the poem Luceafărul by Mihai Eminescu.

Rosa Del Conte is concerned with the issue of the Demiurg's refusal. She manages to decode the poetic meaning of this poem and to focus her attention on the explanation of this refusal which is under the sign of mercy of the demiurgical principle.

Gisèle Vanhese pays attention to more problems: the relationship between the angelic and the demonic hypostasis, avantexts and après-texts of the macropoem, Eminescu - the figure of the Night Poet, analyzing all the variants of the poem Luceafărul.

Key-words: Luceafărul, the Demiurg's refusal, avantexts, après-texts, symbolic polarity.

 

III. STYLISTICS AND POETICS

Miruna Carp, Iaşi, Direcții de interpretare a limbajului firii în lirica eminesciană

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the nocturnal imaginary in Mihai Eminescu’s  young  posthumous poetry. Within Eminescu’s nocturnal imaginary, the key elements appear in order to confirm the general idea of harmony and balance. In some poems, they manage to foreshadow another phase of creation, the maturity one, where the poetic character looks for answers and acknowledges his own existential crisis.

At the same time, confirming all the directions of romanticism, many poems from the analyzed period are based on dreams and reveries. Those are the elements that actually set off and emphasize the whole landscape, as it appears in Eminescu’s vision. Beside them, there is the spell which also appears as a set off element that confirms the complementarities of all these elements. Therefore, this paper aims to analyze stylistically and thematically the major elements according to Eminescu’s general vision.

Key-words: key elements, nocturnal imaginary, complementarities, dream, reverie, spell.

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Alexandra-Teodora Mândra, Cluj-Napoca, Limitele ființei în Sara pe deal și Coborîrea apelor

Abstract

The aim of the following paper is to highlight the main occurrences of different structures that contain elements which are representative for the aquatic poetics of Mihai Eminescu and their determinants, which are different colours that create the specific imagery of Eminescu’s lyrical works and which become stylemes. These two elements, together, contribute to the enrichment of the text expressiveness by creating different chromatic epithets or other semantic figures. Thus, the paper focuses on five chromatic elements, such as blue, yellow, green, red and black, which are usually associated with motifs such as the lake, the sea, the river, the waves, the billows etc. We managed to identify 30 occurrences of this type, creating an impressive table of stylistic structures that have different poetic effects at the level of the lyrical discourse.

Key-words: micro-stylistics, aquatic poetics, imagery, styleme, chromatic epithet.

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Iulia Baciu, Iaşi, Raporturi între gândire și iubire în poezia de dragoste eminesciană

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the nocturnal imaginary in Mihai Eminescu’s  young  posthumous poetry. Within Eminescu’s nocturnal imaginary, the key elements appear in order to confirm the general idea of harmony and balance. In some poems, they manage to foreshadow another phase of creation, the maturity one, where the poetic character looks for answers and acknowledges his own existential crisis.

At the same time, confirming all the directions of romanticism, many poems from the analyzed period are based on dreams and reveries. Those are the elements that actually set off and emphasize the whole landscape, as it appears in Eminescu’s vision. Beside them, there is the spell which also appears as a set off element that confirms the complementarities of all these elements. Therefore, this paper aims to analyze stylistically and thematically the major elements according to Eminescu’s general vision.

Key-words: key elements, nocturnal imaginary, complementarities, dream, reverie, spell.

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Ana-Maria Vieru, Bucureşti, Eminescu și Homer. Traducerea ca reconfigurare semantică

Abstract

The aim of the following paper is to highlight the main occurrences of different structures that contain elements which are representative for the aquatic poetics of Mihai Eminescu and their determinants, which are different colours that create the specific imagery of Eminescu’s lyrical works and which become stylemes. These two elements, together, contribute to the enrichment of the text expressiveness by creating different chromatic epithets or other semantic figures. Thus, the paper focuses on five chromatic elements, such as blue, yellow, green, red and black, which are usually associated with motifs such as the lake, the sea, the river, the waves, the billows etc. We managed to identify 30 occurrences of this type, creating an impressive table of stylistic structures that have different poetic effects at the level of the lyrical discourse.

Key-words: micro-stylistics, aquatic poetics, imagery, styleme, chromatic epithet.

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Rebeca Murgu, Timişoara, Palingeneza visului: de la „dincolo” la „dincoace”

Abstract

The aim of the following paper is to highlight the main occurrences of different structures that contain elements which are representative for the aquatic poetics of Mihai Eminescu and their determinants, which are different colours that create the specific imagery of Eminescu’s lyrical works and which become stylemes. These two elements, together, contribute to the enrichment of the text expressiveness by creating different chromatic epithets or other semantic figures. Thus, the paper focuses on five chromatic elements, such as blue, yellow, green, red and black, which are usually associated with motifs such as the lake, the sea, the river, the waves, the billows etc. We managed to identify 30 occurrences of this type, creating an impressive table of stylistic structures that have different poetic effects at the level of the lyrical discourse.

Key-words: micro-stylistics, aquatic poetics, imagery, styleme, chromatic epithet.

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Emanuela-Maria Băluță, Iaşi, Anatomia cuplului eminescian

Abstract

The aim of the following paper is to highlight the main occurrences of different structures that contain elements which are representative for the aquatic poetics of Mihai Eminescu and their determinants, which are different colours that create the specific imagery of Eminescu’s lyrical works and which become stylemes. These two elements, together, contribute to the enrichment of the text expressiveness by creating different chromatic epithets or other semantic figures. Thus, the paper focuses on five chromatic elements, such as blue, yellow, green, red and black, which are usually associated with motifs such as the lake, the sea, the river, the waves, the billows etc. We managed to identify 30 occurrences of this type, creating an impressive table of stylistic structures that have different poetic effects at the level of the lyrical discourse.

Key-words: micro-stylistics, aquatic poetics, imagery, styleme, chromatic epithet.

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IV. JOURNALISTIC ACTIVITY, NOTES, CORRESPONENCE

Andreea Mîrț, Cluj-Napoca, „Ca un fel de refugiu...” pentru minte și inimă: ironia în publicistica eminesciană

Abstract

The present paper starts from the premise that in Eminescu's love letters the exterior has a special importance. The world in the letters is not utopian, an ideal world, but it reflects as faithfully as possible the contemporary society in which the two lovers live. The correspondence / the letters form a world of sincerity, in which aspects of society are not ignored. The context fixes details such as Mihai Eminescu's journalistic activity, Veronica Micle's literary interests, as well as political and social details of the times in which the two live. The facts are outlined with enthusiasm, the are found many ideas about poetry and what it means, about the role of literature in the lives of the two, the role of the lover being an essential one, rendered by a simple, natural style that shapes the society in which they live.

Key-words: exterior, culture, masks, society, authenticity.

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Gabriela-Emilia Merce, Timişoara, Autorul și textul: limitele receptării

Abstract

The present paper aims to analyse the relationship between the dynamics of Eminescu's Journalism and the formation of one of the most important political and literary ideologies in the interwar period, the "poporanism". The writers gathered around the cultural publication entitled "Viața Românească", along their mentor, Garabet Ibrăileanu, were determined to to provide a concrete form to Eminescu’s political, social and cultural ideals. Our national poet’s journalistic discourses featured greater concern for the romanian peasants’ fate, including their changing relationship with the estates owners. The political battles performed by the two historical parties, the liberals and the conservatives, drew the poporanist literary group’s disapproval and created the premises for some resounding polemics with the writers gathered around "Sămănătorul" and their ideology named "sămănătorism". Some of the greatest literary works given by the poporanist writers as Garabet Ibrăileanu or Ionel Teodoreanu, the novels Adela and La Medeleni illustrates the aesthestic consequences of Eminescu’s imagery and style along the same lines of the conservative literary direction creating the so-called "reactionary modernism"

Key-words: influence, journalism, ideology, culture, literature, tradition.

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Smărăndița-Elena Vasilachi, Iaşi, Eminescu, orator politic

Abstract

In this paper, we analyse the complexity of elements, the symbols and Eminescu’s specific way of building a text based on a solid opinion about writing. Very few lines could discover a sum of interpretations, thus, in this short posthumous text chosen for analysis, [When I was still at University…] (Eminescu, 1977: 320, trad.n.), we could recognise a real confession about how Eminescu wrote in atipic conditions, in the dark, after extinguishing the candle, in a space which was dominated by tranquility and atemporality. In this analysis, there is presented the evolution of the writing about writing in memorialistic texts, in articles and in sent or unsent correspondece of Eminescu, in order to observe the narrator’s major changes of attitude from youth to maturity. The unique perspective resides in his way of creating a text, without any source of light, living with his own inspiration and his disorganized papers, which are not only described by Eminescu in the short text suport [When I was still at University...], but they are also confirmed by the researchers of his real life, as you could see in the lines above. As a conclusion, we have the chance to discover how Eminescu wrote history through his own history.

Key-words: writing in the dark, history, confessions vs. reality, becoming mature, autobiography.

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