DACOROMANIA LITTERARIA FONDATOR: SEXTIL PUŞCARIU CONSILIUL DIRECTOR OANA FOTACHE (București), THOMAS HUNKELER (Fribourg), LAURENT JENNY (Geneva), KAZIMIERZ JURCZAK (Cracovia), MARIELLE MACÉ (Paris), WILLIAM MARX (Paris), NICOLAE MECU (Bucureşti), VIRGIL NEMOIANU (Washington), ANTONIO PATRAŞ (Iaşi), LAURA PAVEL (Cluj-Napoca), ION SIMUŢ (Oradea), T. SZABÓ LEVENTE (Cluj-Napoca), CĂLIN TEUTIŞAN (Cluj-Napoca), GISÈLE VANHÈSE (Calabria), CHRISTINA VOGEL (Zürich) COMITETUL DE REDACŢIE EUGEN PAVEL – director ADRIAN TUDURACHI – redactor-şef COSMIN BORZA – redactor-şef adjunct DORU BURLACU, ALEX GOLDIȘ, DORIS MIRONESCU, ROXANA PATRAȘ, MAGDA RĂDUŢĂ, ADRIANA STAN, LIGIA TUDURACHI (secretar ştiinţific de redacţie), MAGDA WÄCHTER REVIZIE DE LIMBĂ ANDREI LAZĂR – franceză IOANA NAN – engleză © Institutul de Lingvistică şi Istorie Literară „Sextil Puşcariu” ISSN 2360 – 5189 ISSN–L 2360 – 5189 COMITETUL DE REDACŢIE ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ 400165 Cluj-Napoca, Str. Emil Racoviţă, nr. 21 Filiala Cluj-Napoca Tel./ fax: +40 264 432440 400015 Cluj-Napoca, Str. Republicii, nr. 9 e-mail: [email protected] Tel./ fax: +40 264 592363 web: http://www.dacoromanialitteraria.inst- e-mail: [email protected] puscariu.ro ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ Filiala Cluj-Napoca Institutul de Lingvistică şi Istorie Literară „Sextil Puşcariu” DACOROMANIA LITTERARIA Vol. VI 2019 SUMAR • SOMMAIRE • CONTENTS L’histoire littéraire en deçà et au-delà de la nation Literary history beyond the national frame Dossier coordonné par / Edited by Călin Teutișan, Cosmin Borza Călin TEUTIȘAN, Cosmin BORZA, Introduction / 5 Histoires littéraires alternatives / Alternative scenarios to national literary histories Imre József BALÁZS, Le Surréalisme en 1947: The Export and Exchange of Ideas in Post-War International Surrealism / 8 Tímea BERKI, Interférences de l’histoire littéraire. Traités en langue hongroise sur la littérature roumaine au tournant du XXème siècle / 21 Mihaela MUDURE, Romanian English Studies Specialists and National Literary History / 29 Anamaria OMER, A New Concept of Literary History. Romanian Literature and the Network Structures / 39 Constantina Raveca BULEU, Esotericism and Secrecy in Alternative Literary Histories / 47 Ion MANOLESCU, Literary History and Cognitive Science. A Psycho-Neurological Perspective on Romanian Interbellum Fiction / 58 Transgressions de l’histoire littéraire nationale / Transgressions of national literary historiography Denis MELLIER, De l’histoire littéraire (contemporaine) en régime intermédial : perspective interniste et épreuve du dehors visuel de la littérature (XXème– XXIème siècles) / 67 Alina BUZATU, Genre as a Conceptual Tool / 83 Dominique PRIVÉ, Pour une nouvelle histoire littéraire québécoise, du local à l’universel : la littérature migratoire / 90 Daniela SPINA, Writing National History without a Nation: The Case of Indo- Portuguese Literary History / 96 Anca CRIVĂȚ, Isidore de Seville : les prémisses d’une histoire de la littérature avant la lettre ? / 111 Figures de la nation / Avatars of national narratives Ioana Alexandra LIONTE, The English Translation of Mihai Eminescuʼs Poetry / 122 Diana BLAGA, The Physiology of Taste. From Culinary to Literary Art / 137 Liliana BURLACU, Tissus et accessoires oubliés. De la panoplie vestimentaire dʼun écrivain « sentimental » / 149 Magda WÄCHTER, “How Do We Happen to Be Inspired?” Literature Surveys from the 1930s / 162 Cosmin BORZA, The National No Manʼs Land. Imagining Rurality in The Romanian Literary Histories / 170 Comptes rendus / Book Reviews Mircea Martin, Christian Moraru, and Andrei Terian, eds., Romanian Literature as World Literature, New York and London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 (Anca Socaci) / 181 Maria Sass, Ștefan Baghiu, and Vlad Pojoga, eds., The Culture of Translation in Romania / Übersetzungskultur und Literaturübersetzen in Rumänien, Berlin, Peter Lang, 2018 (Mirela Șăran) / 182 Ion Pop, Poezia românească neomodernistă [Romanian Neomodernist Poetry], Cluj-Napoca, Școala Ardeleană, 2018 (Mihnea Bâlici) / 184 Ligia Tudurachi, Grup sburător. Trăitul și scrisul împreună în cenaclul lui E. Lovinescu [“Grup sburător”. Living and Writing Together in E. Lovinescu’s Literary Circle], Timișoara, Editura Universității de Vest, 2019 (Maria Chiorean) / 186 Paul Cernat, Vase comunicante: (Inter)fețe ale avangardei românești interbelice [Communicating Vessels. (Inter)Faces of the Romanian Inter-War Avant- Garde], Iași, Polirom, 2018 (Dragoș Bucur) / 188 Oana Soare, Ceilalți moderni, antimodernii. Cazul românesc [The Other Moderns, the Anti-Moderns. The Romanian Case], București, Editura Muzeul Literaturii Române, 2017 (David Morariu) / 191 Teodora Dumitru, Modernitatea politică și literară în gândirea lui E. Lovinescu [Eugen Lovinescu’s Literary and Political Modernity], București, Editura Muzeului Literaturii Române, 2016 (Ioana Pavel) / 194 Doris Mironescu, Un secol al memoriei. Literatură și conștiință comunitară în epoca romantică [A Century of Memory. Literature and Collective Conscience in the Romantic Age], Iași, Editura Universității „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, 2016 (Maricica Munteanu) / 196 Contributeurs / Contributors / 199 CĂLIN TEUTIȘAN COSMIN BORZA LITERARY HISTORY BEYOND THE NATIONAL FRAME The current special issue gathers sixteen contributions presented at the International Literary History Congress Local Convertible Values: International Narratives of National Literary History, hosted by the Cluj-Napoca Faculty of Letters between May 11th and 12th 2018. The event was organised by the Faculty’s Department of Romanian Literature, Hungarian Literature and the Department of Comparative Literature, with the support of the “Sextil Pușcariu” Institute of Linguistics and Literary History, the Cluj-Napoca branch of the Romanian Academy, as well as the universities belonging to the Universitaria Consortium. The congress aimed at opening a debate platform on the historicity of the literary sphere, a space which would allow literary studies to connect to other fields regarding the historical nature of social realities (history, anthropology, sociology etc), as well as to investigate them in the broader context of regional literary cultures. The most heated debates following the congress focused on the relationship between the nation and literary history, especially because – against a backdrop of accelerating Globalization and the ever-diversifying theories and methodologies within World Literature – both concepts underwent significant mutations during recent decades. In the critical discourse of the field’s most reputed researchers, the vantage point on the “nation” has shifted from a tendency towards studying it within strictly defined geographical boundaries (and implicitly within ethnic and racial categories) to the concession of isolating networks of transcultural phenomena, territorial crossings or multilingual interferences. As a consequence, literary histories themselves could no longer be shaped after the ethnocentric model of “epical synthesis” fuelled by 19th century values and worldviews. Historiographical approaches aimed at establishing national narratives about canonical authors, about referential historical data, about the most representative literary movements or – in the case of so-called “semi-peripheric” cultures – about the intersections and synchronisations with “great” and “central” cultures have been replaced by theoretical standpoints built upon debating cultural confluences, intersections and hybridizations, precisely those phenomena that eschew inquiry within the confines of a single ethnic space. Since the early 2000s, the reconfiguration of literary history beyond the nation has not only generated intense debate, but has also prompted far-reaching research projects, of which transnational literary histories with regional focus (addressing Latin America, the Iberic Peninsula and Central and Eastern Europe, respectively) have proven the most prolific. At the same time, the national literary systems’ presumed homogeneity has been dismantled during recent years by the Bloomsbury Academic series DACOROMANIA LITTERARIA, VI, 2019, pp. 5–7 6 LITERARY HISTORY BEYOND THE NATIONAL FRAME Literatures as World Literatures, coordinated by Thomas O. Beebee. This collection, which has hosted extensive studies on world literatures (German, Brazilian, Danish, Dutch, Romanian and American, among others), has not only led to new variations in the field of comparative literature, but also to viable approaches to contemporary literary history. Among the major aims of these studies were the rehabilitation of a broad array of phenomena, directions and literary instruments previously neglected or downright rejected by literary historiography: literatures written by ethnic minorities, by exiled or diasporic authors, literatures preceding the nation-state in its current understanding, literatures that refuse any sort of national classification, circuits of translation and export, the profoundly heterogenous phenomena of global literature, etc. The contributions selected for this special issue of Dacoromania litteraria share the theoretical premises previously mentioned and have been organized in 3 separate sections. The first one, Alternative scenarios to national literary histories, comprises, on the one hand, reflections on transnational literary networks and dissemination paths, and on the other, theoretical inquiries into the methodologies and concepts that allow for a decisive detachment from the rigid formulas of traditional literary history. In the opening article, Imre József