Re Configuring Romanian Culture On Its Way Towards Modernity

Author : Alexandra Chiriac
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783866287655

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Re-Configuring Romanian Culture on its Way Towards Modernity by Alexandra Chiriac Pdf

As a direct result of an international conference organized in the year 2021, the volume tries to shed light on the way in which the translation activity contributed to the Romanian culture and language, drawing from different traditions and cultures it came in contact with (directly or indirectly), and thus mingling the own Slavonic church tradition with the new and revolutionary ideas of the Western world and using this mix to modernise the society, language and the politics in this region. Furthermore, this eclectic collection of articles highlights the fact that it was neither the exclusive merit of the Transylvanian scholars, nor of the Moldavian or Wallachian ones to have contributed decisively to the formation of the national consciousness and to the standardisation of the language, but it was rather the collaboration, the circulation of people and ideas that furthered the modernity in all three Romanian Principalities. Without disregarding the regional specificity of the Romanian Enlightenment, the volume focuses on the interconnections of the agents involved in the cultural transfer, on the networks they created for the dissemination of knowledge and political thought and on the common effort to render the new ideas and concepts of the foreign cultures in a national language that could be accessible to the Romanians.

Author : Kurt W. Treptow
Publisher : Center For Romanian Studies
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1592111610

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Tradition and Modernity in Romanian Culture and Civilization by Kurt W. Treptow Pdf

Author : Ahmet Ersoy,Maciej G¢rny,Vangelis Kechriotis
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789637326646

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Modernism: Representations of National Culture by Ahmet Ersoy,Maciej G¢rny,Vangelis Kechriotis Pdf

Presentations of National Cultures. Fifty-one texts illustrate the evolution of modernism in the east-European region. Essays, articles, poems, or excerpts from longer works offer new opportunities of possible comparisons of the respective national cultures, from the different ideological approaches and finessing projects of how to create the modern state liberal, conservative, socialist and others to the literary and scientific attempts at squaring the circle of individual and collective identities.

Author : Dennis Deletant
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000643817

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Romania, 1916–1941 by Dennis Deletant Pdf

This study challenges the rose-tinted view of the interwar period in Romanian history, which is often judged against the darkness of almost five decades of Communist rule. Romania, like several of the states of Eastern Europe, emerged from the First World War as it had entered it, as a predominantly agricultural country, and one of its major problems was the condition of the peasantry. This volume’s focus is the drive to improve that condition, on the collapse of democracy, and the search by Romania’s leaders for strategies to secure the state, to assert the country’s independence, and to maintain its territorial integrity in the face of the threat to the European order posed by two totalitarian systems, represented by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. By examining recent scholarship, this volume provides the most up-to-date account of Romania’s predicament in the interwar years. Romania, 1916–1941 is a useful resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in foreign policy, politics, society, internationalization and late development in interwar Central and Eastern Europe.

Author : Magdalena Dumitrana
Publisher : CRVP
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 156518209X

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Romanian Cultural Identity and Education for Civil Society by Magdalena Dumitrana Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Silviu Miloiu
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789737925923

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Europe as viewed from the margins. An East-Central European perspective during the long 19th Century by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sebastian Văduva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319269979

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From Corruption to Modernity by Sebastian Văduva Pdf

This volume examines corruption and provides tools and that can be utilized to combat it and encourage development. Using Romania as a case study, the authors argue that corruption can be reduced via institutional reforms and effective civic education. Describing various causes and types of corruption, the authors explore the causes and influences that result in corruption and the current political and bureaucratic practices that inhibit social, political or economic reform. The nations of Europe, including Romania, have different civil traditions varying in their intensity, cultural heritage, scope of activity, religious or non-religious affiliation, among other factors. Western Europe has experienced over a century of modern government involvement crowding out the efforts of traditional civil society, while Romania, along with the other Eastern nations of the former Soviet bloc, experienced almost a half-century of systematic efforts by communist regimes to eradicate and control all spheres of voluntary, nongovernmental civil life. Moreover, the inexperience and immaturity of Romanian society in the early transition period after communism, particularly its so-called “entrepreneurial class,” have discredited and abused the concept of civil society, utilizing it solely for tax benefits and selfish purposes. Having had to learn the hard way about some of the key aspects of public administration often taken for granted in other countries more experienced in democratic participation, Romania has most recently made significant progress toward overcoming corruption and implementing reforms and policies that will allow it to participate more fully in the global arena.

Author : Mircea Martin,Christian Moraru,Andrei Terian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501327926

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Romanian Literature as World Literature by Mircea Martin,Christian Moraru,Andrei Terian Pdf

Approaching Romanian literature as world literature, this book is a critical-theoretical manifesto that places its object at the crossroads of empires, regions, and influences and draws conclusions whose relevance extends beyond the Romanian, Romance, and East European cultural systems. This “intersectional” revisiting of Romanian literature is organized into three parts. Opening with a fresh look at the literary ideology of Romania's “national poet,” Mihai Eminescu, part I dwells primarily on literary-cultural history as process and discipline. Here, the focus is on cross-cultural mimesis, the role of strategic imitation in the production of a distinct literature in modern Romania, and the shortcomings marking traditional literary historiography's handling of these issues. Part II examines the ethno-linguistic and territorial complexity of Romanian literatures or “Romanian literature in the plural.” Part III takes up the trans-systemic rise of Romanian, Jewish Romanian, and Romanian-European avant-garde and modernism, Socialist Realism, exile and émigré literature, and translation.

Author : Alexandra Urdea
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789201048

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From Storeroom to Stage by Alexandra Urdea Pdf

Departing from an ethnographic collection in London, From Storeroom to Stage traces the journey of its artefacts back to the Romanian villages where they were made 70 years ago, and to other places where similar objects are still in use. The book explores the role that material culture plays in the production of value and meaning by examining how folk objects are mobilized in national ideologies, transmissions of personal and family memory, museological discourses, and artistic acts.

Author : Florin Oprescu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110603057

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Power and Literature by Florin Oprescu Pdf

At the core of this book lies the relation between Power (as socio-political phenomenon) and the novel (as literary discourse). It shows that, in a society facing the excess of power in its various forms, novelistic fiction mediates knowledge about societal Power structures and uses specific strategies to subvert and denounce them. The first part of the study is theoretical: it presents some of the most prominent theories of Power, from Plato, Machiavelli, Nietzsche to Weber, Dahl, Lukes, Parsons, Bourdieu or Foucault. After offering a critical approach to the concepts of Power defined in the social, political and philosophical fields, it articulates the relations of Power imprinted in literary discourse within a typology of four categories. In the second part of the book, this taxonomy of Power is applied to four key novels in the context of Romanian "literary crossroads", showing how novelistic fiction not only assume a critical and subversive position against the excess of Power, but also unveils our fragility when experiencing History.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Romania
ISBN : UIUC:30112104060188

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Romania by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cristian Cercel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317061724

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Romania and the Quest for European Identity by Cristian Cercel Pdf

Exploring the largely positive representations of Romanian Germans predominating in post-1989 Romanian society, this book shows that the underlying reasons for German prestige are strongly connected with Romania’s endeavors to become European. The election, in 2014, of Klaus Iohannis as Romania’s president was hailed as evidence that the country chose a 'European’ future: that Iohannis belonged to Romania’s tiny German minority was also considered to have played a part in his success. Cercel argues that representations of Germans in Romania, descendants of twelfth-century and eighteenth-century colonists, become actually a symbolic resource for asserting but also questioning Romania’s European identity. Such representations link Romania’s much-desired European belonging with German presence, whilst German absence is interpreted as a sign of veering away from Europe. Investigating this case of discursive "self-colonization" and this apparent symbolic embrace of the German Other in Romania, the book offers a critical study of the discourses associated with Romania’s postcommunist "Europeanization" to contribute a better understanding of contemporary West-East relationships in the European context. This fresh and insightful approach will interest postgraduates and scholars interested in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe and in German minorities outside Germany. It should also appeal to scholars of memory studies and those interested in the study of otherness in general.

Author : Maria Bucur
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822970620

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Eugenics and Modernization in Interwar Romania by Maria Bucur Pdf

Maria Bucur explores the interactions between the science of eugenics and modernization efforts in Romania between World Wars I and II.

Author : Anastasia Bermudez,Laura Oso
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000433487

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New Trends in Intra-European Union Mobilities by Anastasia Bermudez,Laura Oso Pdf

Mobilities within the European Union (EU) have changed significantly since the classical intra-regional migrations of the 1950s–1970s. After a period of reduced, less visible flows in the 21st century mobilities increased again, first linked to EU expansion towards the East, and from 2008, with renewed South-North flows following the impact of the Great Recession on Southern European countries. It is in this context that the current volume explores how these recent migrations reflect new and more complex patterns of mobility, increasingly uncertain and unstable, involving both natives and naturalised migrants. It also seeks to unpack the multiple connections between these new migration systems and other systems affecting social protection, gender and citizenship, and how these intersect with other factors such as class, age, race and ethnicity. The different chapters of the book examine this covering a wide variety of cases, including intra-EU flows from Portugal and Spain, recent Spanish and Latin American migrants in London, Paris and Brussels, and Romanian migration to the UK and France, thus adding to its richness. This book will be of interest to academics, researchers and advanced students of Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, Gender Studies, Public Policy, and Politics. It was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Author : Lucian Boia
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9639116971

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History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness by Lucian Boia Pdf

Based on the idea that there is a considerable difference between reality and discourse, the author points out that history is constantly reconstructed, adapted and sometimes mythicized from the perspectives of the present day, present states of mind and ideologies. He closely examines historical culture and conscience in nineteenth and twentieth century Romania, particularly concentrating on the impact of the national ideology on history. Boia's innovative analysis identifies several key mythical configurations and shows how Romanians have reconstituted their own highly ideologized history over the last two centuries. The strength of History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness lies in the author's ability to fully deconstruct the entire Romanian historiographic system and demonstrate the increasing acuteness of national problems in general, and in particular the exploitation of history to support national ideology.