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The present work aims to focus on a number of articles selected by the interwar agents of the Department of National Security from the lines printed in Floarea de foc magazine, a magazine founded in Greater Romania, in the context of heterogeneous socio-political metamorphoses and the accelerated development of modern Romanian society. The present paper contributes to a qualitative analysis of how political power generated ideologizing identities in interwar publication texts. In order to diagnose the way in which the publication under the leadership of Sandu Tudor positioned itself in relation to the ideological and cultural imperatives of the time and to distinguish the nuances of the regimentation of journalists and intellectuals within the horizon of a political ideology, the analysis approached an interdisciplinary perspective, which would allow perceiving the distinction between the journalist's language and the interwar Security Department agent's language. Thus, we confronted the data obtained from the notes prepared by the interwar Security Department, found today in the files of the CNSAS Archive, with the information obtained from the set of articles published under the signature of the authors investigated by the state institutions, in order to penetrate beyond the objectives of the interwar Security Department work, which consisted in gathering different types of information. Also, the paper corroborated the intrinsic information obtained mainly from the textual analysis (at the semantic, syntactic and narrative level) with the extrinsic data (ideology, sociogram, social fields) provided, for the most part, from the socio-critical investigation of texts from the interwar press and Archive documents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author of the paper intends to capture an episode in the history of the Romanian P.E.N. Club, from the first years of its existence. The paper features the correpondence between its founder, Marcu Beza, the Romanian diplomat from the capital of Great Britain, and George Bernard Shaw. The issue of translating and producing some of Shaw's plays in Romania is highlighted in the context of the history of P.E.N. International. The organization's position with regard to an author's rights, and to promoting authors of reference among its members, is also analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose to present a way of initiation that occurs through discovery in the novel Life Begins on Friday by Ioana Pârvulescu. Among all the characters in this novel, we will consider Dan Cre#355;u who goes through a liminal experience and arrives in a new world. He discovers the world, and thus forms an identity, going through all the stages of initiation theorized by Robert L. Moore. Our hermeneutic approach will be accompanied by the Jungian theories of initiation that will help us in the attempt to reveal the meanings of the symbols in the novel and the meanings of the initiation process undergone by the character. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paperwork analyses motherhood as literary theme in Ioana Nicolaie's novel Cartea Reghinei (2019). The novel forms a trilogy together with Pelinul negru (2017) and Tot înainte (2021), but it also communicates on different levels with the author's other novels. The first part of the study focuses on the relationship between the narrative perspective and the authorial subjectivity, especially since the autobiographical vein of the novel is quite significant, while the main character is also built on this autobiographical foundation. The novel, however, makes possible several reading perspectives, and the experience of motherhood is particularized by the socio-political context. Therefore, the second part of the paper deals with this particularization, but demonstrates that the novel also emphasizes deeper meanings of motherhood as an essential experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to highlight how Cezar Paul-Bădescu treats the communist period through a mix of autobiography and fiction. The author tries to overturn literary barriers and demystify both literature and himself, particularly through an anti-literary discours. The uniqueness of his work lies in its narrative perspective, fragmentary style, deconstruction, self-irony and the author's choice to turn his character into an anti-hero. Using memory and self-analysis, Cezar Paul-Bădescu tries to understand and reconcile with himself, seeking the therapeutic effect of memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social media has lately become a fertile space for self-expression. The Internet is widely used for communication, generating a new way of conveying messages, sharing impressions or criticizing the negative aspects of society. Cyberlanguage is characterized by various means of enriching the vocabulary, revealing non-standard writing or lexical changes in the substance of Romanian. The present study aims at exemplifying how derivation, word formation, puns or unconventional orthography are represented in social media, especially Facebook. The corpus of the paper is mainly based on commentaries displayed on different pages belonging to Romanian journalists and collected in 2022, approaching the most significant aspects of internal politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the present paper is to highlight the way Elena Vladareanu (a Romanian writer) turns a feminine experience (motherhood) into a main theme of her poetry. After following an outline that shows some significant points of view on the relation between repetition and creation, the study focuses on poems whose style is both autonomous and paradigmatic. An reflexive approach of body, connection, and disjunction is hidden in Vladareanu's poetry, by means of strategies that emphasize the mincing/hybridization of human subject and suggest the language crises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the present paper is to come to terms with the poetry written by a young Romanian writer, Olga Ştefan, who published her books in the 2000's - a period of astounding outburst of creativity in the field of poetry. It follows a fourfold outline: the recourse to associative poetics and multiple focalizations, the relation between body, concept and writing, the use of baroque techniques, especially geared towards mixing voices and plenteous figures, the insulation not only as a stronghold of recalibrated human beings, but also as a stimulus for polyphonic poetry writing. Undertaken in the light of resistance and metamorphosis, her poems do not celebrate the weirdness of imaginary, but a sparing alternative to the decentrede mental horizon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]