FEASTING ON THE TEXT: THE “ULYSSES” CENTENARY IN ROMANIAN PERIODICALS

Elena PĂCURAR

doi:10.24193/subbphilo.2018.4.09

Authors

Elena PĂCURAR Babeș-Bolyai University. E-mail: elenavoj@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0932-7563

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2018.4.09

Keywords:

reception, translation, Romanian periodicals, Irish modernism, the European canon.

Abstract

Feasting on the Text: the “Ulysses” Centenary in Romanian Periodicals. The aim of this paper is to revisit a selection of the Romanian periodical issues dedicated to James Joyce’s fiction up until the 1980s. Our investigation of the main themes and topics published before and after the year 1982 reveals an alignment with an already established shift of perception in Joycean studies: the author is glorified as an Irish and/or Irish-European modernist writer whose assignment to a specific, local culture is the pre-condition of his modernity and innovative style.

Rezumat. Ospățul textual: centenarul James Joyce în publicistica românească. Lucrarea operează o selecție a câtorva reviste și ziare românești care au dedicat spațiu editorial ficțiunii scriitorului James Joyce. Analiza noastră, care face referire inclusiv la câteva dintre temele abordate de aceste reviste în jurul centenarului Joyce, reflectă o schimbare de percepție în studiile joyceene în general. Această modificare vizează receptarea lui Joyce ca scriitor irlandez și/sau irlandezo-european a cărui apartenență la o cultură specifică este temelia modernității și a inovației sale stilistice.

Cuvinte-cheie: receptare, traducere, periodice românești, modernism irlandez, canonul european

Author Biography

Elena PĂCURAR, Babeș-Bolyai University. E-mail: elenavoj@gmail.com

Elena Păcurar is Lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages for Specific Purposes, Babeș-Bolyai University, and Secretary of the Research Centre for the Study of the Contemporary British Novel. She wrote a doctoral thesis on James Joyce’s Europeanism (2011) and is currently investigating the directions of the contemporary Irish and Irish-American novel. E-mail: elenavoj@gmail.com

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