Papers by VARGA DRAGOȘ
Transilvania
The present article focuses on one of the most interesting Romanian literary epistolary, An Epist... more The present article focuses on one of the most interesting Romanian literary epistolary, An Epistolary Novel, by I. Negoițescu and Radu Stanca, both members of Literary Circle of Sibiu. The re-editing of the correspondence of the two writers completes, where possible, the collection of letters, but also passages censored in the first edition. It also offers an interesting research core for Romanian literary studies from the perspective of so-called memory studies and life writing. The epistolary „novel” is, in fact, a „bildungsroman,” as Negoițescu characterized it, and also a fresco of the Romanian literary life from 1943 until 1961, with the related cancans, with the little mischief and chicanery, with the obstacles to be overcome in the editorial and the artistic world.
Transilvania, Dec 1, 2021
The article aims to identify some of the peculiarities of the XIXth century outlaw novel in relat... more The article aims to identify some of the peculiarities of the XIXth century outlaw novel in relation to the conventions and the stereotypes of the adventure novel, focusing on George Baronzi’s novel, Mina the Outlaw. The Girl of the Forests, an agreeable novel in spite of several narrative clumsiness. The novelty comes from the fact that the novel proposes a female character in the role of the hero, somehow accumulating the conventions and some narrative invariants specific to the outlaw novel, but also to the sentimental novel, the plot having as a starting point a love story. The novel is, therefore, chracterized by a certain naivity specific to the subgenre and to the literary period to which it belongs, but the author cannot be blamed for the lack of a certain sense of suspense and proliferation of adventures, by moving from one conflict to another, by changing the setting of the action thus activating its narrative potential.
Transilvania, 2020
Combining the instruments of quantitative analysis with those of genre theory, the present articl... more Combining the instruments of quantitative analysis with those of genre theory, the present article studies the ratio, characteristics, and tendencies underpinning the most important subgenres of the Romanian novel between 1901 and 1932. Among these subgenres, we lay special emphasis on those of popular fiction, on the social, historical, sentimental, psychological, and philosophical novel, as well as on the so-called “event novel”. The conclusions of our inquiry illustrate the ever-growing divide between artistic literature and popular fiction, the recasting of the Romanian novelistic subgenres during the early 20th century, and the gradual relocation of the novelists’ focus from the unmediated depiction of events towards the world and the individual self.
Transilvania, 2021
The article aims to identify some of the peculiarities of the XIXth century outlaw novel in relat... more The article aims to identify some of the peculiarities of the XIXth century outlaw novel in relation to the conventions and the stereotypes of the adventure novel, focusing on George Baronzi’s novel, Mina the Outlaw. The Girl of the Forests, an agreeable novel in spite of several narrative clumsiness. The novelty comes from the fact that the novel proposes a female character in the role of the hero, somehow accumulating the conventions and some narrative invariants specific to the outlaw novel, but also to the sentimental novel, the plot having as a starting point a love story. The novel is, therefore, chracterized by a certain naivity specific to the subgenre and to the literary period to which it belongs, but the author cannot be blamed for the lack of a certain sense of suspense and proliferation of adventures, by moving from one conflict to another, by changing the setting of the action thus activating its narrative potential.
Revista Transilvania - serie nouă, anul XLV (CXLIX), nr. 11-12, 2017, dezbate următoarele teme: F... more Revista Transilvania - serie nouă, anul XLV (CXLIX), nr. 11-12, 2017, dezbate următoarele teme: Foarță, Șerban. Per Lusum & Jocum; / Vancu, Radu. Poezia română post-2000. Două debuturi remarcabile; / Varga, Dragoș. „La vie est ailleurs”. Note despre jurnalul contemporan; / Pojoga, Vlad. Pisica lui Schrodinger in avangarda literară românească. Poezia lui M. Blecher in diverse grile de lectură (II); / Daneș, Maria. Tehnici poetice și colaps al contemporanului: Angela Marinescu; / Ilie, Rodica. Exil și marginalitate. O posibilă regândire a exilului românesc; / Avram (Stanciu), Ioana-Alina. Cântece de dragoste, de logodnă și de nuntă din repertoriul aromân; / Malița, Liviu. „Resursa umană” a Cenzurii socialiste. De la birocrație la psihobiografii; / Baron, Dumitra. «Vivre au son de ma voix». Enjeux de l’ecriture de soi dans Le Livre de ma vie d’Anna de Noailles; / Grigore, Rodica. Visul American intre realitate și iluzie; / Pârvu, Daria. Celebrating Modern America: William Carlos Willia...
Revista Transilvania - serie nouă, anul XLVI (CL), nr. 9, 2018, cuprinde următoarele lucrări: »» ... more Revista Transilvania - serie nouă, anul XLVI (CL), nr. 9, 2018, cuprinde următoarele lucrări: »» Studii literare: Ligia TUDURACHI, Monica Lovinescu, copil al cenaclului Sburătorul (I). In: Revista Transilvania - serie nouă, anul XLVI (CL), nr. 9, 2018, p. 1-8. / Doris MIRONESCU, M. Blecher și literatura evreilor din România interbelică. O perspectivă polisistemică. In: Revista Transilvania - serie nouă, anul XLVI (CL), nr. 9, 2018, p. 9-16. / Dumitra BARON, A l’ombre des saints et des mystiques - portrait de Cioranen «esthetehagiographe». In: Revista Transilvania - serie nouă, anul XLVI (CL), nr. 9, 2018, p. 17-22. / Ștefania PRICOP, Experiența berlineză a lui Eminescu, din perspectiva unui „martor ocular”. In: Revista Transilvania - serie nouă, anul XLVI (CL), nr. 9, 2018, p. 23-30. / Li CAIYUE, Comparative description on the literature situation in general and novel in particular in Romania and China in the interwar era,1918-1939. In: Revista Transilvania - serie nouă, anul XLVI (...
Transylvanian Review, 2019
This article presents the main theories of “biographical genres” in Romania. It contends that esp... more This article presents the main theories of “biographical genres” in Romania. It contends that especially the works of Eugen Simion, Mihai Zamfir and Mircea Mihăieș of the 1980s can be reused for a better understanding of biographical writing in the context of emerging life writing studies and memory studies. The authors emphasize the fact that theories of the biographical genres did not consider important the study of diaries, correspondences and memoirs until the late 1980s, and that there has been an increased interest on the subject in the 1990s due to the transition to the post-communist society. Thus, the study argues that certain categories of “biographical genres,” and especially the “diary of existence” and “diary of crisis,” put forward by Zamfir, could be used for a better understanding of biographical writing in a world of fragmentation, migration and post-colonial struggle.
Articles (RO) by VARGA DRAGOȘ
Transilvania, 2020
Combining the instruments of quantitative analysis with those of genre theory, the present articl... more Combining the instruments of quantitative analysis with those of genre theory, the present article studies the ratio, characteristics, and tendencies underpinning the most important subgenres of the Romanian novel between 1901 and 1932. Among these subgenres, we lay special emphasis on those of popular fiction, on the social, historical, sentimental, psychological, and philosophical novel, as well as on the so-called “event novel”. The conclusions of our inquiry illustrate the ever-growing divide between artistic literature and popular fiction, the recasting of the Romanian novelistic subgenres during the early 20th century, and the gradual relocation of the novelists’ focus from the unmediated depiction of events towards the world and the individual self.
Transilvania, 2019
This article approaches a series of conceptual optimizations of the subgenres of the Romanian 19t... more This article approaches a series of conceptual optimizations of the subgenres of the Romanian 19th century novels established by the Chronological Dictionary of the Romanian Novel from Origins to 1989 (2004). Starting by analyzing the corpus of works digitized for ASTRA Data Mining. The Digital Museum of the 19th Century Romanian
Novel, the authors revisit possible definitions of some of the most preeminent and discussed typologies of the 19th century novel production in Romania: the outlaw novel, the social novel, the novel of manners, the rural novel, the historical novel, the sensation novel, the erotic novel, and the family novel. The central goal of the article is, therefore, to shape a taxonomy that fits the formal, thematical, and rhetorical variety of the Romanian novel in the 19th century.
Edited Volumes (Ro) by VARGA DRAGOȘ
MDRR, 2019
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Baghiu, Ș... more MDRR: https://revistatransilvania.ro/mdrr/
(the digital archive of the Romanian novel)
Baghiu, Ștefan, Vlad Pojoga, Cosmin Borza, Andreea Coroian Goldiș, Daiana Gârdan, Emanuel Modoc, David Morariu, Teodora Susarenco, Radu Vancu, and Dragoș Varga. Muzeul Digital al Romanului Românesc: secolul al XIX-lea [The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel: The 19th Century]. Sibiu: Complexul Național Muzeal ASTRA, 2019. https://revistatransilvania.ro/mdrr.
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Articles (RO) by VARGA DRAGOȘ
Novel, the authors revisit possible definitions of some of the most preeminent and discussed typologies of the 19th century novel production in Romania: the outlaw novel, the social novel, the novel of manners, the rural novel, the historical novel, the sensation novel, the erotic novel, and the family novel. The central goal of the article is, therefore, to shape a taxonomy that fits the formal, thematical, and rhetorical variety of the Romanian novel in the 19th century.
Edited Volumes (Ro) by VARGA DRAGOȘ
(the digital archive of the Romanian novel)
Baghiu, Ștefan, Vlad Pojoga, Cosmin Borza, Andreea Coroian Goldiș, Daiana Gârdan, Emanuel Modoc, David Morariu, Teodora Susarenco, Radu Vancu, and Dragoș Varga. Muzeul Digital al Romanului Românesc: secolul al XIX-lea [The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel: The 19th Century]. Sibiu: Complexul Național Muzeal ASTRA, 2019. https://revistatransilvania.ro/mdrr.
Novel, the authors revisit possible definitions of some of the most preeminent and discussed typologies of the 19th century novel production in Romania: the outlaw novel, the social novel, the novel of manners, the rural novel, the historical novel, the sensation novel, the erotic novel, and the family novel. The central goal of the article is, therefore, to shape a taxonomy that fits the formal, thematical, and rhetorical variety of the Romanian novel in the 19th century.
(the digital archive of the Romanian novel)
Baghiu, Ștefan, Vlad Pojoga, Cosmin Borza, Andreea Coroian Goldiș, Daiana Gârdan, Emanuel Modoc, David Morariu, Teodora Susarenco, Radu Vancu, and Dragoș Varga. Muzeul Digital al Romanului Românesc: secolul al XIX-lea [The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel: The 19th Century]. Sibiu: Complexul Național Muzeal ASTRA, 2019. https://revistatransilvania.ro/mdrr.