Articles (RO) by David Morariu
Revista Transilvania, 2020
Based on Edward Said’s concept of “travelling theory” and on Pierre Bourdieu’s perspective concer... more Based on Edward Said’s concept of “travelling theory” and on Pierre Bourdieu’s perspective concerning “the international circulation of ideas”, this article aims at revisiting two notable studies in analyzing the phenomenon of French Theory: François Cusset’s French Theory. How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States and Johannes Angermuller’s Why There Is No Poststructuralism in France. The Making of an Intellectual Generation. More specifically, my paper focuses on discussing both the factors that led to adopting the French philosophers’ works across the ocean and the differences between the French culture and the American one that resulted in finding new interpretations of the theory. In this respect, emphasizing some aspects such as the “intransitive” character of the theory, the literary and political approaches of the philosophical discourse and even the debate on the concepts of French and American (post)structuralism plays a major role in viewing French Theory as a “travelling theory” and as a result of the “decontextualization” and “recontextualization” processes.
Revista Transilvania, 2019
This study sets out to analyze the concept of self-colonization, theorized by Alexander Kiossev, ... more This study sets out to analyze the concept of self-colonization, theorized by Alexander Kiossev, as a phenomenon caused either by colonial or national constraints. To put it another way, self-colonization becomes a form of anticolonization and anti-nationalism. The studies on translation published by Andrei Terian, Cosmin Borza and Ștefan Baghiu in The Culture of Translation in Romania represent the starting point for this approach. On the one hand, I focused on the cultural politics promoted by the leaders of the Romanian populist movements. The numerous translations of literary works belonging even to peripheral cultures represent a form of self-colonization. In this case, the self-subordination attitude is caused by the attempt to counterbalance the monopoly of French culture. On the other hand, the same strategy can be observed during the second half of the 20th century, when the translation of texts belonging to Western cultures aimed at avoiding both the Soviet colonization and the national-communist doctrine.
Revista Transilvania, 2018
Revista Transilvania, 2017
The present study is a comparative approach putting under observation two philosophical systems o... more The present study is a comparative approach putting under observation two philosophical systems of the interwar period-namely those of Lucian Blaga and of Norbert Elias. The author is mainly interested in the representations of the concepts of "culture" and "civilization", such as the two philosophers have defined them, following the radical division between culture and civilization operated by prewar and interwar German philosophy (mostly by Georg Simmel).
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 David Morariu
MDRR, 2019
MDRR: https://revistatransilvania.ro/mdrr/
(the digital archive of the Romanian novel)
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.
Papers (RO) by David Morariu
Revista Transilvania, 2019
The present study assesses the existing archives that gather and preserve in digital versions the... more The present study assesses the existing archives that gather and preserve in digital versions the Romanian novel published in the 19 th century. Digitalization projects, both in Romania and in Europe, are the main subjects of this research. Adding to this, we share the particular and common experiences of the Astra Data Mining: The Digital Museum of the 19th Century Romanian Novel in terms of the process of digitizing the 157 novels in our corpus. Other details such as the specific editions digitized, the process of selection, as well as any difficulties met along the way are also provided. At the same time, the activities of our project are also corroborated with similar European projects. In order to address our digitization practice, we also explore a theoretical and methodological framework borrowed by Stanford Literary Lab in terms of conceptualizing what the American researchers call ”the published”, ”the archive” and ”the corpus”.
Papers by David Morariu
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 2020
Based on "The Emotions of London", a research project initiated at the Stanford Literary Lab, my ... more Based on "The Emotions of London", a research project initiated at the Stanford Literary Lab, my article focuses on two relevant issues. First of all, I aim to demonstrate, as the "geography of emotions" experiment has already proved, that distant reading approaches and big data interpretation do not necessarily have to replace traditional methods of analysis. In other words, by using a corpus of 157 texts, I intend to outline the affective image of Paris as presented in the nineteenth century Romanian novel. Secondly, the aspect that makes my article different from“The Emotions of London” is that my purpose does not lie in analysing emotions associated with certain place-names in Paris, but with the overall image of the city, because Paris is an “abstract”, rather than a “concrete”, presence in the Romanian novel of this period. Another hypothesis that I will address is the interpretation of the emotions towards Paris, taking into account the two tendencies characteristic for the Romanian culture of the nineteenth century, namely the self-colonial tendency and the anti-colonial one.
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Articles (RO) by David Morariu
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 David Morariu
(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.
Papers (RO) by David Morariu
Papers by David Morariu
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.