Volume 23, Issue 4

Volume 23 (2023)

Publication date: 29.05.2024

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Cover design: Dorota Heliasz

The publication of this volume was financed by the Jagiellonian University in Kraków – Faculty of Philology
of the Jagiellonian University

Licence: CC BY

Editorial team

Issue Editors Ioana Bot, Adrian Tudurachi

Editor-in-Chief Wacław Rapak

Deputy Editor-in-Chief Jakub Kornhauser, Tomasz Krupa

Issue content

Reconciling what is and was: hybrid and remixed literature in an environmental time

Ward Tietz

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 23, Issue 4, Volume 23 (2023), pp. 503 - 516

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.23.053.19366

Recent literary developments, in digital culture and in marginal and hybrid forms, offer us new ways to reconcile our relationship with time, history and human agency. Remixed and hybrid forms, as shown, can unify disparate rhythms and frames, different temporal references from different historical periods, in one synthesized rhythmico-temporal environment. In a perceiving subject, the experience highlights a general poiesis of making and presents itself as a form of agency that can be applied to everyday life through an enhanced understanding of time, rhythm and material culture.

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« Faire des mots des yeux ». La philologie et les images chez Georges Didi-Huberman

Laura Marin

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 23, Issue 4, Volume 23 (2023), pp. 517 - 526

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.23.054.19367

The article proposes an examination of the relations Georges Didi-Huberman’s work establishes between the discipline of philology and the knowledge he applies to images as cultural objects. More precisely, it identifies what are the use values that Georges Didi-Huberman assigns to philology. The argument is constructed semantically, looking at his usage of the word (including derived nouns or adjectives), and also practically, focusing on his writing practice. The analysis is grounded in a distinction between iconologic and imaginative approaches to the study of images.

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Objects of philology or philology of the objects? Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence. Between material culture, memory and narrative

Tina Maraucci, Ayşe Saraçgil

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 23, Issue 4, Volume 23 (2023), pp. 527 - 539

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.23.055.19368

This article reflects on material objects and the practice of collecting as literary subject linked to the themes of memory and past in contemporary Turkish fiction. The analysis focuses mainly on Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence considering the objects exhibited both in the novel and the museum as narrative texts of subjective and collective memories. In order to better understand Pamuk’s works we will preliminarily reconstruct the intertextual chain that preceded such a specific approach to material culture, having particular reference to Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s first novel Mahur Beste. By comparing both the authors’ poetics of objects we aim at highlighting the intimate reasons which made this subject a peculiar topos in modern Turkish literary tradition.

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Oggetti filologici immaginari: le lettere scritte dai soldati-contadini romeni transilvani durante la prima guerra mondiale

Ioana Bot

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 23, Issue 4, Volume 23 (2023), pp. 541 - 553

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.23.056.19369

Within the framework of an ample project dedicated to the study of WW I memory literature in Romanian culture, the present study aims at reflecting upon particular philological objects, most of them – imaginary, while the few real ones take unexpected forms. Philologists have frequently remarked upon the lack of an extensive corpus of letters written by Transylvanian Romanian peasants (drafted into the army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) and tend to put it down to the extremely precarious literacy standards of the category in question. Nevertheless, the “letter” as an instrument of correspondence between two worlds, an object both magical and redeeming, is a recurrent literary motif in the Transylvanian Romanian folklore inspired by the historical event in question. This topos is the object of our analysis. Between the modern written culture and the archaic oral one, imagining the letter in texts and folkloric artefacts belies the mentality conflicts triggered off by the war, as well as the means by which the rural (conservative) populace attempts to come to terms with the violence brought about by the new history ushered by the world conflict.

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Philologie et discours de haine. Pour une lecture des temporalités des vocabulaires hostiles

Adrian Tudurachi

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 23, Issue 4, Volume 23 (2023), pp. 555 - 568

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.23.057.19370

The article aims to consider the possibility of a philological approach to hate vocabulary. Starting from the Victor Klemperer’s critical reception – the known author of a “philological notebook” (1996, 2000a, 2000b) regarding the forms of verbal violence during the Nazi regime – the study examines a model of the “everyday life philology” (Porter J. 2018) and its specific conditions of analysis of temporality in relation to insults and their social destiny. Our main hypothesis, based on Judith Butler (2004) work, is that “hate”, seen from the perspective of historicity and verbal transformations, is not only an inventory of toxic words, but also a resource for subjectivation processes. The article analyzes, as a representative case, the historical uses of a hate word in the Romanian culture between the two Revolutions of 1848 and 1989.

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Literary history as bestseller: the life and opinions of a fraudulent philologue

Roxana Patraș, Antonio Patraș

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 23, Issue 4, Volume 23 (2023), pp. 569 - 583

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.23.058.19371

In this article we reveal the publishing ventures of Octav Minar (1886-1967), one of the Romanian authors that was disesteemed by fellow literary historians on account of his counterfeiting acts such as forgery, plagiarism, plastography or trick photography. Related to the book market of interbellum Romania, Minar was frequently branded as the “man-of-the-day” while his publications followed the logic of the “hand-in-glove” ephemerides Notwithstanding the challenges of the term “bestseller,” we turned to it so as to better describe Minar’s cultural products as multiple-layered offers, catering for both low-brow and high-brow readership and seizing signals from both public’s expectations (myth-making, melodrama, sensation, narrative simplicity) and enormous patrimonial gaps (editing the classics, writing the recent authors’ biographies). After a careful examination of Minar’s works, we reached the conclusion that he was an exceptional entrepreneur of letters and, nonetheless, a literary historian endowed with a “melodramatic imagination” as well as with a playwright’s and a genre novelist’s plume. A swift intuition of marketing basics helped him realize, quite rapidly, that historical facts and documents could be merchandized: this is how his impressive collection of Romanian writers’ miscellanea was wrapped as a commodity for the public. If the juridical and moral aspects of his literary ventures were put in between brackets, we would discover an astonishing and ingenious personality who glided between different speech registers, and popularized literary history as a genre belonging to the big tent of mass culture. We should thus take into consideration that the logic of the paraliterary circuit can also be applied to literary history. Boiled down to essentials, counting on citations and on minimal critical comments, spiced with images (facsimile and pictures), Minar’s literary histories had their share in speeding the process of cultural literacy of average Romanian readers and in institutionalizing literary ideas.

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Postures littéraires: il gioco dell’autocreazione letteraria

Jessica Andreoli

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 23, Issue 4, Volume 23 (2023), pp. 585 - 593

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.23.059.19372

Starting from the consultation of the materials preserved in the Italian-Romanian cultural archive of Rosa Del Conte, the present study aims to seek an answer to the question on which and how much control Rosa Del Conte has on the self-image that the archive conveys.

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« Captiver la spécificité du langage du spectacle. » Tomasz Kaczmarek et Anna Jarosz : il linguaggio dello spettacolo. Lessico italiano-polacco del teatro, del cinema, dello radio et della televisione

Katarzyna Gadomska

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 23, Issue 4, Volume 23 (2023), pp. 595 - 598

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.23.060.19373

The article discusses the main premises of Tomasz Kaczmarek’s and Anna Jarosz’s lexicon: Il linguaggio dello spettacolo. Lessico italiano-polaccodel teatro, del cinema, dello radio et della televisione. The aim of the publication is to present the specificity of the language of artistic performances, like theatre, cinema, radio, television. The authors rely on the concept of language of the artistic performance as a field at the crossroads of several codes (verbal, visual, sound, gestural) interacting on stage. This interdisciplinary publication has an encyclopedic value, but also synthesizes theoretical and historical knowledge in the above-mentioned scope.

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O nouă etapă în cercetarea dialectologică românească: Noul atlas lingvistic român, pe regiuni. Moldova şi Bucovina, volumul V

Daniela Butnaru

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 23, Issue 4, Volume 23 (2023), pp. 599 - 604

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.23.061.19374

This text is a discussion of the latest volume of Noul Atlas lingvistic român, pe regiuni. Moldova şi Bucovina, published in 2022. Although the structure of the volumes published so far is preserved, we cannot ignore the technical novelties (the editing is done with the help of a computer-aided editing software, the result of the cooperation between dialectologists and computer scientists). The documentary material contained in this volume (relating to time, meteorology, relief, school, army, administration, trade) is interesting both for researchers in the fields of dialectology, history of the Romanian language, toponymy, ethnography, and for the general public. Referring to some of the maps in this volume, we have shown their importance for the onomasiological study of some terms.

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Towards new materialism: Things in Poems edited by Josef Hrdlička and Mariana Machová

Jakub Kornhauser

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 23, Issue 4, Volume 23 (2023), pp. 605 - 609

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.23.062.19375

The article discusses the most important threads of the monograph Things in Poems edited by Josef Hrdlička and Mariana Machová, (Prague: Karolinum Press, 2022) in the context of studies on objectivism. Attention is paid to the evolution in the meaning of the object poem (Dinggedicht) as well as the status of the word itself, which becomes autonomous from the concept behind its material form. The case of poetry by, among others, Francis Ponge and Miron Białoszewski was briefly discussed.

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Słowa kluczowe: Time, history, remix, hybridity, literature, philology, image, looking [regard], imaginative work [travail d’imagination], Georges Didi-Huberman, collection, objects, memory, museum, Turkish novel, WW I, peasant soldiers, soldier folklore, Transylvania, analysis of the imaginary, philology, hate, Victor Klemperer, political emancipation, processes of subjectivation, plagiarism, fake, literary history, bestseller, popular fiction, mass culture, Rosa Del Conte, archive, posture littéraire, self-portrait, professor., spectacle, artistic performance, language, vocabulary, theatre, cinema, radio, television., Roumanian dialectology, linguistic atlases, onomasiology, research, objectivism, theory of the object, object poem, contemporary poetry, world poetry

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The publication of this volume was financed by the Jagiellonian University in Kraków – Faculty of Philology of the Jagiellonian University

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