Course RE223 · Year II · Summer 2025-2026

ROMANIAN LITERATURE, CULTURE AND CIVILISATION (1920-1944)

Compulsory course in Romanian Language and Literature - English Language and Literature, taught by Maria Georgeta Orian.

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Overview

Lecturer
Maria Georgeta Orian
Seminar tutor
Maria Georgeta Orian
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Language and literature
Field of study
Romanian Language and Literature - English Language and Literature
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class / Seminary
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Power Point LectureProblem raising and Learning by discoveryConversation and text commentary; exemplification.
Entry requirements
History of the Romanian Literature and Civilisation (from the Beginnings to 1870) History of the Romanian Literature and Civilisation (1870-1890) History of the Romanian Literature and Civilisation (1890-1920)

Aims

Knowing, understanding and a correct using of fundamental ideas concerning concepts specific to the History of the Romanian Literature and Civilisation in Interwar Period

Integration in a coherent structure of main theorizations and value landmarks recognised in the History of the Romanian Literature and Civilisation as well as in connected domains.

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Course contents

General framework of the epoch. The great interwar novelists: Liviu Rebreanu (1885-1944); Camil Petrescu (1894-1957); Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu (1876-1955); Anton Holban (1902-1937); G. Călinescu (1899-1965). ”Unclassifying” work of Mateiu I. Caragiale (1885-1936). Interwar creation of M. Sadoveanu (1880-1961). Mircea Eliade’s (1907-1986) literary activity in the interwar period. The great interwar poets: Tudor Arghezi (1880-1967); Lucian Blaga (1895-1961); Ion Barbu (1895-1961). Other representatives of the interwar prose, poetry and playwriting: Gib I. Mihăescu, Ionel Teodoreanu, Max Blecher, Al. Philippide, Ion Pillat, Aron Cotruş, Mihail Sebastian, Tudor Muşatescu. Final considerations: fundamental aspects of contemporary Romanian literature during 1920-1944; prose development.

Learning outcomes

Interpretation and critical evaluation of the History of the Romanian Literature and Civilisation in Interwar Period in different contexts Presenting a professional viewpoint on the literary phenomenon starting from the positions expressed in the specialised critical bibliography.

Assessment

Conversation; Free exposition; Applications, essay writing, portfolio, project – 50%Written paper, quiz, test - 50%

Recommended reading

Complete Poetical Works of Lucian Blaga
Lucian Blaga
Center for Romanian Studies, https://books.google.ro/books?id=TuccAQAAIAAJ&dq=romanian+poetry&hl=ro&source=gbs_book_similarbooks · -
Romanian Literature as World Literature
Editor(s): Mircea Martin, Christian Moraru, Andrei Terian
Bloomsbury Academic, https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/romanian-literature-as-world-literature-9781501327933/?__cf_chl_captcha_tk__=0de307e4cabc3e7ac44da316120b53a69e53434b-1575798922-0-AboBOS7Hd2FEp_K4Gme_0u11temgHHFiwmiyQJHyOAVo2MbftCCsmHV27NMOoYNjthSN8gwp-wK14gtZDVvK_6kse · -
Istoria critică a literaturii române
Nicolae MANOLESCU
Paralela 45, Piteşti, 2008 · -
Dicţionar analitic de opere literare româneşti
Ion POP
E.D.P., Cluj-Napoca, 2003 · -
The Romanian Novel
Ion Bogdan Lefter, Carmen Matei Mușat
Romanian Cultural Foundation, Bucureşti, 1997 · -