The Last Bastion of European Romanticism: A Quantitative Analysis of Poetry in the Romanian Literary Magazine Convorbiri literare (1867-1916).

Zadnji branik evropske romantike: kvantitativna analiza poezije v romunski literarni reviji Convorbiri literare (1867-1916). (Slovenian)

EMINESCU, Mihai, 1850-1889; ALECSANDRI, Vasile, 1821-1890

The article presents a quantitative analysis of poetry published in the most popular literary periodical of modern Romania, Convorbiri literare (CL), from its founding in 1867 to 1916, when Romania entered World War I. Often seen as the last major magazine of European Romanticism, CL appeared at a time when poetry was a privileged genre in Romanian literature, and it hosted in its pages both the national poet Mihai Eminescu and nineteenth-century's most prominent Romanian literary critic Titu Maiorescu. Arguing that the publication and theorization of poetry was an integral part of one of the last nation-building processes in Europe, the article indexes and quantitatively analyzes all forms of poetry and of what can be viewed as poetic networks in CL. By using ARCANUM's digital archive of more than 66,000 pages of CL, three strata of poetry-related metadata are extracted and examined: the local production of poetry (who published in CL and when, and how much did they publish); poetry imports (whose poetry was translated into Romanian in CL and when, and what were the authors' origins); and networks of influence (which foreigners were most often mentioned in relation to the two most talked-about Romanian Romantic poets of the century, Eminescu and Vasile Alecsandri). Thus, the article aims to chart the national regime of relevance that applies to Romanian modern poetry by uncovering the international network of authors who were at the center of literary debates in CL. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Članek predstavi kvantitativno analizo poezije, objavljene v najbolj priljubljeni romunski literarni reviji druge polovice 19. stoletja Convorbiri literare (CL) od njene ustanovitve leta 1867 do leta 1916, ko je Romunija vstopila v prvo svetovno vojno. CL, ki velja za zadnjo večjo literarno revijo evropske romantike, je začela izhajati v času, ko je bila poezija privilegirana zvrst v romunski književnosti. Na svojih straneh je predstavljala tako narodnega pesnika Mihaia Eminescuja kot najvidnejšega romunskega literarnega kritika 19. stoletja Tituja Maiorescuja. Članek indeksira in kvantitativno analizira objavljeno poezijo in podatke, ki jih lahko razumemo kot pesniška omrežja. Rezultati analize podpirajo tezo, da je bilo objavljanje poezije in teoretiziranje o njej sestavni del enega zadnjih državotvornih procesov v Evropi. Iz ARCANUM-ovega digitalnega arhiva z več kot 66.000 stranmi CL so izluščeni in preučeni trije sloji metapodatkov, ki so povezani s poezijo: lokalna produkcija poezije (kdo je objavljal v CL in kdaj ter koliko); tuja produkcija poezije (čigava poezija je bila v CL prevedena v romunščino in kdaj ter od kod so bili avtorji prevodne literature) in mreže vpliva (kateri tujci so bili najpogosteje omenjeni v zvezi z dvema najpopularnejšima romunskima romantičnima pesnikoma, Eminescujem in Vasilom Alecsandrijem). Z odkrivanjem mednarodne mreže avtorjev, ki so bili v središču literarnih razprav v CL, si članek prizadeva očrtati nacionalno shemo relevantnosti, ki velja za romunsko poezijo v drugi polovici 19. stoletja. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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