Vol. 1 No. 1 (2018): Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies
Editorial
In the first volume of Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies (ISSN 2003-0924) we are happy to welcome ten articles and two book reviews on Romanian language, literature, culture and film, written either in English or Romanian, by academics from various established universities. Literature section is well represented by authors with affiliation to University of Bucharest, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, The “A. Philippide” Institute of Romanian Philology, Iași, West University of Timișoara and “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia. The articles explore alluring and sensitive issues such as censorship, identity, marginality, prophetism, adaptation or escape, casting innovative visions on the works of canonical Romanian writers (Mihail Sadoveanu, Ionel Teodorenu, Mircea Eliade, Gabriel Liiceanu) and on the creations of less explored artists (Tia Șerbănescu, Liliana Corobca, Henriette Yvonne Stahl, Cătălin Dorian Florescu). Film section benefits from the original insights of academics from Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest and Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, centring mostly on contemporaneity, in interdisciplinary approaches: a documentary by Sorin Ilieșiu turns out a perfect ground for social semiotics and the Romanian New Wave is decoded through the psychological and social symbolism of colours. Thanks to “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia Cultural studies depict the realm of ethnology and sacred folk literature, dissecting the metamorphosis of a deity from a prehistoric totem, due to the masculine Dacian cults, into a demon with Semite elements, finally corrected by Christian syncretism by its transformation into a legend. The same university offers in the Linguistics section an interdisciplinary approach which combines historical linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, lexicology, lexicography, history and cultural studies in a suggestion for an alternate etymological approach to a few words used to depict the realm of the Dacians in a contemporary novel, a stylistic endeavour which may have actually voiced the little-known substratum idiom. Owing to University of Craiova and Lund University the Book reviews section approaches a Polish exegesis to the philosophical anthropology of Mircea Eliade and a presentation of a literary theory tome (comprising translation studies and semiotic tackling) by Romulus Bucur.
Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies is published in collaboration with Centre for the Research of the Imaginary "Speculum", "1 Decembrie 1918" University, Alba Iulia, Romania and welcomes contributions from scholars all over the world.
Advisory board for this issue:
Anca Bunea, Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest
Ruxandra Cesereanu, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
Sorin Ciutacu, West University of Timisoara
Carmen Dărăbuș, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, North Academic Centre from Baia Mare
Daniel Dejica, Politehnica University Timisoara
Claudia Elena Dinu, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iași
Verner Egerland, Lund University
Cristina Gherman, Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest
Liviu Lutaș, Linnaeus University
Monica Manolachi, University of Bucharest
Violeta Negrea, Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Cristina Nicolaescu, Bozok University, Turkey
Antonio Patraș, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
Roxana Patraș, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
Cosmin Perța, Hyperion University, Bucharest
Chris Tănăsescu, University of Ottawa
