Viorica Patea

In March, 2016 Ana Blandiana was awarded the European Poet of Freedom Prize in Gdansk, the Polish city of freedom and birthplace of Solidarnosc. The award was given for her collection My Native Land A4. Translated into five languages (English, Spanish, Italian, Polish and Catalan), it has thus been recognized as one of the great European books on liberty. Meditative and philosophical, intimate and public, Blandiana's verse explores the motif of freedom in many of its aspects. Blandiana's poetry fascinates with its metaphoric directness, philosophical depth and desire to express the inexpressible. Her conviction that existence is rooted in mystery turns many of her poems into riddles: poetry is born out of the desire to express what cannot be expressed, out of the obstinacy to define what everybody knows is indefinable, out of the need to offer something which people do not even understand that they are in need of, out of a disquietude so difficult to bear that it becomes an affliction and whose intensity can only be compared with the happiness […] which one attains time to time.[i] Translating Blandiana was an adventure on which we embarked because she lured us with the tantalizing limpidity and immeasurable depths of her verse. In the Romania of the seventies, her poems were an act of hope and courage and she was seen as a legendary figure of unblemished idealism. An aura surrounds her name; one critic has referred to her as " the most noble name in Romanian letters ". Those who have come to know her are stunned by her charisma, optimism and altruism. Those who have listened to her poetry readings – in the eighties she gathered masses – have experienced a mystic moment in which, despite language barriers, poetry is communicated before it is understood. The poems selected here come from two earlier collections, The Sun of Hereafter (2000) and Ebb of the Senses (2004) – to be published next year by Bloodaxe in one volume. These poems were written after the fall of the Iron Curtain while Blandiana was actively involved in the public sphere as President of the Civic Alliance (1990-2001), a non-political organization that made possible Romania's integration into the European Union. Both books share the same thematic unity and mark a turning point in Blandiana's poetic evolution: they lead towards a new conception of poetry as a meditation on being that culminates in 2010 with My Native Land A4, whose hermetic title refers to the European paper size A4, the boundaries of which define the only possible identity of the poet. Poetry becomes her epicenter and place of exile.

"This paper analyzes the notions of despair and selfhood in The Waste Land through the prism of Soren Kierkegaard’s Sickness unto Death (1849). It contends that despite the sense of loss and meaninglessness of existence, The Waste Land traces the journey of the self from ignorance and suffering, from being bound to temporality and sensual thirst, through “the dark night of the soul” to a vantage point from where it can see into “the heart of light.” Furthermore, it claims that Eliot is a twentieth century Dante who goes beyond European frontiers and attempts to reconcile Christianity, Buddhism and the Vedanta with an existentialist discourse."

La mesa redonda tuvo como objetivo analizar las teorias sobre lo fantastico y su concrecion historica en el relato fantastico norteamericano desde sus inicios con Washington Irving, Edgar A. Poe o Nathaniel Hawthorne hasta sus mas recientes realizaciones postmodernas, como John Barth o Donald Barthelme.

This paper focuses on the way Emily Dickinson wields ambivalence and ambiguity so as to generate a multiplicity of meaning. More specifically, the paper illustrates, her use of ambiguity in her poem “I felt a Funeral in my Brain,” whose last climactic line “And Finished Knowing then” provides varied interpretations both on her experience of death as an epistemological act as well as on her larger philosophical premises. The ambiguity and ambivalence inherent in the last line offer a gamut of possible readings that range from a nihilistic stance to a mystical transport. The English construction —“Finished Knowing”— presents two opposed meanings, equally coextensive: it simultaneously signifies both attainment of a higher knowledge as well as the total lack of it. In addition, this article also deals with the difficulty Dickinson’s poem presents to translators, particularly in those languages where there is no equivalent construction to preserve this ambiguity as is the case of Spanis...

Acknowledgements Paul Scott DERRICK: Introduction I. Reflections on Modernity: The Aura of Modernism Marjorie PERLOFF: The Aura of Modernism II. Transgressing Boundaries: Some Modernists Revisited Barry AHEARN: Frost's Sonnets, In and Out of Bounds Helene AJI: Pound and Williams: The Letters as Modernist Manifesto Zhaoming QIAN: Pao-hsien Fang and the Naxi Rites in Ezra Pound's Cantos Viorica PATEA: T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and the Poetics of the Mythical Method Isabelle ALFANDARY: Poetry as Ungrammar in E. E. Cummings' Poems Bart EECKHOUT: Wallace Stevens' Poetry of Resistance III. Strategies of Renewal: Modernism in a Broader Context Gudrun M. GRABHER: In Search of Words for "Moon-Viewing": The Japanese Haiku and the Skepticism towards Language in Modernist American Poetry Ernesto SUAREZ-TOSTE: Spontaneous, not Automatic: William Carlos Williams versus Surrealist Poetics Manuel BRITO: Instances of the Journey Motif through Language and Selfhood in...

espanolEste articulo es una presentacion del primer Memorial dedicado a la Resistencia y a las Victimas del Comunismo en Sighet (Rumania), fundado en 1993 bajo los auspicios de la Union Europea, por Ana Blandiana y su esposo Romulo Rusan, dos escritores y opositores al regimen de Ceausescu. El Memorial, distinguido con el Sello de Patrimonio Europeo, consta de un museo, un centro de estudios internacionales y una Escuela de Verano, y se considera el tercer lugar de la memoria de Europa, ademas del museo de Auschwitz y el memorial de Normandia. Su lema es una frase de Ana Blandiana "mientras la justicia no pueda ser una forma de memoria, solo la memoria puede ser una forma de justicia". Este articulo analiza los objetivos y el significado del Memorial en el contexto historico contemporaneo tras la caida del Muro de Berlin. Describe la concepcion del museo, sus temas y su organizacion, las actividades y exposiciones. Ofrece un resumen de la trayectoria vital de Blandiana y R...

ESTE ESTUDIO INTENTA DEMOSTRAR QUE SYLVIA PLATH ES FUNDAMELTAMENTE UNA POETISA VISIONARIA QUE EMPLEA UN LENGUAJE MISTICO Y PARADOJICO EN SUS VERSOS. SU OBRA ESTA VERTEBRADA POR CATEGORIAS MITICAS QUE ARRANCAN DE UNA CONCEPCION ARCAICA DELA MUERTE VISTA COMO REQUISITO IMPRESCINDIBLE DE LA REGENERACION DE FUERZAS VITALES Y ESPIRITUALES. ESTA APROXIMACION A SU OBRA CONSTA DE DOS PARTES. LA PRIMERA SE CENTRA EN CONSIDERACIONES GENERALES ACERCA DE LOS CONCEPTOS ESTETICOSY LOS CULTURAL FASHIONS IMPERANTES EN LOS ANOS 60 Y 70 QUE HAN INFLUIDO DE FORMA DECISIVA EN LA RECEPCION DE SU OBRA. TAMBIEN SE INTENTA RECONSTRUIR SU FIGURA A TRAVES DEL TESTIMONIO DE SUS CARTAS Y DIARIOS. LA SEGUNDA PARTE DESENTRANA LOS ELEMENTOS MITICOS DE SU POESIA ANALIZA LA SIMBOLOGIA MAGICO-RELIGIOSA Y REPARA EN LOS ESQUEMAS ESTRUCTURALES Y LAS IMAGENES ARQUETIPICAS PERTENECIENTES AL UNIVERSO DE LA ESPIRITUALIDAD ARCAICA. SE EVALUAN TAMBIEN LAS FUENTES LITERARIAS A LAS QUE PLATH ACUDIO -YEATS ELIOT LAWRENCE- LAS I...

Empece a escribir prosa despues de cumplir treinta anos y despues de haber publicado cinco o seis volumenes de poesia, en un momento en el que senti que entre la realidad y la poesia habia mucho mas de lo que yo expresaba en las meditaciones que publicaba semanalmente en las revistas literarias. Mas exactamente, me di cuenta de que si no intentaba describir todo lo que veia, todo lo que vivia, todo lo que entendia (lo que solo podia hacer en prosa), la realidad que me rodeaba hubiera invadido los poemas, sin consultarme siquiera, con sus detalles sordidos, sus acontecimientos promiscuos, sus personajes falsos y sus significados profanadores. Y no me resultaba dificil ver como los poemas se hundirian como unos barquitos de papel cargados con hierro......

Ana Blandiana, poeta, prosista y ensayista, es una de las conciencias artisticas y civicas mas importantes de la literatura rumana contemporanea. Autora de catorce libros de poemas, dos volumenes de prosa fantastica, siete libros de ensayo y una novela, es en la actualidad la poeta rumana mas internacional. Su obra se ha traducido a mas de veinte lenguas. Mujer extraordinariamente carismatica, su lugar en las letras rumanas es comparable al de Ana Ajmatova y Vaclav Havel en la literatura rusa y checa. En 2009, por su contribucion a la cultura europea y su lucha contra la injusticia, la Republica Francesa le concedio la Legion d�Honneur.

... | Ayuda. Entre el mito y la realidad, aproximación a la obra poética de Sylvia Plath. Información general. Autores: Viorica Patea; Editores: Salamanca : Universidad, Servicio de Publicaciones, 1989; Año de publicación: 1989; País: España; Idioma: Español; ...

Mas que «suicide novel», terapia ineficaz escrita entre dos intentos de suicidio y profecia anticipada de la muerte de su autora «a map of pathways to insanity» ' The Bell Jar es una novela que plasma el camino de transicion de la adolescencia a la madurez. Aunque la historia de The Bell Jar recuerda a grandes rasgos la propia vida de Sylvia Plath, incluso mucho mas de lo que se cree, su importancia rebasa los simples condicionamientos autobiograficos y es algo mas que un mero «potboiler», como ha sido generosamente calificado2. Sin embargo, los incidentes alli narrados, veridicos, en mayor o menor medida, no habrian sobrepasado lo anecdotico y lo circunstancial, no habrian adquirido ninguna relevancia literaria, de no expresar una realidad simbolica que los transformara en el registro del proceso formativo del adolescente. Mas alla de las similitudes o discrepancias autobiograficas, The Bell Jar continua la tradicion de Mark Twain y de J.D. Salinger y, desde una perspectiva fem...

This essay revisits Eliot’s seminal text “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1919) which has been part of the central debates of literary discussions for almost a century. Although no longer an orthodoxy in our postmodern era, Eliot’s essay continues to influence current critical debates. The goal of this article is to rethink Eliot’s manifesto from the perspective of romantic and modernist poetics, and to reconcile the great disparity between Eliot the experimentalist avant-garde poet who advocates the aesthetics of fragmentation and the critic who pleads for the extinction of personality. This article reconsiders Eliot’s concepts of tradition and impersonality in the light of the revolution that took place in the visual arts in the first decades of the twentieth century, whose experimental language he tried to transfer to poetic practice. It also analyzes the way in which his theories present affinities with modern trends of philosophical thinking, such as historicist hermeneutics, relativism and pragmatism.

... | Ayuda. Entre el mito y la realidad, aproximación a la obra poética de Sylvia Plath. Información general. Autores: Viorica Patea; Editores: Salamanca : Universidad, Servicio de Publicaciones, 1989; Año de publicación: 1989; País: España; Idioma: Español; ...