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Following the theories about the author's posture, my paper aims both to reconstruct the path of Mariana Marin's mythologization and to deconstruct it by establishing two main postures: the tragic posture, congealed mainly post-mortem, and the ethical one, originating in a specific ethos, identifiable in the poet's biographical-artistic trajectory. Having become a mythologised figure of the 1980s generation, due to the fatalistic correspondences between poems and biography or to the legitimisation of her value by comparison with poets of the same framework, but from the mainstream of world literature (Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Else Lasker-Schüler), Madi – the famous nickname – tends to penetrate abusively, sometimes unjustifiably, into the reception of Mariana Marin's texts, hence the empirical persona which becomes strongly than the poetic work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze some aspects from Teodora Dumitru's piece of work, Modernitatea politcă și literară în gândirea lui E. Lovinescu. The author questions and rethinks most of preconceptions and myths made around Lovinescu (such as the autonomy of the aesthetic). On the one hand, Dumitru analyzes the origins of his theory, the multiplicity of his influences and the strategies of his critical discourse. On the other hand, Dumitru manages to put into question the different ways in which the phenomenon of modernity was received in the international context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper illustrates several significant moments from the history of Eminescu's critical interpretation. It focuses mainly on the first stages when the Romantic writer's myth crystallized, namely E Lovinescu's "reading" of the poet's eroticism through the lens of Freud's theories. We endeavored to prove that Lovinescu's interpretation was just one among others (Ibrăileanu, Călinescu, Vianu, Caracostea), as the whole context favored a psychological understanding of Eminescu's personality. In order to sketch a still more convincing picture we brought into discussion the most recent studies dealing with different aspects of Eminescu's life and work and our conclusion shows clearly that, notwithstanding its limits, Lovinescu's understanding was a revolutionary and crucial one for the later developments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]