Romanian Literary Networks outside National Framings

Mihaela Ursa is Professor of comparative literature at the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, teaching on genre theory, comparative literature, digital humanities and transmediality. She supervises PhD students working on world literature, translation studies, comparative and Romanian studies. Alex Goldiș is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. He works on twentieth- and twenty-first-century Romanian literature, digital humanities, and quantitative cultural history.

• Mihaela Ursa and Alex Goldiș:— Introduction— Transnational Workings of Peripheral Systems — Imre József Balázs Cosmopolitan Minorities: Strategies of Cultural Exchange in Hungarian Avant- Garde Journals from Romania — Adrian Tătăran: Being Minor at the Margins: Literature, Transnational Networks, and Anarchism in la belle époque Romania — Emanuel Modoc: Interperipheral Worlding and Methodological Cosmopolitanism in the East Central European Avant- Gardes — Snejana Ung: Semi- Peripheral Multiculturalisms: The Frontiers of the Banat Region in Theoretical Debates and Literary Works — Adriana Stan A Literature for All, a Europe Even for the Small: The Case for Universalism and Europeanization in Adrian Marino’s Work — Marius Conkan: Cosmopolitan Spatiality: Worlding Popular Fiction in (Pre- )Communist Romania — Daiana Gârdan: Preaching and Teaching Cosmopolitanism: E. Lovinescu, M. Dragomirescu, and the Emancipation of Romanian Modern Criticism — Cosmin Borza: Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Modernization without Westernization of the Romanian Culture in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Marius Popa: Cosmopolitan Perspectives in Marthe Bibesco’s Oriental Imaginary The Case of the Novel Izvor, the Country of Willows — Mihnea Bâlici: Forced Cosmopolitanism: On the Contradictory Character of Labor Migration in Contemporary Romanian Fiction Ovio Olaru: :— Herta Müller and Anticommunist Cosmopolitanism — Alex Ciorogar: The Ecological World- System of Posthuman Cosmopolitanism and Contemporary Romanian Poetry— Editors.