A Parvulescu
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 41344 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Parvulescu |
| NOMBRES | A |
| APELLIDO | Parvulescu |
| FIRMA | PARVULESCU A |
| AFILIACIONES | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1427-6756 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Modernist Face in/as World Literature
When Ezra Pound envisioned a “one image poem,” the quintessential image he set out to frame was that of a face. He wrote the poem anchored in this image, “In a Station of the Metro,” as a haiku. At the heart of one of the defining moments of literary modernism one thus finds, on the one hand, a renewed effort to wrestle with the representation of a face and, on the other hand, an attempt to do so on a global arc. Starting from a reading of Pound’…
Introduction
On unboxing and unpacking across empires, regions and disciplines
Creolization as Method
“What took place in the Caribbean,” writes Édouard Glissant, “which could be summed up in the word creolization, approximates the idea of Relation as nearly as possible.” 1 For Glissant, the word creolization condenses the history of the Caribbean. This is a history characterized by trans-border connections, culture flows, and the transregional movement of people and capital. 2 As the first region to be colonized by Europe in the sixteenth centur…
Perspectives on Creolizing the Modern
Restricted accessAbstractFirst published online November 9, 2023Perspectives on Creolizing the ModernLaura Doyle, Sunnie Rucker Chang, [...], Katja Perat, Gruia Badescu, Manuela Boatcă, and Anca Parvulescu+3-3View all authors and affiliationsVolume 31, Issue 4https://doi.org/10.1177/2336825X231208060
Creolizing the Modern
How are modernity, coloniality, and interimperiality entangled? Bridging the humanities and social sciences, this book provides innovative decolonial perspectives that aim to creolize modernity and the modern world-system. Historical Transylvania, at the intersection of the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, offers the platform for their multi-level reading of the main themes in Liviu Rebreanu's 1920 novel Ion . Top…
Creolizing the Modern
How are modernity, coloniality, and interimperiality entangled? Bridging the humanities and social sciences, Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă provide innovative decolonial perspectives that aim to creolize modernity and the modern world-system. Historical Transylvania, at the intersection of the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, offers the platform for their multi-level reading of the main themes in Liviu Rebrean…
Creolizarea modernității
The article includes a preview excerpt, in Romanian, from the introduction of the book authored by Anca Pârvulescu and Manuela Boatcă, Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires, published by Cornell University Press in 2022. This volume espouses an inter-imperial approach focused on Transylvania and takes Liviu Rebreanuʼs canonical novel Ion as a case study
The Inter-Imperial Dowry Plot
Taking Liviu Rebreanu's novel Ion (1920) as an example of a modernist text produced in the periphery of European empires, the essay proposes a typology of inter-imperial modes of gendered silence. Set in a small village in Transylvania, on the periphery of the Austro-Hungarian empire, itself on the semi-periphery of the modern world-system, the novel dramatizes Transylvanian Romanians' claim to a modernity understood as a struggle for land redist…
(Dis)Counting Languages
The essay analyzes the interglottism at work in Liviu Rebreanu’s novel Ion (1920) against the polyglottism theorized and performed editorially by the first Comparative Literature journal ( ACLU ), which it positions against the background of post-1867 Austro-Hungarian imperial policies for the use of languages
The World of World Literature and World-Systems Analysis
The World of World Literature and World-Systems Analysis Anca Parvulescu (bio) While the concept of world literature has been operative in the discipline of Comparative Literature since the early nineteenth century, having been cyclically re-energized, it has remained fairly marginal to literary studies until the 1990s and the early 2000s. After a poststructuralist phase, literary studies were at this time in search of new theoretical frameworks …
Creolizing Transylvania
This article analyzes the differences and overlaps between the dynamics of coloniality and inter-imperiality that have shaped Transylvania since the sixteenth century vis-à-vis neighboring European peripheries and shifting cores, zooming in on how the tensions between different modes of colonial and imperial rule play out in rural settings. We foreground the vantage point of the rural by focusing on a Transylvanian village in 1920 as a global cou…
The longue durée of enslavement
The enslavement of Romani populations in East Europe remains an eloquent silence in labor history. This essay traces the imbrication of material histories and textual strategies that place Romani labor, especially as aesthetic performance, outside of the purview of labor histories of East Europe. We sketch a history of enslavement of Romani populations in Wallachia and Moldova and of their regulation in Transylvania. We argue that the Romanian‐la…
Istanbul, Capital of Comparative Literature
Istanbul, Capital of Comparative Literature Anca Parvulescu (bio) "World literature needs to be studied onlocation, Goethe is telling us, and this is whatwe are doing here, in Istanbul, the city thatkeeps haunting world literature to this day. Iftraveling to Sicily is the best commentary onHomer, then traveling to Istanbul is the bestcommentary on world literature." —Martin Puchner "I would like to suggest that Comp Litcontinues to this day to ca…
Eastern Europe as Method
Even Laughter? From Laughter in the Magic Theater to the Laughter Assembly Line
Previous articleNext article FreeEven Laughter? From Laughter in the Magic Theater to the Laughter Assembly LineAnca ParvulescuAnca ParvulescuPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThere was a time when the literary and artistic avant-gardes defined themselves through their laughter. Inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche and later Georges Ba…
Essay on Laughter
Previous articleNext article FreeEssay on LaughterNorbert Elias and Edited by Anca ParvulescuNorbert Elias and Edited by Anca ParvulescuPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreWe all smile and laugh occasionally. To do so is as much part of a normal human existence as to eat or drink. But while one can invariably understand the part pla…
Old Europe, New Europe, Eastern Europe
In today's Europe, the term Eurosceptic often accompanies accusations of retrograde nationalism, irrational feelings, even fanaticism. When applied to Europe, skepticism, one of the critic's formative traits, acquires a bad reputation, as if it can only be an annihilating, rather than constructive, form of doubt. And yet skepticism is a much-needed critical affect, particularly when it comes to Europe. If we need to be skeptical of anything, it i…
European Kinship
To Yes-laugh Derrida's Molly
So We Will Go Bad”
Anca Parvulescu is an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis, where she teaches in the Department of English and the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities. She is currently working on a book project on laughter. Her work has appeared in New Literary History, Discourse, and the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association
To Die Laughing and to Laugh at Dying
We will revisit Kate Chopin's well-known novel, The Awakening, through a reconsideration of the apparently familiar notion of awakening. An encounter will be staged between the text of The Awakening and that of George Bataille's Inner Experience. Awakening will thus come to read "awakening-unto-death," awakening qua recognition and acceptance of the fact of death, the absolute limit of experience and knowledge. The moment at the very end of the n…
Creolizing Transylvania
This article analyzes the differences and overlaps between the dynamics of coloniality and inter-imperiality that have shaped Transylvania since the sixteenth century vis-à-vis neighboring European peripheries and shifting cores, zooming in on how the tensions between different modes of colonial and imperial rule play out in rural settings. We foreground the vantage point of the rural by focusing on a Transylvanian village in 1920 as a global cou…
The longue durée of enslavement
The enslavement of Romani populations in East Europe remains an eloquent silence in labor history. This essay traces the imbrication of material histories and textual strategies that place Romani labor, especially as aesthetic performance, outside of the purview of labor histories of East Europe. We sketch a history of enslavement of Romani populations in Wallachia and Moldova and of their regulation in Transylvania. We argue that the Romanian‐la…
Essay on Laughter
Previous articleNext article FreeEssay on LaughterNorbert Elias and Edited by Anca ParvulescuNorbert Elias and Edited by Anca ParvulescuPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreWe all smile and laugh occasionally. To do so is as much part of a normal human existence as to eat or drink. But while one can invariably understand the part pla…
Even Laughter? From Laughter in the Magic Theater to the Laughter Assembly Line
Previous articleNext article FreeEven Laughter? From Laughter in the Magic Theater to the Laughter Assembly LineAnca ParvulescuAnca ParvulescuPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThere was a time when the literary and artistic avant-gardes defined themselves through their laughter. Inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche and later Georges Ba…
European Kinship
Perspectives on Creolizing the Modern
Restricted accessAbstractFirst published online November 9, 2023Perspectives on Creolizing the ModernLaura Doyle, Sunnie Rucker Chang, [...], Katja Perat, Gruia Badescu, Manuela Boatcă, and Anca Parvulescu+3-3View all authors and affiliationsVolume 31, Issue 4https://doi.org/10.1177/2336825X231208060
Creolizarea modernității
The article includes a preview excerpt, in Romanian, from the introduction of the book authored by Anca Pârvulescu and Manuela Boatcă, Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires, published by Cornell University Press in 2022. This volume espouses an inter-imperial approach focused on Transylvania and takes Liviu Rebreanuʼs canonical novel Ion as a case study
Old Europe, New Europe, Eastern Europe
In today's Europe, the term Eurosceptic often accompanies accusations of retrograde nationalism, irrational feelings, even fanaticism. When applied to Europe, skepticism, one of the critic's formative traits, acquires a bad reputation, as if it can only be an annihilating, rather than constructive, form of doubt. And yet skepticism is a much-needed critical affect, particularly when it comes to Europe. If we need to be skeptical of anything, it i…
Creolization as Method
“What took place in the Caribbean,” writes Édouard Glissant, “which could be summed up in the word creolization, approximates the idea of Relation as nearly as possible.” 1 For Glissant, the word creolization condenses the history of the Caribbean. This is a history characterized by trans-border connections, culture flows, and the transregional movement of people and capital. 2 As the first region to be colonized by Europe in the sixteenth centur…
Istanbul, Capital of Comparative Literature
Istanbul, Capital of Comparative Literature Anca Parvulescu (bio) "World literature needs to be studied onlocation, Goethe is telling us, and this is whatwe are doing here, in Istanbul, the city thatkeeps haunting world literature to this day. Iftraveling to Sicily is the best commentary onHomer, then traveling to Istanbul is the bestcommentary on world literature." —Martin Puchner "I would like to suggest that Comp Litcontinues to this day to ca…
Eastern Europe as Method
So We Will Go Bad”
Anca Parvulescu is an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis, where she teaches in the Department of English and the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities. She is currently working on a book project on laughter. Her work has appeared in New Literary History, Discourse, and the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association
To Die Laughing and to Laugh at Dying
We will revisit Kate Chopin's well-known novel, The Awakening, through a reconsideration of the apparently familiar notion of awakening. An encounter will be staged between the text of The Awakening and that of George Bataille's Inner Experience. Awakening will thus come to read "awakening-unto-death," awakening qua recognition and acceptance of the fact of death, the absolute limit of experience and knowledge. The moment at the very end of the n…
To Die Laughing and to Laugh at Dying
We will revisit Kate Chopin's well-known novel, The Awakening, through a reconsideration of the apparently familiar notion of awakening. An encounter will be staged between the text of The Awakening and that of George Bataille's Inner Experience. Awakening will thus come to read "awakening-unto-death," awakening qua recognition and acceptance of the fact of death, the absolute limit of experience and knowledge. The moment at the very end of the n…
So We Will Go Bad”
Anca Parvulescu is an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis, where she teaches in the Department of English and the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities. She is currently working on a book project on laughter. Her work has appeared in New Literary History, Discourse, and the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association
To Yes-laugh Derrida's Molly
European Kinship
Old Europe, New Europe, Eastern Europe
In today's Europe, the term Eurosceptic often accompanies accusations of retrograde nationalism, irrational feelings, even fanaticism. When applied to Europe, skepticism, one of the critic's formative traits, acquires a bad reputation, as if it can only be an annihilating, rather than constructive, form of doubt. And yet skepticism is a much-needed critical affect, particularly when it comes to Europe. If we need to be skeptical of anything, it i…
Even Laughter? From Laughter in the Magic Theater to the Laughter Assembly Line
Previous articleNext article FreeEven Laughter? From Laughter in the Magic Theater to the Laughter Assembly LineAnca ParvulescuAnca ParvulescuPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThere was a time when the literary and artistic avant-gardes defined themselves through their laughter. Inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche and later Georges Ba…
Essay on Laughter
Previous articleNext article FreeEssay on LaughterNorbert Elias and Edited by Anca ParvulescuNorbert Elias and Edited by Anca ParvulescuPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreWe all smile and laugh occasionally. To do so is as much part of a normal human existence as to eat or drink. But while one can invariably understand the part pla…
Eastern Europe as Method
(Dis)Counting Languages
The essay analyzes the interglottism at work in Liviu Rebreanu’s novel Ion (1920) against the polyglottism theorized and performed editorially by the first Comparative Literature journal ( ACLU ), which it positions against the background of post-1867 Austro-Hungarian imperial policies for the use of languages
The World of World Literature and World-Systems Analysis
The World of World Literature and World-Systems Analysis Anca Parvulescu (bio) While the concept of world literature has been operative in the discipline of Comparative Literature since the early nineteenth century, having been cyclically re-energized, it has remained fairly marginal to literary studies until the 1990s and the early 2000s. After a poststructuralist phase, literary studies were at this time in search of new theoretical frameworks …
Creolizing Transylvania
This article analyzes the differences and overlaps between the dynamics of coloniality and inter-imperiality that have shaped Transylvania since the sixteenth century vis-à-vis neighboring European peripheries and shifting cores, zooming in on how the tensions between different modes of colonial and imperial rule play out in rural settings. We foreground the vantage point of the rural by focusing on a Transylvanian village in 1920 as a global cou…
The longue durée of enslavement
The enslavement of Romani populations in East Europe remains an eloquent silence in labor history. This essay traces the imbrication of material histories and textual strategies that place Romani labor, especially as aesthetic performance, outside of the purview of labor histories of East Europe. We sketch a history of enslavement of Romani populations in Wallachia and Moldova and of their regulation in Transylvania. We argue that the Romanian‐la…
Istanbul, Capital of Comparative Literature
Istanbul, Capital of Comparative Literature Anca Parvulescu (bio) "World literature needs to be studied onlocation, Goethe is telling us, and this is whatwe are doing here, in Istanbul, the city thatkeeps haunting world literature to this day. Iftraveling to Sicily is the best commentary onHomer, then traveling to Istanbul is the bestcommentary on world literature." —Martin Puchner "I would like to suggest that Comp Litcontinues to this day to ca…
The Inter-Imperial Dowry Plot
Taking Liviu Rebreanu's novel Ion (1920) as an example of a modernist text produced in the periphery of European empires, the essay proposes a typology of inter-imperial modes of gendered silence. Set in a small village in Transylvania, on the periphery of the Austro-Hungarian empire, itself on the semi-periphery of the modern world-system, the novel dramatizes Transylvanian Romanians' claim to a modernity understood as a struggle for land redist…
Creolizing the Modern
How are modernity, coloniality, and interimperiality entangled? Bridging the humanities and social sciences, this book provides innovative decolonial perspectives that aim to creolize modernity and the modern world-system. Historical Transylvania, at the intersection of the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, offers the platform for their multi-level reading of the main themes in Liviu Rebreanu's 1920 novel Ion . Top…
Creolizing the Modern
How are modernity, coloniality, and interimperiality entangled? Bridging the humanities and social sciences, Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă provide innovative decolonial perspectives that aim to creolize modernity and the modern world-system. Historical Transylvania, at the intersection of the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, offers the platform for their multi-level reading of the main themes in Liviu Rebrean…
Creolizarea modernității
The article includes a preview excerpt, in Romanian, from the introduction of the book authored by Anca Pârvulescu and Manuela Boatcă, Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires, published by Cornell University Press in 2022. This volume espouses an inter-imperial approach focused on Transylvania and takes Liviu Rebreanuʼs canonical novel Ion as a case study
Creolization as Method
“What took place in the Caribbean,” writes Édouard Glissant, “which could be summed up in the word creolization, approximates the idea of Relation as nearly as possible.” 1 For Glissant, the word creolization condenses the history of the Caribbean. This is a history characterized by trans-border connections, culture flows, and the transregional movement of people and capital. 2 As the first region to be colonized by Europe in the sixteenth centur…
Perspectives on Creolizing the Modern
Restricted accessAbstractFirst published online November 9, 2023Perspectives on Creolizing the ModernLaura Doyle, Sunnie Rucker Chang, [...], Katja Perat, Gruia Badescu, Manuela Boatcă, and Anca Parvulescu+3-3View all authors and affiliationsVolume 31, Issue 4https://doi.org/10.1177/2336825X231208060
Introduction
On unboxing and unpacking across empires, regions and disciplines
The Modernist Face in/as World Literature
When Ezra Pound envisioned a “one image poem,” the quintessential image he set out to frame was that of a face. He wrote the poem anchored in this image, “In a Station of the Metro,” as a haiku. At the heart of one of the defining moments of literary modernism one thus finds, on the one hand, a renewed effort to wrestle with the representation of a face and, on the other hand, an attempt to do so on a global arc. Starting from a reading of Pound’…
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