Titlurile volumelor de poezie românească dintre 1848-1918
The Titles of Romanian Poetry Books Between 1848-1918

Summary/Abstract: The interest for the meanings a title can hold is quite new in Romanian literature and among the first critics who managed the subject was Marian Popa, who laid the bases of the new researches. The title is a special type of text; although some critics considered that it cannot have an autonomous status, its role is to individualize a work or an author; thus, it became representative for a literary work, for a person. The title also resumes the content of a book or at least it is trying to reveal the author’ s intentions about the work he had created. We may distinguish some themes in choosing titles, according to the content of the works and their meanings; there are generic titles, that suggest the affiliation to a certain literary gender. According to the Romanticism requests, the title reflects the emotions, the inside life and self-experience. The title may also suggest the solitude, some moments of wandering or even the author’ s humbleness etc. There are many poets that chose to express themselves by using some words, closely connected to botanic and floristic domain. Flowers are considered to be the best way of expressing human feelings. The titles are also connected to seasons and to some moments of solar cycle. Titles can suggest places and ages, that allow travelling around the world in any time, age or space. Many titles are chosen from the musical domain and the words refer to an instrument, a song or to the way of singing. Finally, we have to mention an important category of titles, inspired from national spirit, patriotism and heroism; the choice is quite understandable if we consider the period the paper is dealing with, 1848-1918.

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