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Studia Humanitatis No. I (XVII) / 2024 The Image of Light in Eminescu’s Poetry (II) Professor, PhD Nicolae Georgescu

This article analyses the role of punctuation in determining the meaning of key passages in Eminescu’s posthumous poetry, drawing on manuscripts, publications in Convorbiri literare, the Almanahul România Jună and the Maiorescu editions. The cases discussed — the comma in ‘Rugăciunea unui dac’, the hapax ‘nemurie’ in ‘Luceafărul’ and the lunar passage in ‘Satira IV’ — demonstrate how tacit changes to punctuation have distorted Eminescu’s cosmology and poetic logic.

Studia Humanitatis No. II (XVI) / 2023 The Image of Light in Eminescu’s Poetry (I) Professor, PhD Nicolae Georgescu

The article analyses the terms ‘luminare’ and ‘lumânare’ in Eminescu’s poetry, demonstrating that the editorial modernisations carried out by Titu Maiorescu, Perpessicius and others have distorted the meaning of the original expressions in ‘Letter I’, ‘The Night’ and ‘The Veranda Sonnet’, by confusing the lamp with the candle and undermining the coherence of the poetic image of light.

Studia Humanitatis No. II (II) / 2016 LETTER III. Archaic Patterns of Conflict (II) Nae Georgescu

The study analyses the sources and poetic technique in Eminescu’s ‘Letter III’, examining how the Herodotean motifs of Cyrus, Darius and Xerxes, as filtered through Jordanes and Aeschylus, structure Mircea’s address to Bayezid as an apotropaic formula, whilst key terms such as ‘towering’, ‘tree’, ‘earth’ and ‘water’ are stylistically adapted to turn the invader’s symbols against him.

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