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CONTENTS Argument ............44..444esscssssssessessseesseseeesseuec 11 1. Literary and cultural life in the antebellum and interbellum period ...15 1.1. Literary life before World War! ............................ 15 1.1.1. The Romanian social and cultural context .............. 15 1.1.2. The Hungarian social and cultural context .............. 21 1.1.3. Prose before World War I. ............................ 23 1.2. Literary life between the two World Wars..................... 26 1.2.1. The Romanian social and cultural context ............... 27 1.2.2. Romanian literary publications and cultural institutions ... 32 1.2.3. The Hungarian social and cultural context .............. 42 1.2.4. Hungarian literary publications and cultural institutions ... 45 1.2.5. Bilingual publications ............................... 54 1.2.6. Prose between the two World Wars .................... 56 2. Transylvanian cultural ideologies ............................... 63 2.1. The European context .................................... 63 2.2. Defining the concept of Transylvanianism .................... 65 2.3. Short historical overview ................................. 73 2.4. Romanian Transylvanianism ............................... 81 2.4.1. Romanian Transylvanianism in magazines and newspapers .. 85 2.4.2. Transylvaniansim in Romanian essays ................. 121 2.5. The theory of creative localism ............................ 131 2.6. The cultural review Provincia or Transylvanianism today ...... 144 2.7. Critical interpretations ................................... 161 3. Thematic convergences and parallelisms ........................ 171 3.1. The topic of family and womanhood ....................... 171 3.1.1. Mara ............................................ 173 3.1.2. The Witch of Waters ............................... 185 3.1.3. Changing family patterns ........................... 190 3.1.4. Female types and feminine roles ..................... 195 3.1.5. Intrafamilial relations and interactions ................ 197 3.2. The topic of property and love in Rebreanu’s and Méricz’s novels ........................................ 202 3.2.1. The influence of multiculturality upon Rebreanu ........ 202 3.2.2. Thebirthoflon.................................... 208 3.2.3. Parallelisms between the characters of Ion and Dani ..... 212 a (6) 6 213 3.2.5. Goldinmud.........................,.,...,....2. 214
