Forms and Techniques of Writing and Translating in the 19th Century: Cultural and Linguistic Patterns

Throughout its development, Romanian literature experienced different mutations, avatars of its own formation and transformation. Each period framed new expressions, forms and visions on the writers’ world and the development of literature was actually a development of the ways of expression, a renewal of the already known stylistic paradigms.During the 19th century, European literatures provided the Romanian one with “a list” of authors whose creations were cultural and linguistic models to be followed. The latter ones approached already established translation and writing forms and techniques. Thus, the new aesthetic canons were grafted/overlapped the literary basis already existing in the Romanian provinces. As a result, our approach is meant as an incursion in the Romanian socio-cultural space so as to observe the forms and techniques of writing of the time, as well as the lexical turns of phrase that conferred originality to the Romanian writers.