Foreign Literature Translations in Romanian Periodicals (1919-1944)

The following dataset accounts for nearly all translated poetry and prose from foreign languages into Romanian in the country's periodicals between 1919 and 1944. Nodes concerned with the periodicals were marked with an [R] for easy filtering. The tables were exported using Gephi after a series of statistical algorithms were employed using the tool. In separating the different national cultures that were translated in the periodicals, we have chosen to upload separate files for each of the twelve foreign literatures.

The data was collected from "The Bibliography of the Relationships Between Romanian Literature and Foreign Literatures in Periodicals (1919-1944)", published by the Romanian Academy between 1997 and 2009.

Details describing the analysis of the dataset will be published in the paper "Transnational Networks, Translational Canons. Foreign Literatures in the Romanian Interwar Periodical Culture", in The Role of Translations in Shaping National Literatures, Eds. Alex Goldiș, Ștefan Baghiu, Berlin: Peter Lang, 2022 (forthcoming).