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To confront with the other is the indispensable condition of the formation of one’s identity. This is also the case with groups; each community defines itself against the foreign. Imagology deals with the scientific research of mental images formed about the other and the self. The volume includes theoretical studies and case studies on the theoretical-historical approach of this interdisciplinary domain. Zsuzsa Tapodi’s general survey is supplemented by Joep Leerssen’s study from the perspective of the history of literature and mentality as well as by Sorin Mitu’s article from the perspective of history. Discussing Balkanism in connection with George Enescu’s opera, Dan Anghelescu’s analysis in the field of aesthetics sets against the terms the Balkans and Balkanism used as negative stereotypes. This is a positive characteristic, the container of those features which make the Romanian composer’s works unique and which can convey the Nietzschean concept of tragedy. Through the analysis of the edition in Romania of Áron Tamási’s autobiographical volume, Árpád Kémenes’s study argues that in the case of Hungarian authors the communist censorship banned not only the fragments showing a negative image of the Romanians, but also those reinforcing the Hungarians’ identity. Sorin Mitu’s study analyses the Hungarians’ image about the Romanians and the Romanians’ image about the Hungarians; Axel Braner follows the changes of German writers’ image about the Romanians. Zsuzsa Tapodi presents two books related to imagology, on xenophobia, by the Italian belletrist and theoretician Umberto Eco.

Creation in literature.