A Collection of Own Beings / Simona Popescu, "Wylinka"
Kolekcja własnych istot / Simona Popescu, „Wylinka”
Keywords: Simona Popescu; literature
Book Review on Simona Popescu "Wylinka"
More...Keywords: Simona Popescu; literature
Book Review on Simona Popescu "Wylinka"
More...Keywords: memory; simultaneity; visceral paradise; cultural paradise; alimentary metaphors
The present study analyses Simona Popescu’s novel Exuvii from the perspective of temporality and ego formation, linking these concepts with other Romanian postmodernist novels. Other analyzed aspects are: the body as a home of Edenic knowledge and literature as a form of civilizing corporality.
More...Keywords: translation difficulties; neologisms; wordplay
The present article discusses the most important problems that occurred in Polish translation of Simona Popescu’s novel Exuvii. The majority of the difficulties concern the language of the novel, which is very poetic, enigmatic. The author plays with language, creates numerous neologisms, associates words in an original way. Moreover, she uses specialised, scientific vocabulary from different domains (medicine, biology, chemistry, philosophy, mythology, etc.). The novel abounds with the examples of wordplay, which are often difficult or impossible to translate. Besides, the text contains numerous quotations from the works of other writers and poets, often without titles, or even the names of the authors, which caused some problems in the case of sources other than Romanian.
More...Rec.: Simon Critchley, Nieustajace zadanie. Etyka polityczna, tłum. R. Dobrowolski, M. Gusin, Wydawnictwo Naukowe DSWE TWP we Wrocławiu, Wrocław 2006, ss. 155.
More...Keywords: protected unit; public-private partnership; young people who were institutionalized
The mosaic factory, recorded at the Registry of Commerce Office in the month of April 2012 was created within a non-reimbursable European financed project and currently has the status of authorized protected unit. There are ten young people who were institutionalized and who have difficulties to become integrated in the social and professional life. The social enterprise SC Proiect Mozaic SRL is the result of a meeting between the social sector, the non-profit sector and the business sector because it has at its basis a partnership with an important group of companies from the field of constructions and interior design from Bucharest. In parallel with the activity of producing mosaic, the Mosaic project provides occasionally to its clients also services of products packaging and assembly.
More...Keywords: protected unit; public-private partnershi; young people who were institutionalized
The mosaic factory, recorded at the Registry of Commerce Office in the month of April 2012 was created within a non-reimbursable European financed project and currently has the status of authorized protected unit. There are ten young people who were institutionalized and who have difficulties to become integrated in the social and professional life. The social enterprise SC Proiect Mozaic SRL is the result of a meeting between the social sector, the non-profit sector and the business sector because it has at its basis a partnership with an important group of companies from the field of constructions and interior design from Bucharest. In parallel with the activity of producing mosaic, the Mosaic project provides occasionally to its clients also services of products packaging and assembly.
More...Keywords: empathizing; systemizing; sex differences
The objective of this article is to present the basic assumptions of the Simon Baron-Cohen’s Empathizing – Systemizing Theory. This is one of the latest theories describing and explaining sex differences. It is rooted in evolutionary and developmental psychology, and also in psychopathology. The article reviews the most important research supporting the assumptions of the theory.
More...Keywords: ecocriticism; eco-tales; ecology; Simona Kossak
This article discusses the life and work of Simona Kossak, a writer and professor of forestry. Her life work aimed at awakening in her readers and listeners sensitivity and compassion towards animals and natural surroundings. The author examines Kossak’s radio talks which she proposes to name “eco-tales”.
More...L’ouvrage Littérature et politique en Afrique – approche transdisciplinaire paru aux Éditions du Cerf, recueille vingt-cinq articles qui proposent au lecteur des réflexions sur les réalités sociales, économiques, politiques et artistiques du continent africain.
More...Keywords: Literature;creative writing;discipleship;
Interview taken by Emilian galaicu Păun to the Romanian writer Simona popescu.
More...Keywords: political annexation; sports hero; sports and politics; Simona Halep; COVID-19;
The present article aims to highlight the ways in which the sports hero in Romania is “annexed”, ie used and instrumentalized by the political power, represented by public institutions, political parties and / or politicians. The case study analyzes the ceremonies and awards bestowed upon the tennis player Simona Halep, the most prominent sports figure of Romania in the past decade, by a number of local authorities in the country (Buşteni, Constanţa, Călăraşi, Bucharest, Cluj) and by the Romanian Presidency, from late 2013 to the present day. We scrutinize the reasons behind such feats of public homage and the media coverage it entailed, while also trying to explain why sport, and tennis in particular, is courted assiduously by politicians in the country – and what this reveals about the standing of the sports hero in Romanian society and political legitimization strategies. We also explore the reasons why apparently similar political strategies of gaining political kudos through association with a sport hero work brilliantly for one Romanian politician and dramatically backfire for another. Last but not least, we take a look at the way the sports hero was instrumentalized during the COVID-19 pandemic.
More...Keywords: Georges Minois; Simona Croitoriu;
More...L’une des tendances de la littérature française contemporaine est de multiplier les récits de filiation. La critique littéraire suit de près ce mouvement, en essayant de dépasser une thématique un peu trop focalisée sur la figure de la mère/ du père ou la fratrie, afin d’arriver à une réflexion plus généralisante, capable de définir le concept de « récit de filiation » et d’opérer des catégorisations utiles comme grilles d’interprétation applicables aux divers textes littéraires.
More...The political turmoil of postcolonial Africa has ignited the imagination of many authors who tried to capture, through their writing, the essence of the various conflicts and crises that have ensued following the dissolution of the colonial empires. The volume Raconter les Politiques Conflictuelles en Afrique untangles the narrative representation of conflict and is bears testament to the complexity of its role in shaping the understanding of the past and present, demonstrating the intertwined relation between politics and literary creation in Africa.
More...Keywords: Simona Jișa; Bianca-Livia Bartoș; Gabriela Miron; Yvonne Goga;
Depuis quelques décennies déjà, la problématique des seuils d’une œuvre littéraire a fait l’objet de plusieurs études qui observent et explicitent la valeur des différents éléments stratégiques d’un livre qui orientent la lecture. Dans le paysage français c’est Gérard Genette qui attire l’attention sur les enjeux de nature sémantique, sémiologique, voire commerciale du paratexte qui possède un rôle décisif dans la réception de l’œuvre d’un auteur (voir Seuils, 1987).
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