Persona vs. umbra: o radiografie a cerberilor inconștientului dongasparian

Author(s): Lavinia Ienceanu / Language(s): Romanian,Spanish Issue: 12/2019

The major focus of the present contribution is on the constantlyshifting patterns produced by the persona-shadow interaction as part of theindividuation process which the protagonist is undergoing in Héctor AbadFaciolince‘s novel Asuntos de un hidalgo disoluto, as well as on the archetypalvalues attached to the shadow aspect. With the latter viewed not as a generatorof, much rather as a complement to the anti-self, or, better put, as a haven forfertile forces lying dormant, our research is delving deep into both the novel‘ssocial-historical context and Don Gaspar‘s inter- and intrapersonalrelationships, in an attempt to tear off his mask and expose the multitude offacets which he makes a huge effort to hide. What we actually see is a mostbizarre blend of uranian and chtonian traits, perpetually torn betweencentripetal and centrifugal tendencies, assimilation and dissimilation,censorship and unboundedness, denial and acceptance, inferiority andsuperiority, self-effacement and self-assertion, which simply baffles the readerwhen, in abruptly giving up his desire to rise to fame, Don Gaspar first gives into his compulsion to be reduced to anonymity and, as a last resort, to sheernothingness.

The Journey from the Underground to the Heavens: Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion

Author(s): Ioana Cosma / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2019

This paper proposes to explore Toronto‘s cultural heritage throughan analysis of Michael Ondaatje‘s In the Skin of a Lion. Through variousnarrative perspectives, in this novel, we are witnessing the construction of thecity and of various immigrant identities. The city‘s memory is deeplyentrenched in its constructions, in the blood and mud that make up urbanbuildings. In Ondaatje‘s world narrating the beginnings of the city, people andpolitics are imbricated in an image attempting to allow the effort of variouscharacters to preserve traces of authenticity. We will look at how the politics ofmemory shapes the identities of several characters, at the necessity ofremembering and at the passivity of forgetting. Some of the questions of thispresentation are: How does memory influence the shaping of immigrantidentities? In what ways is the creation of the city related to the destinies ofindividuals? How does Ondaatje narrativize the politics of memory and culturalheritage in his book?

Between Freud’s Libidinal Instinct and the Christian Perspective of Love

Author(s): Ionela Starparu / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2019

Starting from Freud‘s theory of sublimation, I intend to point out,in this research, a better way out by experiencing a pure feeling of love, sowell-known in the eastern spiritual tradition. Freud was convinced that theunacceptable sexual impulse could be deviated from its original purpose by thesuperego‘s restrictive laws and transformed into a superior state of tender love,morality, artistic abilities. Though it may appear as a natural process ofacquiring an elevated spirit, what I cannot agree with is the outcome: love.Therefore, in this study, I will bring together both Freud‘s view and theeastern Christian theologists‘ conclusions on this matter to argue that lovecannot derive from the sexual drive, but rather the opposite is more logical.

Likable Viragos: The Rise of the Sexually Assertive Women in Contemporary North American High School Films

Author(s): Stankomir Nicieja,Małgorzata NICIEJA / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2019

The paper suggests the advent of a new type of character in a populargenre of American high school films, namely a precocious and sexuallyassertive young woman. Such characters are usually highly intelligent andmanipulative women who seduce unsuspecting male partners, often theirteachers, for emotional or practical gain. Although their actions may appearmorally wrong, they are often depicted in a positive light. The analysis is basedon a selection of films considered to be symptomatic of the larger tendencies.The first film under scrutiny is Election (1999), treated as a trailblazer for themore recent pictures such as Breathe In (2013) and Blame (2017). The articlesuggests that the selected films should be read as celebrations of female agencyas well as symbolic expressions of male angst in the face of the growing socialimportance of women. The authors also attempt to explore the contemporaryschool film as a reflection of the evolving understanding of education and therole of a teacher. The paper concludes with an observation that the figure of amanipulative and assertive young woman will continue re-emerging in variousincarnations in the audio-visual productions about school in the coming years.

The Id of Idiosyncratic Idioms in Individual Romance and Germanic Languages vs the Superego of Universal Languaculture

Author(s): Gina Măciucă / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2019

Inspired by the semantically equivalent series E talk one’s head/armoff – G sich ein Loch in den Bauch [= belly] reden – S hablar por los codos [=elbows] – R a i se duce gura [=mouth] la urechi [=ears; peripheralconstituent] – I fare una testa [= head] di qualcuno cosi, the approach at handis intended to complement the prevailingly language-based one and take theanalysis to the more complex, languacultural level, with the aim of bringingidiosyncratic patterns of forma mentis in individual languacultures to bear onsemantic selection of core constituents in interlingually synonymous idioms,and, while allowing for such factors as sheer frequency, contextual pragmaticclues, salient cultural practices or perceived gaps, also attempt to explore andaccount for similarities and contrasts both intra-languaculturally (i.e. withinlanguage families) and inter-languaculturally (i.e. across language families).The major focus of the present contribution – which merely broaches the topicat issue in this first research phase – is on ear and its interlingual synonyms asfeatured by idioms of English, German, Italian, Romanian and Spanishextraction.

Ways of improving your ESP students’ employability skills - A Case Study

Author(s): IONELA IONITIU / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The goal of this paper is to emphasize the importance of employability skills within a two-year ESP course. It is not only about getting, doing, performing, or keeping a job but about developing within that job. The perfect way to achieve, foster, and boost these employability skills is through ESP, namely English for Specific Purposes. Moreover, the interdisciplinary dialogue between Theology and ESP is not going to question concepts such as knowledge through scientific reasoning, or knowledge through religious faith. Rather than being inward-looking and churchy, these skills could be applied to or work for a broad community in mind. When designing and adjusting your ESP course to our learners’ needs, we developed topic-specific activities based on authentic texts that would sharpen their analytical, communicative, creative, and critical thinking skills. Therefore, the teaching and learning proposals provided within this paper are meant to encourage an introspective, deliberate approach to the use of each skill within your ESP context. Apart from the fact that Theology attaches greater importance to emotions and feelings, affective commitment and faithfulness, and subjectivity, whereas ESP is still realist, impartial, and unbiased, using these skills is entirely your choice as an English language teacher because you will have to minutely assess and sort out those skills that best satisfy the demands of your program’s particular objectives and learning outcomes, and those that foremost fulfill the interests and needs of your ESP students.

Intuition: A Heart-based Epistemology

Author(s): Tina Lindhard / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

COVID 19 is just one more problem we humans have to face today. Crises, such as global warming, species extinction, climate change, and the extended use of anxiolytics and antidepressants by all sections of the population including youngsters, are telling us we are out of sync with Nature, and with our Self. Here, I suggest we need to change the focus of our attention from outside to inside, and from the overextended use of logical thinking mind associated with the brain to the feeling-mind linked with the heart. I associate the thinking mind with the male principle and the feeling heart-mind with the female principle. This change can bring about the necessary next step in our evolution by providing us with a way to connect with the deeper Self or Essence to obtain Higher Guidance. This epistemological way of knowing is based on intuition, and heart-based esoteric traditions throughout the ages have known about it. However, to find solutions to the multiple problems we are facing today, many more people need to learn how to tap into their heart-mind. In this article, I explore and expand on these ideas from different angles, including the scientific.

Było, (nie) minęło. Przypomnienie tekstu Tony’ego McEnery’ego i Nicka Ostlera „A New Agenda for Corpus Linguistics – Working with All of the World’s Languages”

Author(s): Jarosław Grzegorz Pacuła / Language(s): Polish Issue: 7/2020

In this text I refererate and comment the work from two decades ago. I recall an article important for corpus linguistics – the work of Tony McEnery and Nick Ostler from 2000. In their paper they argue that corpus linguistics needs to expand to cover a wider set of languages. The challenge of building a multilingual corps is admittedly current. The development of corpus linguistics still depends on technical capabilities, but today we see significant changes in this field. In the article I not only present the reflections of British linguists, but I also show current and outdated problems.

Język poprawności politycznej vs. mowy nienawiści w bułgarskich mediach. Андреана Ефтимова: „Двойственият език в медиите: езикът на политическата коректност vs езика на омразата” (София 2016, 335 с.)

Author(s): Iliana Genew-Puhalewa / Language(s): Polish Issue: 7/2020

Edukacja polonistyczna w czasach populistycznej zarazy

Author(s): Krzysztof Koc / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2020

The article encourages reflection on the role of Polish language education in the face of contemporary challenges. One of them is the expansion of populism (e.g. in politics, in the media, in the way of thinking about education) and the accompanying disinformation campaigns, propaganda or replacing information analysis with emotional opinions. We are also in Poland witnessing this disturbing process, which threatens the foundations of democracy. That is why teaching a critical attitude towards theses expressed in public discourse is so important. The article shows how access to reliable information can contribute to forming such an attitude. The author also suggests that the interpretation of modern children’s literature may be used to expose populist lies, harmful simplifications, and manipulation of facts; it can also successfully support the development of mature civic awareness even among very young students. The point of reference in this case is the problem of attitude towards refugees.

Polska literatura dziecięca i młodzieżowa w odbiciu crip theory. Wybrane przykłady

Author(s): Alicja Fidowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2020

Author presents the crip theory and its possibility for interpretation of Polish children’s and youth literature. She is focused on the presentation this theory and its compatibility to Polish culture. In the next part of the paper, author analyses poem To my students (Do moich uczniów) by Jan Twardowski and the novel Pupa (Poczwarka) by Dorota Terakowska, using the crip category.

„Len” Hansa Christiana Andersena — opowieść fantastyczna o roślinie?

Author(s): Ewa Ogłoza / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2020

The article discusses The Flax, a fantasy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. In my reading, I focus on details of the tale’s text. I point out various contexts that expand and diversify the reading of the tale, such as: cultural, religious, biblical, artistic, literary and cinematic ones.

Subjetividade e “Deslocamento” na obra homônima de Lucy Knisley

Author(s): Valter do Carmo Moreira / Language(s): Portuguese Issue: 2/2020

In certain way, “displacement” refers to the change. It is the action of a body that moves from a certain space to another. In addition to its obvious physical implications, in the case of human displacement, there are also great subjective implications. In this way, displacement can be of other orders, as symbolic, metaphysical and mental, we can also consider even maturation as the displacement from one psychic state to another. In this case, the present work aims to analyze the different figurations of the concept of displacement present in the work: Displacement — A travelogue by Lucy Knisley, as well as the affiliation of the work to a narrative tradition perpetrated by authors who take the daily genre and the trip report as a means of subjective construction of reality, both in literature and in comics. In order to do so, will be used authors who studied the writing of female authors, having the travel narrative as a research horizon, such as Sonia Serrano and Miriam Adelman; as well as authors who focus on the specificities of the comic language that, under the aegis of “graphic novel”, engender an aesthetic construction that privileges the autobiographical narrative (Santiago Garcia and Hilarry Chute). We intend to highlight the richness that the comics bring to the symbolic construction of the genre “travel diary/narrative” through its peculiarities of self-representation.

Podmiotowość i „przemieszczenie” w komiksie Lucy Knisley

Author(s): Valter do Carmo Moreira / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2020

In certain way, “displacement” refers to the change. It is the action of a body that moves from a certain space to another. In addition to its obvious physical implications, in the case of human displacement, there are also great subjective implications. In this way, displacement can be of other orders, as symbolic, metaphysical and mental, we can also consider even maturation as the displacement from one psychic state to another. In this case, the present work aims to analyze the different figurations of the concept of displacement present in the work: Displacement — A travelogue by Lucy Knisley, as well as the affiliation of the work to a narrative tradition perpetrated by authors who take the daily genre and the trip report as a means of subjective construction of reality, both in literature and in comics. In order to do so, will be used authors who studied the writing of female authors, having the travel narrative as a research horizon, such as Sonia Serrano and Miriam Adelman; as well as authors who focus on the specificities of the comic language that, under the aegis of “graphic novel”, engender an aesthetic construction that privileges the autobiographical narrative (Santiago Garcia and Hilarry Chute). We intend to highlight the richness that the comics bring to the symbolic construction of the genre “travel diary/narrative” through its peculiarities of self-representation.

Od zabawy lalkami do zabawy słowami — tomiki wierszy dla dzieci Pawła Beręsewicza

Author(s): Krystyna Zabawa / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2020

The paper includes the analyses of three books of poems by Paweł Beręsewicz: Lalki Dorotki [Dorotka’s dolls] (2004), Czy pisarzom burczy w brzuchu? [Do writers’ stomachs grumble?] (2009) oraz Złota jedenastka… [The golden eleven…] (2018). The author studies language, composition, the voice and characters creation, as well as the main idea of the three books, also paying attention to illustrations. She reconstructs the status of a speaker and a recipient, and their relationship (i.e. an adult–child relationship). It is also an attempt to place Beręsewicz’s books of poems in the context of his stories and novels.

Twarze dzieciństwa w twórczości Pawła Beręsewicza

Author(s): Oliwia Brzeźniak-Pałgan / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2020

The article is devoted to the analysis of Paweł Beręsewicz’s works submitted, awarded with a prize or distinction at the Kornel Makuszyński All‑Poland National Literary Award. The following books by Beręsewicz were analyzed: Jak zakochałem Kaśkę Kwiatek (2005), Ciumkowe historie, w tym jedna smutna (2007), Tajemnica człowieka z blizną (2010), Ściśle tajne (2018). The reading method draws upon the childhood face topic, which was suggested by Grzegorz Leszczyński.

Baśń w biblioterapii integralnej

Author(s): Agnieszka Miernik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2020

This text’s main objective is to introduce the assumptions of the Jungian depth psychology to the bibliotherapeutic process. Bibliotherapy as an interdisciplinary method using psychology and literary studies enriched with the theory of integral psychology formulates a new theoretical perspective and constitutes a proposition of holistic view of bibliotherapy. The extension of the theoretical basis of bibliotherapy will help to augment the therapeutic effect, activate the unconscious (the sphere neglected in school education), and strengthen psyche. Integral bibliotherapy shall create conditions to expand the dialogue between the rational side and unconscious one, and it will contribute to a positive stimulation of the integration processes. Providing archetypal patterns reflecting the rules of life in culture, and drawing attention to the regulatory role of literary works, will enrich both the intellectual and spiritual side of the development of the participant of the bibliotherapeutic process. Archetypal content present in literary texts studied by the participant according to the bibliotherapeutic procedure will achieve an integral orientation focused on the humanistic dimension of existence.

Anghel, M. (2016). Elemente de limba română: profil tehnic. București: Conspress.

Author(s): Raluca Ghenţulescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2018

PROBLEME ȘI PARTICULARITĂȚI ALE PREDĂRII ÎN CADRUL ANULUI PREGĂTITOR DE LIMBA ROMÂNĂ PENTRU CETĂȚENI STRĂINI ÎN FORMAT ONLINE

Author(s): Alexandru Popa / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2019

This article takes into consideration the case of teaching Romanian as a foreign language in an online format in a study program offered to foreign students by the TechnicalUniversity of Civil Engineering Bucharest (henceforth UTCB). Some aspects of the teaching context and of the teaching itself are discussed. Four relevant factors for the present situation are taken into account: 1. The group of students is not uniform from a cultural, religious, ethnic and linguistic point of view. 2. There are significant differences between the academic background of the students. 3. The teaching of Romanian grammar and communication skills is made by using a third language as teaching language. 4. The teaching process takes placeonline.

PREGLED PROGRAMSKIH TEKSTOVA U MEĐURATNIM KNJIŽEVNIM PUBLIKACIJAMA U CRNOJ GORI

Author(s): Olga Vojičić Komatina / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 32/2020

The primary objective of this text is to refer to the analytical-synthetic approach to literary theory texts published in Montenegrin journals in the period between the two world wars. These journals are: Zeta, Razvršja, Mlada Zeta, Valjci, Slobodna misao, Granit and Lovćenski odjek. Theoretical publications themselves refer to a demonstration of the poetic climate of that time. Since the interwar period involves avant-garde stylistic formation and then social-realist methodology this text is in the service of interpreting and re-actualizing complex poetic idioms, which must certainly have been adaptive to existing poetic Journal of Language and Literary Studies 121 trends. Resistance to the avant-garde cultural orientation provoked the production of highly mimetic texts, and it is quite clear that the discourses of socialism were the focus of the press at that time.