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THE METAMORPHOSIS OF TIME

Author(s): Oana-Larisa Oanea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 19/2019

The present research, made from a literary, psychoanalytic and phenomenological perspective, brings to the foreground the case of the post-communist writer Gabriela Adameșteanu and the universe of her characters, created through the dialectics of language and the particular manner in which every fictional world is built, her genesis being in the constraints imposed by the traumatic experience to which the writers of the communist totalitarian regime have been subjected, especially at ideological and identitary level. In all of the epic discourses over which I have leaned on in this research, it can be seen the transformations of fictionalization manners after visiting the geography of memory - as I called the return to the remembrance of the painful past. The Confrontation has literally materialized through metamorphoses of the discourse, the fiction taking on the attributes of the explored topos, while the author frees itself, thus producing the metamorphoses of the past: of time, of running away, of body identity, of migration or of trauma.

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THE ARTS AND (ARTISTIC) CREATION IN LAWRENCE DURRELL’S THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET

Author(s): Amalia Mărășescu / Language(s): English Issue: 20/2020

The paper explores the world of arts as presented by Lawrence Durrell in his novel The Alexandria Quartet. On the one hand, we shall focus on the art of writing, examining the various figures of writers that appear in the novel (Darley, Pursewarden, Arnauti), their ideas and the way in which their works complete and respond to one another. On the other hand, we shall analyse Durrell’s exploration of the art of painting, which seems to be more utilitarian than artistic, being put at the service of medicine. We shall also see that, as the writer Darley and the painter Clea become a couple, their arts seem to merge into each other and they are on the point of moving from the city of books (Alexandria) to that of arts (Paris).

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ASSOCIATIONS IN THE NOVEL HERE WE ARE BY GRAHAM SWIFT

Author(s): Irina-Ana Drobot / Language(s): English Issue: 21/2020

The purpose of this paper is to look at the use of associations in the novel used on a variety of occasions. The novel uses the usual way the memory works by associations, but it also lends various associations to certain keywords, such as magic, parrot, the phrase Here we are and the silence used as a refrain, as well as keywords that the reader associates with moments from other novels by Graham Swift.

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ABOUT THE NOVELS OF DANILO KIŠ

Author(s): Tatijana Petrika / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 21/2020

In this paper, I set out to conduct research on Danilo Kiš's novels, namely, in chronological order, as published. From the Attic to the Encyclopedia of the Dead. At the same time, the emphasis is on the Family Trilogy or The Family Cycle which includes Kiš's three novels, The Early Sufferings, The Garden, the Ashes and the Hourglass.

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REREADING “DREAMS FROM BUNKER HILLS”, BY JOHN FANTE. INTERTEXTUAL ACCENTS AND HERMENEUTICAL SUGGESTIONS

Author(s): Teodora Nicoleta Pascu / Language(s): English Issue: 21/2020

Defined as a literary testament, “Dreams from Bunker Hills” is the fourth novel of the so-called Arturo Bandini’s saga, the last literary work of John Fante and probably the most metaliterary one. This article is an attempt of critical rereading that should hopefully add some new insights to Fantian themes, in the light of recent theories of reading/rereading and interpretation. The significative literary genealogy of the author, which implies a meaning-making osmotic relationship between the (re)writing process, intertextuality issues and the retrieval of autobiographical memory fragments, will be then analysed in “Dreams” by integrating textual understanding and critical re-articulation.

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A CULTURAL STUDIES APPROACH TO A NOVELIST AT THE CROSSROADS

Author(s): Florian Andrei Vlad / Language(s): English Issue: 22/2020

The aim of the current text is to place David Lodge’s early fiction (especially The British Museum is Falling Down) within the new cultural contexts emerging in the 1960s, among which the ones associated with the Birmingham Centre of Contemporary Cultural Studies feature prominently. There arose new voices advocating the ordinariness of the culture shared by most British people at that time and since then and the failure of traditional institutions to support as convincingly as previously what one has come to call canonical, elite culture. Apart from the unity in diversity that important thinkers usually display, there are important features which they share, particularly in relation to a certain paradigm shift concerning attitudes to what culture has become and to its pivotal institutions and practices. Are these institutions falling down or, if not, to what extent are they affected by the new cultural, especially Cultural Studies turn? The Cultural Studies thinkers and some of the literary writers of the age refer, sometimes from different ideological positions (Lodge and Larkin from more conservative, but equally critical and ironic and self-ironic ones), to the new challenges to Englishness and its central position in the cultural institutional dynamics of the time.

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THE AESTHETICS OF THE MEDIEVISTIC NOVELIST: UMBERTO ECO

Author(s): Luiza Marinescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 23/2020

The evolution of the concept of the work of art from the opening to the production of signs is the fruit of the experience of the semiotician Umberto Eco, of the attempts of his critical analysis as a writer, of the achievements in the field of Novel. Umberto Eco's novels are an illustration of the semiotic theory, which happened to be contemporary with postmodernism, and do not represent its theorizing, but a key to achieving a maximum and varied audience, at a time when the Novel and the Author were predicted to die, in an age when the mechanism of the reception of mass culture, fiction and popular culture were not used for the survival of literature. The selection of Umberto Eco’s and his contemporary opinions aims to change the optics of the improvement of the work of art. Another psychology of reading is imposed by this new game, which has become the craft of creating a novelistic masterpiece.

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NICOLAE BALOTĂ – THE AVATARS OF THE BEING

Author(s): Paraschiva Livadaru (Miron) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 23/2020

Balotă is looking at the roots of the Being for the mutations that directly influence social and cultural phenomena. The exegete intention resides under the mark of the duality: it includes fighting pseudo-values and aims to identify ontological mutations that transform the human into a being incapable to identify the sacredness. His pilgrimages thru works of literature probe the human and uncover a unique manner of researching the manifestation of the sacredness in the approach towards the Being.

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NORMAN MANEA: THE SPANISH CRITIQUE OVER THE HOOLIGAN’S RETURN

Author(s): Ioana Mihaela VANCEA / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 24/2021

This paper aims to provide a new perspective over Norman Manea’s The hooligan’s return. In the dynamics of the national canon – international canon, the second prevails so that the discussion of our essay goes hand in hand to the bigger picture of the text, the macrodata that recommends the literary creation for the transnational canon and, of course, the international market of literature. Working with Franco Moretti's concept of World Literature, we will use second-hand criticism to highlight a new perspective on the novel The Hooligan’s return to observe its dynamics on the Spanish literary scene. For this, we will work with articles and chronicles taken from Letras Libres, ABC and La Vanguardia; such exercise will be of help in connecting Norman Manea to the field of World Literature.

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CHARLES BUKOWSKI’S “HAM ON RYE”, A KÜNSTLERROMAN

Author(s): Anca Bădulescu / Language(s): English Issue: 25/2021

Bukowski’s autobiographical novel, “Ham on Rye” tells the author’s life story from early childhood to adulthood, from 1922 to the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Henry Chinaski’s relationship to his father, his loneliness, his pains, frustrations and anger contribute to his making as a tough adult. Beyond being a Bildungsroman, “Ham on Rye” qualifies more importantly as a Künstlerroman. This article aims at tracing back Chinaski’s artistic apprenticeship, his becoming a writer. Poverty, his father’s violent behavior, his solitude, the physical and spiritual scars did not only empower him as an independent resilient human being, but stirred his creativity and gave him the urge and tremendous power to write.

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CREANGĂ’S SYNTAX - SEVERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE SUBJECTIVE SUBORDINATE CLAUSE IN CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

Author(s): Bianca Daniela Kopoșciuc / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 25/2021

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the stylistic-syntactic realization of the subjective subordinate clause, be it pronominal or conjunctional, in the era of the Great Classics, in order to highlight some construction features which had been either abandoned or considerably restricted in the present-day language, making reference to both relationship elements as well as to the regent elements registered within the analyzed corpus: Ion Creangă’s Childhood Memories volume, the first three parts being published between 1881-1882, and the fourth part posthumously, respectively.

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PROZA SADOVENIANĂ ÎNTRE MODEL ȘI ATIPIE

Author(s): Constantin Dram / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 26/2021

In the extensive work of what is considered "the greatest Romanian storyteller" there are some texts so unusual, as a style, as an ideology, as a narrative model, that they seem to be part of the work of another writer. Starting from some major elements that imposed the "tyranny" of the model in Sadoveanu's prose, we will send to other significant prose from this point of view, which falls into a modern aesthetic, different from the traditionalistic perspective that is specific to the author.

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TRADITIONAL VS MODERN FOOD IN THE OJIBWA NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE AS PRESENTED IN LOUISE ERDRICH’S THE ANTELOPE WIFE

Author(s): Oana-Andreea Ghiță-Pîrnuță / Language(s): English Issue: 26/2021

The present paper focuses on the dichotomy between traditional vs modern food as treated in the novel entitled “The Antelope Wife” by Louise Erdrich. It deals with the connection between food and culture, the Ojibwa Native American culture. The cultural aspect is one of the most important issues in a country and food stands for one of the most relevant cultural aspects. This study highlights the various types of food presented in the novel as well as the role each of them plays in the Ojibwa culture. The spiritual food and the food of the dead are two very important types of food well represented in the novel. The examples extracted from the novel are given in order to provide a better understanding of the function food has in performing the Ojibwa rituals. The conclusion drawn from this analysis is that food plays a very important part in the novel as it widens the readers’ perspective on the Ojibwa Native American culture.

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THE INTERNAL REPRESENTATION OF THE WORLD IN KATHRYN ERSKINE’S MOCKINGBIRD VIA ELENA SEMINO’S COGNITIVE APPROACH

Author(s): Alina Lucia GRAPINI / Language(s): English Issue: 27/2021

Kathryn Erskine’s Mockingbird has been interdisciplinary approached via Fowler’s term “mind style” with the intention to capture “an impression of the protagonist’s world view” (qtd. In Semino 2007: 166). According to the mind style concept, Mockingbird reveals an internal representation of the world in which, Caitlin, the main character, lives, including the presentations of the others characters’ minds and, of course, the workings of her mind. Caitlin’s “world view” has the advantage of offering a representation of the world within her mind: "The gray of outside is inside. Inside the living room. Inside the chest. Inside me” (M 2). It is a combination between Caitlin’s mental and emotional representations, including feelings, emotions, values, attitudes and believes.

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CHILD AS MUSE. A PSYCHOANALYTICAL APPROACH IN ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Author(s): Ileana-Silvia Ciornei / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2022

Lewis Carroll’s books Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871) are both set in the young girl Alice’s dream fantasies. For more than a hundred years, adults as well as children have enjoyed losing themselves in the nonsensical stories. But it appears that there is more to the stories than pure nonsense. As many authors and critics observed, Alice can be psychoanalyzed easily; it is easy to treat it as a dream, because it is a dream. And ever since Freud began publishing his theories, critics have been applying them to Alice. The first wave of Alice psychoanalysts focused on the sexual symbolism in the novel, which according to the theory reveals Carroll’s own repressed sexuality. Most works more or less unequivocally assume that Dodgson was a pedophile, though a repressed and celibate one, while others keep on the respectable neutral side. Although the details about Carroll ‘s relationship with children in general, and with the Liddell girls in particular, might never be known and never be clearly established, the evidence that he had somewhat unhealthy obsession with minors seems somehow unquestionable.

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INFLUENCES BALZACIENNES DANS LES ROMANS DE MARIN PREDA

Author(s): Mihaela-Claudia Popescu / Language(s): French Issue: 28/2022

Marin Preda is a realistic writer, concerned with being exact and precise in his story, correct and concise in its style, its work being always part of the fundamental books of the Romanian literature. In Marin Preda's novel, omniscience is partially abandoned. The characters say something, they become informants, accomplices with the author, the narrator has therefore lost his sovereignty, and the heroes become reflectors. Moromeţii is a realistic novel, in which the anti-calophile style, similar to the style of the interwar prose writers, provides precision, conciseness and clarity. Like Balzac or the Russian realists, Marin Preda fixes in realistic paintings, sometimes sad and slightly oppressive, aspects of life and failure.

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NARRATING THE UNDEFINED: A MATH MELODRAMA (THOUGHT) EXPERIMENT

Author(s): Dragoș Avădanei / Language(s): English Issue: 29/2022

In this carefully structured short story (1, 2,…..9; 1a, 2a…….9a; 1b, 2b…..9b), Ted Chiang—a computer scientist—combines a story of mathematics (division by zero), a “math melodrama” (prodigy beyond her prime, “undefined” marriage, ambition, frustration, disappointment, depression, attempted suicides), a Biblical exemplum (“believe and do not doubt”), and a thought experiment (“what if arithmetic proved to be inconsistent?” and “empathy was only a masked attempt to heal oneself of one’s past?”); all in all, a narrative that attempts to contain more than it really does and ask more questions than any such scenario could answer.

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LOVE AS DEFINING EXPERIENCE OF EXISTENCE IN ANTON HOLBAN’S “IOANA”, GARABET IBRĂILEANU’S “ADELA” AND MIRCEA ELIADE’S “MAITREYI”

Author(s): Ingrid Cezarina-Elena Ciochină / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 31/2022

Thomas Mann's short stories from the beginning of the 20th century bring into discussion the problem of aestheticism, as was also emphasized by literary criticism, but also a certain perspective on a neoclassical ideal. The epic of small dimensions (the sketch, the story, the short story) characterizes the beginning of the 20th century, being focused on social observation, psychological analysis, symbolism and the fantastic. "No one remains unchanged after going through a process of self-knowledge", says Thomas Mann. Thus, in his writings he attempts a deepening, a highlighting of everything that self-knowledge means and produces.

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AESTHETIC VALUES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FUNCTIONAL DEPICTIONS AT DUILIU ZAMFIRESCU

Author(s): Sonia Hozan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 31/2022

Current semiotic explorations, related to the meanings of communication and the specific framework of texts, and also to the behaviour of the receiver, have imposed today, almost unanimously, the principle of approaching the literary text as an open work. Reread today from this perspective, Duiliu Zamfirescu's short stories and novels gain unexpected qualities and dimensions. First of all his novels do not refuse an analytical, psychological, social, affective, artistic approach as they build a system of significant links for the atmosphere and mentalities of the time. In Duiliu Zamfirescu's aesthetic conception, the analytical is subordinated to creation, this being the reason why he opted for a classical realism, in the Balzacian manner, in which the analytical integrates with the harmonic beauty, with the aim of creating living and possible types. Duliu Zamfirescu's contacts, both with the large-scale works of the 19th century novelists and also with the new aesthetic ways, made him notice that literature cannot develop fruitfully within strictly local limits and predict its orientation towards that essence later called the end of an age.

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ʹA WOUND THAT CRIES OUTʹ: THE REPRESENTATION OF TRAUMA IN ZÜLFÜ LIVANELI’S SERENAD

Author(s): Bianca Roman / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 31/2022

The novel brings to the fore some of the most tragic events from the first half of the 20th century: the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, the tragedy of the Crimean Tatars. Different characters experience different traumas, and unwittingly pass this bloody legacy on to their offspring. The main character, Maximilian Wagner, struggles with the trauma of losing the woman he loves, but also with the overwhelming feeling of guilt that he could not save her from death. However, Livaneli does not leave the wounds unhealed, but seeks to close all the traumatic circles, and to lead his characters to make peace with their personal and historical past.

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