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HISTORICAL FACT AND FEMINIST INTERPRETATION ON SHAKESPEARE

Author(s): Ramona Chiribuță / Language(s): English Issue: 16/2019

The sexual division of labour and the conceptual division between public and private spheres of activity that define the positions of housewives in advanced industrial nations were accepted only slowly and with difficulty in pre-capitalist England. The household had not yet been limited and specialized to its modern status as a residential unit. One reason why the sexual division of labour that is now regarded as traditional was not yet practicable in most English households was that women, no less than men, were expected to provide for their own needs and to contribute to the economic well-being of their families, not only by the money and property they brought into marriage but also by managing their households and by marketing the products of their domestic labour. Married women also supported themselves and helped to support their families by remunerative labour in a variety of crafts and trades, including some that would now be considered masculine preserves.

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LASCĂR LUȚIA – SCRIITOR ȘI EROU BUCOVINEAN AL PRIMULUI RĂZBOI MONDIAL

Author(s): Cristian Alexandru Boghian / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 16/2019

„No sacrifice is too great when it is made for the good of the nation" was the political creed of the writer Lascăr Luția which was among the first to give his life as a volunteer from Bukovina during the First World War. Alongside many other volunteers from Bukovina which sacrificed themselves for the cause of Greater Romania on all battlefields, soldiers which even the great historian Ion Nistor mentions in his speeches in the Romanian Senate, Lascăr Luția heroically died in the battles of Neajlov on the 21st of November 1916 at only 21 years of age. Even though he passed away young, his legacy also includes numerous publications and translations, beginning with a correspondence article for Luceafărul and Tribuna from Arad even since he was a pupil in school. Having the literary pseudonym „I.T. Laisŗ, he collaborated with Tribuna, Romanul, Epoca, Viitorul, Neamul Romanesc, Viața Nouă from Cernăuți.

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BESSARABIAN PARABOLIC AND PARODIC NOVEL

Author(s): Ludmila Simanschi / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 16/2019

Approach to Bessarabian parabolic and parodic novel discovered its paradoxical nature and isolated character of manifestation: appropriation of unconventional writing by ironic restoration of the world and by conversion of the tyranny of the author in the self-reflexivity and parody in the novel „The fairy story of the Red Rooster” to Vasile Vasilache; the dialogical discursive performance of the parody in „The chronicle of Scroungers” by Aureliu Busuioc. The historical novel from Bessarabia presents a qualitative mutation when it is dominated by parabolism and parody, imposing a new heterogeneous formula by overlapping the layers of different registers. The ironic register, subtle and prodigious, agrees parody and parabolisation.

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THE ROLE OF THERAPEUTIC STORIES IN IMPROVING THE ATTITUDE-BEHAVIOURAL RISK CONDUCT IN CHILDREN

Author(s): Maria Dorina Pașca / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 17/2019

By its conceptual identity, the therapeutic story try and in most cases , manages , to improve and/or even to stop certain behavior of risk that can become in time the characteristic features . In this context, the therapeutic story can represent the ‘cure‘ of such situations, especially when it is addressed to the patient/customer-child.

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SKETCHES ABOUT TRANSYLVANIAN LITERARY HUMANISM

Author(s): Liliana Truţă / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 17/2019

This study outlines some landmarks in approaching Ardelenism as a form of cultural regionalism, particularly literary. Following a short history of this concept and its applicability, this study draws a sketch of protoardelenism, then it outlines a few bold features of typical Transylvanian humanism as it appears in the oeuvre of some Transylvanian writers. It is noted that they generally opt for individual values that often clash with social or collective values.

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THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ROMANIAN CHILDREN AND YOUTH LITERATURE IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

Author(s): Brânduşa Juica / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 17/2019

The Romanian literature for children and youth is a part of the literature that was written in Romanian in Serbia (and a good part in Yugoslavia). Its beginnings (and of the literature in general) are identified in the writings that appeared on the pages of the Romanian inter-war periodicals, having the true development in the second half of the last century. During this period, literary works for children and youth began to appear and was increasing in number. The present article aims to present the first phases of the development of literature for children and youth, written in Romanian, which is linked to the name of the magazine ―The Joy of the Pioneers" (1946), later " The Joy of the Children" (1956). In this magazine, which is still published at the publishing house ,,Libertatea” in Pančevo, most of the writers made their literary debut and then later they published books for children and young people. Books in Romanian, which were intended for or accessible to younger readers, appeared much later, starting in 1970. The Romanian literature for children and youth, written in Vojvodina, the Republic of Serbia and postwar Yugoslavia, fulfills the noble purpose of cultivating and preserving our native language and complementing the self-image of the Romanian national minority that created artistic values in a specific socio-cultural context.

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TRAVELLING IN EDITH WHARTON’S WORLD

Author(s): Alexandra Alexa Oana / Language(s): English Issue: 17/2019

Travelling is inevitably an enriching experience, but for Edith Wharton‘s late 19th century New York leisure class, going to Europe was a ritual to be performed with the utmost attention to form. Wharton‘s characters travelled east to Europe for a number of reasons: from the customary honeymooning and the annual trips to Paris to order one‘s wardrobe, to the initiatic tours for young men and the serious business of finding an aristocrat husband willing to overlook a girl‘s ,,new money” which the leisure class was so keen on rejecting back home. This paper aims to discuss the issue of Americans visiting Europe as they are pictured in several of Wharton‘s novels, by emphasizing what they lost and what they gained during this experience. It will show that, no matter the reason, travelling was a powerful instrument for the rich in the game of social conventions and that a trip to Europe could sometimes make or break one‘s fortune.

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AN INGRESSION IN THE CONTEMPORARY SHORT-STORIES

Author(s): Raluca-Nicoleta Uilean Isciuc / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 17/2019

This volume represents an incursion into the current literature. The book coordinated by Andreea Răsuceanu brings together eighteen captivating stories. It is a precursory book, a book of contact with postmodern literature, which has the role of activating the lust for reading and at the same time can be perceived as a panorama of the current literature, in which known writers are included, but also writers at the beginning of the writer's career. In addition, the present anthology also includes a presentation of each author, thus providing a short bio-bibliographic album.

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JAMES JOYCE – STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS. THE MANNER IN WHICH FORM GENERATES MEANING

Author(s): Paul Mihalache / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 17/2019

This paper attempts to show that there are literary texts – poetry and prose that is, with a high degree of poeticity – and in whose cases meaning does not emerge from textual reference but from its form. In order to exemplify the aforementioned statement, I will namely refer to James Joyce‘s Ulysses and I will analyse the way in which the author makes use of the known literary technique called stream of consciousness.

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PROLETCULTISM VS. SOCIALIST REALISM

Author(s): Mihaela Airinei / Language(s): English,Romanian Issue: 17/2019

The Romanian Literature has been summoned to bring into the spotlight creations that would embrace the projected ideological fiction, the incontestable superiority of communist order, the "golden' future of the country or the role of the "new human" in a world liberated from exploitation and conquer.Despite the fact that some of the writers consented to assume the official ideology, many others have written on keeping their aesthetic autonomy. This exasperating acultural climate forced them into finding means that would enable them to undermine (or at least avoid) the controlling doctrine. The critic contribution of researchers reveals the nature of the transformations that took place on the grounds of history of literature. The animated pertractations succeed in recovering, much to the advantage of the language of history of literature, the semantic avatars of the two key-concepts: proletcultism and socialist realism. If the Moscow proletcultism of the years 1918-1920, articulated and consecrated by A.A Bogdanov, proclaims the adaptation of the vision and proletary style in an anarchic-insurgent manner through disconsideration of party and state ideology, the Romanian one, specific to the years 1948-1950, cannot recover its sistemic congruency. The contours have been kept, yet the contents promote the party shared proletary culture.

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DIMINEAŢA TINERELOR DOAMNE BY MARTA PETREU. AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH

Author(s): Laura Alexandra Petrea (Şopterean) / Language(s): English,Romanian Issue: 17/2019

Marta Petreu is a teacher, poet, writer and editor. Her real name is Rodica Marta Petreu and after marriage her last name became Vartic. She is formed in the ambiance of „Echinox” and she belongs to 80s. Her second volume of poetry is called „Dimineaţa tinerelor doamne” and it is published in 1983. The major theme of this volume is the loneliness, melancholy, fear and language. Its pure and rough realism doesn‘t have figures of speech. From de beginning of the volume we can notice the fact that the poetry is an autobiographical type.

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BUJOR NEDELCOVICI- A CLUMSY WRITER IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME

Author(s): Ligia Monica Banciu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 17/2019

Bujor Nedelcovich's artistic belief is powered by the force of converting defense into victory, defense being reveled by the exile taken, which proved to be a very difficult challenge. Exile means burning, purification, renascence, acquiring new literary dimensions, but also a way of knowing your inner self. There is a strong bound between an author‘s life and his literary work, hence there hasn‘t been found an appropriate interpretation of his work (esthetic) without a deep knowledge of his existence (ethic). A writer is in an ontological unit with his work; Bujor Nedelcovici doesn‘t consider the esthetic primarily important placing it over the ethic; he stats that an author‘s work can‘t save his life, consequently life can‘t explain work either.

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ALEXANDRIA, OR THE FIRST INSTANCE OF MONSTERS IN ROMANIAN CULTURE

Author(s): Alexandru Ionașcu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 17/2019

This study seeks to present the early presence on monsters in Romanian culture, beginning with the popular novel about Alexander the Great and his exploits in foreign lands. Although not very known and not quite part of literature, these popular stories derived from religious traditions, an important part of them apocryphal in nature, with the biblical tradition being important because it allowed new words into the vocabulary, words that described ancient monsters and were adapted into the language, as Oana Uță pointed out.The story is about masculinity regarded as a warrior code and alterity associated with barbarians, with unchardted territories seen as places for monsters that devour whoever tresspasses their deserted realms. From time to time, the text has mysoginistic undertones, but it has not influenced the rest of Romanian literature for a variety of reason, one being the lack of a university before the 19th century. However, it is worth nothing that this popular text is the first instance where the ancient myth of the Amazons appear in Romanian culture, as well as Pliny the Elder‘s monstrous races.

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BILINGUALISM AND SELF-TRANSLATION IN SAMUEL BECKETT’S WORKS

Author(s): Aliteea Turtureanu / Language(s): French Issue: 18/2019

This work aims to examine Samuel Beckett’s bilingual development, as well as the practice of self-translation of the English-French versions of his texts. In Beckett’s case it isn’t about a definitive switch to French but about a relatively balanced cohabitation between English and French with a predilection for the latter. It was the author himself who translated most of his works in the two languages. The differences between them are very interesting. His switching from one language to the other did not arise from his desire to be technically perfect but from a real enactment of a literary project.

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THE PORTRAIT OF THE FEMALE CHARACTER IN DANGEROUS LIAISONS BY CHODERLOS DE LACLOS

Author(s): Ana-Elena Costandache / Language(s): French Issue: 18/2019

In the 18the century, the literary universe of the novel gave rise to a type of libertine writing, a kind of epistolary writing, which revealed all the (well hidden) secrets related to the ethics or principles of morality. The originality of Choderlos de Laclos’ novel, Dangerous Liaisons, is due to the author’s willingness to openly depict the amorous passions of his characters, especially the female ones, which created scandal for the reading audience of the time. The Liaisons or the temptation of seduction that is acquired while reading the novel are directly related to revenge, the relentless inclination to harm others. As a result, we propose an analysis of the psychology of female characters that give a touching value due to their important role in the plot of the novel.

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ALEXANDRU POPESCU-TELEGA AND NĂZUINȚA: A MOMENT IN THE EVOLUTION OF HISPANIC STUDIES IN ROMANIA

Author(s): Carmen Burcea / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 18/2019

In the field of Spanish-Romanian relations, Năzuința journal emerges as a noteworthy landmark. Provincial, small sized, typographically modest, Năzuința was, for some years (1922- 1929), an important cultural platform with the purpose of (re)activating the contacts between the two geographical and cultural spaces. If in its period came to be known, the decades that have passed since then have spread the mantle of oblivion over its pioneering activity in Spanish cultural studies in Romania. Restored from memories and various notes, its remembrance is often associated with that of Professor Alexandru Popescu-Telega. On what foundation is situated Al. Popescu-Telega’s activity? What was the stage of knowledge about Spain and its culture in the period immediately after World War I? How did he thought the popularization program of Hispanic culture? Which were the pathways in order to disseminate the Hispanic culture? How can we measure its efficiency? Answering to these questions is the proposal of this paper.

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ION POP RETEGANUL’S PEDAGOGICAL WRITINGS

Author(s): Alexandra Pascu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 18/2019

The pedagogical activity of Ion Pop Reteganul, a name closely related to the Romanian culture is one of the fundamental directions of his personal development. The activity of this teacher, who was born in Reteag, materialized into some important textbooks. One of the most important textbooks was The Reading Book, which is still actual due to its concepts and knowledge. It is addressed to different types of pupils. Another important textbook was about the art of growing trees. These two textbooks and another valuable Ion Pop Reteganul’s pedagogical writings will be described in my article.

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FEMINIST REWRITIND. THE PENELOPIAD OF MARGARET ATWOOD

Author(s): Maximiliana Ștefan (Miheț) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 18/2019

Based on the transtextual relationships apparent in the very title of Margaret Atwood's work The Penelopiad, this article examines the, intertextual characteristics of those relationships with The Odyssey. The main focus of the article is to demonstrate how Atwood's conflict with the heroic codes and the patriarchal nature of the Homeric text makes her recreate the stories of Penelope and of her twelve hanged maids under Odysseus' orders, based on epic as well as on mythic material. By giving voice to Penelope as an autodiegetic narrator, and to the chorus of maids who comment on the queen's narrative, whose voices are in keeping with our contemporaneity, Atwood redirects the reader's horizon of expectations towards a new textual, generic and critical perspective.

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ALGERIAN IDENTITY AND MIGRATION IN BUALEM SANSAL’S WORK

Author(s): Elena-Brândușa Steiciuc / Language(s): French Issue: 19/2019

Bouqlem Sansal, born in 1949, is a well-known contemporary Algerian author, whose work in French deals with various aspects of the Algerian identity and with such major themes as the migration of Algerians and Africans during the recent years, owing to the precarity and insecurity of their own country. Taking into account three novels from different periods of creation and especially the novel „Harraga”, this article deals with the literary project of Boualem Sansal and with the way he depicts the various „deseases” of the Algerian society.

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LITERARY CARTOGRAPHIES AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTIONS IN UPDIKE’S TERRORIST

Author(s): Eduard Vlad / Language(s): English Issue: 19/2019

Literary Cartographies and Identity Constructions in Updike’s Terrorist’ examines the patterns of abstract configurations of space and more specific illustrations of urban place of fictional New Prospect, New Jersey and the ways in which they are turned into the fictional shape that the novel Terrorist assumes. These are shaped to make sense of the post – 9/11 interaction between what might be seen as Updike’s 21st century American versions of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, but having relevance to perceptions of a world of clashing ideologies.

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