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SELF-TRANSLATION OF THE BOOK THE END OF MY ADDICTION/ LE DERNIER VERRE BY OLIVIER AMEISEN

Author(s): Aliteea-Bianca Turtureanu / Language(s): French Issue: 19/2019

This research is based on the bestselling book about curing alcoholism by means of baclofen. This work aims to examine the practice of self-translation of the book The End of My Addiction/ Le dernier verre written by the famous cardiologist Olivier Ameisen. Numerous examples from the French and English versions will illustrate the lexical, stylistic, semantic and cultural particularities of self-translation in Olivier Ameisen’s work. The complex process of self-translation integrates one’s all dimensions: heart, body, soul, intellect, feelings and extrasensory perceptions.

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ANGELA’S ASHES: A TRAGI-COMIC CHILDHOOD MEMOIR BY FRANK MCCOURT

Author(s): Anca Bădulescu / Language(s): English Issue: 19/2019

The focus of the article is the mixture of tragedy and comedy in Frank McCourt’s childhood memoir. It aims at proving that tragic events and humorous ones coexist. Although the novel concentrates on the author’s terrible early life in Limerick, it also reveals Frank McCourt’s sparkling sense of humour, most of which is illustrated in language.

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TRACES OF AMERICAN INFLUENCE IN THE ROMANIAN ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT

Author(s): Laura Claudia Cracană / Language(s): English Issue: 19/2019

The Romanian abolitionist movement was in close connection with the political reforms that took place in the first half of the 19th century in Moldavia and Wallachia, being strongly influenced by the wind of progress and modernization coming from the West. The present paper aims at offering a brief presentation of the American presence in Romanian literature and public sphere of the mid-19th century and to emphasize the elements that played an important role in the adoption of the final emancipation laws. The young intellectual generation of the 1848 Revolution saw the resemblances that could be traced between the slavery institutions from the United States and the Romanian Principalities as well as between the general attitude of supremacy of the dominant population towards the enslaved minority groups and used them to promote abolitionist feelings in the Principalities. The fact that the first American novel to be translated in Romanian was the antislavery manifestation “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and its enormous popularity in the Romanian space come to confirm the interest of the Romanian people in the information about the modern American society in those difficult times of change and political turmoil.

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CULTURAL SCHIZOPHRENIA AND REBELLION IN MARLOWE’S DOCTOR FAUSTUS

Author(s): Zaher Alajlani / Language(s): English Issue: 19/2019

Christopher Marlowe remains one of the Renaissance’s most intriguing writers. His ability to create subversive characters and his unique depiction of madness give him a special place in the history of English literature. Doctor Faustus, one of Marlow’s signature plays, is a prime example of his interest in the theme of madness. This is especially the case because Faustus displays symptoms of what can now be described as schizophrenia (Hopkins 123). Since the latter is usually described as a “culture-bound illness” (Gaines 2), understanding the culture of Elizabethan England and its power dynamics enables us to have a better insight into both the protagonist of the play, Faustus, and the genius behind it. In this paper, the endeavor is not to study schizophrenia as a mental illness but as a phenomenological experience loaded with cultural meanings (i.e. cultural schizophrenia). In other words, I attempt to investigate cultural schizophrenia in Doctor Faustus and how it represents a tool for subverting the dominant norms in Elizabethan England.

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HISTORY'S EVIL AND CĂRTĂRESCU'S BESTIARY

Author(s): Alexandru Ionașcu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 19/2019

This study will explore the interplay between history as a grand narrative, the way Jean- François Lyotard formulated this concept, and the micro-narrative of history as a family journey through the transformations and the dangerous of Communist Romania. As Mihai Iovănel points out, after 1989, Romanian authors could’t keep with the social changes taking place during the so-called postcommunist transition, so opted to place their personal stories and biography at the forefront of their narrative works. In this sense, Mircea Cărtărescu’s trilogy Orbitor can be read as a family history, with the children and young adolescent’s imagination subverting the symbols created by the adults around and a gnostic evil replacing the historical evil like the Securitate secret police. Here, monsters are part of conterfactual narratives that function as an example of both the omnipresence of evil in the world, and as a textual substitute for historical events, with the postmodern Book being present as both a cultural text, with religious symbolism. In his novels, Mircea Cărtărescu imagines a bestiary composed of vastity and the confusion regnum and identities, with nature becoming an extended space and the genders losing their cohesion. In his Nostalgia volume, which is composed of several long narratives that can be read as novels, the focus point is the average man in the face of history that he confronts with his own interests and passions, thereby transforming it into a personal history, and the childhood imagination that revolts against reality as it is set forth by the rules of the adults.

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THE TWINS IN THE FAIRY TALE SUN, MOON AND TALIA BY GIAMBATTISTA BASILE

Author(s): Carmen Ioana Popa / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 19/2019

Through this study we want to present the opposite elements from the fairy tale Sun, moon and Talia by Giambattista Basile. This fairy tale with a strong dark character is another form of the well-known fairy tale Sleeping beauty. We will focus on the birth of the two stars after a rape. The pair of twins are in the womb of Tellus Mater, they are the total being who has the ability to wake their mother from the creative sleep. The palace in which they live, is trapped between heaven and earth, and the forest which is a symbol of unconscious, is the one that interpose between them and the others. We will make some associations with mythology and alchemy. In mythology, the Sun mostly belongs to the male element, and the Moon to the female element. In contrast, to the semitic people, the Moon is masculine. In alchemy, the two stars form the hierogamy, a sacred wedding from which results to filius hermaphrodites, Hermes psychopomp.

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THE ARTISTIC TRANSFIGURATION OF THE COSMOGONIC HTONIAN ELEMENT IN THE ROMANIAN PROSE OF BESSARABIA

Author(s): Mariana Cocieru / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 19/2019

Reported being at the artistic literary discourse, the intertextuality of the cosmogonic elements in the message of the Romanian prose of the sixties writers in Bessarabia shades the interleaving of the ancestral meanings of the four natural phenomena: water, fire, earth and air. The fact is realizing by the absorption and transformation of the discursive code (Julia Kristeva) in the process of constituting an artistic text, based on the assembly of a set of mythical, ethnofolkloric signs attributed to the universal constituents of nature by the popular mentality. In this study, we chose to reveal the range of artistic assimilation and transfiguration of an element that participates in the cosmogonic act of constitution of the universe: the earth.The Earth segment represents the universal substance, the primordial chaos that emerges from the germinal waters, is the matter from which God created man. In connection with the aquatic element, it obtains positive qualities. At the same time, in the Romanian symbolism, the earth gets a bad connotation when it assigned to the world „from beyond".

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A SUFI MYSTICAL LOVE-STORY: AL-HALLAJ AND IBLIS (I)

Author(s): Silviu Lupașcu / Language(s): English Issue: 20/2020

In Husayn Mansur Al-Hallaj’s (c. 858 – 922 A. D.; c. 244 – 309 A. H.) view, by spectacular revalorization, Iblis’s saga moves relatively further from the reverberations of damnation, to load itself with complex Sufi significances. Recognizing himself in the image of the brightest angel, cast away from the celestial hierarchy, the mystic equivocally hindered by judiciary and thanatological imperatives identifies himself seductively, impenitently, with the lonely angel that, although blamable, needs – more than anyone else – the protection of the One and Only God, the steady protection of His Presence. The experience of the rebellion-fall is thus assumed as a vocation of martyrdom.

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V. HUGO : « LES CONTEMPLATIONS. MÉMOIRES D`UNE ÂME » - A MEMORY OF SOUL AND DESTINY

Author(s): Rodica Brad / Language(s): French Issue: 20/2020

We intend to emphasize the fact that the volume Les Contemplations- the poetical masterpiece of V. Hugo that he subtitled Memoires d'une âme, summarizes all his previous destiny and changes the lines of force of his lyricism due to the two main tragical events that the poet experienced the death of his daughter and the exile. At the same time, the volume enlarges his inspiration by approaching the great metaphysical themes such as death, God, love, nature and the poetical creation. Stylistically different from the previous volumes, Les Contemplations also asserts for the major changes in poetry due to the decline of the Romanticism and the development of the Parnassian tendencies. From the formal point of view, the volume is characterized by a great simplicity of style and by the rejection of any form of pathos.

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Women in the Book Publishing Industry of Latvia During the Interwar Period

Author(s): Signe Raudive / Language(s): English Issue: 49/2023

This article explores the materials available that reflect women’s achievements in the publishing industry of Latvia during the period from 1918 until 1940. The publications produced by Ilga Zvanītāja, Anna Grobiņa and Emīlija Benjamiņa are analysed in detail, including the way they were critiqued and received by the public, and also the specialisation in publishing particular literary genres. Each of the female publishers pursued a different publishing strategy and offered a differing range of published works. The empirical foundation for the article encompasses evidence of women’s activity in the publishing industry as found in documents from the Latvijas Valsts vēstures arhīvs (Latvian State Historical Archive), overviews published in periodicals, reviews and bookseller advertisements, and bibliographic data. The aim of the publication of this article is to provide a more comprehensive background to the collective discourse about the history of Latvian book publishing, enhancing knowledge about the women working in the industry in the 1920s and 1930s.

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A FORGOTTEN WRITER: NICOLAE BELDICEANU AND THE PATRIARCHAL OUTSKIRTS

Author(s): Dana Matei / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 20/2020

The present article aims to save from oblivion a writer who even since his literary debut in 1905 with the volume of short stories “Chipuri de la mahala” turns his attention to the destiny of humble people in the outskirts of the city. This will be a new theme which will be dealt with in literature only in the period between the two wars. The peripherical space of the “mahala” will represent the bridge towards the epic of the city, many of the Romanian writers finding their inspiration in the urban environment, trying to rehabilitate artistically ordinary people by no means inferior through the intensity of their feeling and experiences, despite their cruel, rude or instinctive ways.

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SEARCHING FOR HAPPINESS IN « A HISTORY OF THE SIXTIES » BY GEORGES PEREC

Author(s): Simona Laura Şuta / Language(s): French Issue: 20/2020

In the society of consumption, the owning of objects replaces love, self-conscience, discovery of the essential things in life. «Les Choses» turns to be the centre of the existence when« to be »is replaced by« to own».

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A SURVIVOR’S DIARY – “THE BOY WHO FOLLOWED HIS FATHER INTO AUSCHWITZ” BY JEREMY DRONFIELD

Author(s): Anca Bădulescu / Language(s): English Issue: 20/2020

This article aims at drawing the attention of the readers to the danger of nationalism and populism and their devastating consequences in a hesitating world which seems to have forgotten the greatest tragedy of humanity: the Holocaust. Dronfield’s book is not just a memoir; it is a serious historical document based on minute research, the main source of which is Gustav Kleinmann’s diary which he miraculously managed to hide all through his dismal journey into the darkness of Nazi concentration camps. At the same time this book is a warning for all of us not to make the same mistakes.

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MARGUERITE DURAS – SCRIPTWRITER OF LOVE

Author(s): Aliteea-Bianca Turtureanu / Language(s): French Issue: 20/2020

Regardless of all the criticism her work has drawn, the novelist, philosopher, poet, editor, drama and movie director Marguerite Duras remains, due to the modernity and diversity of her works, a controversial figure of the second half of the XXth century. Duras has renewed the genre of novel and overturned the theatrical and cinematographic conventions of her times. In a straightforward, simple and minimalist style, the author approaches the subject of love in all its aspects. Her writings, speckled with autobiographical elements, are populated with characters trying to run away from loneliness, giving their life meaning by resorting to absolute love. The Durrasian approach to love had a role in propagating the idea of freedom of speech in France.

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A PREDICTION OF RUIN: SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY AS PLOT DEVICE IN POE’S “THE TELL-TALE HEART”

Author(s): Zaher Alajlani / Language(s): English Issue: 20/2020

The Poean protagonist is an impulsive, almost-neurotic individual who inhabits a universe of doom and horror. The impulsiveness one encounters in Poe’s stories, however, does not indicate a lack of purpose. Poe was very meticulous in constructing his fiction. His choice of diction, tone, and narrative and his conception of characters are all dedicated to creating a unified, unique effect on the reader. To move his stories forward and create a deliberate totality, he often employs the concept of self-fulfilling prophecy. This paper aims to explore this concept in Poe’s 1843 short story “The Tell- Tale Heart” and the way it functions as a plot device to achieve totality. I also attempt to propose a formula for the Poean protagonist’s self-fulfilling prophecy that can be applied to other short stories of Poe. The formula can be summarized as follows: subjective misinterpretation → ominous prediction → nagging obsession (planning) → wicked action (murder) → frantic confession (self-destruction).

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THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE FAUSTIAN MYTH

Author(s): Andreea-Oana Andrușcă / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 20/2020

The ontological essence of the Faustian tragedy is the impossibility of being oneself without crossing out the general outline of ethics. This tragedy postulates both the being’s bidimensionality and the idea that God and Evil are two intertwined concepts, as Mephistopheles – the symbol of malignity in all its dimensions – acts as a moral trigger, in the sense that the bad consequences of his actions/words/proposals determine the salvation of Faust. Mephistopheles also obliges Faust to confront the limits of existence (physical, social, ethical). The knowledge – pleasure duality thus becomes the main feature of the Faustian character.

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APEIRON-UL LUI DINU FLĂMÂND

Author(s): Laura Alexandra Petrea (Şopterean) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 20/2020

The present paper deals with a short analyse of the first volume of poetry, written by Dinu Flămând. He is one of the most important poets from this period. His first volume is called "Apeiron" and appeared in 1971. Also, he is one of the members who grounded the "Echinox" Magazine. Dinu Flamand was born in Romania, Bistrita-Nasaud county and the fact that he comes from country can be remarked in his poetry because the city seems to fossilize him.

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NAME, THE FEMALE BODY AND IDENTITY IN TONI MORRISON’S BELOVED

Author(s): Paula Rebeca Cozma (Drăgan) / Language(s): English Issue: 20/2020

Identity represents one of the themes of interest approached by American ethnic writers. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the theme of identity in Toni Morrison’s novel ‘Beloved’, one of the most famous novels written by the African American writer. In her novel, Toni Morrison tackles the problem of identity in the African American community during and after the abolishment of slavery. The paper focuses on two important aspects: the names of the characters in the novel, which represent an important trait in the African American culture and play a definitory role in the shape of their identity and the importance of the female black body in the quest for identity of those whose lives have been changed and influenced by slavery.

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„A magyar irodalom felől nézem az antikvitást” Interjú Polgár Anikó költővel, irodalomtörténésszel, műfordítóval

Author(s): Ferenc André,Anikó Polgár / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 864/2023

Interview with Anikó Polgár by Ferenc André.

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Szemelvények a Mikes Kelemen Magyar Nyelv és Irodalom Tantárgyverseny országos szakaszának díjazott dolgozataiból

Author(s): Viola Zsuzsánna Papp,Abigél Elekes,Dóra Csabai,Tímea Sárkány,Ágota Borsos,Orsolya Kis,Hunor Kovács,Lilla Rus,Anita Harai,Erzsébet Réka Bartók,Nóra Péter,Melinda Filep,Máté-Sámuel Szilágyi,Emese Kósa,Bernadett Lukács,Hanna Imola Balázs,Anna Bajcsi,Eszter Nagy,Attila Botond Rázmán,Alexandra Orosz / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 865/2023

Fragments From the Papers Written on the Olympics of Hungarian Language and Literature.

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