Semiografia rękopisu

Author(s): Adam Dziadek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2020

Adam Dziadek proposes the term “semiography” to explore poetic manuscripts in whichthe text (along with corrections and modifications) coexists with pictorial forms such assketches and drawings. A (manuscript) page has its own semiosphere and simultaneouslycreates it. It is performative, it is a page of the text’s becoming and beginning, of itsdiscontinuities, unaccomplishment and imperfection. Dziadek’s methodology is basedon the materiality of the manuscript and embedded in genetic criticism as well aspsychoanalysis. He analyses an exemplary manuscript of Aleksander Wat’s poem A FamilyReunion kept at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Garcilaso de la Vega, Poesía, ed. Ignacio García Aguilar, Madrid, Cátedra, 2020, 428p.

Author(s): Silvia Alexandra ȘTEFAN / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 2/2020

The ‘Black’ Danube: Life and Poetry in the Forced Labour Camps of the Danube-Black Sea Canal

Author(s): Roxana Elena Doncu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Although the Danube-Black Sea Canal had been one of Ceaușescu’s pet projects, used by the communist leader to enhance his image as a visionary prophet of the Golden Era of socialism, the idea of a canal that would connect the Danube and the Black Sea may have been as old as ancient Roman history. It is certainly along one of the lines of Trajan’s Wall (Valul lui Traian), running along the Kara Su Valley, that the canal had been imagined, in the 19th century, by various adventurers and travellers. In the 20th century, with the development of technology, the idea turned into a project: in 1922 and 1923, two Romanian engineers (Jean Stoenescu Dunăre and Aurel Bărglăzan) came up with very definite plans of how to create a fourth arm of the Danube, which would help navigation by shortening the distance travelled by commercial ships with about 400 kilometres. The actual building of the Canal, initiated by Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej at Stalin’s orders, was less intended as a technological advancement and more as a pretext to exterminate the interwar elite in the forced labour camps established along the Danube. Work at the Canal began in 1949 and ended in 1953, after Stalin’s death. Though only 20 km had been completed out of the intended 70 km, the legacy of the forced labour camps includes a large number of poems written by the detainees, detailing the inhuman treatment they received and making up a shattering testimonial of life in the Communist labour camps. My paper intends to present and analyse a selection of such poems, showing how they take up the myth of the exiled Ovid and mix it with symbols of Christian suffering. In most of the poems, the colour that is associated with life in the labour camps is black: the blackness of the Black Sea (the inhospitable Pontus, in Ovid’s poetry) is thus transferred onto the traditional ‘blue’ Danube.

Teaching in the Post-COVID Context. Challenges and Opportunities of Blended Learning

Author(s): Alina Bruckner / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2023

Based on the recent experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper intends to analyze the act of teaching and subsequently learning in today’s post-COVID context, by summarizing positive and negative aspects of online education, as mentioned in various studies and surveys recently conducted worldwide. Furthermore, the paper presents the conclusions of a small survey conducted by the author during the pandemic, among students learning Language for specific purposes (LSP). The purpose of the paper is to corroborate the conclusions of these surveys, in support of the idea that the blended or hybrid approach might be regarded as an adequate solution to the post-COVID education, starting from the definition of blended learning as a mixture of face-to-face activities with online or digital tools.

Assessment of Oral Presentation Skills in Teaching English for Specific Purposes

Author(s): Olivia Cristina RUSU,Phillip BOZOV / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2023

Delivering an oral presentation requires mastery of all four language competencies. It also involves a thorough understanding of different linguistic registers and varieties. This involves focusing on non-verbal signs and gestures, with the precise aim of informing or persuading the audience. Therefore, evaluating these complex oral presentation skills can be challenging, especially if clear evaluation criteria are not established and followed through during the entire educational process.Our study aims (1) to identify an extensive educational assessment tool for oral presentation skills, and (2) to test the validity of this tool among our students during formative evaluation sessions. Our study involves two groups of university undergraduate students learning English for Specific Purposes. They are from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania, and the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. Looking at the assessment intention from a communicative approach, in this research we stress the importance of the congruence between three educational stages – teaching, learning, and evaluation.

L’interculturalité au prisme de la littérature francophone en contexte bi-plurilingue à l’ENS de Bertoua

Author(s): Denis ATANGANA NGONO,Constantine Kouanken / Language(s): French Issue: 40/2023

The teaching of literature in French as a discipline in a bilingual series serves, among otherpurposes, as an intercultural bridge for the construction of a fraternal linguistic spacebetween bilingual French-speakers and bilingual English-speakers. A questionnairecompleted by bilingual English speakers as well as direct interviews on the teaching of thissubject, made it possible to identify a set of pitfalls faced by English-speaking learners. Thisexploratory research would like to analyze the didactic and pedagogical implications of thisliterature dispensed in a bilingual series. This study encourages us to rethink theepistemological scope of this discipline.

A Phonetic Comparative Study of Mauritian Creole Kreol and Turkish - Twin Orthography Discussed

Author(s): Naailah DUYMUN-DEMIRTAŞ / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2023

Located within an interpretivist paradigm, this study seeks to demonstrate the similaritiesin orthography between Turkish and Mauritian Creole with regard to the presence in bothof these languages of lexemes that do not have only the same pronunciation andorthography but bear the same or approximate semantic value in most cases. Thesesimilarities constitute an element of intrigue, as Turkish and Mauritian Creole are notcognate languages. Yet, this study invites a reflection on the interconnection throughmutual intelligibility, of these remote languages which are geographically located far apartfrom each other, one on the European and Asian border and the other in the Indian Ocean.The researcher adopts a synchronic approach to analyse aspects of both Turkish andMauritian Creole with regard to their respective lexicons. An International PhoneticAlphabet presentation illustrates the common sound patterns justifying the orthography ofeach language in the context of this study.

Die Rolle der Statistik in der Erforschung der Jugendsprache

Author(s): Alina-Maria Mardari / Language(s): German Issue: 40/2023

The present article offers an overview of the role of statistics in the research of the youth language. Statistical research requires certain activities that include design, structuring, collecting and data preparation, followed by data analysis and interpretation. The main goal of this paper is to show how statistical instruments can be used to synthesize and structure data material in the most direct and intuitive way possible having as basis a ques-tionnaire investigation.

ZJAWISKA DYSONANSU I SZOKU KULTUROWEGO I ICH SKUTKI NA PRZYKŁADZIE POWIEŚCI ANTONIEGO SYGIETYńSKIEGO NA SKAŁACH CALVADOS. POWIEŚĆ Z ŻYCIA NORMANDZKICH RYBAKÓW (WYBRANE ASPEKTY)

Author(s): Albert Michalak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2023

The author of the article aims at analyzing the conflict and cultural dissonance in Antoni Szigetinski's novel "On the Rocks of Calvados" manifested from the perspective of three aspects: clothing, food and marriage. The analysis reveals the conflict between the "familiar" and the "foreign" in the minds of characters, the culture shock and dissonance having a destructive impact on both the individual and society.

Berčićev primjerak senjskoga glagoljskog izdanja Meštrija dobra umrtija s ritualom

Author(s): Ivana Eterović,Vjačeslav Kozak / Language(s): English,Croatian Issue: 1/2023

Meštrija dobra umrtija and Ritual (The Art of Dying Well and Ritual) is one of the seven known publications of the Senj Glagolitic printing house, most likely published in 1507 or 1508. It has been preserved in two incomplete copies, one of which is part of the collection of Glagolitic manuscripts and printed matter of Ivan Berčić. Today it is kept in the Department of Rare Books of the Russian National Library in Saint Petersburg. Since that copy has not yet been prepared in a Latin transcription, and whilst the Latin transcription of the second preserved copy is about to be published, this paper provides a transliteration of those pages that are preserved only in Berčić’s copy. Whereby, the entire preserved text of the Meštrija dobra umrtija and Ritual will soon be available to the public.

Posibilitățile și realitățile poeziei românești douămiiste

Author(s): Diana Florentina Popescu / Language(s): English,Romanian Issue: 1/2021

This paper examines the current state of Romanian poetry in the 2000s, its classifications, and its characteristics. From the multitude of themes and poets, I have chosen to follow the daily existence of Ofelia Prodan, Claudiu Komartin, and Liliana Elena Popescu. The popularity of the theme related to the poetry of the 2000s did not lead to a theoretical clarification of some concepts with which it has operated for almost 20 years. The possibilities and realities of the Romanian poetry of the 2000s are multiple, and I consider it an advantage.

Simbolistica apei în volumul 𝑉𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑟𝑒 de Pencio Slaveikov

Author(s): Cătălina Puiu / Language(s): English,Romanian Issue: 1/2023

Pencho Slaveykov was a controversial classic during his lifetime. The motifs in his 𝑆𝑎𝑛 𝑧𝑎 𝑆ℎ𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑒 (Dream of Happiness) cycle are numerous, but all of them are circumscribed by philosophical concepts. Dreaming, loneliness, love seen as suffering and joy, the torment of creation, death – all reflect Slaveykov’s aesthetic conception. Interestingly, water is present throughout the cycle in various hypostases, forms, and states of aggregation from the very first lines. Certain forms born of water, such as mist, rain, and morning mist, are more common.

Životný pocit detského subjektu v poézii pre deti

Author(s): Zuzana Stanislavová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2023

At the beginning of the study, it is stated that the profile of Slovak children’s poetry has continued to be shaped especially by the poetics canonized by the generation of the child’s aspect over the past three decades. It also included elements of intertextuality, which, however, has a more conventional character in Slovak children’s poetry (with some exceptions): a combination of poetry and prose, verse and musical notation of a melody, rarely a form of visual-textual narratives. In the second part of the study, the results of a survey on the needs of children in Slovakia at the time of mass media hegemony and the pandemics are briefly indicated. The third part is devoted to the interpretation of the contents of current child’s sense of life in the poetic debuts of Lenka Šafranová and Dávid Dziak and the way of their expression. In the end, the results of the interpretation of the poetic work of both authors are confronted with the results of a survey of current children’s needs.

Le roman graphique en bibliothèque, une erreur indispensable ?

Author(s): Maël Rannou / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2023

The graphic novel, despite having an initially strict definition, has undergone significant redefinition through its interaction with the market and the public. The term, which distinguishes itself from comics and attracts a new audience, has now gained undeniable notoriety. In libraries, this raises several questions regarding classification, categorization, and highlighting. In this article, after a conceptual approach to the term, the author examines how it has established itself on the French market, emphasizing the notion of format, in order to decipher the subsequent use by key mediators such as librarians. A final section aims to propose several solutions, based on field visits, to address this ambiguous yet desired object by the public.

Din (pre)istoria alternativă a romanului grafic autohton. Ilustrațiile romanelor haiducești ca suport al imaginarului literar

Author(s): Alexandra Olteanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2023

The portraits of the noble robbers and images of their bravery have a double role: on the one hand, they break the linearity of the discourse and intensify the suspense, and on the other hand, they give concreteness to the carefully constructed fleeting image of the literary text. The very practice of publishing works of fiction accompanied by graphic representations of significant scenes underpins the rise of the novel. Western literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries took full advantage of the commercial success of graphic inserts, and Romanian literature adopted this technique to streamline the circulation of the novel's message. In addition to its specific role as an entertaining element, we cannot deny the fundamental role of illustration as a semiotic instrument. In the hajduk novel, the illustration mediates the crystallization of the noble outlaw image because it compresses essential biographical information and offers a translation of his personality. The graphic elements direct the novel's content to a specific audience with an appetite for particular ideological messages. The portraits of the main characters, captured in edifying poses for the development of their identity as symbols of social resistance, are likely to influence the entire literary system configured by the subgenre, imposing their associative and analogical force.

Narrative Techniques in Art Spiegelman’s Graphic Novel Maus

Author(s): Ion Manolescu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This study will focus on identifying the most effective narrative techniques used by Art Spiegelman in his graphic novel Maus, begun in 1973 and completed in 1991, and analyzing them from a literary theorist’s perspective. Up to a certain point, they will be separated from the visual techniques that enable the reader to understand Spiegelman’s dramatic account of the Holocaust in World War Two.

Ficțiune și factual în romanul grafic. Lecția despre Leonardo

Author(s): Monica Geanina Coca / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2023

The paper describes a representative set of terms from the lexical field of affection, by following the meaning and occurrences in which the terms from the lexical field of positive and negative affections are engaged in different contextual hypostases from the graphic novel Maus. The story of a survivor, by Art Spiegelman. Following the disambiguation of contexts, contextual-semantic and onomasiological analysis, we came to the conclusion that the affective lexicon includes a wide range of primary affections, related terms in tone and significance. Their focus is achieved by engaging several parameters: subjectivity/ interiorization/ exteriorization/ intensity/ duration, as well as by marking and gradual modeling with the help of the context.

Marjane Satrapi – analist de mentalități

Author(s): Rodica Ilie / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2023

In the present article, I explore a number of aspects pertaining to the esthetics and the poetics of the graphic novel through an analysis of Marjane Satrapi’s novel. Broderies, a novel of mentalities, a novel illustrative for revisiting gender stereotypes, but also ethnical, racial, and cultural ones, becomes exemplary of the genre it pertains to, even if the author had already written another masterpiece, Persepolis, which established the characteristics of the genre. The novelistic Ekphrasis adds another layer to the narrative of emancipation, a narrative that recovers the traditional forms of the witness-told stories, frame stories so characteristic of oriental literature.

Joker, între psihoză, crimă și revoltă artistică și socială. O interpretare a romanului grafic Batman. Gluma ucigașă

Author(s): Arthur Suciu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2023

The article argues that in Batman. ”The Killing Joke”, the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland (1988), the character of the Joker is dimensioned so that he goes beyond the simple relationship of opposition to Batman, his great adversary. Although the story is built, in general, respecting the Batman canon, Joker stands out through a complex positioning, which leaves the simple categories of psychopath and criminal and becomes a social rebel with multiple ideological valences. The article highlights the means used by the graphic novel to construct characters and undertakes a hermeneutic analysis of the discourse, which occupies a central place, held by the Joker. The analysis is based on the theory of distance to insanity and crime, as elaborated in the work The Autonomous Discourse. Communication Strategies (2013).

Copilul, vocea naratoare în romanul românesc contemporan al ultimelor trei decenii

Author(s): Mariana Jitari / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2023

The contemporary Romanian novel of the last three decades, having at its center a child-character, changes the reader’s attitude towards its value also through the building of the narrative from the narrator’s outlook. The author of the text addresses an adult reader, but entrusts the narration to a child’s voice. In this case, both the author and the reader pass a comprehension test, the first simulating authentically the innocent speech, the other receiving the figurative narration as a narration itself (T. Todorov).If Aristotle does not value the character so much, considering that the interest towards this removes the narration from the innate sense (the action matters, the character being just its agent), then, in the modern novel that we analyze, the narrator’s voice deserves special attention. Through it we follow the growing up, transformation and degeneration, education, disillusionment of the child-character.In this article we propose to state the relationship between the author and the narrator, to clarify the hypostasis of the narrator in the text, to constitute the typology of the narrator specific to the contemporary Romanian novel. Capitalizing „The Dictionary of Narratology” by Gerald Prince, we will identify in some novels of the last three decades the narrative voices exposed or faded, homodiegetic or heterodiegetic, dramatized, authorial, having the role of an agent etc.