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NEVOLJE S IDENTITETOM

Author(s): Jela Sabljić Vujica / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2015

The examination of the origin and the configuration of the subject presents the central problem of the contemporary theoretical praxis. The question of identity formation is, for the first time, postulated in the modern period as a part of the comprehensive project of revaluating the normative notion of rationality. However, this question becomes fundamental in postmodern theory, principally in the structural and the post-structural school of thought. Doing so, the identity formation is deprived from ideological connotations, and it is elaborated exclusively within the psychic or the discursive layout. Considering the insights of the Critical theory and analysing the cardinal components of the above mentioned statements it will be evident that the postmodern concept of identity contains ideological implications.

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MOSTAR U NJEMAČKOJ PUTOPISNOJ KNJIŽEVNOSTI

Author(s): Ivica Petrović / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2015

The paper is about a picture and an image of the city of Mostar in the two-century old travel literature in German language that is a result of the authentic travels of the authors. Since the reasons for travelling to BH, and Mostar, were quite often with a special purpose that surpassed literary and artistic causes, the travel writers were of various professions and profiles. The mediated picture of Mostar will be analyzed and divided into certain components, such as people and ethnic communities, habits, city image, industry as well as some stereotypical presentation manners. Based on third-party information and data the analyzed travel books represent worthy historical and cultural documents. Otto Blau, Moritz Hoernes, Heinrich Renner, Robert Michel, Hermann Wendel, Juli Zeh and Elisabeth Gschaider will be analysed, among other authors.

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В „Бодлеров костюм“: щрихи към някои модни тенденции и тяхното значение през 20-те и 30-те години на ХХ век

Author(s): Nadezhda Stoyanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 15/2014

The article is focused on some fashion trends and their relation to the modernistic self-reflection of the person from the interwar period. The research is based on publications from important Bulgarian fashion and cultural periodicals. A few main trends are outlined: the slender figure, the clothes “á la garçonne”, the shorter skirts and lower necks, the so called “edyptomania” or “tutmania”, etc. Fashion is seen as a manifestаtion of the chance of humans to try different modes of living, as well as the possibility to have plural existence.

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Tkači Citata

Author(s): Adam Walko / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2015

Besides urbanism, intermediality is another common characteristic where the continuity of the Croatian short story of the eighties and nineties can be found. Usually these two characteristics are interwoven; intermedial strategies often create a subtext of urbanism. The adaptations from the newspapers, movies, television, hyper- and cybertext confirm the thesis about the absolute pluralism and the incomplete convention of the prose text, and the lack of the final form as well. The method of quotations, especially the use of intermedial quotations, is probably the most characteristic and visible feature in the Croatian short story of the eighties and nineties. This feature gains in importance if we take into consideration that in the Hungarian short story there is a traditional emphasis on intertextuality. The revolutionary changes in the Gutenberg-galaxy refer to the redefinition of the role of the literary text, the reader and the author. With the phenomenon of computer-technology and the Internet, unlimited possibilities have opened up in the theory and realisation of the evolution/ development of the short story.

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Pudarìne i pudárske pjesme u južnoj Baranji

Author(s): Željko Predojević / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2014

The paper presents pudarine – the annual custom of guarding ripening grapes which is celebrated in South Baranja in the second half of the summer, during the grape ripening season. At the heart of the celebration is the guarding of the grapes. The aim of the paper is to describe the custom, as well as to reveal the true reasons behind the celebration. Guarding the grapes was just an excuse for accompanying circumstances that contribute to the true value of the custom, namely meeting new people and preparing young women for marriage.

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The Construction of Identity in a Consumerist Society: Delillo’s Jack Gladney

Author(s): Sanja Matković / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

This paper deals with the construction of the postmodern identity of Jack Gladney, the main character in Don DeLillo’s White Noise (1985). Employing (post)modern, social psychology, and psychoanalytic theories of Zygmunt Bauman, Erich Fromm, Jean Baudrillard, and Gilles Lipovetsky, it analyzes the construction of Gladney’s character through his social roles as professor, husband, and consumer in the narrow sense of the word in order to deduce that his consumerist practices have spread to all aspects of his life. This reading reveals a new interpretation of Gladney’s fear of death; it shows that Gladney’s thanatophobia represents a consequence of his atheistic worldview. Namely, unable to find a haven in religion, he unsuccessfully seeks the meaning of life and death elsewhere, mainly in consumerism, which is identified as the source of his alienation from himself, people, and God. This paper suggests that numerous problems of postmodern life are caused by the lack of faith in God and proposes a conclusion that religion itself could be the answer to the difficulties faced by postmodern individuals with fragmented identities such as Jack Gladney.

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Prilog proučavanju narativnog kôda godišnjih usmenih rituala, na temelju verbalnog kôda obredno-običajnog kompleksa vodica u Makedoniji

Author(s): Joanna Rękas / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2015

The primary objective of the study is to find and describe the narrative code of calendar verbal rituals, defined as an unalienable word of the living present. The term narrative code determines a system of rules that has a crucial impact on defining the principles of selecting and combining the elements of the story, i.e. heroes, space, time and plot. The sources for the analysis are verbal rituals excerpted from the ritual and customary practice Vodice (epiphany) in Macedonia. The analysis demonstrated a strong dependence of intratextual narration (i.e. the story creating a work of verbal folklore) on extratextual narration (social and religious). Using the following theories: 1. the memory of religious groups (Maurice Halbawchs), 2. collective and cultural memory (Assmann Jan, Astrid Erll) and 3. commemorative ceremonies (Paul Connerton), has shown how the foundational scenes of extratextual social (change in status) and religious (defined role in the festivities) narration are present in the ritual and customary practice of the Feast of Epiphany.

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Norman Manea – Personal History as a Premise for Fiction. The Holocaust, Communism, Exile as Collective Drama Sublimated through Writing

Author(s): Mihaela Șimonca / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2015

When Norman Manea left Romania for Germany in 1986, he was already an established Romanian writer. Two years later he immigrated to the United States of America and ever since he has published ten more volumes. He is currently living in New York, teaching literature at Bard College.Manea’s fiction and non-fiction books published in the United States relate closely to the concepts of history, memory and totalitarianism. The year 1986 was a turning point in his writing. Whereas America gave him the chance to reach a new fiction level, his biography became a crucial source of inspiration for his work.His whole literary trajectory during his exile represents a process of memory incitement, of self-discovery at different ages; by narrating himself, the author bears witness to the violence and destruction caused by both forms of totalitarianism – Nazism and Communism. Using language as an ally to anamnesis, Norman Manea descends into his own past and rediscovers his identity. His memories represent the raw material for a literature that brings together stories of three fundamental experiences: Nazism (with its dehumanizing corollary, the Holocaust), communism (with the White Clown’s perverse pleasure in “order and discipline”) and exile, with language displacement.

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The relation between the immanence and transcendence within the religious imaginary in Sandu Tudor’s akathist-hymns

Author(s): Carmen Ciornea / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

The topic approached in this study involves identifying the particular notes of Father Daniil Sandu Tudor’s akathist-hymns, mystic poet (neohymnologist) of the Romanian Orthodox Church - by applying a hermeneutic from the perspective of iconic anthropology structure. The fact that the akathist-hymns were accepted by the Romanian Orthodox Church in her liturgical corpus and are thus enjoying the status of sacredness, specific to the religious texts, requires the identification of appropriate ways of reception of this type of creation. Knowledge, in the neo hymnologist poet’s point of view, does not have much in common with the exercise of reason because the ultimate goal is deification. But even if you take the world transcendental teleological support, it can be achieved only by our way of thinking and behaving in the real world. The relation between immanence and transcendence clearly derives both from the dual nature of Jesus Christ and God’s Trinitarian status. The sacrificial and redemptive Cross - Christian symbol and sacral value - necessarily requires the supreme sacrifice model, which is the one of the Savior’s crucifixion, model that intermediates the relation between heaven and earth, between immanence and transcendence.

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Technology and Control from Dystopian Literature to the Present Day

Author(s): Francisc Horvath / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

When watching a sci-fi movie or reading a book, people often wonder if those things they find out will be possible in the future. Things that seemed impossible 100 years ago are possible today due to technology. Nevertheless, does this advancement in technology mean only comfort? This article aims to study the topic of technology and control in three dystopian novels. Also, a second objective is constructing an imaginary bridge over time by finding analogies of what it seemed SF for the writers of dystopian novels and what we live today. Accordingly, what writers like Huxley, Orwell, and Bradbury considered the control of people through technology now exists, and it is mundane stuff.

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Linguistic Devices in Rabindranath Tagore’s Poetry

Author(s): Mariana Coancă / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

Rabindranath Tagore, although not strictly a Bhakti poet, frequently delves into spiritual and philosophical themes in his writings. The corpus contains 15 poems from the Gitanjali collection translated in English by Tagore himself. The linguistic devices employed in the analyzed poems contribute to their thematic richness. These include repetitions of wh- words and phrases, highlighting commitment and persistence. Metaphors convey immersive musical experiences, intimate connections between devotion and action, and the fleeting nature of time. Rhetorical questions challenge traditional forms of worship, while symbolic words and enjambment enhance continuity and rhythm. Descriptive modifiers, such as adjectives and adverbs, evoke vivid imagery and contribute to the overall aesthetic. Tagore’s linguistic prowess, demonstrated through these devices, elevates his poems to timeless works that bridge cultural boundaries.

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Lucian Blaga`s Poetic Style in Prose: The Chronicle and Song of Ages

Author(s): Mădălina-Steliana Deaconu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

The present paper aims at giving a brief insight into Lucian Blaga`s poetic style in prose, as it is revealed by the figures of speech, mainly by metaphors. They are analyzed both from the cognitive linguistics point of view and from the traditional linguistics one. The first part of the paper is a general presentation of Lucian Blaga`s volume, The Chronicle and Song of Ages, the second part focuses on the cognitive analysis of some metaphors, identifying the cognitive metaphors and describing the metaphoric mapping, whereas the third part focuses on the traditional analysis of metaphors, identifying the linguistic metaphors and describing the metaphoric mechanism. The fourth part of the paper gathers the conclusions, bringing together the main ideas.

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INTERTEXTUALITY AND CREATIVITY: A.S. BYATT’S POSTMODERN STORIES

Author(s): Cristina Mihaela Nistor / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2025

Intertextuality, a term coined by Julia Kristeva, came into existence the moment literary critics and theorists realized that things, in general, and language and imagination, in particular, are never created ab nihilo. With postmodern writers, intertextuality has become a particularly useful instrument by means of which many goals could be achieved: writers would take old stories, dust them off, rewrite them, and reinterpret them at the same time, putting their own stamp on the respective texts while giving them a new lease on life. British contemporary author A.S. Byatt, who was fond of inquisitive and imaginative readers, went one step further: she would create texts that stimulate readers by mocking and challenging them. Byattian narratives rely heavily on intertextuality, heteroglossia and metanarratives – that is why deserving readers are always rewarded for their perseverance by the discovery of layers upon layers of texts and meanings, waiting patiently to be decoded. In view of all that, my paper aims to analyse some of the Byattian texts in which fictional characters get a makeover. By following the fantastic thread of the narratives, I will focus on the features and techniques that A.S. Byatt uses in in her endeavour to transform popular stories into postmodern metatexts and write herself in these postmodern tales.

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HUMAN AND NATURE CONNECTION IN ANAYA’S CHICANO REALM: ULTIMA – THE EMBODIMENT OF NATURE’S SPIRIT

Author(s): Oana-Andreea Ghiță-Pîrnuță / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2025

The present study aims at analyzing the importance of human and nature connection in Rudolfo Anaya’s novel entitled ”Bless me, Ultima” highlighting multifarious aspects that place Ultima, the main female character, and nature in connection to one another in the Chicano realm. The focus is laid upon Ultima and her gift, that of healing by using herbs, roots and medicines provided by nature and picked up by her. The study also presents Ultima’s connection to her owl turning her into the embodiment of nature’s spirit.

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VALERIU ANANIA: HYMNS OF EMINESCU. HYMNIC SOUNDS

Author(s): Emanuel-Daniel Sărmășan / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2025

Although Mihai Eminescu was a particular case, Valeriu Anania paints through the word an ideal image of the original Evening Star situated in the proximity of a certain kind of hieraticism. Therefore, the picture like the time that stands still also decides to remain suspended or even stuck against the backdrop of the emergence of Eminescu. The great poet of the nation was unrecognizable in the tramways of Bucharest, a "personality" that is so habitual and certainly on which you would not give even two pennies, but his exegetical remembrance made him a saint, who placed creation above any sacrifice. In this context, Valeriu Anania did not set up, but offered to the reader a sacralized figure of Eminescu.

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Statuia reînsuflețită/ Karaoke

Author(s): Dan C. Mihăilescu,Adrian Bodnaru / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2025

This article contains a book review and a short story.

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Interest in Insect Jewelry: Historical Context

Author(s): Irina-Ana Drobot / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2023

The purpose of the present paper is to look at reasons for the popularity of insect jewellery by looking at the historical context of ages such as the Victorian and Art Nouveau periods. The Victorians ladies are said to have even worn live insects. Live insects were also incorporated into jewellery items. Otherwise, jewellery items depicting insects were also popular. The Victorians used insect jewellery as a symbol of nature, which they felt was being overwhelmed by the Industrial Revolution. Jewellery designer Daniela Villegas in Los Angeles is also very passionate about insect jewellery in our times, in 2023, and she sees this as a parallel reaction to the Victorian against industrialization: in our case, it is a reaction against the digitalized world. Indeed, nowadays we also have an environmental culture, including interest in and caring for it, promoted by European Union policies and ideology.

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Extraordinary Bodies in Liviu Rebreanuʼs Ion. A Reading through the Lens of Disability Studies

Author(s): Valeska Bopp-Filimonov / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

This article aims to develop a Disability Studies inspired reading of the Romanian canonical novel Ion by Liviu Rebreanu. Consequently, the paper focuses on the marginal figures endowed with physical impairments. On the one hand, the novel impressively depicts the ethnic and gender hierarchy in the village society of the time. The hierarchy is closely linked with degrees of disability: the physically impaired and mentally weak have at least one further characteristic of “disadvantage”. This could be a “race” or gender considered inferior and directly associated with a social disadvantage. On the other hand, the analysis reveals how the protagonist’s particularly potent body functions as a foil for contrast and comparison. Even though Ion is the protagonist, he dies in the end. Does the able-bodied then also have no future? A visionary answer lies in the symbolic link between the charactersʼ bodily condition and the Romanian state of nationhood. At the time when the novel is set, the very beginning of the 20th century, the modern Romanian nation, including all Romanians, had not yet been fulfilled. But Ion leaves behind an illegitimate child to be birthed by the apparently most able-bodied woman of the village Pripas. Therefore, he leaves a legacy – and with it, the chance of a prosperous future. This shows how the eugenic debates of the time were also internalized by Rebreanu, as biological strength and the will to survive are positively united and linked to the idea of the (Romanian) nation, while all others are given no chance.

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Literary Works Generated by Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Achievements, Dilemmas

Author(s): Constantina Raveca Buleu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

The literary works written by Artificial Intelligence represent a bet with the future, but there are already a few notorious achievements in the field whose number keeps growing, along with the increasing amount of questions and dilemmas generated by the phenomenon, divided, for the moment, between the utopian belief of those who hope that AI “authorship” will be endowed with limitless creativity and the rational scepticism of those who believe that AI creation is actually predetermined by the intrinsic limitations induced by the programming mathematics or the computing logarithms. The list of the literary works generated by ChatGPT or RNN (Recurrent Neural Network) is constantly diversifying, covering a quite surprising area of topics, from 1 The Road (2017), a computerised rewriting of the famous novel On the Road belonging to Jack Kerouac, to The Serious: A Proven Divorce, a hybrid, nonsensical text generated in 2019 by the linguistic model char-rnn-tensorflow. We even have a Sci-Fi eschatology model about the various ways Artificial Intelligence can finish our lives (50 Ways AI Would End the World), while another intriguing scenario is The Inner Life of an AI: A Memoir (2022), about the subtle way Artificial Intelligence submerges into its subconscious in order to perform a self-analysis. My paper focuses on technicalities, controversies and validations issued by the classical criteria of the famous “Turing Test”, several of them being recalled in The Day a Computer Writes a Novel, a famous Japanese experiment completed in 2015, which summarizes the adventure of asking a system named GhostWriter to write two literary textssubsequently submitted for the Hoshi Sinichi Prize, a competition open for both human and non-human writers.

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The Poetics of Subtitles in The Chronological Dictionary of The Romanian Novel

Author(s): Magda Wächter / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

Starting from Gérard Genette’s claim that the object of poetics is not the text in its singularity, but its textual transcendence, this study aims to overview the subtitles of Romanian novels, reading them through lens that are as much contextual as they are textual. The contextual approach focuses on the evolution of subtitles throughout the history of the Romanian novel, highlighting their characteristic features in different historical periods, in relation to literary-artistic genres and larger socio-cultural contexts, with a view to shedding light on a possible secondary history of the novel filtered through the history of subtitles. In its turn, the textual approach sees subtitles as “paratexts” that represent, in Genette’s terms, “thresholds of interpretation” situated both inside and outside discourse, in a frontier area, with everything that such a position implies. Occupying this middling position, subtitles are revealed to have specific functions and impacts, which are sometimes more significant for the process of interpretation than those of titles themselves, being part of the so-called domain of “titology”.

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