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This article is an attempt to shortly trace the course of the days in Cluj devoted to Maupassant’s actuality in the 21st century: all the communications approached the main aspects of this writer’s work either by punctiliously deepening certain short stories (« Une partie de campagne », « La Maison Tellier ») and, of course, some questions concerning ethos, enunciation, ellipses or characters’ typology; or discussing some themes as travels, children, illegitimate paternity, animals, music, sport; or even trying to identify some issues, i.e. fantastic, fetishism, report to money, contacts with impressionism; and finally presenting the implications supposed by some of the film adaptations of the Maupassant’s text (Bel-Ami).
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In June 2013, Babeş-Bolyai University from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, organized the international colloquium Maupassant 2013, meant to celebrate the 120 years passed since Maupassant’s death, within an essay to have a whole Romanian Year dedicated to him; lack of funds reduced it to some parts of the country, especially Transylvania. This article presents what was done in this respect, the most important result being a collection of varied essays belonging to different authors – the great majority working in important European universities – who wrote them on the basis of the topics suggested in the call for papers: the biography, between truth and legend; the short stories, between humour and fantastic; the creator of images: illustrations and movie adaptations; the translation of the work. Such a diversity of topics allowed a wide range of approaches which resulted in extremely interesting contributions, demonstrating Maupassant’s actuality even in the second decade of the 21st century.
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The paper presents a volume written by Liliana Anghel in French. It comprises nine articles on Gustave Flaubert’s and Guy de Maupassant’s works, some of them being comparative ones about Realism or Naturalism in their literary creations. To prove the facts discussed in the book, these presentations of the two French authors’ lives and ideas are accompanied by fragments of their works.
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This article studies the effects of the Bologna Declaration upon the academic learning in the Romanian universities, showing the weak points of the Romanian educational system.
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The aim of the review is to discuss the main threads in Marguerite van den Berg’s monograph „Gender in the Post-Fordist Urban. The Gender Revolution in Planning and Public Policy” (2017). The author of the monograph analyses the city of Rotterdam in terms of gender-specific practices, which, according to the researcher, are consistent with the logic of the post-fordist city.
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Most users, especially young people, suffer from serious symptoms of addiction. The idea of having no access to the internet causes them anxiety, bordering on panic, pupil enlargement, sweating, refusal of food, or bulimia. Few manage to get rid of this state alone without outside help. It seems as if the reading of literary and scholarly texts remains a privilege of few people in the near future.
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The purpose of this textis to present the main conclusions of Samuel Bowles’ book The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens. The book sums up author’s engagement with the interdisciplinary field of research on human cooperation. The aim of the bookis to provide an account of interactions between the economic and moral incentives guiding humanaction. Author hopes that it will allow for creation of policy tools, superior to those provided by the rational choice paradigm.
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Activities of the Center for research of modern and contemporary history Tuzla
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