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In this article, the author proposes an incursion through the work of Alonso Cueto (b. 1954, Lima).
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In this article, the author proposes an incursion through the work of Alonso Cueto (b. 1954, Lima).
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This paper aims to problematize the scientific discourse in the field of humanities in the context of the fundamental changes that have taken place in the life, roles, and the socioeconomic and cultural impact of universities. The premise that drives the present research is the stringent need for conceptual and applied innovation to have an ethical dimension, to be supported by values such as responsibility and truth. The aim of this study is two-fold. First, it investigates two subgenres of scientific discourse, seen prototypically - (literary) text analysis and the linguistic corpus, to unravel how values are involved at any stage of scientific research, from the design of the approach to the interpretation and communication of research findings. Second, it bridges a gap in the specialized literature where there is little debate regarding the specific ways of putting these values into practice (i.e., into discourse). The paper demonstrates that the two subgenres under investigation, although much and obviously different, calibrate their tools and procedural scenarios by reference to the values of responsibility and respect.
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The present study, „Points of view on the detective novel” deals with „a kind of literature apparently mourning”. In fact, the aim of this study is to approach the detective novel by presenting several meanings of the term. The different points of view on the term „detective novel” made it a hybrid literary genre, a border text between literature and paraliterature. Its definitions are, as the study will show, incomplete, contradictory or complementary. The issues related to the detective novel seen as game, drama, reading machine, or problem-novel, as it was considered since the very appearance of this genre, have been gradually expanding. Finally, the definition of the detective novel could be greatly extended, from a literature for escaping from literature towards a literature at the edge of literature, that is paraliterature, towards an objective literature, lacking sentimentalism, which calls on intelligence and logic. The main points of view belong to Roger Caillois, Thomas Narcejac, Karel Čapek, W H Auden, Daniela Zecca, Marjorie Nicholson.
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One of the waiting spaces in Matei Visniec’s dramaturgy is the battlefield. Most of the characters created by Matei Vişniec are forced to wait in different spaces (waiting room, battlefield, cell, boarding house, cellar, hospital, city, fountain, etc.), without understanding what are they waiting for. The characters live in fear, they do not find the strength to believe and act to find a solution. The fear felt by the characters gradually turns into anguish and culminates in alienation. Trying to find their enemy, constantly seeking to highlight the vices and mistakes of those around them, Vişniec's characters discover that evil, hell is inside of them.
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This paper is meant to demonstrate Walt Whitman` s poetic filiation, being the first illustrious American poet envisaged by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his essays, whose poetics is conceived in Emersonian terms and whose poetic achievement was developed in the direction of chief line indicated by Emerson.
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The study analyzes Boris Vian’s novel “The Foam of the Days” from the perspective of its poeticity. The author examines the construction of the character, space and time, as well as the linguistic particularities of this novel, reaching the conclusion that “The Foam of the days” fully deserves its characterization as a “poetic novel”.
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The history of literature includes a passion for documentation, a vocation for synthesis, placing the work in a historical context, establishing, as appropriate, sources, influences and affiliations, analytical spirit, sense of nuance, thorough and careful exploration of literary works representative of a certain periods. We have tried to illustrate, in this study, two moments in the evolution of Romanian literary history through Nicolae Manolescu and Cornel Ungureanu, who prove, through their books, that the history of literature exceeds, today, in its manifestations, the purely factual approach, documentary or biographical interest, integrating in the space of a broader, anthropological approach, by reconfiguring the historical, cultural, biographical premises of the literary text, but also by framing the work in the context of a certain time, the evolution of science, philosophy, psychology or sociology. In other words, a history of literature is, or must be, first of all, a history of literary forms, evaluated from the perspective of their value, forms that are constantly evolving.
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The latest version of the volume dedicated by the literary critic Eugen Simion to our 19th century poets suggests a fresh re-reading of the writings which fully mark the beginnings of the Romanian poetic writing and the complexity of the process of establishing a specific poetic language. Simultaneously with this re-reading, the critical discourse detaches itself as a distinct way of reshaping the specific marks of early Romanian lyrics, irony being one of the characteristics of this discourse. A flexible irony, able to retain the stylistic geometry of the poetic writing, in all its diversity, and to exemplify it through its own rhetoric, that of the critic who enjoys re-reading it.
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The greatest character in the works of Rebreanu, Reymont, Verga, Hardy and Blasco Ibáñez is the countryside, the rural environment artistically reconstructed beyond geographical clues. It is a setting that transcends the novels it inspired. It is the greatest character, with its moods and a destiny of its own, celebrated in novel after novel. In minute detail, this prose points to the ancient rituals of rural life, to the unifying rhythms of man and nature confronted against the background of various landscapes. Descriptions of wind shift, soil mix, the contour of hills and hedge rows serve as more than narrative colour. They detail the texture of rural life, the daily realities that shaped its speech and fired its folklore. Even as they wrote, the pastoral atmosphere was vanishing, and its ancient regime was threatened. The typical scenery and the people were becoming a breed of the past. In charting the social consequences of urbanization, these writers predicted the true victim: the land itself. Despite the inevitable thrust of modernization, that way of life with its archetypes remained in the collective memory due to their artistic efforts.
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Rebreanu, Verga, Blasco Ibáñez, Hardy and Reymont illustrate the European realistic traditions characterised by strong impact writing focused on actual daily reality. This article is a comparative analysis of the realistic vein, predominant in all rural novels. The conversion aspects mentioned in the title deal with the themes (fundamental and universal ideas) explored in their literary works: the injustice of existence, ideas of social classes and access to them, and men dominating women. Subversion stems from discrete romantic insertions and the desperate belief that god is not just, but whimsical and uncaring, in a world where moral does not necessarily mean fair and achievement is a temporary illusion. Subversive also is the authors’ unsparing irony and willingness to gaze into the abyss of a deterministic universe. The many-sided artistic inclinations of these authors (poetry, drama, novels, philosophical and political insights) emerge in their writing as potential subversion areas seen in characters’ surprising angles, facets and messages. They act as role models for the contemporary cultural atmosphere in their own countries, and explore novel directions, that will prove valid art avenues for future creators.
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Symbol of the center, the heart was considered the seat of feelings, sensitivity, soul, intuition and wisdom. Romanian poetry of all time has discovered in this symbol of the center a point of tangency between knowledge and affectivity, a timer of existence between systole and diastole, between extinction and retreat from the world, a mark of spiritual progress and an index of the modernization of literature. The work of the writer Max Blecher enjoys a limited interpretation as long as the modern vision of existence provides a plurality of interpretations. The emotional universe, whether it is obvious, or the dreamlike penetration of the mysteries of the construction of the being, will always have connotative ramifications. In other words: "Any interpretation explains the work, but it does not exhaust its meanings" (Umberto Eco). Beyond autothelic language, blecherian literature will generate - certainly - other comments. Under the "myth of Narcissus" (Gh.Glodeanu), Blecher's work exposes a severely ill body, whose soul remains awake and lucid, carefully X-raying its own condition. The inner reality, the suffering under the magnifying glass, is through redesigned sympathy, so "lived" and repeated. Deep down we discover the signs of the real world. Aesthetically, the writer creates the world that the narrator character experiences. Having horror of the real, discovers in itself virtual realities, a universe of sensations: the suave mystery of the soul body. The author's initiation into experimental existence places the work in the orbit of a literature entered into history, at the end of which he has learned his own identity as self-awareness. Dr. Engineer Corneliu Constantin Cristescu, author of the volume Poems of the Heart, from soul to soul at 70 years old (2020) transforms into sensitivity and poetry a vital chronology in which engineering and poetry coexisted, the author having the gift of turning into beauty the fast moment, which measures the variations of inspiration, joy and suffering throughout the existence of a human being. The proximity of the earth to the sky in an instant changes the meaning of the experience, and the lived hypostases are metamorphosed into verse.
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In man’s endless pursuit of knowledge, science may be seen as having moved from perceiving the world as ordered, linear, reductionist, predictable and/or controllable (Newton) to viewing it as irregular, uncertain, unpredictable/uncontrollable (modern and post-modern chaoticians). On the other hand, the humanists have seen science as destructive of beauty (Romanticism— “unweaving the rainbow”) or as unexpectedly helpful. Three literary pieces have been chosen to illustrate this second perspective: Goethe’s Elective Affinities, presenting a chemical literary experiment based upon previous scientific claims regarding deterministic dependence of “reactive characters” upon the attraction between elements and compounds; then Goethe’s novel reworked in Banville’s “The Newton Letter”—an experimental exploration of the relationships between author/researcher and his inner/outer environments; third, Tom Stoppard gathering together in his Arcadia all sorts of scientists and writers to discuss a multiplicity of science topics including thermodynamics, fractals, chaotics…
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This paper starts from the premise that Eminescu's 1876 poem, called "Dream", is in fact a transcription of a "real" dream or, as George Călinescu says, "the notion of a dream must be taken in a broad sense, as an analogy. There is a waking perception of the universe, a logical kind of knowledge. Oneiric and irrational perception is inconsistent and symbolic. It places the spirit directly in the middle of the elementary process, without taking a reflexive pause. Whether this perception is found in vision, myth or poetry, the thing does not imply a difference of essence. […] Oneiric poetry is distinguished by the fact that the poet's subjectivity, which is basically an intelligible factor, is absorbed by the objective symbolism of the dream, surpassing any artistic initiative. The dreamer is simply a tool in the hands of the dream”. (Călinescu, 1970, p.204. My translation) However, we will detach ourselves from Călinescu’s interpretation, which sees poetry as an example of autoscopy ("that is, to see yourself objectively as reflected in a mirror”). The interpretation will be a Jungian one, based largely on information obtained from Carl Gustav Jung's book - "The Image of Man and the Image of God".
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The article (re)assesses the most popular critical perspectives on Mircea Nedelciu’s fiction and the rather common tendency to allocate his work to various literary trends and groups. The purpose of this approach is to draw (specialist) attention (away) from the temptation to conveniently (and unproblematically) classify this highly original author according to various subtrends of Romanian modernism or post-modernism and to(wards) the reconsideration of a key element which seems to have been almost completely overlooked by critical viewpoints so far, as a potential focus point of future (re-)readings: the “story” behind the textual artifices. The proposal is thus to revert the consecrated optics on the topic, i.e., to reconsider the meta-textual surface of the text as an intelligent and intricate, but deceitful “censor trap” and recompose the narrative it was meant to conceal as the main meaning-producing mechanism in Nedelciu’s writing. This would result in a new, richer and more appropriate “reading grid”, allowing not only a re-evaluation, but also a re- (or proper) valuation of this canonical eighties writer.
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The present paper aims at highlighting the importance of goodness and truth in Rudolfo Anaya’s novel entitled “Bless me, Ultima”, which is a repatterning of the Chicano world. Ultima or la Grande is a curandera, a miracle-worker. She blesses Antonio, she gives him guidance in life teaching him what is right holding the secret of Antonio’s destiny. If, on the one hand, Ultima is the embodiment of goodness and truth in the novel, a strong and complex female character, performing healings to the others, using knowledge and power to do good, on the other hand, Tenorio is the embodiment of evil. The message of the book is that good is always stronger than evil and the smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world. Anaya’s novel is rich in narrative techniques and storytelling turns the novel into an exquisite piece of prose which preserves and at the same time reshapes the old Chicano traditions.
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Studies of Czech neologisms usually focus on neologisms found in standard texts or in a collaborative online dictionary including mostly expressive words, invented words and the like. The paper attempts to bridge the gap by focusing on less formal and standard, yet fully authentic texts, i.e., user reviews in the Czech-Slovak film database. Based on 2,006 novel lexical units found on the website, it is shown that while neologisms are mostly found among lexical words, some are also found among grammatical, supposedly closed-class words. It is illustrated that derivation by suffixes and prefixoids as well as compounding are the most productive processes, yielding some surprisingly productive types of new words. Finally, the paper focuses on three prominent patterns found among the neologisms (X-árna, V-ačka, and homo-N) and points out their relevance, thus illustrating that studies of neologisms do not need to be trivially descriptive and classificatory but can point towards more general issues, both theoretical and methodological.
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The article deals with the semantic analysis of terminological metaphors in the Spanish language of economics. The objective is to identify and define all possible source domains in terminological metaphors that serve to name an abstract domain in the language of economics. It complements the conceptual taxonomies in terminological metaphors mentioned and studied so far and seeks to prove that technical metaphorical terms are images of human existence and everything related to it. It also aims to establish which conceptual domain is the most frequent in the formation of metaphorical terms in the language of economics.
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This article presents the problem of modal verbs in Spanish from the perspective of Langacker’s cognitive grammar. Langacker defines modal verbs as grounding elements that can express implicit meanings and thus increase the degree of subjectivity of the utterance. Unlike English modal verbs, which are completely unanchored and fully grammaticalized, Spanish modal verbs exhibit verb inflection. The aim of this article is to compare the construals with and without a modal verb and to point out the differences between the positions of conceptualizers (speaker and addressee). For these purposes several graphical representations are proposed throughout the article. As the proposed schemes show, the position of conceptualizers plays a key role in the conception of any construal. It is concluded that a construal with a modal verb has a more subjectively anchored interaction between the two conceptualizers and that the speaker is always a completely implicit part of the utterance.
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The article analyses the influence of Vladimír Šmilauer on the character of the Journal of Modern Philology (Časopis pro moderní filologii, ČMF). Šmilauer was associated with the Journal for Modern Philology as an author and an editor for Slavic studies (1939–1951). The article describes the main linguistic/philological topics contributed to the magazine by Šmilauer (Slovak studies and the history of the Slovak language, new Czech, e.g. orthography, reports on foreign literature, etc.). The period of Šmilauer’s work at the ČMF falls into a time of socially problematical political systems: the Nazi protectorate after 1939 and the communist terror after 1948. On the example of the case of Šmilauer, we will show how and when political systems were directly reflected in the philological content of the Journal for Modern Philology
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The objective of the paper is to describe the principles for building the onemillionword DIA1900 Corpus consisting of Czech texts published between 1851 and 1900, designed to be both balanced and representative. There are two main goals determining the methods of corpus building and the decision to develop new tools tailored to the special needs of 19th century Czech: 1) to present the variability of Czech in the 2nd half of the 19th century (including spelling, morphology, wordformation) and 2) to link the detected variants to the appropriate lemmas. The paper presents the phases of the processing of the texts, including transcription, manual pre-annotation, as well as the construction of a large morphological dictionary and the selection of a suitable set of paradigms. Further sections are focused on annotation and morphological tagging and manual disambiguation. The objective was to create a gold standard, intended for use in the automatic annotation both of the DIA1900 corpus and the planned corpus of Czech texts of the years 1800–1850.
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