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Polscy akcjoniści. Przyczynek do genealogii i teorii polskiej sztuki krytycznej

Author(s): Marcin Kościelniak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2015

Karol Sienkiewicz’s book Zatańczą ci, co drżeli [Those Who Trembled Shall Dance] has revived the debate on the genealogy of Polish critical art. Kościelniak enters into the conversation by placing two dramatic works within this framework, namely Tadeusz Różewicz’s Do piachu [Into the Sand] and Helmut Kajzar’s Koniec półświni [The End of the Half-Pig]. He argues that there is structural and political similarity with the Viennese Actionists – the pioneers of critical art. Kościelniak grounds his interpretation of Różewicz and Kajza in Julia Kristeva’s theory of the abject. Addressing the fact that art of the abject tends to be automatically associated with critical art, Kościelniak discusses the limits of art’s critical function.

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OD LŽI K PRAVDE TRI FILMY IRÁNSKEHO REŽISÉRA ASGHARA FARHADIHO

Author(s): Viera Langerová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 02/2014

In 2012, the Slovak cinemas screened award winning Iranian film A Separation, with numerous awards from international film festivals, among others American Film Critics Award Golden Globe and American Film Academy Award for foreign language film, Oscar. It was the first ever Oscar awarded to an Iranian film and the first Iranian film in our distribution. Last year’s Cannes Film Festival premiered Farhadi’s latest film The Past, which follows the theme of family relationships in crisis. Along with the film About Elly from 2009, these films offer an extensive insight into the internal affairs of the society, seeking a balance between the requirements of theological state and pressure of modernization and secularism on the needs of everyday life. The content and dramaturgical structure of these stories additionally refer to artistic constants such as Persian poetic tradition and Islamic mysticism, and thus bring distinctive features into the concept of European approach to relationships among the people.

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Śledztwo w osnowie stereotypu, legendy i przemilczenia, Wątki żydowskie w polskich współczesnych powieściach sensacyjnych

Author(s): Robert Więckowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 03/2015

The authors of contemporary Polish crime stories frequently use the threads connected with the history of Polish-Jewish relationships, which are full of stereotypes, legends and concealments. This arouses the authors’ interest and makes them write the most intriguing novels. In my article I analyze such solutions used by three Polish crime story authors in some of their novels. The critical assessment concerns both the ways of coping with the stereotypes and the significance, which, in social perception, may be attributed to the fact of working out in crime stories the legends and concealments from Polish-Jewish history.

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TEXTUL LITERAR ȘI ECRANIZAREA – FIDELITATE ȘI ECHIVALENȚĂ

Author(s): Maria Cătălina Radu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2013

This article aims at presenting the transposition of the literary work in the film, identifying the common elements between these two arts, as well as the incompatibility of these two semiotic systems. One of the main aspects of this article is the problem of the fidelity of adaptation in relation to the literary source. From this problematic, I developed the central theme of the article - the impossibility of finding a perfect equivalence between the text and the image. However, on the basis of this relation of equivalence and fidelity, I have analyzed the similarities between the process of adaptation and that of translation. The conclusion of this article is that literature and cinema are two different systems, two distinct arts, but similar in originality.

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Театърът на Радко Радков. История, памет, интерпретации. Теофанó

Author(s): Galia Simeonova-Konach / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2017

The article is dedicated to the problems of historical drama, one of the ways of interpreting the past. The study is placed in the context of the sociology of culture and the historical memory of society, with a focus on the transposition and the symbolical representation of the history of Byzantium and the Second Bulgarian Kingdom (1181 – 1396) in literature. The subject of the analysis are the works of the Bulgarian poet and playwright Radko Radkov (1940 – 2009), above all his play Theophano, written in the convention of classical drama in verse and the so-called ritual drama, according to the title of the author, a synthesis of text borrowed from Old Bulgarian Literature, and Byzantine hymnograohy, inspired visually by the images of the Middle Age Miniatures included in Codex Vaticanus Slav II. The historical theme in the work of Radko Radkov is substantially different from the interpretation of the Bulgarian history of other Bulgarian writers of the second half of the 20th Century, by which the author is opposing the ideological constructs of the official authorities during this period. The playwright has found semiotic and stylistic devices that recreate the classical past of the people, the orthodox Christianity and culture in the universal perspective of the Byzantine Commonwealth, and artistically voice his historiosophic views concerning Bulgarian national history and the Byzantine-Bulgarian cultural community. The paper analyses the tribulations of the performance of Theophano, staged in Bulgaria by the French Director Pierre Della Torre, who sees in the poetic world of Radko Radkov “the monumental force of the masters of French theatre, Racine and Corneille“.

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Dwu(wielo)języczny teatr w zglobelizowanym kontekście brytyjskim, czyli o różnych stylach dramatu migracyjno-transkulturowego

Author(s): Elwira Grossman / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2016

Focusing on selected bi(multi)lingual plays recently performed in the UK, the essay deals with the broader theme of intercultural communication and Polish migrants’ contribution to the local target culture. Grossman examines the possibility of creating a new transcultural form of theatre as an artistic means of facilitating mutual understanding and intercultural experiences. She suggests replacing the question of artistic merit by the shows’ function in reinforcing intercultural dialogue. The performances discussed are shown not only to strengthen the migrants’ integration but also to secure their feeling of emotional and cosmopolitan belonging to a globalized world without undermining their sense of human dignity and their belief in social equality.

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Покръстването на българите в една барокова музикална драма от Виена

Author(s): Slavia Barlieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 65-66/2022

From the Middle Ages to the Modern Age and its Age of Enlightenment, the conversion to Christianity is the most common motif in Western historical sources about Bulgarian history. Baroque literature does not deviate from this tradition and frequently uses this motif – in hagiographic, homiletic, and very often in dramatic works performed in educational institutions of the Jesuit Order. This article presents a musical drama titled The Fruitful, Free and Wonderful Baptism by God’s Providence of Bogor, King of the Moesians that was performed on an uncertain date in 1716 at the Royal Academic Jesuit College in Vienna. Twenty-three dramatic works of the eighteenth century, dedicated to the Bulgarian Christianization, were known until now. They have been investigated and published by Nadezhda. Andreeva in 2004. The play introduced here is another one, the earliest drama on the subject. It is a musical work composed by Johann Georg Reinhart, a well-known court musician in Vienna. The author of the text is unknown. The play has come down to us in the form of a booklet, called in the Baroque theatrical tradition periocha, containing a bilingual Latin-German summary of the drama. The booklet contains nineteen pages: an Argumentum in Latin with parallel content (Geschichts-Inhalt) in German, as well as a bilingual prologue, three acts, and an epilogue. Between the acts are two chorus parts, also bilingual. The narrative is indicated as being based on the Chronicles of Sigebert of Gembloux and Skylitzes–Kedrenos. The periocha presented here does not list all dramatis personae, noting only some of them. Still, the number of participants in the performance speaks of a monumental spectacle: 187 participants are listed by name in the cast list, along with their nationality, status, and profession or faculty. Through participation in the musical drama about the Bulgarian conversion to Christianity, the educated Baroque public acquired knowledge, albeit with quite a few historical errors, that represented the Bulgarians as bearers of the values of Christian Europe. The article concludes with an Appendix containing a Bulgarian translation of the Latin text of the periocha.

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EXILE – THE ROAD TO AN OPEN IDENTITY

Author(s): Laura-Mariana Lungu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 33/2023

The term exile refers to the condition of those who had to leave their country for various reasons. The issue of exile is directly related to the “lost object” that constantly returns to the mind of the subject, the loss of the birthplace being constantly represented by the exiled person. The exile is the bearer of otherness in the host country, illustrating the type of the foreigner, a condition that shows the illusory character of belonging. The process of exile is a psychic process whose most important dimensions are the sudden separation, the excessive identity changes, the formation of trauma. This can be understood as a destiny of its own that turns out to be tragic. Exile thus constitutes the transition to otherness, to a search for identity in an unknown space. It is he who produces complex relations between inside-outside, before-after, space-time, separation-rediscovery, native country-country of refuge, native language- foreign language or exclusive language-occasional language, etc. The exile occupies a central place in this issue, because he is the one who crosses the border of a new space, therefore, he is the bearer of alterity in the adopted country, illustrating the type of the foreigner, a condition that reveals the deceptive character of belonging. It is the exile that can cause the symbolic loss of the subject.

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THE SAMIZDAT- LITERATURE OF THE WHISPER

Author(s): Maria- Andreea Rasoveanu (Pădurean) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 35/2023

The purpose of the article is to talk about the phenomenon of samizdat in the countries of Central Europe. Appearing as a form of protest and resistance, it played an important role in the struggle for freedom and constituted a valve of cultural survival for those who did not accept censorship and uniformity. Thus, in a context where dissenting opinions were oppressed and suppressed, samizdat became a way in which activists and intellectuals sought to convey criticism and alternative ideas. Although censorship and oppression were stronger in the Romanian space than of the other countries in the communist bloc, here too there were timid attempts at samizdat that the article highlights.

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Old and Middle English Literature. The Literature of the Renaissance/ Cătălina Bălinișteanu-Furdu

Author(s): Nadia-Nicoleta Morăraşu / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2023

Review of: Old and Middle English Literature. The Literature of the Renaissance. By Cătălina Bălinișteanu-Furdu, Alma Mater Publishing House, Bacău, 2021,

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Дарио Фо и неговият „Grammelot“ – същност и сценична реализация

Author(s): Elena Mincheva / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

The article introduces the history of creation, the content and messages of the work “Mistero Buffo”. The main task of the text is to clarify the origin and essence of the term “grammelot”, as well as to follow its use as a theatrical language by Dario Fo in “Mistero Buffo”. Some of the translation difficulties that would be faced by future Bulgarian translators are also presented. The paper sets the task, by presenting the specifics and implications of the work, to provoke interest towards it on the part of the Bulgarian public, as well as the translation and theater community, and alco to accelerate its popularization by realizing the need for it to be translated and placed on the Bulgarian stage.

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THE PROBLEM OF WAITING IN VAIN

Author(s): Marius Romulus Sălagean / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 36/2024

Waiting is a constant in the different ages of literature, having a psychological invoice function. A first pose of the expectation entered into the archetype is that of Penelope, the queen of Ithaca. Indeed, the paradigm of waiting draws its sap, par excellence, from the tribulations of Odysseus whose wife, Penelope ennobles his existence on the other hand, Lucius the character of Apuleius tries his best to reach that desired called "prosopon" recte the full manifestation as a being human. In Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa is the prototype of vain expectation. Human appearance is denied him forever. In the register of modern dramaturgy, Eugen Ionescu creates the premises of an expectation of invisible characters. The old man and the old woman manage through their lines to establish a climate that we would call: waiting for some specters. Gabriel Garcia Marquez surprises us with the successful atmosphere in the micro-novel: The Colonel has no one to write to. The colonel's waiting in the harbor, where the illusion boat was supposed to appear, is tragic par excellence. The following nuances of waiting will be nuanced in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot where the intrusion of the absurd is total. Also the novels: The Desert of the Tartars by Dino Buzzati and Waiting for the Barbarians written by John Maxwell Coetzee advertise the same coordinate of waiting. Giovanni Drogo and the magistrate, the characters in the two books seem to "feed", paradoxically, on this substance of vain expectation.

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TYRANNY IN RICHARD III. A JUNGIAN PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH TO ITS AETIOLOGY AND PSYCHOGENESIS

Author(s): Emilian Tîrban / Language(s): English Issue: 36/2024

“Richard III” has fascinated the world of theatre and the intellectual endeavour of literary criticism for centuries by displaying Shakespeare's intemperate interest in portraying the tyrant’s psychology. To locate the psychogenesis and aetiological elements that influenced the protagonist's violent ambitions, the present article will focus on psychoanalytic interpretations of Richard III's psyche emphasising the underlying tyrannical propensity of his behaviour and environmental causes. As a result, this article will also look at the collective shortcomings portrayed in the play, such as the family and community's failure to accept responsibility for fostering tyrannical behavioural patterns in Richard. Given Richard's centrality and the play's minute investigations into the workings of a tyrant's mind, this article aims to present an interpretation of Shakespeare's first attempt at portraying the (psycho)genesis and demise of a tyrant concerning his later tragedies. Occasional comparisons might show how Shakespeare's portrayal of the psyche's tortuous development in tragedy has evolved from 1592-3, the years “Richard III” was written and first performed (Bloom “Invention” xv), into the "tragic period" (Bradley 84) of 1600-1606 (with “Hamlet”, “King Lear”, and “Macbeth” especially). Investigating Richard's descent from psychic integrity to psychic atrophy will best demonstrate Shakespeare's early attempt to depict a tyrant’s mental cosmetics by focusing on the Marlovian overabundances of character that make Richard III such a puzzling figure. This article shows how Richard is psychologically different from Shakespeare's later tragic protagonists, whose psyches are partly accessible to them, but are tapped into to an eventually fatal effect.

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EUGENE IONESCO’S LESSON- A CRITICAL APPROACH TO TOTALITARIANISM IN THE XXTH CENTURY

Author(s): Paul-Cristian Albu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 36/2024

The purpose of the paper is to offer a panoramic view of a critical approach to totalitarianism in the past century. I am interested in observing how the French-Romanian writer manages to vituperate Fascism and Communism in a century where the Second World War appeared to destroy the lives of ordinary people. Also, I am interested in discussing how people can be foolish because authoritarian dirigents want to impose their point of view in a world where peace and fraternity are dominant. I will consider using the technique of close reading Eugene Ionesco’s masterpiece Lesson and heteroclite books to reflect in which way it is sought to express the idea of the necessity of democracy in a disparate universe. The creative use of language will be regarded as a means to make visible the new paradigm of fraternity can be understood by the readers in contemporaneity.

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HYPERREALITY AND IDENTITY IN POSTMODERN LITERATURE: A CASE STUDY OF DON DELILLO’S WHITE NOISE

Author(s): Saif Ali Abbas Jumaah / Language(s): English Issue: 39/2024

In this research, the controversial relationship between hyper-realism and identity in post-modern literature is revealed by a deep dive into the depths of Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise. In the footsteps of Jean Boudriar's thought, the novel is transported into a scene where media and simulation weave artificial factual threads, in which identities, individually or collectively, form into worlds filled with false symbols and perceptions. Through the lens of criticism, DeLillo visualizes a media-led world, portraying lost figures in a space that lost its first purity, where identity resonates only with abysmal cultural and technological forces. Through the lens of analysis, the research follows the narrative and symbolic techniques created by DeLillo, in order to reveal before us the vision of the novel challenging the known reality, asking the ephemeral question: Is it true that it is in a simulated world? In conclusion, white noise manifests itself as a literary icon that captures the fluctuating consciousness of the post-modern era, and puts the cultural narratives formulated by the forces of media and technology into accountability, offering us a mirror in which we see new reflections on the essence of identity and the tales of modern man.

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Reflections of “Otherness” in William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra

Author(s): Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup,Maciej Jońca / Language(s): English Issue: 15/2024

The paper discusses the representation of “otherness” in William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. In this tragedy, Shakespeare weaved the ancient concept of otherness to elaborate on the social cleavage in Elizabethan society. Cleopatra, the main female character of the play, is depicted as the other, an alien blamed for the downfall of the Roman Empire. She is the epitome of all evil who destroys the power dynamics of the Roman world by seducing the Roman general. The analysis shows the dichotomies that Shakespeare builds, such as Rome versus Egypt, barbarity versus civilisation, and land versus water to list just a few. The study offers a new reading of the tragedy through the lens of alienation and otherness.

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THE MUSICAL METAPHOR IN THE DRAMATIC WORK OF ION LUCA CARAGIALE

Author(s): Denisa Elena PETREHUŞ / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 40/2025

As a man of the theatre, Caragiale was almost that "impossible" exception that Craig dreamed of! A total theater man, as Victor Ion Popa tried to be later. He knew the theater as Shakespeare and Moliere knew it, as a man from the inside. "Born" in the theater, I.L. Caragiale succumbed to his family's passion for "dramatic art an absolute qualitative level" 1, as a breather and actor, director and dramatic chronicler, author and theoretician, director and passionate reformer of the theater.

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LOVE, FALL AND REDEMPTION: A THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF FRANÇOIS MAURIAC’S WORKS THROUGH THE LENS OF MARIA-OTILIA OPREA

Author(s): Paul-Cristian Albu / Language(s): French Issue: 40/2025

François Mauriac, a deeply Christian writer, explores the complexities of love in his works, portraying it not just as a human emotion, but as a force tied to suffering, illusions, and, ultimately, spiritual redemption. For Mauriac, love is always entangled with the human condition and the fall from grace. In his novels, characters are often torn between earthly desires and the pursuit of divine love that can purify the soul. In François Mauriac şi fiinţa căzută în căutarea iubirii - Pentru o hermeneutică teologică a operei mauriaciene, Maria Otilia Oprea provides a theological interpretation of Mauriac's works, focusing on the interplay between human and divine love. Oprea highlights how Mauriac's characters, such as those in Thérèse Desqueyroux and Noeud de vipères, embody this search for love, marked by illusions but ultimately leading to spiritual awakening and redemption. Oprea argues that for Mauriac, love is both a source of torment and healing, and through embracing divine love, the characters find redemption and reconciliation, not just with others, but with God. Oprea’s analysis presents Mauriac's work as a reflection on the Christian concept of the fall and redemption, with human love, when disconnected from divine grace, leading to suffering. However, through accepting divine love, Mauriac’s characters experience spiritual renewal. This duality between human and divine love forms the core of Mauriac’s literary exploration of the human soul's journey toward redemption. By engaging with Oprea’s theological perspective, this study aims to deepen the understanding of Mauriac’s work, showing how love, for Mauriac, is not simply a worldly pursuit, but a spiritual journey—one that leads to redemption through divine love. Through this lens, Mauriac’s literature takes on a profound spiritual dimension that Oprea’s hermeneutic approach helps to unravel.

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QUEBEC THEATER – A CREATOR OF NATIONAL EMOTIONS

Author(s): Roxana Voichița Bobariu / Language(s): French Issue: 40/2025

This article examines the unique capacity of Quebec theatre to evoke and sustain a profound national emotion. Focusing on Michel Tremblay’s celebrated play Les Belles-Soeurs, the study demonstrates how the authentic use of joual and themes rooted in the everyday experiences of working-class women forge a strong emotional bond with audiences. Moreover, the paper explores the reception of Michel Tremblay’s works in Romania, examining how various translations and stage adaptations have enabled local audiences to connect with Quebec’s theatrical language and cultural identity. By tracing the evolution of Quebec theatre-from its early external influences to the emergence of a distinct voice during the Quiet Revolution-this work highlights the role of theatre as both a mirror of collective social experience and a catalyst for intercultural dialogue.

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EMBODIED TRAUMA AND COMMUNICATION IN TITUS ANDRONICUS: A COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC APPROACH

Author(s): Zhina Dehghan / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2025

This essay analyzes Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus through one of the central theories of cognitive linguistics, embodied cognition, to establish how bodily experience determines communication, identity, and emotional resonance in the play. The research will focus on Lavinia's mutilation and how her body is a site of communication and meaning-making when her voice is silenced. Her inscription on the dust and body language are in collaboration responsible for an earning interchange of body presence and intellect that can be employed in knowing how trauma is represented and received. The essay also investigates dramatization of bodily torture-bodily maiming of Titus, sadistic savagery, and belly-tearing vengeance against Tamora-and its capacity to create a body response in the audience. By accessing cognitive and sensory dimensions of such motion, the analysis demonstrates how Shakespeare can regulate empathetic and moral assessment on the part of spectators. Extending embodied cognition accounts, including Lakoff and Johnson's embodied theories of body engagement in thinking, this essay adds to a picture of the manner in which Shakespearean tragedy functions cognitively and affectively. This essay concludes that Titus Andronicus utilizes embodied trauma as both a device of character depiction and of addressing the audience, infusing greater profundity in the play's tragic effect.

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