Partition, Violence and Humanism in Tabish Khair’s Filming

Author(s): Om Prakash Dwivedi / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Tabish Khair’s novel, Filming (2007), highlights many deeply vexed issues that are central to any discussion on colonial/postcolonial humanism. The novel presents the film industry of Hindustan and the lives of people associated with this charismatic industry. It also deals with the maltreatment of women and the manner in which their voices are muffled by the male chauvinistic society, thus making them the subaltern that cannot speak, or if they do manage to speak, they are brusquely silenced, because it questions the authority of those in power, and concomitantly tries to reroute the established power relations, and hence these voices and demands are to be viewed as something that deserves immediate disapproval and censorship.

Актуалност на проблема за прилагане на театралнопедагогическо взаимодействие в подготовката на бъдещи учители (Резултати от измерителна процедура)

Author(s): Rositsa Penkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2020

The article analyzes the results of a survey with students from the pedagogical specialties of the Pedagogical College - Pleven at the University of Veliko Turnovo „St.St. Cyril and Methodius". The measurement procedure reflects the students' opinion about the application of pedagogical animation in teaching, which is based on the theatrical pedagogical interaction. The survey was conducted in order to determine the degree of recognition of the nature of pedagogical animation, the degree of readiness to apply innovative forms and methods of pedagogical animation and the degree of satisfaction of students in their basic preparation.

Menocchio (2018)

Author(s): Francesca Tasca,Corneliu Dragomirescu,Vladimir Agrigoroaei / Language(s): Italian Issue: 4/2020

Митът за Едип – нова интерпретация

Author(s): Grigor Har. Grigorov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2021

In his book “The Myth of the Birth of the Hero” (1909), the psychoanalyst Otto Rank identified in various cultures numerous versions of the same narrative which was very close in content to the Oedipus myth. The structure of this repetitive plot is the following: a son of a king, sentenced to death by his father, survives miraculously and grows up far away from his family; when grown-up, he returns to his hometown, murders his father and inherits the throne. The paper argues that this plot has come into being as a narrative aimed at legitimizing the right of existence of a newly formed community by presenting its leader as the legitimate successor of the ruler of the group from which the new community has separated. After its dramaturgical rendition by the ancient Greek tragedians, the Oedipus plot has acquired a new meaning – it started functioning as a story of the great sinner.

Удвояване или за любословието на филологията

Author(s): Miglena Nikolchina / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 10/2021

Modern Mimesis: Self-Reflexivity in Literature is a passionate defence of philology that traverses the distances from Ancient Hellas to present-day Japan, from Ulysses to robots. This movement follows a logic described by the author as reconceptualization, and creates conceptual nodes configured through horizontal and vertical, temporal and spatial self-reflexive reduplications. The broad arc from the libraries of Alexandria and Pergamum to the mimetic valleys of robotics thus turns out to be underpinned by the reconceptualization of the ancient dispute between ‘analogy’ and ‘anomaly’, turning any attempt at ordering into an ‘endless series of rearrangements’.

Introduction: Animal (As) Writing, Writing (As) Animal

Author(s): Rodolfo Piskorski / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Потребяване на култура онлайн

Author(s): Ivaylo Ditchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 11/2022

The digital world has incorporated all previous forms of communication: today we read online, listen to music, visit virtual museums and so on. But does cultural consumption via the new meta-media remain the same? The following observations are the result of a seminar with students of cultural studies. I am discussing the changes in the experiencing of the high 'culture of the soul' (Cicero), not everyday digital practices.

Рецензия на „Срещу човешкото: антиутопичният жанр в литературата на XX век“

Author(s): Alexander Popov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 11/2022

Chavdar Parushev’s monograph is a study of the literary genre of anti-utopia, situating the latter in a complex web of mutual determination together with the genres of utopia, science fiction and satire. The central analytical instrument developed in this study is the so-called ‘Plato’s lens’ which makes it possible to center thought about these genres around the relation between subject and state. Thus the development in time of new forms and technologies for relating subject and state leads to new developments in the anti-utopian genre, which becomes a way to think about the crises of producing human meaning. The monograph traces many crises of this kind, including examples from history which have overtaken fiction. It thus demonstrates the important uses of anti-utopia, in times of accelerating change in what it means to be human.

Документалното ни кино на фокус

Author(s): Petia Alexandrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 12/2022

Фолклорът и фантастиката в славянски контекст

Author(s): Ana Savić / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2022

Book Review: Савремена српска фолклористика VIII ‒ словенски фолклор и књижевна фантастика. Ур. Дејан Ајдачић и Бошко Сувајџић. Београд: Удружење фолклориста Србије, Универзитетска библи- отека „Светозар Марковић”; Кијев: Комисија за фолклористику Међународног комитета слависта; Лозница: Центар за културу „Вук Караџић”, 2020. 518 стр. ISBN 978-86-7301-149-3

Perspectives on the Construction of a Play: Ancient Greece and Ancient India

Author(s): Roxana-Cristina Ispas / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This article compares the way a play was structured in ancient Greece and ancient India. The different types of actors that can appear during a play (heroes, heroines, companions, etc.) and the qualities they must have (both physically and morally), the types of plays, the length and their ultimate purpose.

UNVEILING THE LITERARY EXPRESSION OF ITS CREATOR'S SUICIDAL INSTINCT

Author(s): Vivianne Urziceanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 35/2023

A complex phenomenon, the suicidal instinct is a challenging issue to discuss overtly. From a psychiatric perspective, in order to experience suicidal thoughts, one must also have underlying mental health conditions, a family history of suicide, suffer substance abuse, or encounter stressful life events resulting in trauma. As Shelly Kagan asserts in his book ”Death”, the act of contemplating suicide is, in general, considered evidence of being psychotic. Despite its devastating consequences, suicide ideation is particularly thought-provoking when observed through a philosophical lens. For this reason, Kagan takes this subject matter a step further and discusses if, when, and under which circumstances suicide could be an appropriate and justified thing to do. It is through literature that one may live multiple lives if one is not satisfied with one's own life. The only tools which are required are a narrative pattern, imagination, and reading skills. Imagine being a writer. You need not live vicariously through others. You can create your own story and dive right into it. You may shape whatever life you crave, thus waving goodbye to any suicidal feelings. As a writer, you would possess the ultimate weapon to do just that. But imagined life will never surpass actual life. Suicidal thoughts may haunt a writer's mind as well, and, as a matter of fact, they sometimes prevail. Therefore, my study explores the way in which particular word patterns, narrative structures and so on can expose the suicidal instinct which lingers in the writer's mind. Ultimately, my study aims to reveal the manner in which literature sheds light on its creator’s inner nature.

Law, Language, and Anxiety in Shakespeare

Author(s): Nóra Pethő / Language(s): English Issue: 15/2024

Drawing on examples from Shakespearean drama, and by combining a linguistic focus with an inquiry into emotions and affect, the present writing identifies the ‘lack of control over meaning’ as one of the crucial points in forming early modern English popular fears of law.

ASPECTS OF THE COMIC SITUATIONS IN THE LITERATURE OF P.G. WODEHOUSE AND ION LUCA CARAGIALE

Author(s): George Costin Rusu / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2025

Our society repeats some models, some patterns, which literature has exemplified over the years in different forms. Two of the illustrious representatives are P.G. Wodehouse and Ion Luca Caragiale, writers who managed through their, sometimes sarcastic analyses, to render, with a lot of humour, human typologies and social concepts of nineteenth-century life, both of them writing masterpieces of national and universal literature. Our paper aims to analyze these typologies and situations from the point of view of the comic situations in which the characters are illustrated.

FEMINISM AND LITERARY IDENTITY: CĂTĂLINA FLORINA FLORESCU’ S WORKS

Author(s): Iuliana Păunescu ( Voroneanu) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 40/2025

Contemporary theatre plays become fertile spaces for exploring themes of identity, trauma and personal reconstruction. Cătălina Florina Florescu, a writer from the Romanian diaspora, makes a significant contribution to this literary landscape through the innovative way in which she approaches female characters in contemporary literature, reflecting and challenging cultural and social norms. The writer's works have not yet benefited from an extensive analysis in this direction, namely the analysis of how these characters reflect different aspects of femininity, such as identity, sexuality, interpersonal relationships, motherhood, career, addressing themes of trauma, healing and self-discovery. It is an opportunity to investigate the cultural and personal influences that life in the diaspora had on the plays under analysis, the way in which the experience of emigration and adaptation is reflected in its themes and characters. They deal with complex and sensitive topics, from a feminist perspective and critical of contemporary society. An aspect worth mentioning, for a modern and intelligent theater, of a disturbing honesty, is the strength of a harsh, relentless language, used by female characters, which pushes us beyond our comfort zones and encourages us to question ourselves about what it means to be a man, a woman, a human being.

THE WRITER'S ART - RESILIENCE THROUGH STORYTELLING

Author(s): Cristina-Daniela Lateș / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2025

The condition of the writer is that of an amphibious being, created to live in another world yet compelled to endure in this one. In Petru Cimpoeșu's vision, the writer’s only way to survive the narrow space between the boundaries of these two worlds is through “resilience by storytelling.” Falling in love proves to be the primary condition of writing, the lover’s gaze, in this sense, arising from something much deeper than words. The writer is portrayed as a passionate creator for whom the act of writing is not merely a vocation but a mode of existence rooted in Eros (as per Roland Barthes). The passion for writing is seen as a fundamental condition for literary quality, and the reflection on the creative act highlights the complexity and responsibility of the writer. Through the power of narrative, stories become a means to preserve authenticity and to endow existence with meaning, saving humanity not as a species, but as an essence. Thus, the writer's role remains that of the voice of a people’s conscience and its moral compass, as long as resistance through storytelling continues.

THE HERMETIC MODEL OF RENAISSANCE

Author(s): Andra-Elena Ionescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 40/2025

In this study the main concern is to establish the most important ideas of the hermetic tradition of the early and late Renaissance that could function subtly in the narrative frame of Vasile Voiculescu’s prose. Some preoccupations of the author such as theosophy, Gnosticism, magic, cabbala, archaic thinking, medicine, arts, science show an interest towards an encyclopedic and spiritual knowledge in which can be identified the echoes of a far age that emerges in new forms in the fantastic imaginary of the 20th century Romanian literature. The storyteller may have a nostalgic perspective in which is expressed the urge of the lost unity between the mundane world and the celestial level. The narrator resembles with the magus figure bringing a spiritual significance in the fantastic structure and in the auctorial discourse. The concept of phantasm is necessary in order to redefine the fantastic and the language of the Vasile Voiculescu’s tales.

THE ALLEGORICAL CHARACTER AND THE REVEALED LANGUAGE IN THE TALES OF VASILE VOICULESCU AND IOAN PETRU CULIANU

Author(s): Andra-Elena Ionescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 40/2025

In this study the tales of Vasile Voiculescu are compared with the ones of Ioan Petru Culianu in order to rediscover an other category of the fantastic frame and new discursive symbolical valencies emphasized through the concept of ,,sujacent speech” stated by Ioan Petru Culianu. The experience of the invisible in the represented story brings in the level of narrative speech a second encoded speech. Thereby, in the dialectical structure of the narration appears an ambiguous character constructed as an allegory who opens up the way to an enigmatic event. The enigma destabilizes not only the clasical interaction between narrator-character-reprezented world – reader, but also forces the ideatical limits of the narrative language itself. Thus, the supernatural occurrence belongs to the invisible counterpart of the language that implies the mystery of creation from an ontological point of view.

VIȘNIEC’S THEATRICAL SELF-TRANSLATION: FROM LE RETOUR À LA MAISON TO RECVIEM

Author(s): Emilia Ababei / Language(s): French Issue: 40/2025

Self-translation is a complex process that involves both rewriting and re-creation, placing the author in a dual role as both writer and translator. This study explores the phenomenon of theatrical self-translation, focusing on the case of Matei Vișniec, a Romanian-born playwright who writes in French and later adapts his works into Romanian. The theoretical framework is based on key concepts from translation studies, contextualizing Vișniec’s approach, in which his French and Romanian versions do not constitute mere translations but rather distinct recreations adapted to different cultural and linguistic contexts. Furthermore, the paper analyzes the case of Le retour à la maison / Recviem, highlighting how Vișniec alters his plays when transitioning from one language to another. His self-translation process involves modifications in rhythm, structure, and cultural references, demonstrating that his works are not simple linguistic transpositions but complex acts of rewriting tailored to each audience.

DRAMATIC TEXT AND THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE: RECEPTION AND INTERPRETATION

Author(s): Vera Mariancic-Cobzac / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2025

The theatrical process is characterized by the relationship between the literary text and the stage representation. Receiving and interpreting a work of art is a multifaceted process that includes pre-understanding, analysis, critical and/or creative rethinking. The article deals with the problem of the relationship between the dramaturgical text and its stage performance from the perspective of the theories of the reception and interpretation of the artistic text. We conclude that the theater and interpretation are in a relationship of complementarity and that simultaneously, the interpretation precedes and follows the theatrical performance.