In post-communist Romania, regional self-identification has undergone significant change. Particularly, a paradigm shift occurred in relation to 20th century Romanian historiography (I have in mind the national communist as well as inter-war historic narratives). The literature and the promotional films…
VEILED TRUTH IN ENDURING LOVE AND ATONEMENT
The article tries to demonstrate that Ian McEwan’s novels, Enduring Love and Atonement, are similarly concerned with the way in which fiction writing is more apt to veil “truth” than to unveil it, also to invite partial readings of “reality”…
CANON, CLASSICS, TRADITION: DEMARCATION OF THE TERMS
The canon is a concept with a long history. The religious canon was eventually re-established on secular grounds, where it was comprehended in the categories of official literary (general) and personal (individual) canons, educational canon (reading lists) being correlated to…
A PERSON NOT IN THE STORY: CLERAMBAULT S AND M. R. JAMES S TEXTILE/TEXTUAL FOLDS
Though unrelated when it comes to their scientific occupations, Clérambault and M. R. James give to the 21st-century observer the impression that they were strikingly similar in their compulsive preoccupation with draped bodies or with what Gilles Deleuze names “the…
POST-TOURISM AND THE MOTIF OF REGRESSION IN JULIAN BARNES S ENGLAND, ENGLAND
The present paper starts from the assumptions and concepts of Zygmunt Bauman, George Ritzer and Jean Baudrillard concerning the regressive nature of the act of consumption and its “conceded freedoms” (Baudrillard), which infantilize the consumer and ensure high social integration…
THE EXISTENTIAL DEMOCRACY AND ITS PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL The Surprising and Unsettling Challenges Arising from our Inter-connected Information Society
This paper is constructed as an elaborate answer to the question “what is and what should be a public intellectual today?” Using a range of critical theorists I argue that the function of a public intellectual is connected to specific…
THE AESTHETIC INDIVIDUAL AND THE NEW SOUTH IN THE AGE OF ALIENATION IN WALKER PERCY’S “THE MOVIEGOER”
This paper addresses Walker Percy’s first novel, The Moviegoer, tracing the use of existentialist tropes in its narrative construction in order to delineate the problematic condition of the human individual in the postwar South. The protagonist’s search for an authentic…
NEGOTIATION AND DISCURSIVE CONFLICT WITHIN OPINION: PUBLIC VS. PRIVATE IN THE SOCIAL ROMANIAN IMAGINARY
The paper approaches contemporary Romanian media in order to outline negotiation and discursive conflict strategies in public storytelling about the country’s recent history. In the so-called Romanian social imaginary, notions of public versus private highlight the way public officials resort…
NATIONAL IMAGES IN THE MEDIA AND IN TRAVEL WRITING
The image that Romania has abroad represents, especially from a journalistic perspective, a more and more fashionable topic, although the westerners’ interest in this ‘different’ country is not that recent. What is recent is the self-awareness that Romanians are starting…
ETHNIC BIAS IN THE RECEPTION OF ADOLPHE STERN’S TRANSLATIONS OF “HAMLET” AND “MACBETH”
This paper focuses on the way in which cultural misrepresentations interfere with the reading of the Romanian versions of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Macbeth by Adolphe Stern, a Romanian translator of Jewish descent. The two main critical articles are authored by…
CFP MSA, Volume 4, no 2, November 2017
The Conspiracy Craze: Facts, Acts and CTs (Conspiracy Theories) The academic journal Messages, Sages and Ages (https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/msas) seeks papers that look at both conspiracy theories (CTs) and the study of CTs. Throughout the last decade, conspiracy theories have become a…
CFP MSA, Volume 4, no 1, August 2017
What Is Art Good For? The Role of Literature and the Arts in Contemporary Society The academic journal Messages, Sages and Ages (http://www.msa.usv.ro/) based at the English Department, University of Suceava invites contributions for an issue focusing on the…
First Annual Symposium on English Language Teaching and Learning on May 28th, 2016
The Department of Foreign Studies and Silvia Manoliu Association for Anglophone Studies held their First Annual Symposium on English Language Teaching and Learning on May 28th, 2016 Presenters: Evelina Mezalina GRAUR (Associate Professor, PhD.) Flipcharting in the EFL Classroom…