Editor: Onoriu Colăcel
INTERETHNIC RELATIONSHIPS AS REFLECTED IN PLACE NAMES OF SOUTHERN TRANSYLVANIA – Andrea Maxiniuc
Transylvania has a long history of interethnic contacts – both peaceful and conflicting. As a result, a multitude of either “shared” or divergent place names were recorded in all regions of the respective province throughout centuries. The focus of this…
SHAKESPEARE AND THE DIGITAL CREATIVE INDUSTRIES IN ROMANIA – Daniela Maria Marțole
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of creative industries, defined by UNESCO as “the creation, industrial reproduction and mass distribution of cultural works”. Digital creative industries integrate digital cultural content and digital equipment. Our paper sets out to analyse the…
THE QUESTION OF THE IDEAL IN THE ARTS – Mariana Baloşescu / Porfirie Pescaru
To talk about the ideal is an action as daring as necessary in our world. Through the ideological-social discourse, legitimized and nourished by the discourse of sciences and philosophy, the current man is led towards a definitive alienation from his…
CULTURAL DIFFUSION AS DIFFUSE KNOWLEDGE: YOUNG ADULT FICTION (MY SWORDHAND IS SINGING, 2006) AND COMEDY COP SHOWS (COMRADE DETECTIVE, 2017) – Onoriu Colăcel
Notions of dissemination across cultures as one-dimensional flows are increasingly challenged by paradigm shifts in cultural diffusion studies. This is also true among niche-market commodities of (young) popular English-language cultures whenever they build on the legacy of Dracula. Plots that…