Abstract: 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…
SENTENCE-IDENTITY BUILDING: A SYNTACTIC RESOLUTION OF AMPHIBOLY CAUSED BY PREPOSITIONAL-PHRASE ATTACHMENT
Abstract: Amphiboly is a matter of linguistic ambiguity, which, in its turn, is essentially related to the intractable natural issue of the disparity between what we can possibly think and what we can actually express through language. The papers on…
SUCEAVA ON CAMERA: THE COUNTY COUNCIL AND LOCAL SELF-IDENTIFICATION IN 21ST CENTURY ROMANIA
Abstract: 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…
THE PROBABLE OLD GERMANIC ORIGIN OF ROMANIAN iele (evil) fairies
Abstract: Iele (or ielele, with a definite article) is the name of the “evil fairies” (zânele rele) of the Romanian mythology. They are mentioned in old Romanian folktales and legends and they have been a constant source of inspiration for…
AN ETYMOLOGICAL PROPOSITION: OLD GERMANIC GOD-SPOD GOOD FORTUNE AS SOURCE OF OLD CHURCH SLAVONIC GOSPOD LORD, MASTER
Abstract: A thorough checking of the data provided by three etymological dictionaries, namely Georgiev et al. 1971 (s.v. gospod), Vasmer 1986 (s.v. gospod) and Derksen 2008 (s.v. *gospod), would be enough to raise serious doubts about the application of the…
SPACE, GENDER, AND ECONOMY IN “THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES”. ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON 2013 URBAN INTER-ACTION
Abstract: Having the chance to read the script of a 2013 movie, successfully welcomed by international authorities in the field, we resolved to “transgress” from film studies to (pseudo) literary studies, analysed within the framework of social, geographical and anthropological…
THE SCOTLAND IN FIFE – SPACE AND IDENTITY IN IRVINE WELSH’S “KINGDOM OF FIFE”
Abstract: The present paper explores the underlying relationship between, on the one hand, physical and cultural landscape and, on the other hand, personal and communal identity in terms of actual or symbolic meaning and becoming against the background of daily…
JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE S “THE NEON BIBLE”: THE PSEUDO-MEMOIRS OF A DEEP SOUTH MARGINAL
Abstract: The present essay explores J. K. Toole’s The Neon Bible as a Southern Gothic Bildungsroman wherein the teenage protagonist enacts an Oedipal scenario the stark dichotomies of which pervade the narrative at almost every turn: tenderness vs. violence, tolerance…
NEW HUMANITIES TODAY
Abstract : My aim is to touch on the current developments of the debate on 21st century humanities. The actual writing of the field’s practitioners is informative of the wish to rebrand the traditional recording of human experience. Accordingly, I will…