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Messages, Sages, and Ages vol. 10, no. 2, November 2023
Editor: Onoriu Colăcel
CULTURAL DIFFUSION AND THE MEDIA IMPACT OF LABOR MIGRATION: BRITISH-ROMANIAN PERSPECTIVES – Onoriu Colăcel
The representation of im(e)migration in Romanian-language cultures is undergoing dramatic change. Migration in the UK, working knowledge of English, and the ready availability of online English-language news to (young and adult) Romanian audiences are significant means for diffusing a culture…
GOING DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE OF WORDSMITHERY – Evelina Mezalina Graur
The present article revisits two basic linguistic models and links them to the onomasiological model of word formation. The first section of the articles focusses on the main tenets of Štekauer’s model of research into English word-formation and points to…
THE MEANING OF HUMANITY AND THE UNBEARABLE EXISTENCE AS THE OTHER IN KAZUO ISHIGURO’S NEVER LET ME GO – Hreceniuc (Cîrdei) Evelina-Iulia
The world delineated by Kazuo Ishiguro in Never Let Me Go determines the reader to question the way in which the human body is perceived in a world dominated by technology. The intoxicating presence of technology has made cloning possible,…
Messages, Sages, and Ages vol. 10, no. 1, August 2023
Editor: Daniela Maria Marțole
IMMANENTISM AND TRANSCENDENTALISM IN THE NARRATOLOGY OF DYSTOPIAN FICTION CONCEPTUALISATION – Ruth Naomi Lupu
The 20th century —fragile, fractured and corroded as it has been— emerges from the depths of human idiosyncrasy with the banner of freedom in hand. Corruption, oppression, disease and death have given way to a completely alienated society —in most…
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR BY GEORGE ORWELL AND THE SOCIAL MEDIA AGE BY ZOETANYA SUJON: LITERARY MOTIFS AND THE DIGITALISATION OF OUR SOCIETY – Ioana-Lăcrimioara Pelea
Starting from the significance of reading dystopian fiction and analyzing the symbols behind the surface level of the story, this paper aims to discover the direct link between the diegetic world created by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four and the…
PSYCHOANALYSIS OF FEMALE IDENTITY: JANE EYRE BY CHARLOTTE BRONTE AND THE YELLOW WALLPAPER BY CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN – Cătălina Roșca
This paper aims to analyze the connection between psychoanalysis and feminist criticism in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Through self-reflection into the female characters’ life and by concluding how a character ends…
GATEKEEPERS AND CONSENSUS IN TODAY’S ‘CULTURED’ CIRCLES – Cristina Badiu
Culture has been a well disputed concept over time. This paper aims to briefly look at some of those who shape the meaning of the word in the Western Culture, past and present, and show their arguments, why they are…
AGAIN BUT BETTER. THE REPRESENTATION OF THE CANADIAN IDENTITY IN THE 2017 ADAPTATION OF ANNE OF GREEN GABLES – Mirela Antonovici
Since intersemiotic translation continues to maintain its popularity even among the younger generation, this paper examines the way in which Canadian identity is portrayed in the most recent film adaptation of the beloved piece of children’s literature, Anne of Green…
REFLECTIONS OF DRACULA IN CONTEMPORARY POPULAR CULTURE – Iuliana-Elena Asoltanei
From its appearance in Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula has withstood the test of time and achieved a sense of immortality in popular culture. This is in part due to its many reflections in adaptations and retellings until today. Many of…
THE HUMAN BODY AS A COMMODITY IN KAZUO ISHIGURO’S NEVER LET ME GO – Evelina-Iulia Hreceniuc (Cîrdei)
The article focuses on the status of the human body in Kazuo Ishiguro’s dystopian novel Never Let Me Go, in the context of the practice of cloning for the purpose of organ harvesting. The clones in the novel are originally…
LABYRINTH OR ILLUSION: REPETITION AND VARIATION IN E.A. POE’S SHORT FICTION – Andreea Filip
Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories are some of the best-known in the literary world, but they are also some of the easiest to recognize if you pay attention not only to his particular style and the infamous sense of dread…
Messages, Sages and Ages, Vol. 9, No. 2, (2022)
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…
Messages, Sages and Ages, Vol. 9, No. 1, (2022)
Editor: Daniela Maria Marțole
CHARACTER AND INTERTEXTUALITY: THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE TEMPEST (W. SHAKESPEARE) AND THE COLLECTOR (J. FOWLES) -Bogdana Silvia Muntean
Taking inspiration from something old for the sake of creating something new does not mean lack of originality; on the contrary, it means giving credit to the original piece and paying tribute to its creator. This is precisely what this…
METALEPTIC LOVE IN THE ENGLISH-CANADIAN POSTMODERN NOVEL – Monika Leferman
Love has been a staple and chameleonic trope in literature that inspired poets and novelists alike since times immemorial, becoming one of the most pervasive themes in literary texts over the centuries. The traditional understanding of the concept ranged from…
PATTERNS OF CONSCIOUSNESS REPRESENTATION. LANGUAGE AND THINKING IN DYSTOPIAN FICTION -Larisa-Ilaria Tabără
From a cross-disciplinary perspective informed by narratology and cognitive linguistics, this paper attempts to analyse Newspeak, as a constructed language, and argues that literary language underpins the perception of social reality in Nineteen Eighty-Four’s diegetic world. Thus, insights into cognitive…
MODERN AND POSTMODERN LITERARY DEVICES IN MARGARET ATWOODʼS DEATH BY LANDSCAPE – Cristina Nechifor
The present argumentative essay looks into the gap between modern and postmodern literary devices, such as the plot, narrative technique and characters, as means of expression in Margaret Atwood’s Death by Landscape. They are characterized by notions of conflict, irregularity,…
FORMS OF IRONY IN MIHAI EMINESCU’S AND MARIN SORESCU’S POETRY – Simina Lazăr
In literature, irony is considered one of the main features which gives a sense of authenticity and its origins enables it to be associated with a certain amount of intellectuality and a highly educated spirit. There are two main types…
LAYERS OF MEANING IN MODERN POP LYRICS IN THE 80S – Silviu-Paul Babiuc
Pop music has long served as object of study for social scientists and linguists alike. The idea of mass society, mass culture and their influence on the general public is viewed by many as frightening, due to the immense power…
TRANSLATING (MR. BENNET’S) MOCKERY: TWO ROMANIAN VERSIONS OF JANE AUSTEN’S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE – Mirela Antonovici
Throughout the years, translation scholars have reached the conclusion that humour is one of the most challenging elements to translate, one of the reasons being its culture-bound nature. In literature, the main sources of humour are usually irony and sarcasm.…
PRESENTISM AND ANXIETIES OF INFLUENCE REVISITED: TWO ROMANIAN VERSIONS OF OSCAR WILDE’S “THE DEVOTED FRIEND” – Denisa Lidia Gafencu
This paper deals with two translations of Oscar Wilde’s The Devoted Friend and how the two translators render some of the phrases into the target language, Romanian. Considering KidLit a valid form of literature, I argue that translating the source…
VERB TENSES IN MEDIA TEXTS: HALF-CONCEALING, HALF-DISCLOSING HEADLINES – Bianca-Iuliana Scutaru
More and more people are using Media these days with a view to finding information in as short a time as possible. Moreover, people can communicate more easily and relax at the same time, reading about different topics on the…
A SYNTACTIC APPROACH TO LAURENCE STERNE’S DIGRESSIVE STYLE IN THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN – Cristina-Elena Brudea
Sterne’s style challenges the syntax of the narrative: multiple subordination to the same clause seems to be a triumphant spider web hiding endless and unusual details that require sustained efforts from the part of the reader not to lose the meaning along…
Messages, Sages and Ages, Vol. 8, No. 2, (2021)
Editor: Onoriu Colăcel
OLD W(H)INE IN NEW BOTTLES: FROM GOTH GIRL’S INTERTEXTUAL FLAVOURS TO TRANSLATING CULTURAL OMNIVOROUSNESS – Daniela Hăisan
Chris Riddell’s Goth Girl five-book series (2013-2017) offers young readers a simple, yet gripping family saga, brilliantly penned in a rather sophisticated literary style and copiously illustrated by the author himself. The first three books in the series (Goth Girl…
IN PURSUIT OF ONE’S SELF-INTEREST: AYN RAND’S LITERATURE AND RIGHT-WING POPULIST DISCOURSES IN ROMANIAN MEDIA – Onoriu Colăcel
Coined by the American writer Ayn Rand, the so-called ‘virtue of selfishness’ may well be indicative of a certain literary legacy that shapes the populist discourses of the right. Such statements maintaining that self-interest is self-esteem – and particularly Rand’s…
Messages, Sages and Ages, Vol. 8, No. 1, (2021)
Editor: Daniela Hăisan
ANDREÏ MAKINE’S ENTRE-DEUX-MONDES: DUALITY AND (MIS)ADJUSTMENT – Cristina Ţurac-Drahta
After fleeing from the Soviet Union to live and write in France, Andreï Makine denounces in his first nine novels the atrocities perpetrated by the Bolshevik regime and accomplishes what he considers to be a writer’s role: provoking readers to…
(MIS)MATCHING CULTURES. WUTHERING HEIGHTS: TRANSLATION JOURNEY IN THE WORLD OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES – Daniela Maria Marțole
The present paper is an overview of the translation history of the novel Wuthering Heights in several Romance languages: French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian. The research focuses on tracing the “cultural afterlife” of the novel in the aforementioned…
(MIS)REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST: OTILIA CAZIMIR AS AN AUTHOR-TRANSLATOR – Daniela Hăisan
Although her name has for a long time been synonymous with children’s poetry mainly, Otilia Cazimir (1894-1967) was also a most influential journalist and an eminently successful (copy)editor. An accomplished polytranslator, she translated into Romanian over 50 volumes mainly from…
THE PARATEXT OF RELOCATION NARRATIVES ACROSS LANGUAGES – Nicoleta-Loredana Moroşan
When applying G. Genette’s transtextuality theory to the reception of the translation of relocation narratives it becomes readily apparent that the latter can be highly prompted by the treatment of the paratextual elements across the languages concerned by the act…
FAKE NEWS AND THE SPREAD OF ONLINE (MIS)INFORMATION – Mădălina-Maria Toma
The phenomenon of misinformation by means of fake online news is an up-to-the-minute topic, important for the field of communication sciences, now more than ever in the spotlight. This article describes the phenomenon of “fake news” and several important concepts…
ACHIEVING UNEQUIVOCAL EMPHASIS IN ENGLISH BY PSEUDO-CLEFTING – Valentina Curelariu
This paper focuses on pseudo-clefting, a syntactic transformation rule (T-rule) frequently used in English to give focal and thematic prominence (cf. Lăcătușu, 2005: 77) to various structural constituents, be them phrases or clauses. As its name suggests, it is related…
Messages, Sages and Ages, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2020)
Editor: Onoriu Colacel
WRITING ABOUT NATURE: AN ECOCRITICAL AND TECHNOBIOPHILIAC PERSPECTIVE – Josie Arnold
This article explores how the theoretical perspectives of ecocriticism and technobiophilia may give us interesting insights into various modes of writing nature from literary to digital and the lived experience. I discuss how we humans are part of nature and…
SELF AND SPACE IN AFTER-POSTMODERNISM: LATİFE TEKİN’S “MANVES CITY” AND JENNI FAGAN’S “THE PANOPTICON” – Hilal Kaya
As we are starting the third decade of the 21st century, there are some cultural shifts in our current condition. The forces that once drove postmodernism seem to be mutating and diminished. Whether it is a matter of mutation or…
THE TOWER OF SUCEAVA AND THE DYNAMICS OF ETHICAL IMAGINATION IN POSTMODERN URBAN SPACES – Mariana Boca
In this article we evoke the story and interpret the symbolism of a marginal, anonymous postmodern Romanian tower, but strongly significant through its particular history. The question we raise is how the mental well-being, the inner comfort of the person…
WOMEN’S CONDITION AND SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS: FEMALE CHARACTERS IN SYLVIA PLATH’S “THE BELL JAR” AND SILVIU ANGELESCU’S “THE FORGERERS” – Simina-Ioana Anton
Silvia Plath’s The Bell Jar is the story of Esther Greenwood. She struggles to overcome the expectations of the 1950’s American society, as she explores her sexuality, breaks down taboos and questions well-established gender roles. Silviu Angelescu’s The Forgerers showcases…
Messages, Sages and Ages, Vol. 7, No. 1, (2020)
Editor: Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh
REVOLUTIONIZING TROPES OF THE IRISH PEASANT: MÁIRTÍN Ó CADHAIN’S IMAGINATIVE ENCOUNTERS WITH MAXIM GORKY – Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh
Máirtín Ó Cadhain, widely regarded as one of the most remarkable Irish language writers of the twentieth century, agitated passionately on behalf of his Irish-language community and strongly criticized the newly formed Irish State for paying lip service to the…
UNDER THE SEA: THE DEPICTION OF GENDER ROLES AND FEMININITY IN ‘THE LITTLE MERMAID’ – Aisling Hoey
The literary genre of fairy tales is globally recognised. Fairy tales are ancient tales shared amongst generations, a memorable feature of childhood to many. Fairy tales carry a social message, a reflection of the cultural values and norms of society…
COMMUNITY AFFAIRS: REWRITING THE TEMPEST IN THE SERVICE OF ART AND CIVILISATION – Marian Rebei
William Shakespeare’s The Tempest comes across as an inviting and resourceful ground that has prompted a range of (re-)reading perspectives and creative appropriations. The reworking of the original plot, characters, motifs, themes and ideas originates in geographical, cultural, social and…
OMG SHAKESPEARE: IDENTITY CONSTRUCTIONS IN SOCIAL MEDIA – Iulia-Andreea Milică
A collection of recent adaptations of four of Shakespeare’s most famous plays (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet) was published by Penguin, in a series entitled OMG Shakespeare. The new titles are: A Midsummer Night #nofilter…
Summer School “English as a Jar of Knowledge 5” (10-14.08.2020)
Asociația pentru Studii Anglofone „Silvia Manoliu” în colaborare cu Facultatea de Litere și Științe ale Comunicării, Universitatea „Ștefan cel Mare” din Suceava, și Casa Corpului Didactic „George Tofan” Suceava organizează Școala de vară în…
Messages, Sages and Ages, Vol. 6, No. 2, (2019)
Editor: Onoriu Colăcel
MARK RAVENHILL’S ENCOUNTER WITH DELEUZE AND GUATTARI: THE ULTIMATE BODY IN SHOPPING AND FUCKING – Tatiana Golban & Sibel Kılınç
This study departs from the widespread interpretations of Mark Ravenhill’s play Shopping and Fucking in terms of the commodification of the self in the consumerist world and proposes instead to explore the self through an engagement with Deleuze’s and Guattari’s…
(STEREO)TYPICAL ISSUES IN TEACHING AND LEARNING NOUNS AND NOUN PHRASES – Daniela Hăisan
Starting from our own experience of teaching morphology (the noun phrase) to first-year students, we are going to identify and label the main challenges this grammar issue poses to both English majors and minors. These challenges have to do basically…
THE POWER OF STORYTELLING: FOLKLORIC ARCHETYPES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON CHARACTER SHAPING IN FELICIA LUNA LEMUS’ TRACE ELEMENTS OF RANDOM TEA PARTIES – Martina Braunegger
The stories we are told while growing up influence our personality and contribute to the shaping of our identity. Fairy tales, witches, curses and beautiful princesses accompany us throughout our lives, regardless of where we grew up and how we…
CLEFTING: A STEREOTYPICAL BUT RESOURCEFUL AND HANDY TRANSFORMATION OF THE ENGLISH SIMPLE SENTENCE – Valentina Curelariu
Starting from our experience as a teacher of the English language interested in the Syntax of the sentence and our familiarity with the EFL methodology, in the present paper we approach the concept of Clefting in English with of view…
THE FESTSCHRIFT: TYPICALITIES OF THE GENRE – Onoriu Colăcel
The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben gives insight into the suspension of legal and ethical norms. Ultimately, his ‘states of exception’ occur quite often. I find that those brought about by the genre of the festschrift are of great interest. Specifically,…
CAUGHT IN THE LABYRINTH OF INTERPRETATION. THE QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN AND LANARK – Daniela Maria Marțole
This paper sets out to make a comparative study between James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Alasdair Gray’s Lanark, analysing the way in which the narrative structure in the two novels is used to…
Call for Papers MSA, Vol 7, No 2, November 2020
Architecture, psychology and self: Explorations of the space(s) between The academic journal Messages, Sages and Ages, based at the English Department, University of Suceava, Romania, invites contributions for an issue focusing on (narratives of) architecture, psychology and self. The theme issue…
Four-Hour Teacher Training Symposium, October 26th, 2019
The Department of Foreign Studies and Silvia Manoliu Association for Anglophone Studies are holding their 1st Four-Hour Teacher Training Symposium on October 26th, 2019 Teacher Trainers: 1. Tinela NASTASI & Anca DĂSCĂLIUC Using Movies and Videos in the English Class…
Messages, Sages and Ages, Vol. 6, No. 1, (2019)
Editor: Roberto Paura
READING REALITY THROUGH SCIENCE FICTION – Roberto Paura & Onoriu Colăcel
Big questions over the future of humankind have traditionally given legitimacy to popular stories about science and technology. Science fiction has long been credited with the ability to anticipate how audiences are prone to interpret the promises of technological progress.…
TRUE NAMES, TRUE NYMS. THE POWER OF TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF IDENTITY – Enrico Beltramini
This essay argues that for cypherpunk activists, the power of technology over individuals and the nature of people’s identity provide the points of difference with cyberpunk writers. For the cyberpunks, identities are framed in context, so that an aggressive elite…
SF NARRATIVES AND THE ORIGINS OF (CULTURAL) REALITY – Katarzyna Filutowska
This paper examines SF narratives, in particular works such as William Gibson`s “Neuromancer” and “Idoru”, or George Orwell`s “Nineteen Eighty-Four”. It aims to demonstrate the original, transcendental character of narrative related to its ability of reaching the very origins of…
RE-CYCLING THE ISLAND-TROPE IN CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE FICTION: MORTAL ENGINES (2018) – Monika Kosa
A recurring trope in art, the Island represents a never-ending source of inspiration for storytellers. As a culturally and historically conditioned notion, the Island has undergone several conceptual changes. Christian Rivers’ Mortal Engines (2018), a multilayered film adaptation of Phillip…
HUMAN INTERACTIONS WITH TECHNOLOGY: INVESTIGATING THE POSTHUMAN IN HBO’s WESTWORLD – Zita Hüsing
In the first moments of the show Westworld, an unidentified voice asks the character Dolores: “Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality?” (“The Original,” 00:02:30-00:02:33). This inquiry invites both Dolores and the viewer to examine not only their…
THE WARNING FUNCTION OF POST-APOCALYPTIC SCIENCE FICTION – Kateřina Houfková
In 1974, the board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday clock, using the imagery of apocalypse (symbolised by midnight) and a nuclear explosion (countdown to zero) to demonstrate how close we are to destroying our civilization…
DEATH POSTPONED: CRYONICS AND A TRANSHUMAN FUTURE – Aline Ferreira
This essay reflects on the concept of cryonics as a technology that will in the future enable cryopreserved people to be returned to life when the cure for the disease that killed them is found. The longstanding dream of prolonging…
Call for Papers MSA, Vol 7, No 1, August 2020
“Intercultural Conversations” The academic journal Messages, Sages and Ages (http://www.msa.usv.ro/), based at the English Department, University of Suceava, Romania, invites contributions for an issue on intercultural conversations. The theme issue is edited by Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh (Dundalk Institute of Technology).…
Summer School “English as a Jar of Knowledge 4” (15-19.07.2019)
Under the auspices of Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava and Suceava County School Inspectorate, Silvia Manoliu Association for Anglophone Studies, and Dimitrie Pacurariu Secondary School, Scheia, are holding their English as a Jar of Knowledge 4 Summer School (15-19.07.2019) The 2019 instalment of…
Teacher Development Day: A Four-Hour Seminar on English Teaching and Learning, May 11th, 2019
Teacher Development Day, May 11th 2019 The Department of Foreign Studies and Silvia Manoliu Association for Anglophone Studies are holding their Four-Hour Seminar on English Teaching and Learning in our series of events Teacher Development Day on May 11th, 2019…
Call for Papers MSA, Vol 6, No 2, November 2019
Archetypes and/or Stereotypes – Mapping Socio-Cultural Realities The academic journal Messages, Sages and Ages (http://www.msa.usv.ro/), based at the English Department, University of Suceava, Romania, invites contributions for an issue on archetypes and/or stereotypes. The theme issue is edited by Dan…
Fourth SMAAS Symposium on English Language Teaching and Learning, 27th October 2018
The Department of Foreign Studies and Silvia Manoliu Association for Anglophone Studies are holding their Fourth Symposium on English Language Teaching and Learning on October 27th, 2018 Teacher Trainers: Nicoleta-Carmen ANDRONACHI – School Curriculum Versus Child Curiosity Diana Oana SABĂU-LUPAȘC –…
Summer School “English as a Jar of Knowledge 3”, (23-27.07.2018)
Under the auspices of Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava and Suceava County School Inspectorate, Silvia Manoliu Association for Anglophone Studies, and Dimitrie Pacurariu Secondary School, Scheia, are holding their English as a Jar of Knowledge 3 Summer School (23-27.07.2018) This year’s instalment of…
April 28th, 2018: Seminar on Lesson Planning
Seminar on Lesson Planning: Lesson Planning – Friend or Foe? The Department of Foreign Studies and Silvia Manoliu Association for Anglophone Studies are holding a Seminar on Lesson Planning: Lesson Planning – Friend or Foe? on April 28th, 2018 Teacher…
Call for Papers MSA, Vol 6, No 1, August 2019
Reading Reality through Science Fiction The academic journal Messages, Sages and Ages (http://www.msa.usv.ro/), based at the English Department, University of Suceava, Romania, invites contributions for an issue on “science fiction as reality-check”; the theme issue is guest edited by Roberto…
Call for Papers MSA, Vol 5, No 2, November 2018
OBSCENITY: “I Know It when I See It” The academic journal Messages, Sages and Ages (http://www.msa.usv.ro/), based at the English Department, University of Suceava, Romania, invites contributions for an issue focusing on the theme of obscenity. We envisage papers that…
Call for Papers MSA, Vol 5, No 1, August 2018
T(r)opophilia: Haunting/Haunted Places The academic journal Messages, Sages and Ages (http://www.msa.usv.ro/), based at the English Department, University of Suceava, Romania, invites contributions for an issue focusing on t(r)opophilia: sense/love of place. If the nineteenth century and the former part of…
Teacher Development Day: A Four-Hour Seminar on English Teaching and Learning, November 4th, 2017
Teacher Development Day, November 4th, 2017 The Department of Foreign Studies and Silvia Manoliu Association for Anglophone Studies are holding their Teacher Development Day: A Four-Hour Seminar on English Teaching and Learning on November 4th, 2017 Presenters: 1. ALINA CREȚU…
Messages, Sages and Ages, Vol. 4, No. 1, (2017)
Editor: Onoriu Colacel
GERHARD RICHTER’S CRITICAL ARTISTIC STRATEGIES: POLITICS, TERRORISM AND WAR – Randall K. Van Schepen
The present paper analyzes two artistic strategies employed by Gerhard Richter to deal with painful recent cultural memory. Two works in particular reveal the relative success of Richter’s varied artistic strategies addressing contemporary political events: 18. Oktober 1977 (1988) and…
A STUDY OF THE THIRD SPACE, HYBRIDITY, AND COLONIAL MIMICRY IN ATHOL FUGARD’S MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA! – Parvin Ghasemi, Samira Sasani, Fatereh Nemati
South Africa, like many other Eastern countries, was a victim of the brutal phenomenon called colonialism. Its people suffered a lot but did not give up protesting against it. Literature was often used as a means to demonstrate the problems…
TRANSYLVANIAN SAXON CHARMS AS PART OF OLD GERMANIC FOLKLORE – Andrea Bargan
The present article deals with archaic pieces of folklore, namely with Transylvanian Saxon (TS) charms recorded in the 19th century. The author, herself a speaker of the TS dialect, translated a number of those charms into English and added comments…
Summer School “English as a Jar of Knowledge 2”, 31.07.2017 – 4.08.2017
Under the auspices of Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava and Suceava County School Inspectorate, Silvia Manoliu Association for Anglophone Studies, and Dimitrie Pacurariu Secondary School Scheia, are holding their English as a Jar of Knowledge 2 Summer School (31.07.2017-4.08.2017). The summer school intends to offer…
Winter School “Let s Get Ready for PET!” (6.02.2017-10.02.2017)
The Faculty of Letters and Communication Sciences and Silvia Manoliu Association for Anglophone Studies are holding their Winter School “Let s Get Ready for PET!” (6.02.2017-10.02.2017). This Winter School is a five-day program, open to any middle school student who…
English As a Jar of Knowledge, 5.09.2016 – 9.09.2016
Under the auspices of Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava and Suceava County School Inspectorate, The Department of Foreign Studies, Silvia Manoliu Association for Anglophone Studies, and Scoala Gimnaziala Dimitrie Pacurariu, Scheia, are holding their Autumn School “English as a Jar of Knowledge” (5.09.2016 – 9.09.2016). The “English…
TEACHER DEVELOPMENT DAY on November 28th, 2015
TEACHER DEVELOPMENT DAY on November 28th, 2015 Teachers are invited to participate in our first weekend seminar entitled Are You Really Talking to Me? Transactional Analysis and Effective Communication Trainers: Lecturer Valentina CURELARIU (PhD) Lecturer Dan-Nicolae POPESCU (PhD) Venue USV,…
Messages, Sages and Ages, Vol. 3, No. 2, (2016)
Editor: Onoriu Colacel
(IR)REVERENTLY TELLING THE OTHERNESS THROUGH PARATEXTUAL NARRATIVE
An inherent component of relocation narratives is the description of the protagonists’ process of building up their intercultural competence – whose range will vary from one expatriate narrator to another. Closely connected to all the four types of cultural intelligence…
SUPERSTITIONS BETWEEN USEFULNESS AND STRIFE
The present paper investigates one of the forms of expression and manifestation belonging to popular religiosity, the superstitions, practices through which people get into disagreement with their self and with the ideology advanced by institutions whose declared mission is to…
VISUAL COMMUNICATION – THE TEXT-IMAGE RELATIONSHIPS IN GUNTER GRASS’ NOVEL ‘DER BUTT’
We are living in an age of visual communication, where the image has taken over the first place as primary message carrier. The concept of “visual communication” has been often discussed not only in literary science but also in text…
BETWEEN THE NORMATIVE AND THE PERFORMATIVE: SEX, PARODY, AND OTHER (IN)TRACTABLE ISSUES IN GEOFFREY CHAUCER’S MILLER S TALE
The article explores how Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales discusses human sexuality as a major thematic concern in both its normative and its performative dimension, and sex, an (in)tractable issue throughout the Middle Ages, as a core motif that helps the…
FIVE STORIES ON LOVE AND TECHNOLOGY
This paper analyses Florina Ilis’s novel ‘Cinci nori colorati pe cerul de rasarit’ while including it in the wider context of posthumanities. Since the writer is also the author of a theoretical study on cyberpunk fiction, I thought it adequate…
TEACHING THE NATION: LITERATURE AND HISTORY IN TEACHING ENGLISH
Teaching English as a foreign language is rooted in the national interest of English-speaking countries that promote their own culture throughout the world. To some extent, ‘culture’ is a byword for what has come to be known as the modern…
THE LANGUAGE OF ROMANIAN POLITICS: REIFYING THE OTHER
The dominant ideology of a society seems to possess the means to infiltrate an individual’s conscience with relative ease. From the perspective of the functions of language, we intend to investigate those fundamental characteristics of the ideological discourse that reify…
Messages, Sages and Ages, Vol. 2, No. 1, (2015)
Editor: Onoriu Colacel
EDIBLES AND OTHER OFFERINGS TO READERS: THE POLITICS OF GENDER AND FOOD IN NARRATIVE FICTION
From the perspective of an apparently absent author, the rhetorical commonplaces of womanhood and nourishment are mentioned in the novels of Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman (1969), and of Jillian Medoff, Hunger Point (2002). Although traditionally relegated to contextualizing devices,…
Messages, Sages and Ages, Vol. 3, No. 1, (2016)
Editors: Nicoleta Cinpoes & Daniela Martole
BY LOOKING LIKING: BAZ LUHRMANN S WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE S ROMEO+JULIET
Twenty years since its release onto the big screen, Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet continues to attract viewers, divide critics and remain unchallenged, in a league of its own, when it comes to film adaptation of Shakespeare’s plays. This article…
MATERNITY AND ABSENCE IN SHAKESPEAREAN ROMANCE
The equivocation of the private life of Elizabethan and Jacobean subjects with the public life of monarchy and state endowed mothers with an import, and therefore a power, not previously acknowledged. These changes provoked a fear of female disruption to…
ADAPTING SHAKESPEARE – CONVERTING SHYLOCK IN MICHAEL RADFORD’S THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
This article aims to explore the extension and evolution of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice through Michael Radford’s 2004 cinematic adaptation. By investigating the concept of adaptation and the significance of intertextuality, Shakespeare’s source text is considered alongside Radford’s twenty-first…
THE NEW ROMANIAN SHAKESPEARE SERIES ON THE MOVE: FROM PAGE TO STAGE AND SCREEN
This article aims at presenting the impact that the New Romanian Shakespeare edition launched in 2010 by George Volceanov has had on the literati and theatres so far. It is, therefore, a stocktaking exercise and its main goal is to…
RELIGION AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO AND JULIET AND THE MUSICAL WORKS IT INSPIRED
Protean Shakespeare thrives not only in the theatre, but also through what Bolter and Grusin call remediation. This article analyses the religious stances in the play and then shows how opera, symphony and musical have been adapting the veteran Elizabethan…
REWRITING AND APPROPRIATING FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI’S STORIA D’ITALIA IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND: GEOFFREY FENTON’S TRANSLATION AND SHAKESPEARE’S HENRY V
The exploration of the multifarious ways in which cultural reworkings and translations have been involved in the transmission and circulation of various discourses, concepts and ideas in different historical periods and places, has become one of the most productive fields…
ETHNOCENTRIC TENDENCIES IN THE ROMANIAN TRANSLATIONS OF MACBETH
Starting from Venuti’s binary classification of translations into ethnocentric and foreignizing this paper focuses on the factors that trigger ethnocentric attitudes in the translation of the play Macbeth in Romanian. Counterbalancing the extremely neologist tendencies at the end of the…
REGIONAL IDENTIFICATION IN PRESENT DAY ROMANIA. THE CASE STUDY OF SUCEAVA COUNTY
In the aftermath of the 1989 Revolution, Romanian mainstream culture set out to reclaim the pre-Communist legacy of the country. The ‘golden age’ of interwar was the obvious choice; both popular and academic debates on Romanian identity looked back at…
REMEDIATING GLOBAL MEDIA IN RECENT SHAKESPEARE PRODUCTIONS ON ROMANIAN STAGES
The paper discusses recent Romanian Shakespeare productions of The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Bucharest. It argues that global mass culture, in the form of TV sitcoms and musicals, YouTube clips and computer games, is re-circulated on Romanian…
Messages, Sages, and Ages, Vol. 2, No. 2, (2015)
Editor: Onoriu Colacel
AN ETYMOLOGICAL PROPOSITION: OLD GERMANIC GOD-SPOD GOOD FORTUNE AS SOURCE OF OLD CHURCH SLAVONIC GOSPOD LORD, MASTER
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 label…
THE PROBABLE OLD GERMANIC ORIGIN OF ROMANIAN iele (evil) fairies
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 many…
SUCEAVA ON CAMERA: THE COUNTY COUNCIL AND LOCAL SELF-IDENTIFICATION IN 21ST CENTURY ROMANIA
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…