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…
Second Annual Symposium on English Language Teaching And Learning, November 19th, 2016
The Department of Foreign Studies and Silvia Manoliu Association for Anglophone Studies held their Second Annual Symposium on English Language Teaching and Learning On November 19th, 2016 Presenter: Silvia Nuțu (Teacher Trainer, Suceava County School Inspectorate) 1. Mnemonics in TEFL…
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Tinela NAstasi “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.” …
THE EXISTENTIAL DEMOCRACY AND ITS PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL The Surprising and Unsettling Challenges Arising from our Inter-connected Information Society
Abstract: 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…
POST-TOURISM AND THE MOTIF OF REGRESSION IN JULIAN BARNES S ENGLAND, ENGLAND
Abstract: 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…
A PERSON NOT IN THE STORY: CLERAMBAULT S AND M. R. JAMES S TEXTILE/TEXTUAL FOLDS
Abstract: 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…
CANON, CLASSICS, TRADITION: DEMARCATION OF THE TERMS
Abstract: 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…
VEILED TRUTH IN ENDURING LOVE AND ATONEMENT
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…