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Messages, Sages and Ages, Vol. 5, No. 2, (2018)

Editor: Onoriu Colacel

Admin28 November 201812 June 2019 Issue: 2018 - Autumn

“FRANTIC FUN AND HIGH SPIRITS”: NAVIGATING THE URBAN OBSCENE IN PETER ACKROYD’S QUEER CITY – Fabian Ivanovici

An atmosphere of uneasy reservation still pervades debates concerning sexualities and gender identities that do not fall in line with social norms and codes of propriety. Imagining a subject outside the discourse of heterosexuality remains an act fraught with incertitude,…

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KNOWING FROM WITHIN: THE OBSCENE BODY IN “THE SQUAW” – Luminiţa Elena Turcu

The article focuses on the relationship between woman’s body and text in a piece of short Gothic fiction by Dracula’s author. Woman’s body is in Stoker’s “The Squaw” an obscene text that can be “read” and is open to exploration…

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HARDCORE HORROR: THE PLEASURES AND DISPLEASURES OF BREAKING CINEMATIC TABOOS – Jennifer Drissel

Although films of both the “Torture Porn” and “New Extremism” subgenres have been characterized as physically hard to watch, films of the “Hardcore Horror” subgenre push this characteristic to the extreme by purposely tackling taboo issues such as incest, bestiality,…

Admin28 November 201828 November 2018 Issue: 2018 - Autumn

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 –…

Admin24 September 201827 October 2018 Past Events, SMAAS events

Messages, Sages and Ages, Vol. 5, No. 1, (2018)

Editor: Onoriu Colacel

Admin27 August 201812 June 2019 Articles, Issue: 2018 – Summer

SPATIAL METAPHORS AND HAUNTED SPACE: SEMANTICS OF ARCHITECTURAL THERAPEUTIC ENCOUNTERS – STEPHANIE LIDDICOAT

Spaces for therapy and counselling are haunted spaces, spaces whose physical characteristics manifest past inhabitation and cue connections to another’s trauma. This paper explores findings from a research project which examined the perceptions of spatiality of individuals who self harm,…

Admin27 August 201828 November 2018 Articles, Issue: 2018 – Summer

NARRATED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS: STORYTELLING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF VIDEO GAME SPACES – DIANA MELNIC

Virtual space is one of the fundamental building blocks of any digital game. It ties directly into the notions of immersion and interactivity, both of which are enacted in relation to space, and it is therefore one of the components…

Admin27 August 201828 November 2018 Articles, Issue: 2018 – Summer

“VOWELS PLOUGHED INTO OTHER: OPENED GROUND”: DIGGING THROUGH HISTORY IN THE HAUNTED LANDSCAPES OF SEAMUS HEANEY’S POETRY – AOILEANN NÍ ÉIGEARTAIGH

For the Irish poet Seamus Heaney, developing a sense of place is both a physical and spiritual experience. His poems explore his sensory delight in the landscape, its natural beauties and innate sense of freedom allowing him the space within…

Admin27 August 201828 November 2018 Articles, Issue: 2018 – Summer

MACABRE AND GRAVE-NOURISHED FANTASY IN EDGAR ALLAN POE’S HAUNTED HOUSES – JUSTINE SHU-TING KAO

Poe’s “grave-nourished fantasy” is incorporated with “the energy of hope” for an encounter with the dead in an imaginary space. In his myth-infused Gothic house, the protagonist might conform to death (e.g., “The Assignation”), or idealize destruction or death (e.g.,…

Admin27 August 201828 November 2018 Articles, Issue: 2018 – Summer

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…

Admin24 June 201827 July 2018 Past Events, SMAAS events

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…

Admin20 March 201828 April 2018 Past Events, SMAAS events

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…

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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…

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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…

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