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…