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…
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…