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Structure of narration in the novel "Katzenmusik" and the short story "Endre" from René Fülöp-Miller

Formen des Erzählens im Roman "Katzenmusik" und in der Erzählung "Endre" des Banat Deutschen Schriftstellers René Fülöp-Miller

Author(s): Anita-Andreea Széll / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2007

Structure of narration in the novel „Katzenmusik“ and the short story „Endre“ from René Fülöp-Miller. The subject of the essay is the analysis of a novel and a short story from the transsylvanian german writer, René Fülöp-Miller. The analysis is based on the structural point of view of the works. The text – construction of the writer contains the distinctive features of the German languge and literature at that time. The style is a mixture of land describing novel and portrayaling short stories. René Fülöp-Miller is the outstanding representative of transsylvanian German literature, s multicolour. His literary works, narration and style held the features of the region, but the individually particular description is present all the time.

Book review: Miller, Robert, Day, Graham. 2012. The Evolution of European Identities. Biographical Approaches. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan

Recenzja książki: Miller, Robert, Day, Graham. 2012. The Evolution of European Identities. Biographical Approaches. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan

Author(s): Adam Mrozowicki / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2013

Keywords: Miller Robert; Day Graham; the Evolution of European Identities; biographical approaches

Book review: Miller, Robert, Day, Graham. 2012. The Evolution of European Identities. Biographical Approaches. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan

Stephen Castles, Mark J. Miller, Migracje we współczesnym świecie [Migrations in Contemporary World]

Stephen Castles, Mark J. Miller, Migracje we współczesnym świecie

Author(s): Iwona Wyciechowska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2012

Recenzje; Reviews

Contemporary Issues in Arthur Miller’s Mr Peters’ Connections and Resurrection Blues: Greed and Violence

Contemporary Issues in Arthur Miller’s Mr Peters’ Connections and Resurrection Blues: Greed and Violence

Author(s): Elena Ciortescu,Anca Irina Cecal / Language(s): English / Issue: 20/2015

Keywords: Contemporary world; values; greed; violence

Although both written more than a decade ago, in 1998 and 2002, respectively, Arthur Miller’s plays, Mr. Peters’ Connections and Resurrection Blues, prove timeless in a conflict-dominated world, where traditional values seem dissipated and human interaction is dictated by greed and violence. While Mr. Peters’ is a play on the individual search for meaning in an increasingly exhausting and depressing world, “in Resurrection Blues lifestyle has replaced life. (…) Money, drugs, ambition, pragmatism prevail. Religion is either compromised or appropriated to serve other causes than the spirit.” Miller’s theatre thus becomes both a reflection of the tormented contemporary spirit and a means to investigate the causes which have brought humanity to this point. Once more, theatre proves able to identify and transmit quintessential aspects of humanity and, at the same time, provide clues on how reconciliation can be reached.

Contemporary Issues in Arthur Miller’s Mr Peters’ Connections and Resurrection Blues: Greed and Violence

Lacomia i violen a: aspecte de actualitate în piesele lui Arthur Miller. Mr. Peters’ Connections i Resurrection Blues

Author(s): Elena Ciortescu,Anca Irina Cecal / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 20/2015

Keywords: Contemporary world; values; greed; violence

Although both written more than a decade ago, in 1998 and 2002, respectively, Arthur Miller’s plays, Mr. Peters’ Connections and Resurrection Blues, prove timeless in a conflict-dominated world, where traditional values seem dissipated and human interaction is dictated by greed and violence. While Mr. Peters’ is a play on the individual search for meaning in an increasingly exhausting and depressing world, “in Resurrection Blues lifestyle has replaced life. (…) Money, drugs, ambition, pragmatism prevail. Religion is either compromised or appropriated to serve other causes than the spirit.” Miller’s theatre thus becomes both a reflection of the tormented contemporary spirit and a means to investigate the causes which have brought humanity to this point. Once more, theatre proves able to identify and transmit quintessential aspects of humanity and, at the same time, provide clues on how reconciliation can be reached.

Jamie Miller, Soviet Cinema: Politics and Persuasion under Stalin, London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010

Jamie Miller, Soviet Cinema: Politics and Persuasion under Stalin, London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010

Author(s): Marina Fabian / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1-2/2014

Keywords: USSR;Soviet cinema;

Marijeta Bozovic and Matthew D. Miller, eds. Watersheds: Poetics and Politics of the Danube River. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2016

Marijeta Bozovic and Matthew D. Miller, eds. Watersheds: Poetics and Politics of the Danube River. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2016

Author(s): Anton Kotenko / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 3/2016

Keywords: Watersheds; Culture; Politic; Danube River; Europe; Borders

A Novel Protagonist in Search of Virtues: Blandina, the Main Character of the Novel Bearing the Same Name, by Margareta Miller-Verghy

A Novel Protagonist in Search of Virtues: Blandina, the Main Character of the Novel Bearing the Same Name, by Margareta Miller-Verghy

Author(s): Mihaela Bacali / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

Keywords: Path; ethical values; the lesson of pain; the tyranny of duty; wisdom.

Margareta Miller-Verghy (1865-1953) is a writer that has been completely ignored by literary histories. Her profile is presented only in recent dictionaries and the bibliographical references regarding her activity are limited only to a few dozen titles. In the writer’s biography there are still unexplored aspects and sometimes even flaws. Nevertheless, her life was dedicated to cultural values and her literary activity was rewarded with the Alina Ştirbey Prize and with the Academy’s Award, which she received three times. The novel “Blandina”, written in French and having the subtitle “Une âme s’ouvre à la vie” (“A Soul Opens to Life”), came out in 1980, thirty years after the writer’s death, translated by Emilia Şt. Milicescu. An autobiographical novel, a Bildungsroman that restores the life line, the experiences connected to her intellectual and spiritual formation and her burning passion for work, “Blandina” remained, just like the author’s other novels, unknown to the public, as well as to the chroniclers of those times. The protagonist crosses a path of self-knowledge, doubled by the achievement of virtues. The path to wisdom is sprinkled, just like in fairytales or in initiatory stories, with tasks that she must accomplish by fighting instincts or vices. Thus, writing becomes a place of searching for one’s identity and the ethical dimension is one of the main keys of reading.

DREAM, REALITY AND ILLUSION AS DISCURSIVE CONCEPTS IN AMERICAN DRAMA: O’NEILL, WILLIAMS, MILLER, ALBEE

DREAM, REALITY AND ILLUSION AS DISCURSIVE CONCEPTS IN AMERICAN DRAMA: O’NEILL, WILLIAMS, MILLER, ALBEE

Author(s): Ahmet Beşe / Language(s): English / Issue: 21/2017

Keywords: American drama; discourse; dream; reality; illusion;

The roots of such concepts as dream, reality, and illusion are as old as human history. The human being has dreamt of his/her existence, supernatural events, natural environment, society, and family since primitive ages. Dream might roughly stem from, or, be described as intuition, longing and in this context it is a vivid and enthusiastic emotion and/or sensation. Reality, however, reflects whatever independent from human subconscious, and expresses concrete and objective things in general. A person, mostly, takes refuge in the dreams when he/she makes a choice between reality and sensation, emotion and intuition in his/her memory. Thus, dream in this context comes to mean ‘escape from reality,’ or in other words, dreams are richer and more aesthetic productions than the existing world of human being. Yet, a person should acknowledge the difference between his/her colorful and vivid dream world and real life. Otherwise, a person might fall into dangerous dimensions, and American drama is full of such personalities who are guided by dreams, also called the ‘American dream of success.’ On the other hand, illusion is “the wrong image of reality” (Boorstin 239). Although the dreams sometimes come true, illusion is impossible to reach, in that it is a more dangerous dimension for a person. One cannot, thus, make a comparison between illusion and reality since he/she cannot acknowledge the difference between them. Then, illusion can be described as a real image in mind that does not exist in reality. Illusion carries a logical error or mistake in its context, and mistake is the oldest experience of human being. The aim of this study is to discuss the concepts of dream, reality, and illusion by giving certain impressive examples in American drama texts. Thus, we hope to clarify such concepts, at least in part for better understanding, in their usage by selected authors.

WOOD, Elizabeth J.; MILLER, Rush; KNAPP, Amy. Beyond survival: managing academic libraries in transition

WOOD, Elizabeth J.; MILLER, Rush; KNAPP, Amy. Beyond survival: managing academic libraries in transition

Author(s): Robert Coravu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1-2/2009

Margareta Miller-Verghy or a woman-writer destiny in the first half of the twentieth century

Margareta Miller-Verghy ou un destin de femme-écrivain dans la première moitié du XXe siècle

Author(s): Mihaela Bacali / Language(s): French / Issue: 4/2015

Keywords: Margareta Miller-Verghy; woman-writer; francophonie; feminine literature; superior ethics;

Margareta Miller-Verghy is an unknown writer from de end of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th. She is a bilingual francophone writer and has created novels, education manuals; she has a rich correspondence and an active investment in both social and intellectual life of the time. The article aims to delineate the history of her life from that of other writers of the time and to make her more visible in the field of literary history.

Literature as Conduct: On J. Hillis Miller’s Speech-act Theory and Its Application

Literature as Conduct: On J. Hillis Miller’s Speech-act Theory and Its Application

Author(s): Guo Rong / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

Keywords: speech-act; J. Hillis Miller; Yan Geling; The Ninth Widow;

Since the publication of How to Do Things with Words in 1962, Austin and his speech-act theory caused a great disturbance in the arena of linguistics and literature, not only initiating the study of pragmatics but also triggering the paradigm change of literary studies in the 20th century. Stanley Fish, Wolfgang Iser, Derrida, de Man, J. Hillis Miller, and many other scholars in the 1970s showed great enthusiasm for theory. Yet, the theory’s limitations and applications are widely known. The publication of Speech Acts in Literature and Literature as Conduct by J. Hillis Miller seems to have given a kind of momentum to its development. Taking Miller’s initiatives as a starting point, this article analyzes a specific literary text, The Ninth Widow by a Chinese overseas writer Yan Geling, with an intention to illustrate that the application of the speech-act theory in the literary studies is indeed promising and productive.

Memory and identity construction in Margareta Miller-Verghy’s novel, "A soul opens to life. Blandine"

Mémoire et construction identitaire dans le roman de Margareta Miller-Verghy, "Une âme s'ouvre à la vie. Blandine"

Author(s): Mihaela Bacali / Language(s): French / Issue: 8/2019

Margareta Miller-Verghy is a very little-known writer who published three novels in her lifetime. Published posthumously, translated into Romanian by Emilia St. Milicescu, Une âme s’ouvre à la vie. Blandine is an autobiographical novel that retains the stages of the moral and spiritual formation of the heroine, Blandine, an alter-ego of the author. Through the path of life, Blandine continually strive to cross its limits, implementing an inventory of methods and processes to arrive at the “high level” of virtue. This journey is in fact a journey to oneself that assumes a deep ability to introspection based on a continual reassessment of personality from the perspective of previous self. The Narrator manages to judge herself in the mirror of time and to establish, despite the dissolvating action of time, the unity of her individuality. For Margareta Miller-Verghy’ heroine what represents the constant of her life is the ideal of perfection to which she can only access by an ascetic life, a life that implies many renunciations. This ability to “live synthetically” is in fact the ability to suppress any conflict between past, present and future, notions that all human existence attaches to and access to “inner time” that exceeds history. Thus, through the life experiences that she lives and at the same time she tells, she is only heading towards wisdom. His approach is comparable to that of a pilgrim in search of a promised land.

The Authoritarian Personality and It’s Enemies: Wilhelm Reich, Theodor W. Adorno, Alice Miller and Klaus Theweleit

Osobowość autorytarna i jej wrogowie: Wilhelm Reich, Theodor W. Adorno, Alice Miller i Klaus Theweleit

Author(s): Katarzyna Szumlewicz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4 (29)/2019

Keywords: authoritarian personality; fascism; upringing; family; domestic violence; denial; patriarchy; antisemitism

The essay presents a reconstruction and critical interpretation of four theories of authoritarian personality related to analysis of fascism. The first theory origins from a book The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich, published already before the Second World War, the second theory comes from a famous The Authoritarian Personality by Theodor W. Adorno. The third was presented by Alice Miller in For Your Own Good, and the fourth – by Klaus Theweleit in groundbreaking Male Fantasies. Only one of them, by Miller, refers directly to pedagogy. Nevertheless, the essay presents all four publications in relation to upbringing. The essay raises following questions: what is authoritarian personality? Which elements of education support its development and which prevent it? The theories are presented in relations to each other. Some of their conclusions are consistent, but other present conflicting positions. The dialectical method applied by the author enables to see, among others, how Adorno’s theories are put upside down by Miller, as well as Theweleit, who develops Reich’s ideas. The reconstruction of the dialogue between presented theories enables to put new questions related to the role of authoritarian personality in contemporary times.

TRĂSĂTURI STILISTICE ȘI INTERPRETATIVE ÎN TRIO INO-3 PENTRU PIAN, VIOARĂ ȘI VIOLONCEL DE V. ROTARU

СТИЛЕВЫЕ И ИСПОЛНИТЕЛЬСКИЕ ОСОБЕННОСТИ TРИО INO-3 ДЛЯ ФОРТЕПИАНО, СКРИПКИ И ВИОЛОНЧЕЛИ В. РОТАРУ

Author(s): Natalia Djalilova / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 2(37)/2020

Keywords: TRIO INO-3 for piano; Vladimir Rotaru; chamber ensembles;

The article is focused on the analysis of the TRIO INO-3 for piano by V. Rotaru in terms of the stylistic and interpretative features. In the musical material, the connection between the neofolkloric current and the characteristic traditional features of the trios of Russian and West-European composers is highlighted.

Narcissistic Personality in Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” and Saul Bellow’s “Seize the Day”: A Comparative Study

Narcissistic Personality in Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” and Saul Bellow’s “Seize the Day”: A Comparative Study

Author(s): U.H. Ruhina Jesmin / Language(s): English / Issue: 11(40)/2018

Keywords: Narcissism; American dream; capitalism; denial; fantasy; obsession;

The paper is a comparative study on narcissistic personalities and consequences of their actions in Arthur Miller’s play “Death of a Salesman” (1949) and Saul Bellow’s novella “Seize the Day” (1956). Relational content analysis method is used to explore different degrees of narcissism in the characters – the subject of this paper. The research aims at analyzing narcissistic traits, such as obsession with fostering a self-image, denial, preoccupation with unrealistic grand fantasies of success, obsession with superiority and fear of inferiority, and feelings of specialness in connection with the characters of Willy Loman and his sons in Miller’s play and Dr. Adler and his son in Bellow’s novella. Their desperate and excessive attempts to attain their desired image and to get approval of self-worth in society detach them from their true identity and make them lead a life of failure, alienation, and helplessness as well as suffer from an existential crisis. The narcissistic characters lack empathy and capability of establishing healthy relationships with others they are associated with even as regards parental and conjugal bonding. Instead of healing them, such bonding actually turns out to be a form of bondages that victimizes them. A materialistic and capitalistic society like that of the twentieth century New York was no less for their suffering on both the personal and professional levels. Their fallacious perception of the American Dream is also associated with their narcissist vision of denying their poor status, which was in perpetual conflict with their make-believe images.

DO THE MILLER AND MODIGLIANI RELEVANCE AND IRRELEVANCE THEORIES OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE HOLD AMONG LISTED MANUFACTURING COMPANIES? EVIDENCE FROM KENYA

DO THE MILLER AND MODIGLIANI RELEVANCE AND IRRELEVANCE THEORIES OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE HOLD AMONG LISTED MANUFACTURING COMPANIES? EVIDENCE FROM KENYA

Author(s): Isaac Olufemi Adesuyi / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: Capital Structure; Short Term Debt; Long Term Debt; Tax Shield; Firm Value;

The study tested the Miller and Modigliani relevance and irrelevance theories of capital structure among quoted manufacturing companies in Kenya using a sample of eleven (11) listed manufacturing firms in the Nairobi Stock Exchange in the period 2006 to 2019. The findings invalidated the capital structure irrelevance theory of Modigliani and Miller (1958) among listed manufacturing firms in Kenya. On the other hand, the study finding validated the capital structure theory of Modigliani and Miller (1963). It suggests that capital structure is relevant among the listed firms in Kenya. The study recommends that researches be conducted to test the theories on the market value of small and older firms in sectors of Nigeria economy and in other Sub-Saharan African countries. The study contributed to knowledge in that it is the first to validate the Modigliani and Miller irrelevance and relevance theories of capital structure among quoted firms in Kenya using advance dynamic panel estimation in the form of two step system general methods of moment.

Integrated Language and Literary Approach to LSP Teaching (On the Examples of the Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller)

Integrated Language and Literary Approach to LSP Teaching (On the Examples of the Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller)

Author(s): Olena Lilova,Tamara Jovović / Language(s): English / Issue: 42/2022

Keywords: Business English; idioms; literature; integrated approach; cultural awareness; language competence

Literature can be a great source of creativity in the process of LSP teaching, motivating both instructors and students to explore and ignite their imagination, while also widening the scope of the instruments and methods of language practice. This paper aims to explore the possibilities of incorporating certain elements of literary analysis into LSP classes, using the example of material from two plays that have the common topics of money, gaining or losing capital, and the moral aspects of wealth. They are The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. As is shown, an integrated approach not only offers learners opportunities to develop their linguistic competence and communicative skills, but also enhances their cultural awareness, which is becoming even more important in contemporary multicultural classrooms. These three major aspects of the integrated approach to LSP teaching – language, speech and cultural – are given special attention in the paper. Both The Merchant of Venice and Death of a Salesman are abundant in business idiomatic expressions and culture-specific issues. Therefore, by analyzing the semantics of these idiomatic expressions in literary, authentic texts, learners can adopt and explore real language in context. The wide scope of topics developed in the The Merchant of Venice and Death of a Salesman offers an excellent opportunity for various speech exercises that can be organized in class and presuppose the students’ use of the active lexical items from the field of Business English. As is stated in the paper, by reading and discussing literary texts in language classes, students learn to understand other cultures and societies, which is of paramount importance in the multicultural milieu of the modern world.

Paul Miller-Melamed, Misfire: The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I

Paul Miller-Melamed, Misfire: The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I

Author(s): John Zametica / Language(s): English / Issue: 53/2022

Doina, Bocet, Longing, Shadows, Smoke... A Few Thoughts with Reference to Doina Rotaru’s Aesthetics

Doina, Bocet, Wehmut, Schatten, Rauch... Ein paar Gedanken mit Bezug auf Doina Rotarus Ästhetik

Author(s): Corneliu Dan Georgescu / Language(s): German / Issue: 47/2021

Keywords: flute; Klangfarbe; Shakuhachi; traditional music; lyrical-contemplative;

Besides a series of symphonies and concertos, Doina Rotaru has written countless pieces for chamber ensembles, flutes or other solo instruments. Yet she seems to rank among those few composers who – as Stravinsky said in reference to Vivaldi, obviously seeing him from the perspective of his own extreme stylistic mobility – “write a single composition”. Indeed, their works do not seem to deviate far from a certain line that has been drawn with unusual clarity and certainty since they began their creative work a few decades ago. But this “single composition” is, of course, only a kind of metaphor that metaphorically “misunderstands” a particular stylistic and conceptual unity, but in no way excludes a wide range of compositional procedures and related expressive hypostases. Between them, a particular direction seems to be constantly at the centre of the composer’s attention, a direction that could be called a music of doina, of bocet, of longing, of shadows, of smoke; it is a particular musical world that finds an aesthetic of the ineffable, of discretion, of subtle nuances, of nostalgia, a world with deep resonances in Romanian culture and the Far East.