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The essay aims to investigate the evolution of the poetic vision of an important Romanian poet, Aurel Pantea, as he moves from the attitude of the warrior-poet, to that of a prophetic-poet.
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The essay aims to investigate the evolution of the poetic vision of an important Romanian poet, Aurel Pantea, as he moves from the attitude of the warrior-poet, to that of a prophetic-poet.
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In this paper we provide an overview of some of the distinctive characteristics of the short stories of Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. Through a close reading of a number of her representative works, we attempt at highlighting the intersections between them and the tradition of the modern Gothic (in particular, the Southern Ontario Gothic), as well as the unique way in which the Canadian writer approaches the problematic of the liminal (understood as the locus where the material and spiritual are conflated) by rooting the narrative act in the fragile space delimited by “punctuating” and “shifting”.
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Identity and its different notional implications are keyleitmotifs in many Canadian literary writings as a result of Canada’s complex and distinctive historical and cultural context. Starting from Northrop Frye’s theory on garrison mentality and Margaret Atwood’s Survival, this paper explores the concept of identity and its intricate connections with storytelling in Canadian literature by focusing on particular authors in whose texts the search for an identity occupies a central position.
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The article is an analytical approach to the 2007 Gaspereau edition of the well-known Canadian posmodernist George Elliot Clarke's Trudeau: Long March / Shining Path. Considered together, the book’s explanatory texts and the verse drama / libretto convincingly (de/re)construct the Canadian premier Pierre Elliott Trudeau's personality, his rise-and-fall in a worldwide historical, political, and cultural context, viewed from different vantage points. Though Clarke's new libretto for a jazz opera in collaboration with composer D. D. Jackson bears the “mask” of a classical five-act verse drama, it is actually a hybrid, transgressing the border of genres and corresponding to Linda Hutcheon’s mode of historiographic metafiction. Part and sequel of an extensive study of cultural polyphony in Clarke’s work, the article offers the Romanian readership an insight into Canadian multiculturalism in a moment when the late Pierre Elliott Trudeau's son Justin has become Canada's premier.
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The essay aims to present the main Romanian writers who wrote most of their books in exile, during the Communist regime, the leading voices of the Romanian exile being Monica Lovinescu and Virgil Ierunca.
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Present from the very first volume, Mic tratat de glorie (Small Treatise of Glory), published in 1973, the theme of exile takes on varied forms of manifestation in the poems of Dorin Tudoran. This essay follows the tortuous occurrences of the exile in Tudoran’s poems, but also the implication of the actual exile of the poet eventually materialized biographically twelve years later. Assuredly, the exile in the case of Dorin Tudoran embraces much more than solely a social component.
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This review touches on Andrei Dobos’ poetry book Spiro, published in 2016 at Charmides publishing house. I hereby argued that his book possesses two kinds of discursive tendencies that seemed more or less to contradict each other in their attempt to offer a unitary perspective. On the one hand, his attempt at creating a neo-bucolic and hymnic voice succeeds precisely because he borrows the posthuman detachment of his younger peers. When, however, he attempts to employ musicality and textual playfulness, the voice quivers and ends up sounding unconvincing.
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Prezență sau absență (Presence or Absence) is a volume which rarely shows the actual trajectory of the drama, as it is usually packed in the form of a liberal discourse with an existentialist-sensual stake through which Alexandra Văcăroiu's poems, minimally-shaped, lucidly and cynically underline the affective tension. From the same tough sublayer also derive Ligia Dan's poems from Metonimiile morții (Death's Metonymies), where the reflections on the issue of death and the tense wire of the poems are mixed in an incandescent process of trauma exorcism, an exercise which the poet operates with maximum freedom and overflowing energy.
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“The Diviners” is the final and sovereign piece in Laurence’s Manawaka cycle. To think of Laurence’s novel in terms of what is peculiarly Canadian about it, brings forth the idea of identity and the compulsive concern with what can be generally denominated as survival, understood both in the sense of struggle towards the preservation of the self in a world perceived if not as hostile, at least as tough and contrary to individual interests or aspirations; the continuity of the tribe, of the people, within a physical geography; and in the sense of cultural endurance, conservation of the ancestors’ arsenal of spiritual values, their moral legacy. Margaret Laurence’s novel is not exempt from the “obsessions” which haunt the Canadian collective consciousness.
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This paper frames an ingression on the poetry of Ioan Es. Pop seen as a collection of photos of nothingness and deception. The rhythm of the poetry is fractured and the contemplation of existence changes into a direct notation of a reality that rejects the melancholically texture.
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At the beginning of the Meiji Era, Japan underwent a process of extensive modernization. Preeminent writers’ works were imported and translated into Japanese to serve as models for the new society that was envisioned as the future Japan. The presence of realism, objectivism and the protagonists’ adherence to social norms were deciding factors as to whether a literary work was adopted as such or not. Jane Austen’s emphasis on behavioural codes resonates with the Japanese proclivity to adhere to strict rules of conduct. As a result, authors such as Lafcadio Hearn and Natsume Soseki will make efforts to familiarize the Japanese readership with her work. The influence of “Pride and Prejudice” will prompt Yaeko Nogami to write her liberal-minded heroine, Machiko, in Elizabeth Bennett’s image, to underline the social changes inherent to the Meiji mentality. Both female protagonists reflect proto-feminist challenges to the existing models of femininity in conservative social contexts.
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The article aims to set off the complexity of the novel’s narrative structure and its ideas showinmg that it is buil;t on the archetypal pattern of theprotagonist’s external and internal quest for identity. Morag Gunnis a forty-seven year old writer asnd mother of eifhteen-year old daughter, Pique.The primary action begins with Pique’s flight from home, a event that triggers off Morag’s retrospective her memories, which revelas to her the parrallelism between herlife’s search and that of her daughter;s , conclusion which she reaches the autumn of the same year.The author shows how through/ association with present incidentsthe primary narrative embeds events that conjure up the picture of Morag’s childhood, teen age and youth, drawing up the portrait of a Canadian woman artist.Morag realizes in retrospect that her options have determined her present identity, which the redear may see as a triple paradigm, that of modern woman,that of a postmodern artist and that of conteporary Canada.
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The text reviews the poetic debuts and analyzes their place in the the Romanian contemporary poetry.
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Alex Goldis discusses in his review the hermeneutical perspectives of a book of literary criticism dedicated to contemporary Romanian poetry, signed by Gratiela Benga.
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The author of the review discusses the minimalist poetry of Ioan Milea from his 2013 volume, entitled Fulgurations.
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The text is a review signed by Mihaela Vancea, dedicated to a novel written by a Romania writer, entitled The World War of Smokers (2015).
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The text is a review of the volume of poetry signed by a young Romanian poet, Alex Vasies, entitled The Installation.
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The text presents the evolution of t.s. khasis' poetry and its distinctive poetic voice in the picture of contemporary Romanian literature.
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The essay presents the poetry of Antonio Della Rocca.
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The text is a review of a novel signed by Silviu Lupascu, entitled The story of Green Tea.
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