WITH CONSTANTIN NOICA, ON LITERATURE AND LITERARY CRITICISM

Author(s): Magda Wächter / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

With Constantin Noica, On Literature and Literary Criticism. This study analyses the views expressed by Constantin Noica in the articles he published on literature and literary criticism during the interwar period. Somewhat reserved towards the literary-artistic phenomenon in general, the philosopher proved nonetheless to be an avid critic, an excellent essayist and a brilliant polemicist. In fact, his entire work was to be appreciated, both by literary critics and by philosophers, for its literary qualities, at a time when philosophical discourse itself displayed a penchant for literariness.

ANCA PEIU, ROMANTIC RENDERINGS OF SELFHOOD IN CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE. BUCUREŞTI: C.H. BECK, 2017, 380 P.

Author(s): Andrada Danilescu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

Anca Peiu connects eleven essential American writers under the central theme of self and its expressions, seen as rejecting the anxiety of influence and constructing profoundly original, characteristic modes of expression. Peiu focuses on the theme of selfhood "in/or poetry" for five of the trademark figures and "in/or story-telling for other six in an attempt to investigate the thematic as well as the foundational pillar of the American literature. Aware of her markedly ex-centric, East European position, the author decides to reiterate her standing as an advantage which offers her the opportunity to read and interpret these canonical, widely discussed and analyzed figures from a novel point of view. Peiu insists on the highly selective and subjective nature of the process, the final products serving as a guide for both students and American literature novices eager to expand their vision of the world literature and its continuum which spans continents and centuries.

FLORIN ONCESCU, JURNALUL LUI SAKE [SAKE’S DIARY]. CLUJ-NAPOCA: LIMES, 2017, 224 P.

Author(s): Monika Koșa / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

Florin Oncescu’s most recently published novel, Jurnalul lui Sake [Sake’s Diary], is a delightful and humorous piece of writing that playfully thematizes contemporary issues such as the complex articulations of relocation and bicultural identities. Florin Oncescu is a prominent and idiosyncratic contemporary Romanian writer, who was born in 1960 in Constanța. He has graduated from Polytechnic University of Bucharest in 1985 and permanently moved to Canada in 1995. He has been living in Montréal ever since, with short periods spent in the United States. Nevertheless, he is a well-known and active writer in the Romanian literary landscape. Florin Oncescu has published several volumes of fiction so far: Dispoziție depresivă (Ramuri, Craiova, 1994), La umbra unui enciclopedist (Omniscop, Craiova, 1999), Întoarcerea (Ramuri, Craiova, 2003), Ilustrate din America (Limes, Cluj-Napoca, 2007). He is a member of the Romanian Writers’ Union and regularly publishes in Pagini românești.

CRISTINA CHEVEREȘAN, ADINA BAYA. CELULOZĂ VS. CELULOID – DESPRE CĂRȚI ȘI ECRANIZĂRI. TIMIȘOARA: EDITURA UNIVERSITĂȚII DE VEST, 2015, 240 P.

Author(s): Nóra Máthé / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

Celuloză vs. Celuloid – Despre cărți și ecranizări is a collaborative effort by Cristina Chevereșan and Adina Baya. The two authors come from different backgrounds: Chevereșan’s main research interests include American studies, while Baya’s academic formation revolves around media studies. Both of them, however, show interest in a comparative approach. In an interview with Richard Martin for the British Association for American Studies, Chevereșan describes her own teaching method for American studies as interdisciplinary, which means she applies varied tools to understand American literature and culture. Baya focuses on the intersections of journalism, cinematography, and literature. Her article titled “Relax and Enjoy These Disasters”: News Media Consumption and Family Life in Don DeLillo’s White Noise (Neohelicon, June 2013) examines representations of media in a work of fiction. The collaboration between the two authors results in a special synthesis of different perspectives.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, SONNETS/SONETE: O NOUĂ VERSIUNE ROMÂNEASCĂ, TRANSLATED BY CRISTINA TĂTARU. CLUJ-NAPOCA: LIMES, 2011, 315 P.

Author(s): Diana Melnic,Vlad Melnic / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

To translate poetry of any kind always takes a certain amount of courage on behalf of the translator. Indeed, some argue that the poetry itself is precisely what is lost in the process, yet, as Allen Tate once famously stated, translation remains “forever impossible and forever necessary.” This is particularly the case with Shakespeare’s sonnets, a kind of poetry riddled with rhetorical devices, powerful imagery, as well as figures of speech such as similes, metaphors, and synecdoche, all of which confer to it its aesthetic quality, but are, at the same time, nearly impossible to isolate from their source language. Furthermore, while Shakespeare did write about ageless themes, including love, lust, the brevity of life, or the impermanence of beauty, his sonnets are nevertheless deeply rooted in their time by means of clever uses of intertextuality and the nuances of a sixteenth century, rural Stratfordean parlance.

VASILE MUSCĂ, ILUMINISM ȘI ISTORISM [ENLIGHTENMENT AND HISTORICISM]. CLUJ-NAPOCA: GRINTA, 2008, 191 P.

Author(s): Amelia Precup / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

What is the Enlightenment?” is one of the most significant questions ever asked, a question that, in many ways, has shaped the world we live in. Either blaming or celebrating the movement, the answers to this question have attempted to contribute to the understanding of the modern world for more than two centuries now. The question started to infiltrate the European political and philosophical thought in the seventeenth century , although it received full articulation only in the late eighteenth century, when it engendered a spirited discussion about what had already been perceived as a decisive shift in Europe’s sense of itself.

Idioms with the Lexemes MOUTH in English and USTA in Serbian: A Cognitive Approach

Author(s): Jelena Lj. Biljetina / Language(s): English Issue: 18/2018

This paper explores the idioms in the English and Serbian language, which contain the lexemes mouth and usta. The idioms are analysed from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, with the main aim of finding the cognitive mechanisms that underlie these idioms and make it possible to understand them. The idioms are grouped according to the concepts they express and are compared and contrasted in order to find similarities and differences among the idioms in the two languages. The analysis results show that there are not many similarities in the way the idioms are lexicalised in English and Serbian, but that there is significant overlapping in their conceptual­isation, which leads to the conclusion that these two languages share universality in conceptualising the world around us.

Базични глаголи емоционалних односа с негативним денотативним значењем у руском и српском језику (ненавидеть : мрзети; ненавидеть друг друга : мрзети се)

Author(s): Tijana Balek / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 18/2018

This paper deals with ‘basic’ verbal lexemes in Serbian and Russian languages denoting emotional relations, as well as with their grammatical derivatives from both the syntactic (emphasis on valence features) and aspectual perspective (aspectual specificities of both motive and derived lexemes). Given the fact that these are ‘basic’ verbs in the languages compared, the analysis is likely to show a significant level of similarity between the corpora studied.

Albanian Etymological Notes (Balkan Etymologies 146—185)*

Author(s): Vladimir Orel / Language(s): English Issue: 6/1996

On the Formation of the Hittite Nasal Verbs in -na-/-niya-

Author(s): Georgi Rikov / Language(s): English Issue: 6/1996

L’absence du comparatif et du superlatif en hittite est-elle un archaïsme?

Author(s): Witold Mańczak / Language(s): French Issue: 7/1997

Hittite (i)yanna-, Tocharian B yanem and the Indo-European Nasal Infix Présents of the Type CRenhx

Author(s): Georgi Rikov / Language(s): English Issue: 7/1997

The Vocabulary of Phrygian

Author(s): Vladimir Orel / Language(s): English Issue: 7/1997

Zum Vokalismus des Dakischen

Author(s): Ivan Duridanov / Language(s): German Issue: 7/1997

Notes on Eteo-Cretan

Author(s): Vladimir Orel / Language(s): English Issue: 7/1997

On Hittite huila- and Greek ἁλοῶαι

Author(s): Georgi Rikov / Language(s): English Issue: 7/1997

Србистика данас 2018

Author(s): Danijela D. Jelić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 17/2018

Report on: Naučna konferencija Srbistika danas – Srpska filologija i nacionalno stradanje (Filološki fakultet Univerziteta u Banjoj Luci, 2018).

Една адаптирана разработка на урок по български езикв V клас

Author(s): Irina Boteva-Vladikov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2015

O rozwoju polszczyzny na Ziemiach Zachodnich i Północnych. Kierunki Badań

Author(s): Bogusław Wyderka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

This is a review article. The author discusses the social and cultural bases of language changes caused by post-war migrational movement, resettlement of populations and social and structural transformations. The article categorises the populations which settled the Western and Nor­thern Territories in demographic, cultural and linguistic terms. This highlights the situation of the in­digenous population and its role in the process of integration. The article analyses the causes and determinants of the changes which were nationwide, local and individual character. It touches on the issue of the definition of the term “linguistic integration” and the evolution of this concept. The article presents the development of methodology and research achievements.

С грижа за съдбата на българистиката

Author(s): Magdalena Kostova-Panayotova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2019