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Book Review on Ghențulescu, R. (2019). Etică academică. București: Conspress.
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While there are major works tracing the themes of belonging and longing for home in contemporary fiction, there is no current study adequately addressing the connection between dystopian novel and nostalgia. This paper aims to illustrate how the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood uses nostalgia as a framework to level a critique against technological utopianism in her dystopian novel Oryx and Crake (2003). The first novel in Atwood’s “Madd Addam Trilogy” problematizes utopian thought by focusing on the tension between two utopian projects: the elimination of all suffering and the perfection of human beings by discarding their weaknesses. Despite the claims of scientific objectivity and environmentalism, the novel exposes the religious and human-centered origins of Crake’s technological utopian project. Atwood’s Oryx and Crake is an ambiguous work of science fiction that combines utopian and dystopian elements into its narrative to criticize utopian thought.
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This paper revisits the issue of the importance of context and critical thinking in translation and translation training by examining the linguistic controversy over the translation of the word mokusatsu in the statement of Japan’s Prime Minister Suzuki in response to the Potsdam Declaration. There is a widespread belief that the bombing of Hiroshima in August of 1945 was caused by a translation mistake. The author sides with the opposing view, i.e. that such an approach takes one word of the statement out of context in order to shift the focus of the problem from politics to linguistics. The message of the statement is unambiguous when analyzed in its entirety. As a result, it is obvious there was no translation mistake and the bomb was dropped for reasons other than translation quality. Sadly enough, the myth lives on as a textbook example of ‘the worst translation mistake in history” whereas it should be taught as an example of probably ‘the worst translation myth in history’.
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Communication among human beings cannot be stopped. More specifically, digital communication is the sign of our times and the main symbol of developed western civilization in the late 20th and early 21st century. Even though the “digital era” was inexorably on the rise in recent decades even before the coronavirus raised its ugly head in 2020, now it is relentlessly bound to increase its presence and keep a firm grip on our daily routine. Digitalization has come to stay and the number of routes deriving from the new circumstances of imposed limitation of human contact, interaction and intercourse are expected to grow and grow: the sky is the limit.
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In "Kafka's Reception in Bulgaria until 1989" Mladen Vlashki combines the modern theory of cultural transfer with the sociological theories of the field and with the system theory. The monograph presents the most essential characteristic of the writer's work, against the background of which the hypothesis of future difficulties in front of Kafka's reception in view of the literary field in Bulgaria acquires density. A solid reconstruction of the trajectories of Kafka's reception in France, England and the United States has been made, which imposes it as a classic of modernity. Compared to the reception in other socialist countries and in the context of the Cold War, additional factors determining the Bulgarian reactions are revealed. Emphasis is placed on the "cases" Minko Nikolov and Dimitar Stoevski.
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The article examines the work and biographies of Romos Filiras and Napoleon Lapathiotis, representatives of the generation of poets from the first decades of the 20th century, considered to be the forerunners of Greek 1920s poetic cosmopolitanism. It also presents an analysis of the ‘hypostases’ of the mask motive in their work. Opinions of literary critics from different university schools regarding the considered authors are compared.
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Book review: Christakoudy, Fotiny. Problems of Greek Literary Development 1880-1930. (Studies on Modern Greek Poetry). Sofia, Ni plus, 2020, 255 p.]
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Book review: La Pensée sur l’art dans le roman des XXe et XXIe siècles. Edited by Simona Carretta, Bernard Franco and Judith Sarfati Lanter. Classiques Garnier, 2019, ISBN : 978-2-406-08394-8.
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The volume entitled Componenta mediatică a conflictelor militare is on the Romanian specialty market since 2018, under the signature of professor Nicoleta Annemarie Munteanu, and in the editorial realization of TechoMedia in Sibiu.This research Vol.ume proposes an inter- and multidisciplinary approach to the relationship between the media and the military organization - especially during military crises and conflicts.From a varied and useful content, remains noteworthy the author's contribution to crisis and conflict-specific media communication strategies: journalistic methods of crisis and conflict prevention (delimited in two categories, private and institutional); journalistic strategies for crisis and conflict prevention; the principles of media communication in crisis and conflict prevention.
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Folk music and folk culture of Bengal had a profound effect on Rabindranath’s musical essence. The various forms of folklore, the beauty of its rhyme and literary value influenced the poet’s literary pursuits in many ways. Rabindranath brought a new form by breaking and re-modelling the structure of various folk-melodies and by mixing those with his self-created tunes. This paper will try to examine the influence of folk music in Rabindra Sangeet and will try to trace the journey of Rabindranath’s perception of the same.
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Understanding the sources of national socialism requires exploring religious and philosophical sources of German culture. Such research was carried out by Bogdan Suchodolski and Leon Halban, whose work was included in this book. Their research shows that it is necessary to refer to axiological issues when analyzing contemporary political phenomena.
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