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In this article, the author proposes an incursion through the work of Alonso Cueto (b. 1954, Lima).
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In this article, the author proposes an incursion through the work of Alonso Cueto (b. 1954, Lima).
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This paper aims to problematize the scientific discourse in the field of humanities in the context of the fundamental changes that have taken place in the life, roles, and the socioeconomic and cultural impact of universities. The premise that drives the present research is the stringent need for conceptual and applied innovation to have an ethical dimension, to be supported by values such as responsibility and truth. The aim of this study is two-fold. First, it investigates two subgenres of scientific discourse, seen prototypically - (literary) text analysis and the linguistic corpus, to unravel how values are involved at any stage of scientific research, from the design of the approach to the interpretation and communication of research findings. Second, it bridges a gap in the specialized literature where there is little debate regarding the specific ways of putting these values into practice (i.e., into discourse). The paper demonstrates that the two subgenres under investigation, although much and obviously different, calibrate their tools and procedural scenarios by reference to the values of responsibility and respect.
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The idea of expression (which tends to become an expressional dimension of everything which is written or said in Mureșan's poetry) can also come from the state of (re)creating world from the perspective of the -so called- <transfigured> image of the reality. According to this perspective, we will try to analyze the onto-poetic dimension of a world in which the gap between essence and appearance reveals the fact that characters or situations are looking for a meaning of their own lifes hidden beyond symbolic masks of signs or in-signs.
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The purpose of this working is to present the intellectuals of the post-war period and those of the inter-war period. The intellectuals who fall into these periods are: Ștefan Gheorghidiu, the main character in the novel Last night of love and the first war night of the writer Camil Petrescu, inter-war intellectual and Victor Petrini, the main character in The most beloved of the Earth, a novel written by Marin Preda. This belongs to the post-war period. The two intellectuals live in different periods, and the intensity with which they look at life is different. These are some of the most memorable characters in Romanian literature by their intellectual structure and by the dimension of their spiritual state.
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With this paper we intend to bring forward the dynamics of the chromatic term black in the lyrical poetry of Mihai Eminescu. The corpus that we will utilize has been created through the excerpt of significant contexts from The dictionary of poetic language of Eminescu, supervised by Dumitru Irimia. In order to establish a relevant representation of the linguistic and semantic units of the colour black, utilized in the whole lyrical poetry of Eminescu, in our analysis we will consider both the poems published during the life of the author and the ones published after the death of the author. We will notice that in some contexts the colour black maintains itself in the denotative meaning, situated at a descriptive level. In other contexts it refers to the multiple dimensions of the connotative meaning. Therefore, with this study, we aim to pursue and analyse the defining structures utilized in the lyrical poetry of Eminescu, in which the chromatic term black is used. After we identify its own contextual significance of this colour and illustrate it through a few selected sequences, we will classify the structures in which the chromatic term black is used and we will also interpret them from a semantic and stylistic point of view.
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This article separates the fragments in which reading scenes appear from the rest of the text. These scenes are analyzed in relation to the theme of the novel. The relationship between Allan and Maitreyi, the main characters of the novel, revolves around books. The two consolidate their love story in the library, searching in the novels for answers. Through books they send coded messages, exchange knowledge and discover with surprise the fascinating power of words.
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The novel Străinii din Kipukua records the debut of Valeriu Anania, the former Metropolitan of Cluj, in prose. First appeared in 1979, the novel argues about the Hawaiian Gods’ fight for supremacy. The Gods have their reasons for the way they behave, regardless of it is about revenge, love or protecting their loved ones. They use all sorts of weapons in this fight, weapons like: lie, political power, sexual promises etc. The protagonist is a resurrected European Orthodox priest, who lives amazing events. The ending of the novel is surprising.
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This article presents the place where Ștefan Bănulescu's prose falls. The Danube writer presents a new world that amazes the readers. Ștefan Bănulescu's style contains a phrase composed beautifully, artistically and ceremoniously, because he uses language accessible to all that is based on comics. Furthermore in the volume ꞌꞌIarna bărbațilorꞌꞌis a clear connection between people and totemic animals.
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The main feature of Gellu Naum’s poetry it could be considered the adaptation of the text to the current times, through the symbols and language used. In order to do that, Gellu Naum should eliminate the archetypes from his creation, but this is an impossible task, because by cutting the links with the past, myths, symbols or archetypes the literature would lose everything that makes it creative, resulting a mixture of technical formulations. What Gellu Naum brings new is the adaptation of the female myth to the modern era. This rewriting shouldn’t be seen in a negative way, because the changes are made in order to strengthen and actualize the image of the female archetype. In conclusion, Gellu Naum carries the reader through the space of modern love in a different way than we are used to. He does not include drama in the love often seen as a sober feeling, but treats it with humour. By doing so, the love and the couple in love vary from the ordinary domestic couple, to the modern couple, with the independent woman, who makes the courting herself.
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The historical and heroical figure of Christopher Columbus, which is unfailingly associated with the discovery of the Indies, represents one of the favorite topics for the postmodern Latin American authors. The postmodernist rewritings and reinterpretations of his life are offering another point of view with regards to the conquest of the Indies, as most of historical documents were written from the point of the European colonizer, without any regard to the opinions of the Latin-Americans. These fictional works try to find new meanings in the past events, and based on the present social and political ideologies, and through imagination, they recreate the past and demystify Columbus’s figure, exposing a different version of the historical facts, where history is no longer the only accepted truth. Analyzing three different novels from authors originating in Cuba, Mexico, Paraguay, we will show how historical fiction has restaged the past, demystifying Columbus’s heroic conduct and his conquest of America.
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Surrealism is best known for the powerful visual imagery presented in art in the 20th century. This cultural movement was also envisioned within literary creations and its core feature describes the flow of the unconscious ideas that would reveal the true essence of man. The novel written by Boris Vian, Mood Indigo is an example of such surreal space of thought. Striking is the revealing of a world dominated by material/mundane things which diminishes almost completely the spiritual. This paper follows the substratum of the text and analyzes how vital concepts such as “love”, “marriage”, “family” are distorted and apparently harming for the human. How and why are they harming? The analysis offers some answers to these questions and challenges the reader to understand how one can discover his/her true essence through such reading experiences as this novel.
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When reading short stories by Panait Istrati and Salman Rushdie, one easily remembers a famous character from universal literature mentioned with awe in the first case and paternally, almost condescendingly, in the second. In this article, we analyse the way these authors refer to Hamlet as a character, either by taking him as granted, or by minimising his importance, reinventing him, replacing his creator, focusing mainly on the literary style, although explanations could equally be found in the novelists' biographies.
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The present study, „Points of view on the detective novel” deals with „a kind of literature apparently mourning”. In fact, the aim of this study is to approach the detective novel by presenting several meanings of the term. The different points of view on the term „detective novel” made it a hybrid literary genre, a border text between literature and paraliterature. Its definitions are, as the study will show, incomplete, contradictory or complementary. The issues related to the detective novel seen as game, drama, reading machine, or problem-novel, as it was considered since the very appearance of this genre, have been gradually expanding. Finally, the definition of the detective novel could be greatly extended, from a literature for escaping from literature towards a literature at the edge of literature, that is paraliterature, towards an objective literature, lacking sentimentalism, which calls on intelligence and logic. The main points of view belong to Roger Caillois, Thomas Narcejac, Karel Čapek, W H Auden, Daniela Zecca, Marjorie Nicholson.
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One of the waiting spaces in Matei Visniec’s dramaturgy is the battlefield. Most of the characters created by Matei Vişniec are forced to wait in different spaces (waiting room, battlefield, cell, boarding house, cellar, hospital, city, fountain, etc.), without understanding what are they waiting for. The characters live in fear, they do not find the strength to believe and act to find a solution. The fear felt by the characters gradually turns into anguish and culminates in alienation. Trying to find their enemy, constantly seeking to highlight the vices and mistakes of those around them, Vişniec's characters discover that evil, hell is inside of them.
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This paper is meant to demonstrate Walt Whitman` s poetic filiation, being the first illustrious American poet envisaged by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his essays, whose poetics is conceived in Emersonian terms and whose poetic achievement was developed in the direction of chief line indicated by Emerson.
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The study analyzes Boris Vian’s novel “The Foam of the Days” from the perspective of its poeticity. The author examines the construction of the character, space and time, as well as the linguistic particularities of this novel, reaching the conclusion that “The Foam of the days” fully deserves its characterization as a “poetic novel”.
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The article deals with the semantic analysis of terminological metaphors in the Spanish language of economics. The objective is to identify and define all possible source domains in terminological metaphors that serve to name an abstract domain in the language of economics. It complements the conceptual taxonomies in terminological metaphors mentioned and studied so far and seeks to prove that technical metaphorical terms are images of human existence and everything related to it. It also aims to establish which conceptual domain is the most frequent in the formation of metaphorical terms in the language of economics.
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This article presents the problem of modal verbs in Spanish from the perspective of Langacker’s cognitive grammar. Langacker defines modal verbs as grounding elements that can express implicit meanings and thus increase the degree of subjectivity of the utterance. Unlike English modal verbs, which are completely unanchored and fully grammaticalized, Spanish modal verbs exhibit verb inflection. The aim of this article is to compare the construals with and without a modal verb and to point out the differences between the positions of conceptualizers (speaker and addressee). For these purposes several graphical representations are proposed throughout the article. As the proposed schemes show, the position of conceptualizers plays a key role in the conception of any construal. It is concluded that a construal with a modal verb has a more subjectively anchored interaction between the two conceptualizers and that the speaker is always a completely implicit part of the utterance.
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The article analyses the influence of Vladimír Šmilauer on the character of the Journal of Modern Philology (Časopis pro moderní filologii, ČMF). Šmilauer was associated with the Journal for Modern Philology as an author and an editor for Slavic studies (1939–1951). The article describes the main linguistic/philological topics contributed to the magazine by Šmilauer (Slovak studies and the history of the Slovak language, new Czech, e.g. orthography, reports on foreign literature, etc.). The period of Šmilauer’s work at the ČMF falls into a time of socially problematical political systems: the Nazi protectorate after 1939 and the communist terror after 1948. On the example of the case of Šmilauer, we will show how and when political systems were directly reflected in the philological content of the Journal for Modern Philology
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The objective of the paper is to describe the principles for building the onemillionword DIA1900 Corpus consisting of Czech texts published between 1851 and 1900, designed to be both balanced and representative. There are two main goals determining the methods of corpus building and the decision to develop new tools tailored to the special needs of 19th century Czech: 1) to present the variability of Czech in the 2nd half of the 19th century (including spelling, morphology, wordformation) and 2) to link the detected variants to the appropriate lemmas. The paper presents the phases of the processing of the texts, including transcription, manual pre-annotation, as well as the construction of a large morphological dictionary and the selection of a suitable set of paradigms. Further sections are focused on annotation and morphological tagging and manual disambiguation. The objective was to create a gold standard, intended for use in the automatic annotation both of the DIA1900 corpus and the planned corpus of Czech texts of the years 1800–1850.
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