Search results for "Literary Criticism"
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Poezia visului real
2019
Abstract This article aims to review the anthology One Hundred and One Poems that includes a collection of poems and critical quotes selected by Alina Bako, who not only provides an overview of the lyrical universe created by Leonid Dimov, but also the critical tools needed for the specialized or non-specialized reader in order to step into the essence of Dimov’s creation. Thereby, the researcher contributes to the revival of the work of a poet who is still actual and valuable.
Elemente Avangardiste În Perioada Postbelică
2019
Abstract In this article we discuss the avant-garde phenomenon, emphasizing that it promotes thinking without prejudice or limits, in which the writer can explore completely new horizons of creativity. Both Virgil Mazilescu's poems and Nora Iuga's poems (both under the oneiric mantle), illustrate the idea of freedom in terms of poetic thinking and poetry, despite the political and literary context in which they were.
Gandhian Fasting and Cultural Indigestion in Jeffrey Eugenides’ “Air Mail”
2020
Abstract “Air Mail” is one of the ten stories included in Jeffrey Eugenides’ latest collection of stories, Fresh Complaint. Drawing on one of the characters in his third novel, The Marriage Plot, as well as on his own experiences in India working as a volunteer alongside Mother Theresa, “Air Mail” tells the story of young (and idealistic) Mitchell Grammaticus, who leaves the West in order to explore India, Bangkok, and a tropical island in the Gulf of Siam, where he finally succumbs to dysentery (as well as to thoughts regarding the futility of existence). Ripe in irony and biting sarcasm, coupled with a surprising tenderness and empathy, which are the landmarks of Eugenides’ writing, the s…
Cultural Encounters: Glimpses of the United States in Late Twentieth-Century Romanian Travel Narratives
2019
Abstract Travel narratives are complex accounts that include a significant layer of factual information – related to the geography, history, and/or the culture of a particular place or country – and a more personal layer, comprising the author’s unique perceptions and rendering of the travel experience. In the last thirty years of transition from a communist to a democratic society, the Romanians have been free to travel to any country they choose; however, during the communist period, especially during the 1980s, travelling to Western, capitalist countries, such as France, Great Britain, Canada, or the United States, was rather limited and fraught with complex issues. Still, Romanian trave…
La Vita Christi d?Isabel de Villena, misericòrdia restaurativa i profitosa doctrina al servei de la meditació
2019
Resum: Aquest article se centra en la intencionalitat de la Vita Christi d’Isabel de Villena, a partir dels aspectes controvertits que han sigut objecte de comentaris per part de la crítica literària, com ara la constant presència de les dones que envolten la vida de Jesucrist, així com el recurs a l’estil afectiu, pietós i emotiu que s’hi evidencia, i que hom ha considerat com a exponents de literatura profeminista o de gènere. En aquestes pàgines s’aporta una lectura de la Vita Christi basada en la influència del corrent espiritual de la devotio moderna, a mode d’ars meditandi, alhora que es reflexiona al voltant del propòsit doctrinal i didàctic de l’obra, en què la presència de les imat…
Hypnosis, Animal Magnetism, and Monstrosity in late Nineteenth Century English Literature
2019
We will explore the literary image of animal magnetism and hypnosis through the analysis of two works of fiction: the novels Richard Marsh’s The Beetle: A Mystery (1897) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). During all the 19th century and mainly at its last, many authors used animal magnetism and hypnosis in their fictional creations in an environmental or plot way, so much that Arthur Quiller-Couch, an important literary critic of the nineteenth century, spoke about the emergence of a new literary subgenre that he called “hypnotic fiction”. Starting from the idea that in this mesmeric and hypnotic fiction literature you can clearly trace differentiated stereotypes of magnetizers and hypnotist…
Amorality, Immorality and Individualism in Hanif Kureishi’s Intimacy
2019
Abstract Hanif Kureishi, an acclaimed contemporary British writer of Pakistani origin, is known to the Romanian reading public primarily through the translations (under the aegis of the Humanitas publishing house) of his novels Intimacy, The Buddha of Suburbia, The Nothing, Gabriel’s Gift and Something to Tell You. One of the foremost representatives of British postcolonial literature, Kureishi masterfully, and at times shockingly, explores the postmodern urban world of human desolation, loneliness and alienation, with the surgical precision and mercilessness of a “terrorist”, as he himself describes the writer and his artistic mission in an interview. Intimacy, in a classic Proustian or Jo…
Ismailandi dhe struktura e botës narrative të Kadaresë
2021
This paper is an integral part of a broader research that aims to reconstruct the artistic path of Ismail Kadare and to highlight the structural elements of the invented narrative world, renamed Ismailand by “Is my land”, to indicate its subjective and unmistakable connotations. The subject of the analysis is the intertextual network through which Kadare connects his works in a single diegetic framework, which acquires its own hermeneutic validity in support of the poor adherence to the practice of socialist realism in force in Albania during the years in which the author was writing.
The Student as a Representation of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century Finnish Literature
2017
The Lithuanian "have" - resultative - a typological curiosum?
2012
ABSTRACT Björn Wiemer. The Lithuanian HAVE-resultative - A Typological Curiosum? Lingua Posnaniensis, vol. LIV (2)/2012. The Poznań Society for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences. PL ISSN 0079-4740, ISBN 978-83-7654-252-2, pp. 69-81. This article presents the Lithuanian possessive resultative construction with the verb turėti ‘have’ and discusses its place in a typology of forms of resultative constructions. While possessive resultatives with a past passive participle (as in Polish Kolację mamy już przygotowaną lit. ‘We have the dinner already prepared’) are found in areally related as well as other languages, Lithuanian stands out in using an active participle (more precisely: a part…