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Journal articles on the topic "Romanian fiction"
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Văsieș, Alex. "Narrative Devices in Motion: From Genre Fiction to Mainstream Fictoin in Florin Chirculescu’s Prose." Caietele Echinox 43 (December 1, 2022): 216–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.14.
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This article explores the dynamics between Romanian genre fiction and mainstream fiction in the postcommunist period, trying to negotiate the instrumentalizations of narrative devices usually found in popular literature (be it fantasy, crime, or mystery fiction) in a novel that transcends normative genre boundaries. Thus, the text traces a specific way in which some Romanian writers (in this case Florin Chirculescu) have navigated the strenuous path brought by capitalism in the local literary scene.
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Bugiac, Andreea. "Corps de femmes et maisons d’enfants dans Enfants du diable de Liliana Lazăr." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia 66, no. 4 (December 17, 2021): 299–318. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2021.4.19.
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Women Bodies and Children’s Homes in Liliana Lazar’s Enfants du diable [The Devil’s Children]. Many contemporary Romanian writers who chose French as a literary language seem to share a common interest in revisiting through fiction Romania’s relatively recent communist past, thus exposing the dysfunctionalities of the ‘multilaterally developed socialist society’ during the last years of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s dictatorship. In her novel, Enfants du diable (2016), Liliana Lazar’s merit is to emphasize the abusive nature of the Romanian totalitarian regime by exploring a topic which is normally less taken into account by post-communist Romanian fiction, namely the private body of women transformed into a public, even political body after the implementation of the Anti-abortion Decree 770/1966. Our aim is to examine the way in which Lazar’s book deals with this topic and its social and personal consequences, as well as its denunciation of a less evident form of the communist carceral system, namely the institutionalization of orphaned children. Keywords: communism, totalitarian regime, women’s body, orphanage, carceral system, Liliana Lazar, Nicolae Ceaușescu
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Conţac, Emanuel. "The Reception of C. S.Lewis in Post-Communist Romania." Linguaculture 2014, no. 2 (December 1, 2014): 123–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lincu-2015-0021.
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Abstract This paper presents the circumstances surrounding the publication of the Romanian translations of C. S. Lewis’s best known works. In the first part, the author gives information about the Romanian authors who were acquainted with Lewis’s writings during Communism, when the translation and printing of books on religious topics was under the tight control of a totalitarian government. In spite of that control, two Lewis titles-The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Mere Christianity-which were translated in the US, were smuggled into Romania. The second part of this paper deals with the remarkably changed situation after the emergence of a new regime in 1990. Since then Lewis’s books have been published, often in multiple print runs, by secular as well as Christian publishers, with a total of 12 fiction and 13 non-fiction titles, indicating a wide popular reception of his work.
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Patraș, Roxana. "Hayduk novels in the nineteenth-century Romanian fiction: notes on a sub-genre." Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies 2, no. 1 (May 16, 2019): 24–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v2i1.18769.
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In the context of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Romanian literature, hajduk novels and hajduk short fiction (novella, short-story, tale) are called to bring back a lost “epicness,” to give back the hajduks their lost aura. But why did the Romanian readers need this remix? Was it for ideological reasons? Did the growing female readership influence the affluence of hajduk fiction? Could the hajduk novels have supplied the default of other important fiction sub-genres such as children or teenage literature? The present article supports the idea that, as a distinct fiction sub-genre, the hajduk novels convey a modern lifestyle, attached to new values such as the disengagement from material objects, the democratization of access to luxury goods and commodities, and the mobility of social classes. Clothing, leisure, eating/ drinking/ sleeping/ hygiene, work, military and forest/ nomad life, and ritual items that are mentioned in these novels can help us correlate the technical tendencies reflected in the making of objects to a particular ethnicity (Romanian).
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Eichel, Roxana. "Genre Transgression in Contemporary Romanian Crime Fiction." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 11, no. 1 (November 1, 2019): 21–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2019-0002.
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Abstract Crime fiction is currently evolving towards a literary genre which encompasses the intertwining of several textual practices, rhetorical modes, cultural identities, and topoi. Multiculturalism and the relation to alterity are gradually conquering the realm of detective fiction, thus rendering the crime enigma or suspense only secondary in comparison to other intellectual “enjeux” of the text. Transgressing the national horizon, contemporary detective fiction in Romanian literature can be thus considered as “world literature” (Nilsson–Damrosch–D’haen 2017) not only because it does not engage representations of Romanian spaces alone but also due to its translatability, its transnational range of cultural values and practices. This article aims to discuss several categories of examples for this fresh diversity that Romanian crime fiction has encountered. Novels written recently by authors such as Petru Berteanu, Caius Dobrescu, Mihaela Apetrei, Alex Leo Şerban, or Eugen Ovidiu Chirovici employ variations such as either alternative narrators or cosmopolitan characters, or contribute to anthologies, writing directly in English in order to gain access to a more complex audience. The paper sets out to analyse the literary or rhetorical devices at work in these transgressional phenomena as well as their effects on contemporary Romanian crime narratives and their possible correlations to transnational phenomena.1
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Bodiu, Andrei. "The Translations of Fiction into Romanian and Romanian Fiction (A Comparative Study Regarding the Period 2006–2010)." Interlitteraria 17 (December 1, 2012): 254. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2012.17.19.
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Anghel, Florentina. "A Revolution for the Stage – Mad Forest by Caryl Churchill." Romanian Journal of English Studies 15, no. 1 (December 1, 2018): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2018-0001.
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Abstract The raw material of Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest was extracted from the 1989 Revolution in Romania and chiselled to the essence. The play bridges reality and fiction through a cross-cultural perspective, which implies documentation, collaborative work and emotional detachment. The British playwright used innovative devices and adapted pictorial techniques to turn the Romanian Revolution into a work of art, to preserve what she considered particular and also connect the event to several of the cultural symbols Romania is associated with.
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Cărbunariu, Gianina, and Bonnie Marranca. "The Reality of Fiction." PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 38, no. 2 (May 2016): 112–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/pajj_a_00323.
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In the last decade, the playwright and director Gianina Cărbunariu has become one of the prominent young voices in contemporary European theatre. Mihaela, the Tiger of Our Town, which premiered at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, will be performed at the 2016 Avignon festival by Sweden's Jupither Josephsson Company. Other plays include Stop the Tempo, For Sale, Typographic Letters, Solitarity, Metro is Everywhere, and mady-baby.edu (later titled Kebab). The plays have been translated into more than fifteen languages, and they have been performed in Romanian cities and in theatres across Europe, in Berlin, Munich, Paris, Madrid, Brussels, Vienna, Athens, Warsaw, Budapest, Dublin, and elsewhere in Moscow, Istanbul, Santiago de Chile, New York, and Montreal. Cărbunariu has had residencies at the Lark Theatre in New York and London's Royal Court. Her plays and productions have received numerous awards in Romania and in Canada. She is a founding member of the dramAcum independent theatre group in Bucharest. This interview was taped in New York City on December 19, 2015.
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Țapu, Mihai. "Travelling Theory-Fiction. A Romanian Case Study." Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 9, no. 1 (July 20, 2023): 214–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.15.12.
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This paper discusses the import of “theory-fiction” in contemporary Romanian culture, by analysing the textual and artistic output of the performance artists Alina Popa and Florin Flueraș. The first part introduces the key methodological concepts used in
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Bopp-Filimonov, Valeska. "Saddening Encounters. Children and Animals in Romanian Fiction and Beyond." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia 67, no. 2 (June 30, 2022): 13–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2022.2.01.
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"The aim of this essay is to give some impetus to a re-reading of classic Romanian literature by taking an approach inspired by Animal and Childhood Studies to larger questions of ideological currents and social cultural phenomena in the Romanian society. I chose four short texts by Ioan Alexandru Brătescu-Voinești, Elena Farago, and Ion Barbu that originate from the beginning of the 20th century and are currently considered as part of the Romanian literary canon. They are, at least partially, addressed to children and they all contain violent human-animal encounters. The fact that this element of violence has not prevented the texts from becoming and continuing to be canonical adds a new dimension to Animal Studies scholarship, which has so far mainly mirrored the increasingly “civilised” human-animal relation in countries with an early developing bourgeois social strata where animals became pets and thus friends and family members. The study also challenges the existing interpretations of Romanian literature: instead of applying aesthetic criteria, a thematic thread is followed with reflections on the social relevance of the recurring topos which seems to store a more deeply anchored cultural experience. A closer look at both the “disempowered and oppressed positions” (Feuerstein) that children and animals occupy in both literary texts and real-life society poses the practical question of how greater harmony can be created in the future. Keywords: animal studies, childhood studies, human-animal encounters, violence, Romanian literature, Barbu, Brătescu-Voinești, Farago "
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Romanian fiction"
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Boican, A. D. E. "Rearticulating socialist subjectivities : class and gender in Romanian fiction during communism." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2016. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1482200/.
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This thesis proposes a socio-cultural analysis of the articulation of socialist subjectivities in Romanian fiction during the communist period. The question underpinning my research, therefore, concerns the way in which the literary articulation of subjectivity changed across two historical divides: from the inter-war period to Socialist Realism and from Socialist Realism to the literature of the troubling decade. This thesis will be argued over four chapters, two of which will examine the works of Mihail Sadoveanu while a further two will dissect the works of Augustin Buzura. Through the close reading of the works of Sadoveanu and Buzura, whose careers span the two aforementioned historical divides, this thesis will trace the complex rearticulating of class and gender subjectivities as they evolved throughout the communist period, as well as the importance of the communist regime's social legacies as regards the understanding of post 1989 social developments in Romania. Central to the communist regime's project of social transformation was the creation of an egalitarian society by default of the abolition of capitalist classes and gender inequalities. While the regime claimed that the material basis of these inequalities had been eliminated and social emancipation was well advanced, critics considered that the official egalitarian discourse had erased social and individual differences and engendered the so-called "faceless masses". In contrast to these views, this thesis will argue that the communist regime did indeed transform social relationships in many ways, generating new class and gender inequalities, rather than eliminating them. Thus, far from being uniform, socialist societies were heterogeneous, fragmented and were straddled by social antagonisms. This thesis will thus argue that the changes that took place in the literary articulation of class and gender during communism are of significance to both the understanding of the communist regimes as well as their lasting legacies.
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Ivanovici, Cristina. "In search of Utopia : a study of the role of German and Romanian academic and literary communities in the production and evaluation of Margaret Atwood’s Utopian/Dystopian fiction." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1716/.
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This study investigates the contribution of Romanian and German academic and literary communities to the formation of readerships for Margaret Atwood’s dystopian fiction and examines various conceptualisations of the Canadian writer as a literary celebrity in Romania and Germany by taking into account the response to and institutionalisation of the writer’s literary dystopias in the two countries both before and after the fall of communism in 1989. It aims to demonstrate that publishing, translation and cultural policies complicate the cultural reception of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian fiction in Eastern European countries and re-evaluates critical representations of Eastern European readerships and publishing contexts as invisible within the global literary field. By investigating the strategies which publishers, editors and translators employed in the dissemination and institutionalisation of Atwood’s work in Romania and Germany, this thesis examines paradigm shifts both in translation, publishing and marketing strategies and conceptualisations of literary celebrity as shaped by cultural state policies. To this end, the first chapter highlights representations of literary markets and readerships in the Atwood archive, and analyses how the Atwood literary archive values celebrity and translation. The second chapter charts the first translation projects which were carried out in both East Germany and communist Romania and points out how forms of censorship have impacted upon the production, dissemination and circulation of her work in translation. The third chapter draws upon interviews with Romanian academics and examines teaching and reading practices employed within a post-communist context. Finally, the study suggests how further examinations of the response to both Canadian and dystopian fiction within Eastern European contexts might proceed.
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Nedelcu, Irina. "'2' : a novel, and, Words & pictures : the miracle of artistic lending and borrowing." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/17906.
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December 1989, Romania – a culture steeped in secrecy-fuelled paranoia is reflected in the family of six-year-old Adam Stan, whose father is missing and no one concedes to even talk about it. In the first of two sections of 2, a novel, through the eyes of Adam the child, the narrative explores the fall of Ceaușescu's regime and the incandescent bouts of hope brought on by the first Romanian democratic summer, but overshadowed by the presence of an absent father. Adam keenly experiences the joys and injustices of private and public life in both urban and rural Romanian landscapes, before he is forced to emigrate with his mother to the United States. The latter half of the novel sees the adult Adam return to his native Romania after an absence of over two decades, having been reunited with his father and fully assimilated into American life. Adam’s first impressions are of a country still in social and political turmoil, but his Romanian senses are dulled, his outlook cynical, his father’s prohibitive voice never far from his mind. However, the seemingly new scenery and the people he meets end up exposing forbidden memories which prompt Adam’s curiosity for coming to terms with his family’s past. Dualities construct the framework of Adam’s journey: innocence and experience, child- and adulthood, nationhood and otherness, (post)communism and capitalism, personal and national trauma, culture and identity. 2, a novel is a story about family, displacement, language, but most of all about finding a sense of self despite the ambivalent responsibility that comes with inheriting one’s history.
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Viktorija, Krombholc. "Metafore tela i prostora u romanima Sare Voters." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Filozofski fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2016. http://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=100345&source=NDLTD&language=en.
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Predmet istraţivanja ove doktorske disertacije jesu metafore tela i prostora u stvaralaštvu savremene velške spisateljice Sare Voters. Istraţivanje se usredsreĊuje na prvih pet romana iz njenog opusa, objavljenih u periodu od 1998. do 2009. godine. Romani Usne od somota, Srodne duše i Dţeparoš spadaju u neoviktorijansku prozu, dok su romani Noćna straţa i Mali stranac smešteni u period za vreme i nakon Drugog svetskog rata. Uloga protagoniste u njenim romanima najĉešće se dodeljuje lezbejskim likovima, pa se njeno stvaralaštvo moţe shvatiti kao pokušaj da se navedene istorijske epohe rekonstruišu tako da se omogući predstavljanje lezbejskih likova i lezbejske seksualnosti. Istovremeno, njeni romani doprinose širem predstavljanju lezbejske tematike u savremenoj knjiţevnoj produkciji. Osnovni cilj istraţivanja jeste da se ispita uloga telesnih i prostornih metafora u obradi teme istopolne ljubavi, ali i znaĉaj ovih metafora za ĉitav niz drugih tema.Istraţivanja tela i prostora predstavljaju izuzetno plodnu i dinamiĉnu oblast savremene kritiĉke teorije. Ovi pojmovi dospevaju u ţiţu kritiĉkog interesovanja u drugoj polovini dvadesetog veka, mada je njihovo prisustvo u oblastima nauĉnih istraţivanja znatno duţe, pa rasprave o telu i telesnosti nalazimo još u klasiĉnoj filozofiji. Prostor je pak sve do druge polovine dvadesetog veka prevashodno bio predmet matematiĉkih i geografskih istraţivanja, dok je u humanistiĉkoj tradiciji bio shvaćen tek kao pasivna i statiĉna pozadina istorijskih dogaĊaja. Istraţivanje polazi od istorijskog pregleda kljuĉnih teorijskih pristupa telu, poĉev od platonistiĉke dualistiĉke tradicije, preko kartezijanskog dualizma, sve do savremenih poststrukturalistiĉkih teorija, a teorijsko uporište analize telesnih metafora ĉine teorije Mišela Fukoa i Dţudit Batler. Analiza romana se usredsreĊuje na motiv transodevanja, metaforu duha, ali i na skup konkretnih telesnih slika kojima se spisateljica iznova vraća. Potom se razmatraju savremena teorijska poimanja prostora, pri ĉemu se istraţivanje oslanja i na relevantna istorijska, knjiţevnoistorijska i sociološka istraţivanja. Ovaj teorijski okvir sluţi da se ispitaju predstave kuće, zatvora, ludnice i britanske prestonice, te interakcija lezbejskih likova s ovim lokalitetima The aim of this doctoral thesis is to explore the corporeal and spatial metaphors in the fiction of Sarah Waters, a contemporary Welsh novelist. The critical focus of the thesis is on Waters‟s first five novels, published between 1998 and 2009. Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and Fingersmith belong to the neo-Victorian genre, while Night Watch and The Little Stranger are set in the period during and after the Second World War. In Waters‟s fiction, the role of protagonist is mostly reserved for lesbian characters and her oeuvre can be perceived as an attempt to rewrite the chosen historical periods in ways which provide for the representation of lesbian characters and lesbian sexuality. In addition, her novels make a significant contribution towards wider literary representation of lesbian issues in the contemporary context. The main goal of this research is to analyze the role of corporeal and spatial metaphors in the portrayal of same-sex relationships, class tensions and other relevant themes in Waters‟s work.The issues of body and space are undoubtedly at the centre of contemporary critical interest and theoretical debates that surround them are diverse and wide-ranging. However, while the history of theoretical interest in the body dates back to the classical tradition, spatiality only came to prominence in the second half of the twentieth century, when a surge of critical interest can be observed marking the beginning of the so-called spatial turn. The thesis therefore starts by providing a brief historical overview of the key theoretical approaches to the body, including the mind/body debate in the classical Platonic tradition, Cartesian dualism and contemporary poststructuralist theory. The theories of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler are then used as the main theoretical framework for the analysis of corporeal metaphors, which focuses on the motif of cross-dressing, the spectral metaphor, as well as a range of recurrent corporeal images in Waters‟s writing. In the following chapters, the focus shifts to contemporary theoretical approaches to spatiality and relevant sociological, cultural and historical research, which are used to explore the representations of home, prison, asylum and urban space, as well as the interaction between the lesbian protagonists and their surroundings.
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Šiaučiulytė, Rūta. "Postmodernistinė asmenybės krizė fantastinėjė literatūroje: P. K. Dicko romanas "Ubikas"." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2005. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050613_212513-96470.
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The common modern concept of the human identity – an individual, integrated ego perception – is no longer adequate to the world of today and tomorrow as it is frayed and changes in a crazy speed. The sure knowledge of the cognizable world, clear apprehension of self confines, roots and being of environment looses it‘s background. The lost of the vital apprehension of the self and the world is the base of the talk on the identity crisis which can have global subsequence as the humanity have lost the old self apprehension and still does not have a new one.
This paper analyzes few problems. The first is the concept of the identity. The notice is taken to the identity treat in the psychological, sociological literature and the causes as well as the outcomes of identity crisis specified in it. The concept and the problem of the postmodern are concurrent: it is negotiable if the postmodern is the cause of identity crisis as well as the possibility of identity crisis being the premise of the postmodern.
For the long time science fiction was and still is the margin of mainstream literature. The postmodern pays a serious attention to the periphery, no account if it is margins of society or culture, or the direct expression of them in the literature. The lively interest in the science fiction is growing as it is treated as the concentrated self-expression of the human. It is quite often compared with the cyber culture as they both conceal human crisis, manias and phobias under the... [to full text]
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Drews, Julian. "Distanz, Nähe, Gewalt : soziale Interaktion in den Romanen von Horacio Castellanos Moya." Master's thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2007. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1642/.
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In dieser Arbeit wird die Interaktion der Protagonisten in den Romanen von Horacio Castellanos Moya untersucht. Betrachtet werden die Bücher: La diabla en el espejo (2000), El arma en el hombre (2001), Donde no estén ustedes (2003), Insensatez (2004) und Desmoronamiento (2006). In der Reihenfolge abnehmender sozialer Distanz geht es nacheinander um Konzepte von professionellen Beziehungen, Freundschaft, familiären Beziehungen und Intimität. Geprüft wird hierbei die These, dass all diese Beziehungen als von Gewaltverhältnissen unterwandert dargestellt werden. Zum anderen soll eine detaillierte Analyse Aufschluss über Inszenierungsweisen, Implikationen und Folgen der dargestellten Gewalt ermöglichen. Als zentral erweisen sich hierbei einerseits der Begriff des „Epitaphs“, wie ihn Jacques Derrida in seiner Politiques de l’ amitié entwickelt und andererseits die „Theorie des kommunikativen Rabens“, welche Ottmar Ette in seinem Band ÜberLebenswissen: die Aufgabe der Philologie darstellt. Die Arbeit hofft außerdem dazu beizutragen, den Bekanntheitsgrad Castellanos Moyas, als einem herausragenden Vertreter zentralamerikanischer Belletristik, zu erhöhen.The objective of the present master thesis is to investigate the images of social interaction in the novels of Horacio Castellanos Moya. The books taken into consideration are La diabla en el espejo (2000), El arma en el hombre (2001), Donde no estén ustedes (2003), Insensatez (2004) and Desmoronamiento (2006). In a succesion of lessening social distance, concepts of professional relations, friendship, family relations and intimacy are examinated. This will be done in order to, first, review the assumption that all these concepts are shown as being infiltrated by violent conditions. Second, a more detailed analysis aims at a deeper understanding of the ways of design, as well as the implications and results of the represented violence. Concepts wich proved to be important in this context are Jacques Derrida’s “Epitaph” wich he develops in his Politiques de l’ amitié and Ottmar Ette’s “Theory of the Communicative Raven” from his book ÜberLebenswissen: die Aufgabe der Philologie. Apart from this the paper is meant to make the novels of this extraordinary exponent of Central American fiction known to a greater public.
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LANGE, NINA. "Fictions of Time : Zeitvorstellungen, - erfahrungen und -reflexionen in englischen und amerikanischen Romanen der Gegenwart." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10446/32658.
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Aulls, Katharina. "Mutter-Tochter Beziehungen in deutschsprachigen Romanen im Jahrzehnt nach dem "Jahr der Frau"." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74348.
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This dissertation examines mother-daughter relationships in six novels written by German speaking women authors in the decade after the "Year of the Woman." Three novels depict positive mother-daughter relations: Ausflug mit der Mutter (1976), by Gabriele Wohmann, Gestern war Heute (1979), by Ingeborg Drewitz, Die dreizehnte Fee (1983), by Katja Behrens. Three others portray a negative mother-daughter relationship: Die Eisheiligen (1979), by Helga Novak, Die Zuchtigung (1985), by Waltraud Anna Mitgutsch, and Die Klavierspielerin (1983), by Elfriede Jelinek. Common to all novels is a strong autobiographical tendency and the central importance of the mother in the development of the daughter's self-identity.The complexity and problems of mother-daughter relationships are analyzed as an outcome of female socialization within a patriarchal society. Chapter I deals with historical, economic and psychological oppression of women. The resulting internalization of the role of inferiority and dependency leads to the subsequent repression of their own daughters. Chapter II discusses new contributions in the fields of psychology and sociology to the understanding of female identity formation through relationships. Chapter III provides a two-pronged analysis of each novel by describing the individual mother-daughter relationship in comparison with the outcomes of Chapters I and II, and by addressing the narrator's process of putting the experience into a unique literary form and thus contributing to women's literature.
Themes that are unique in each novel are: the emotional stress of the adult daughter trying to redefine her relationship with her widowed mother (Ausflug mit der Mutter), the dichotomy of woman in her nurturing role as mother and in her quest for self-realization (Gestern war Heute), the difficulty of breaking the repetitive cycle of the female role of dependency (Die dreizehnte Fee). All of the following novels assess the damaged self-identity of the daughter caused by a destructive mother. While the daughters survive due to fierce resistance (Die Eisheiligen) or escape into the world of art (Die Zuchtigung) there is no hope for the daughter in Die Klavierspielerin due to her identification with the oppressor.
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Schoenbeck, Oliver. "Their versions of the facts : Text und Fiktion in den Romanen von Iain Banks, Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis und Jeanette Winterson /." Trier : WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verl. Trier, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39913317n.
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Bock, Carolin Anne. "Selbstverwirklichung durch Arbeit? : eine kulturvergleichende Untersuchung an drei Romanen aus der Frauenliteratur." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/65343.
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Robu, Cornel. Scriitori români de science-fiction. Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cărții de Știință, 2008.
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Cornel, Robu, ed. Timpul este umbra noastră: Science-fiction românesc din ultimele decenii. Cluj: Ed. Dacia, 1991.
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Pârvu, Sorin. The Romanian novel. [Boulder, Colo.]: East European Monographs in cooperation with the Romanian Cultural Foundation Pub. House, 1992.
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Onn, Samuel W., and Magda Groza. Worlds and beings: Romanian contemporary science-fiction stories. București: Institutului Cultural Român, 2015.
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Bogdan, Lefter Ion, ed. Romanian fiction of the '80s and '90s: A concise anthology. Piteşti, România: Paralela, 1999.
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Pârvu, Sorin. The art of the Romanian novel. Iași: Romanian Cultural Foundation, 1994.
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Poruciuc, Norbert A. The status of anthroponyms in 20th century Romanian and English fiction. Iași: Casa Editorială Demiurg, 2005.
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Gheorghiu, Mihai Dinu. "The Iaşi Pogrom in Curzio Malaparte’s Kaputt: Between History and Fiction." In Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust, 47–56. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230118416_3.
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Schneider, Ana-Karina. "Contemporary American Women Writers in Romania." In Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom, 79–95. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94166-6_6.
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Dragos, Dacian C., Bogdana Neamtu, and Bianca Radu. "Using Legal Fictions to Deal with Administrative Silence: The Case of Romania." In The Sound of Silence in European Administrative Law, 399–432. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45227-8_13.
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Kledzik, Emilia. "Between Pedagogy and Self-Articulation: Roma Necessary Fictions in East Central Europe." In East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century, 209–30. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17487-2_9.
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Abstract“Necessary fictions,” a term coined by Homi K. Bhabha (The theory of reading, The Harvester Press, Brighton, 1989), refers to literature of postcolonial nations rewriting their history in such a way as to compensate for the lack of independence and agency in the colonial period. The Roma nation in East Central Europe has all the features of what in postcolonial studies is defined as the subaltern—no voice and representation of their own. This minority, due to a range of reasons, did not create such “necessary fictions” that we could compare to the postcolonial ones. The lack of such literary self-presentation in the national languages of East Central Europe has often been seen as a challenge for non-Romani or/and assimilated Roma writers. This was especially the case after World War II, when a massive action of enforced settlement of this nomadic nation took place across all communist countries, and there was a strong need to promote Roma culture as a—although not equivalent—part of local national landscapes. A need to “translate” Roma culture in the literary language was an important part of the state-planned assimilation. These translations were meant as the substitute for the authentic “necessary fictions” archive of literature. This trend continued after the political breakthrough of 1989, already in a different social context.
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Varga, Adriana. "“A shadow crossed the tail of his eye”: The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Romania: Heritage Transformed." In Virginia Woolf and Heritage. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781942954422.003.0033.
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Orlando becomes a woman in Constantinople, attempting to escape the unwanted affections of Archduke Harry disguised as Archduchess Harriet Griselda of Finster-Aarhorn and Scand-op-Boom. The character of the Archduke was inspired by Henry George Charles Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood, one of Vita Sackville-west’s early suitors. However, in Orlando, Archduchess Harriet, lust personified, is Romanian. Echoes of Romania are faint in Virginia Woolf’s fiction, essays, and diaries, much more so than references to other Eastern European and Balkan cultures, such as Greece or Russia. On the other hand, Woolf’s influence on Romanian literature, although very strong today, has been hardly studied. In this essay, I discuss the reception of Virginia Woolf in Romania during the interwar period, by looking at reviews and critical works published about Woolf’s works. I do this in order to delineate possible connections between Woolf and Romanian writers who were her contemporaries. Although it has been traditionally thought that cultural and literary connections were stronger between Romania and France or Romania and Germany, my research of periodicals and translations from this period shows that Woolf’s works were read and often discussed by Romanian critics and readers, and that her influence was much stronger than previously thought. Especially when considering the modernist experimental novel, several reviews published in Romania at this time show that Romanian critics recognized and were influenced by the originality and value of Woolf’s modernist experiment.
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DODU, Alexandra. "ÉLENA. PHANARIOTES ET ROUMAINS, LE MOTIF DE LA LETTRE DANS LE PREMIER ROMAN FRANCOPHONE." In Scriitori români de expresie străină. Écrivains roumains d’expression étrangère. Romanian Authors Writing in Foreign Tongues, 57–68. Pro Universitaria, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52744/9786062613242.05.
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Women’s Literature is a field still insufficiently explored in the Romanian cultural space. The honor of having written the first feminine francophone Romanian novel belongs to Constance de Dunka for her book Éléna. Phanariotes and Romanians (1862). The novel, acclaimed in France at the time of its publication, was nevertheless considered by the Romanians to be a minor work (Dunka was even accused of plagiarism). The structure of this novel, which is built upon discoveries, falsifications and thefts of letters, is analyzed here on the basis of the conceptual categories proposed by Jacques Merceron in his book Le message et sa fiction - namely, on the basis of the categories of “the false letter,” “the lying letter” and “the substitute letter.”
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"Translation of Romanian Culture in Kenneth Radu’s Fiction." In Translation of Cultures, 47–58. Brill | Rodopi, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789042029286_005.
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STOICAN, Adriana Elena. "CONNECTIVITY BEYOND BORDERS IN DOMNICA RĂDULESCU’S TRAIN TO TRIESTE." In Scriitori români de expresie străină. Écrivains roumains d’expression étrangère. Romanian Authors Writing in Foreign Tongues, 305–27. Pro Universitaria, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52744/9786062613242.20.
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The novel Train to Trieste by Domnica Rădulescu features the role played by transnational channels of communication in maintaining connections across physical and temporal borders between Romania and America. The discussion will focus on the particular networks employed by the protagonist Mona Manoliu (letters, phone calls, radio/TV transmissions) in order to transcend the alienating effects of exile in America. The argument combines a cultural studies approach with a close reading of the text, seeking to establish the manner in which contemporary fiction of migration presents the impact of linear transnationalism upon Romanian political refugees and their families.
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Șerban-Oprescu, Anca-Teodora. "East and West, or the Creolization of Cultural Spaces." In Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies, 341–56. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6458-5.ch017.
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In this chapter, the author proposes a keen look at Domnica Rădulescu's novel Black Sea Twilight, representative for women literary prose of the Romanian diaspora after the Cold War (post-1989). The chapter highlights a strong voice discussing Western Europe and Romania the encounter of the two spaces (East and West), from the standpoint of a Romanian woman and a refugee writer. Furthermore, the analysis highlights the concept of cultural and spatial creolization and brings to the forefront the concept of circular creolization in order to compare, contrast East and West and, hopefully, add new perspectives to previous ways of analyzing diasporic writings. Specifically, the analysis zooms in on text close reading of Domnica Rădulescu's above-mentioned novel. The approach demonstrates interesting insights into emigrant fiction framed by concepts such as creolization, circular creolization and showcases a type of analysis not readily available with the traditional analytical toolbox of exile/diaspora studies.
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MOSCOVICI, Claudia. "FICTION AND CULTURAL MEMORY: WRITING FROM CEAUSESCU’S ROMANIA." In Scriitori români de expresie străină. Écrivains roumains d’expression étrangère. Romanian Authors Writing in Foreign Tongues, 328–33. Pro Universitaria, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52744/9786062613242.21.
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To write about the history of totalitarianism, be it through nonfiction or fiction, as I have in my novel Velvet Totalitarianism, means to undertake the task of preserving for future generations a cultural memory of social change, of trials and tribulations and of unspeakable human suffering. It means to pay homage to those who sacrificed, or were sacrificed, by the totalitarian machine. Writing the history of totalitarianism is simultaneously a discovery of the suppressed truth; a eulogy to the victims; an homage to those who had the courage to fight against it and a cautionary tale to those who never want to experience it.
Conference papers on the topic "Romanian fiction"
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ZAHARIA, Viorica. "Murakami’s eclectic style." In Ştiință și educație: noi abordări și perspective. "Ion Creanga" State Pedagogical University, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.46727/c.v3.24-25-03-2023.p71-75.
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This article analyzes some of the features of Murakami’s writing that are characterized by an eclectic style. One of the most read contemporary prose writer is Haruki Murakami who managed to suspend the border between „high” and „pure” by his works that characterized Japanese literature by tradition and, from „common” and „ordinary”, it made possible thematic „pretexts” for Romanian text. And the international success of the books is due to the specific rhythm of his prose that have broken the barriers between East and West. The fiction word of Murakami’s work is an eclectic and postmodern one and it harmoniously amalgamates elements of surrealism, realism, fantasy, science fiction and pop culture.
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Cogut, Sergiu. "A Daring and Fascinating Rewriting of a Canonical Romanian Fairy Tale." In Conferință științifică internațională "Filologia modernă: realizări şi perspective în context european". “Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu” Institute of Romanian Philology, Republic of Moldova, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.52505/filomod.2022.16.34.
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The author of the article proposed to highlight the advantages of returning to Ion Creangă’s writings by elucidating their importance as sources of inspiration for contemporary prose writers who publish valuable works rewriting the famous creations of the Romanian classic. Such an indisputable achievement in the context of Romanian prose of the last decades is the novel that came out in 2004 and is entitled „Relatare despre Harap Alb” („A Report about Harap Alb”) by Stelian Țurlea, a prolific author that has dozens of books on his record, but who, surprisingly, does not feature in the recent histories of Romanian literature („The Critical History…” of Nicolae Manolescu and that of Mihai Iovănel which covers the time segment between 1990 and 2020), although he is the holder of several literary awards, including the one from 2005 which was awarded for this exceptional rewriting, in a postmodern register, of the Crengian fairy tale about Harap Alb. Thus, is emphasized and motivated the necessity to valorize the Crengian literary heritage, but also that of recognizing the merits of the novelist Stelian Țurlea by highlighting his contribution and his position in the landscape of current fiction.
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CÎNDEA GÎȚĂ, Iulia Elena. "AN IN-DEPTH STUDY OF CHINESE CULTUREMES – CARRIERS OF THE MOST SUBTLE CULTURAL ALLUSIONS – EXCERPTED FROM CHINESE CONTEMPORARY NOVELS IN ROMANIAN TRANSLATION." In Synergies in Communication. Editura ASE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.24818/sic/2021/04.01.
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Culturemes are the markers of the source culture, which can reach the reader in the target language only through the ability of the translator, who must, in fact, be a great connoisseur of the most hidden cultural details. For the transposition of a foreign culture into a new culture, for a proper communication between them, a loan is needed, retrieval and processing of information so that it is accepted. The motivation behind this study is to provide an overview of how to approach culturemes in the translation of works of contemporary Chinese literature in Romanian, works characterized by great linguistic and extra-linguistic generosity. In order to achieve this goal, we followed the stages of identifying the culturemes from thirty-one Chinese contemporary novels translated in Romanian; followed by creating a corpus based on fourteen categories and five equivalence methods to ensure the cultural equivalence, coherence and homogeneity of Chinese works recreated for the Romanian reader. Finally, we performed an in-depth study of a selection of culturemes from each category, with the aim of showing their distribution in the Romanian translation of Chinese fiction. The study intends to provoke but also to help raise the awareness that translations are not only transpositions (by this we mean moving from one linguistic register to another without operating the text as part of a cultural whole, approaching it externally to all of its sources of influence from the culture in which it has been created) of a work in another language, but they have the primary role of enriching knowledge about one's culture, civilization, literature – i.e. China’s cultural heritage for the present study. Culturally-aware literary translations are the most effective and most stable manner of intercultural exchange, of international prosperity of a culture, of understanding and acknowledging the cultural specifics of one nation. The intertextual references – the culturemes – studied, are part, as will be presented, of all cultural spheres, from those denoting the daily life of the Chinese, the food and basic needs, to those denoting holidays, toponymy, units of measurement, history, but also those that are politically motivated, while also spiritual, subtle, erudite, which only close study, extensive knowledge and diligent work can drive the translator to find and transfer them to the target reader.
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PRELIPCEANU, Cosmin. "Image and Post-Truth." In The International Conference of Doctoral Schools “George Enescu” National University of Arts Iaşi, Romania. Artes Publishing House UNAGE Iasi, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.35218/icds-2023-0024.
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Nowadays, under the non-stop assault of over-information and the multitude of sources and media, the consumers of information (related to non-fiction audio-visual content) suffer from an overflow. They are oversaturated, blasé, disinterested, they have the feeling they know everything and are entitled to jump straight to conclusion (their own or ready-made conclusions). The content they cannot process is rejected. With such an audience, content creators diversify their arsenal of stimuli: shocking images and sound, partisan speech that confirms the viewer's own perceptions and beliefs. But mostly, emotions. Emotion is the most powerful stimulus applied to the viewer and has an enviable effect among content creators. The emotionally connected viewer will develop trust, dependence on the source of information and, in conjunction with other stimuli, will become susceptible to mobilization. It is a key effect in the study of disinformation and propaganda, which makes it possible to manipulate the viewer into acting in a certain way. In other words, emotion becomes a tool. It is used intentionally to trigger a certain reaction from the audience. Our research analyses the extent to which the need for emotion in the news shapes reality, that is the events as they happened, and how we would expect them to be covered on screen. We follow the methods that journalists use to give viewers as much of this stimulus as possible, once considered a foreign body in the news bulletin. And in the analysis of the media content (image and sound) we notice how two fields that once seemed utterly opposed by reference to objective reality (physical truth), journalism and artistic creation (fiction), ended up sharing a common ground, that of emotion. The corpus of our analysis consists of CNN, BBC and RT television reports on the war in Syria during two of its key moments, the WMD attacks of 2013 and 2018. The study method we will apply is rhetorical analysis, proposed by Professor Guillaume Soulez from the University of Sorbonne. This is how we reach a second junction, because the French professor proposes discursive analysis for any kind of media content, whether fictional or not.
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Ungureanu, Teodora. "THE POTENTIAL OF CITY INFORMATION MODELING (CIM) IN UNDERSTANDING AND LEARNING FROM THE IMPACT OF URBAN REGULATIONS ON RESIDENTIAL AREAS IN ROMANIA." In eLSE 2019. Carol I National Defence University Publishing House, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-19-056.
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Inspired by the video-games industry that simulated the design and development of fictive cities (e.g. the SIM City series), CIM - City Information Modeling, aims to create a platform that allows architects, planners and other specialists to collaborate on the study and design of city-wide projects. Similar to BIM - Building Information Modeling, CIM utilizes 3D modeling that goes beyond the traditional know CAD - computer aided design, capabilities in order to incorporate data and information that are specific to a city. In this way the actual form of the city is linked to the infrastructure, to the public services, to the people's mobility and interactions through the urban space and other aspects that are attributed to the urban life. The chaotic development of the new residential areas in Romania has been usually attributed to different social, economic or political factors. To fully understand the current urban form of the Romanian cities we must also look into the influence of urban regulations on the current development and anticipate how they will evolve. The aim of the study is to use CIM as a scientific and educational tool of understanding how urban regulations impact the residential areas through time. The focus will be on what can we learn from the simulation of a certain Romanian residential area and how changing the urban regulation impacts not only the urban form but also other aspects concerning the quality of life. Thus, the simulations will allow the parallel study of different urban regulations in a controlled environment.
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Udovičić, Bojana B. "MOTIV PRIJATELjSTVA U ROMANIMA „MALI PRINC“ ANTOANA DE SENT-EGZIPERIJA I „AGI I EMA“ IGORA KOLAROVA." In KNjIŽEVNOST ZA DECU U NAUCI I NASTAVI. University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Education in Jagodina, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/kdnn21.127u.
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By using a comparative analysis, the paper discusses the similarity of motifs in two novels – a classic of children’s literature, Exypery’s The Little Prince, and Agi i Ema, a contemporary Serbian novel for children. In both novels, extraordinary friendship between characters develops as a result of children’s loneliness and detachment. The characters and the adventures belong both to the real and the unreal world, which is the essence of fiction.
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Teodorescu, Camelia. "CULTURAL-HISTORICAL TOURISM OR FICTION TOURISM IN ROMANIA? CASE STUDY: VLAD THE IMPALER OR DRACULA." In 4th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts SGEM2017. Stef92 Technology, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2017/14/s04.024.
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Ivanov, Constantin. "Traumatic Reconstructions and Identity Fractures in Oleg Serebrian’s Novel ‘Cântecul mării’." In Conferință științifică internațională "FILOLOGIA MODERNĂ: REALIZĂRI ŞI PERSPECTIVE ÎN CONTEXT EUROPEAN". “Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu” Institute of Romanian Philology, Republic of Moldova, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.52505/filomod.2023.17.16.
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The present article represents an applied analysis of Oleg Serebrian’s novel ‘The Song of the Sea.’ It examines a wide range of literary representations that highlight the disastrous period at the end of World War II and the dramatic consequences that befell the Romanian ethnic population in Bukovina. The author captures the entire oppressive mechanism and how the totalitarian system managed to create identity fractures, leaving deep traumas in the collective memory. Simultaneously, we observed the moral deviation that an ideology can produce, effectively depicted through fictional characters, revealing the entire process of identity erosion in Bukovina. Consequently, we have appreciated the literary value and artistic sensitivity that succeeded in illustrating a world in a mess.
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Mihaila, Ramona. "SOCIAL AND CULTURAL APPROACHES TO TEACHING WOMEN'S WRITING BY USING DATABASES." In eLSE 2016. Carol I National Defence University Publishing House, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-16-166.
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The present article intends to produce new historiography about the nineteenth century Romanian women's writing from transnational and relational perspectives. It also takes as its starting point not only the production aspect of women's literary writing, but their reception-- especially by readers or other women writers or translators contemporary to the publication. This approach takes into account all the contributions to the literary field of both canonical and non-canonical women writers. A second approach refers to the fact that women's writing is viewed from an explicitly transnational perspective, underlining the connections between women writers across the world at the literary and translation levels. By using these methods, the students get familiar with social and cultural contexts in which women's writing was produced, promoted, and translated. As a member of the European project Women Writers in History I have taken part into training schools, workshops and conference where along with my colleagues from other 25 countries I have worked for the Women Writers database (www.womenwriters.nl) as an electronic means for teaching literature. The present database contains information on the production of women writers from the Middle Ages up to 1900, and on the reception of their writing in the world. Thus the database offers students the possibility to study these women's writing in their international context and make connections concerning their transnational historiography. The entries for authors refer to biographical details, professional situation, writing achievements (fictional and non-fictional writings), translations, national and international critical reception, allowing the students to analyze women's writing from a comparative perspective.