{"title":"Book Review. Time Travels in a Bilingual Lyrical Dialogue: Rodica Marian’s and Michaela Mudure’s Book of Poems/Poeme","authors":"Anca Peiu","doi":"10.52885/pah.v2i1.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52885/pah.v2i1.101","url":null,"abstract":"Perhaps we may only come to understand the poems written in our mother tongue after their necessary linguistic defamiliarization, once they are rendered in another language. By this defamiliarizing (re/de)construction, doubled by translation, not only does the reader never get lost, but on the contrary, it is the translator's refreshing vision that deepens the poet's metaphorical meaning. The (memory of the) original poem becomes the new poem, and thus the reader is privileged by a kaleidoscopic view, forever in the (un/re)making, an ever more vivid image of the (same) rainbow light, unpredictably filtered through the other lenses. Poet Rodica Marian and translator Michaela Mudure are thus taking together an introspective trip in time, through the ages (and stages) of poetic conscience. The success of their lyrical dialogue/journey lies in their finding a poetic language of their own, beyond (conventional) linguistic frontiers. If we may regard Marian's verse as a Romanian version of confessional poetry, we must also rely on Mudure's choice of the poems here translated as on an astute, insightful, and scholarly confirmation. ","PeriodicalId":202690,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Arts and Humanities","volume":"302 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116254660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Perception of Time in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence (1920) in the Context of Her War-Related Nonfiction","authors":"Á. Kovács","doi":"10.52885/pah.v2i1.95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52885/pah.v2i1.95","url":null,"abstract":"Edith Wharton published her The Age of Innocence just after the Great War, but the focus on the past and on social change in the text has usually not been connected to concerns in the novel’s immediate war context for a long time. However, as part of the general critical interest in the literature of war, the issue of the war context for The Age of Innocence was examined by Julie Olin-Ammentorp’s Edith Wharton’s Writings from the Great War in 2004. Hermione Lee’s subsequent biography of Wharton in 2008 also claimed that The Age was not only motivated by escapism but Wharton’s experience of war as well. This paper looks into how the perception of time is represented in Wharton’s nonfiction war text Fighting France (1915) and The Age of Innocence (1920) by comparing their representations of the contrast between the past and the present. Both Fighting France and The Age of Innocence contain spatial descriptions that employ Wharton’s rhetoric of what the article proposes to call “the presence of the past,” in which past moments reappear in the present, problematizing what is seen as real and unreal by the characters. The rhetoric of the presence of the past links the war text to the novel in that both share a basic interest in problematic processes of cultural continuity.","PeriodicalId":202690,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Arts and Humanities","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128096755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time for Grief and Remembrance after 9/11 in David Foster Wallace’s “The View from Mrs. Thompson’s”","authors":"Nora Mathe","doi":"10.52885/pah.v2i1.91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52885/pah.v2i1.91","url":null,"abstract":"When discussing the events of 9/11, time is a key factor. How much time passed between the two hits? How long did it take for the towers to fall? How long should we wait to share criticism about America when talking about 9/11? The phrase “too soon” is used often to shut down any negative opinions or controversial jokes about the terror attack, which also stifles discussion about the topic. While 9/11 is the most photographed terror attack yet, it is also surprisingly censored. As Joan Didion puts it, “the entire event has been seized”, and critical voices were silenced or ostracized. The earliest works of literature about the terrorist attacks were essays. In these works of nonfiction, the authors question the official narrative set by the government, and focus on the experiences and attitudes of the people who witnessed the tragedy in some capacity. In my paper, I aim to investigate the way American writers process the events of September 11 in these essays, with a focus on the motifs of time and memory. While official reporting allowed no time to think about the events and incentivized people to retaliate, these texts question the way the United States grieved, provided space to mourn, and blamed strictly outside sources for the attacks. The goal of this paper is to analyze the ways in which David Foster Wallace explores time and memory on the day of and after 9/11, when the world stopped in its tracks for a day.","PeriodicalId":202690,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Arts and Humanities","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128148448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time and Metaphor in Emily Dickinson and Ana Blandiana","authors":"Anca Peiu","doi":"10.52885/pah.v2i1.86","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52885/pah.v2i1.86","url":null,"abstract":"For so many years on end, my job of teaching some of the most representative American poets has rendered me nostalgic for my own memories of Romanian poetry, whether classic or contemporary. Especially whenever I have had a chance of teaching Emily Dickinson, I fell under the spell of a special affinity between her short striking poems and those of Ana Blandiana, whom I have devotedly admired as an amateur reader, ever since my adolescence. They both have enchanted me by the same playful tone and (seeming) simplicity of poetic expression while conveying metaphysical messages, by means of the most unexpected imagery, which all correspond to Paul Ricoeur's concept of the \"living metaphor\". This is why my paper title alludes to Ricoeur's celebrated volumes about The Rule of Metaphor and Time and Narrative, in which I have always found reliable support for approaching the best lively books of poetry and narrative of the entire world literature. I hope I will not fail either my guidance or my purpose here. ","PeriodicalId":202690,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Arts and Humanities","volume":"165 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115821449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Poet as Activist: Chronotopes of San Francisco in the Poetry of Lawrence Ferlinghetti","authors":"Andreea Cosma","doi":"10.52885/pah.v2i1.87","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52885/pah.v2i1.87","url":null,"abstract":"The impact of one’s economic, cultural and political contributions is vital to a city’s welfare. Activism, however, is a crucial component of community life, which has determined the real meaning of individual freedom through the efforts of the social actors of the last century. In this respect, the literary texts of the Beat Generation thoroughly portray the relation between time and space and the way in which it is connected to social action. From a geocritical approach, the chronotopes found in the poetry of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, offer the reader an authentic taste of San Francisco, during the second half of the twentieth century, as well as the Beats’ perspective on one’s emergence and evolution in the metropolis during the post-war era. Space and time foster the evolution of group identity and in the same time, they shape the development of social and political endeavors. This research focuses on the intersections between time, people and creative places and seeks to portray the city, as a sociocultural construct from the point of view of a poet and an activist.","PeriodicalId":202690,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Arts and Humanities","volume":"232 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125703383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Struggle with Irreverent Time in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy","authors":"F. Rosca","doi":"10.52885/pah.v2i1.94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52885/pah.v2i1.94","url":null,"abstract":"Jamaica Kincaid’s lacunary pseudo-autobiography presents Lucy’s first year in exile and dissects its stages to such an extent that the story takes the form of a photographic slideshow. The unnamed city of exile (presumably New York) appears as a palimpsest locale, almost obliterated by Lucy’s invasive and strikingly detailed memories. This incursion of “space past” and “time past’” in the narrative present forecloses an accurate reading of the city. In the end, Lucy becomes well aware of this existential dilemma that suspends her between the past—an unhealed wound and the present—an unknown territory. Almost the entire book depicts the narrator’s efforts to reconcile two dichotomous places: the native island and the city, each with their corresponding temporal segment. The copresence of the “here’ and ‘there’ along with the tension between cyclical and linear time constitute the scope of the present paper.","PeriodicalId":202690,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Arts and Humanities","volume":"271 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125725182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Atemporal Temporality of the Transcendental Subject","authors":"P. Tánczos","doi":"10.52885/pah.v2i1.96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52885/pah.v2i1.96","url":null,"abstract":"Perhaps one of the main attributes of the subjectivity is temporality in the metaphysical tradition. Subject cannot be found in space, it only exists in time, so the substantial concept of mind originates in the notion of time. On the other side the subject perceives time as such; as Saint Augustine writes in Confessions, “It is in thee, my mind, that I measure times”. Temporality and subjectivity were closely related notions before the transcendental turn. In his explicit argumentation Immanuel Kant considers the subject as a temporal principle; as he writes in The End of All Things, “thinking contains a reflecting, which can occur only in time”. However, Kant does not affirm that the apperception of “ego cogito” can lead to the substantial existence of subject or mind. He regards this deduction as a paralogism. The Kantian disaffirmation of substantial mind enabled the timeless concept of subjectivity in the Early German Idealism. \u0000The subjectivity notion of Kant and the transcendental philosophy has a special, ambiguous character: in their explicit theories they argue that the subject is mainly a temporal entity, but some special forms of the general subject (transcendental subject, self, Gemüt etc.) are placed out of time in several texts. In the paper I analyse the temporal aspects of the idealist subject concept. The main thesis of the paper is that the subject of the transcendental philosophy is characterised by atemporal temporality.","PeriodicalId":202690,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Arts and Humanities","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121276464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Concentration and Sublimation of Time as Memory in Louise Glück's Poetry","authors":"Ligia Tomoiagă","doi":"10.52885/pah.v2i1.92","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52885/pah.v2i1.92","url":null,"abstract":"The preoccupation with the mythical time of the world, of humanity, and of each individual's life comes as one of the most powerful poetic tools in Louise Glück's poems. From evoking the foundational times of the Garden of Eden, or the \"immutable\" hard nut represented by Greek mythology, the poet concentrates whatever may suggest an evolution in time in those initial 'moments'. Her reading of the history of human soul seems to suggest that everything stopped with the first page, or the first words. This study will come with many suggestions of poems that support this vision on Glück's use of memory or anamnesis (ἀνάμνησις) as the only path to understanding humanity.","PeriodicalId":202690,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Arts and Humanities","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124780582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review. Fermor, Our Companion: Dan Horațiu Popescu’s Layers of the Text & Context. Patrick Leigh Fermor & Friends","authors":"D. Sala","doi":"10.52885/pah.v2i1.111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52885/pah.v2i1.111","url":null,"abstract":"Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) is the writer who managed to turn travelogues into a genre deserving to be called an art form. The contrast between Fermor's travelogue and the new configurations and shapes undertaken by travel writing nowadays becomes comforting through the intrinsic qualities of his écriture: the transformative encounters with known and unknown people, the preference for the adventurous less travelled paths (even on foot) of Central and Eastern Europe before WWII (1933-1939), the assessment of historical events through his own feelings and personal history. Fermor raised the stakes by making his real and reflective voyages grow into the very matter of literature (rather than be a mere setting or an annex of it) because of his erudition and because of his genuine capacity to create authentic connections between himself and the people he met, between past and present, between inter-war years and the post-WWII world, between Western and Eastern cultures in the cold-war era.","PeriodicalId":202690,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Arts and Humanities","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128166785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extended Time in the Digital Environment","authors":"Miklós Lehmann","doi":"10.52885/pah.v2i1.97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52885/pah.v2i1.97","url":null,"abstract":"Several aspects of human life have been extended through the digital environment: programs and apps help to expand cognitive capacity of human brain, drives and memories of ICT devices as well as cloud services provide an external memory storage for human remembrance, portable devices serve as multiple communication supply including text, voice, and video channels, social networking sites offer extensions for social life – and this development is in continual expanse. Nevertheless, time is also involved in this process. On the one hand, the relativity of time is obvious since the technological development transformed not only the sense of time but the culturally or traditionally determined frames of time itself. On the other hand, extended parts of human life can have an independent existence: regardless of time, regardless of human life they can subsist long after the death of the person. In other words, digital environment provides the possibility to extend the time for humanity. Is this extension a device for eternal life, or at least for a longer lifespan? Will this extension transform our thinking about time – or about our life?","PeriodicalId":202690,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Arts and Humanities","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133379050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}