{"title":"The Past as Story and Palimpsest in Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot. Rewriting the Past as Fiction and Biography","authors":"Elisabeta simona Catana","doi":"10.2478/rjes-2023-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2023-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Analysing Julian Barnes’s postmodernist novel, Flaubert’s Parrot, this essay shows that the past is exposed as a story and a palimpsest. We demonstrate that in Julian Barnes’s novel, the past is rewritten as a story with various truths about Flaubert’s identity and biography. The past is presented through a series of symbols, being a palimpsestic construct open to our analysis and understanding. The concepts of historical truth, the past, the present, the writer’s voice are approached in a postmodernist manner and are nothing but a palimpsest.","PeriodicalId":30681,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of English Studies","volume":"22 9","pages":"44 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139192244","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":"Problems of Lexical and Grammatical Equivalence in Translation: A Didactic Approach","authors":"M. Cozma, Romaniţa Jumanca","doi":"10.2478/rjes-2023-0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2023-0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Even if translation competence is not restricted to the knowledge of the two languages in contact, it is obvious that the quality of a translated text depends to a great extent on the appropriate use of the target language lexical items and combinations of items as imposed by the communicative context, on the one hand, and on the correct application of the rules specific to the grammatical system of that language, on the other. Considering both theoretical and research evidence, the authors of this paper discuss the problems that advanced students in English encounter when trying to achieve lexical and grammatical equivalence in the case of various types of texts translated from English into Romanian.","PeriodicalId":30681,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of English Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"123 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139193192","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":"Searching for the Neo-Colonial Informant in the Farming Of Bones","authors":"Alexandru Pîrciu","doi":"10.2478/rjes-2023-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2023-0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paper analyses instances of mimicry as they appear in Danticat’s historiographic fiction, The Farming of Bones. More specifically, it will examine why and how some characters appear accomplices in the brutal Parsley Massacre provoked by the Trujillo regime. Besides its literary dimension, the analysis can be said to be relevant from a cultural and socio-historical perspective as well because it seeks to reveal the emergence of a process which will be called inner colonisation and a new version of the native informant, which will be referred to as the neo-colonial informant.","PeriodicalId":30681,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of English Studies","volume":"19 5","pages":"89 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139193877","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":"Translating -ING Adjectival Compounds Into Romanian – A Case of Explicitation","authors":"Ruxandra Drăgan","doi":"10.2478/rjes-2023-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2023-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While compounding is highly productive in English, typically joining two words in a tight-knit semantic and syntactic unit, it is a minor derivational process in Romanian, which favours affixation instead. In light of this typological difference between the two languages, the present paper investigates the translation of English -ing adjectival compounds into Romanian in order to shed light on the strategies translators employ to compensate for the general absence of compounding in the latter language. It is shown that different translation strategies produce a number of regular patterns which lean towards explicitation, though implicitation is not excluded (Blum-Kulka 1986, Klaudy 2003, 2009, Klaudy & Károly 2005 etc.).","PeriodicalId":30681,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of English Studies","volume":"40 2","pages":"11 - 22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139189802","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 City Between Genre and Authorship in All’s Well That Ends Well","authors":"Gabriela Cheaptanaru","doi":"10.2478/rjes-2023-0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2023-0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper, I analyse the construction of the city as an ideological space in All’s Well that Ends Well which, I argue, generates the play’s genre ambiguity. Drawing on recent scholarly work that has identified Thomas Middleton as co-author of the play, I investigate how the interplay between Middleton and Shakespeare’s artistic temperaments concretizes in the mental space of the city, which infuses the entire play. In my research, I propose a further attribution to Middleton and show that Middleton’s contribution leads to the formation of an imbalanced landscape, situated between crisis and change, between comedy and tragedy.","PeriodicalId":30681,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of English Studies","volume":"26 17","pages":"147 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139188898","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":"Features of the United States of America in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and the Pale King","authors":"Raul Săran","doi":"10.2478/rjes-2023-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2023-0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract From a methodological standpoint, the following paper is based on a comparative analysis of two novels written by David Foster Wallace. With a specific perspective for each novel (the motivations of the character known as Rémy Marathe for the first novel, as well as §19 for the second one), the purpose of the paper is to highlight the main characteristics, flaws, and identity crises of the United States, as depicted by Wallace in both Infinite Jest and The Pale King.","PeriodicalId":30681,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of English Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"99 - 106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139188238","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":"Pacifist Literature During WWII: T. H. White’s the Once and Future King","authors":"Eirini Dimitra Bourontzi","doi":"10.2478/rjes-2023-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2023-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract T.H. White, an acclaimed author and one of the representatives of Fantasy and the Matter of Britain in the twentieth century, explores the topic of war in Arthurian society in the novel The Once and Future King (1958). In this article, I will demonstrate the central conundrum of this political allegory as the opposition of “Might versus Right” and Arthur’s endeavours toward solutions against violence and warfare. T. H. White and (by extension) Arthur are trying to find an “antidote to war” by exploring types of governing to pinpoint which one is the most pacifist, inspired by the horrors of the Second World War.","PeriodicalId":30681,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of English Studies","volume":"62 3","pages":"34 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139193451","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":"In the Shadow of the Cuckoo Clock. The Subversive Realism of the Third Man","authors":"Octavian More","doi":"10.2478/rjes-2023-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2023-0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract With a view to exemplifying how film noir can effectively combine elements of expressionism and realism through a participatory viewing experience, this paper provides a discussion of The Third Man as a cinematic text that concomitantly reiterates traditional insular values in times of global conflict and strengthens the individuality of post-war British cinema against the pressures of the American film industry.","PeriodicalId":30681,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of English Studies","volume":"61 4","pages":"80 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139194860","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":"Exploring Online Teaching as a Challenge for Teachers and Students in Pre-University System","authors":"Daniela Bercian","doi":"10.2478/rjes-2023-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2023-0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper discusses the need of research on online education in the Romanian context and presents a student survey on students’ opinion on teaching and learning using online activities. The results of the survey are the starting point of an extensive investigation of the effects of online education in the post- pandemic context. The case study I have in view will rely on a classroom quasi-experiment and on a self-reflective teacher diary study. The case study will be conducted in a prestigious secondary school in Romania.","PeriodicalId":30681,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of English Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"107 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139192260","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":"Antagonistic Classes of Victorian Society in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights: Female Book Knowledge as Cultural Mediator","authors":"Mădălina Elena Mandici","doi":"10.2478/rjes-2023-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2023-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study argues, through a series of close readings, that female book knowledge resists unified interpretation in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847), contradicting the widely-held Victorian assumption according to which discursive freedom is an exclusively male bastion of privilege. It instead concedes that self-instruction in the novel crosses cultural boundaries and perpetuates an ideological hegemony through the book as an agent of reconciliation. Book-knowledge in the novel is not the exclusive preserve of men, but a source of creativity for both ladies and ladies’ maids. Language and narrative technique, the study reveals, serve to unveil contrasts between servant and gentle folk, fashionable and popular manners, enforced and self-propelled reading.","PeriodicalId":30681,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of English Studies","volume":"197 1","pages":"62 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139194905","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}