Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.05
Marcela Poučová
{"title":"« Accepter et pardonner, c’est se réconcilier avec soi-même ». L’Histoire tchèque du XXe siècle vue par le roman policier","authors":"Marcela Poučová","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.05","url":null,"abstract":"\"The article explains the development and specific features of the detective genre in the Czech Republic (and its predecessor Czechoslovakia) from the beginning of the 20th century. It observes that these features are just as valid in the last 30 years. The main focus is on crime fiction literature and, in particular, TV crime series that have become especially popular since 2015, both of which have been inspired by true organised crime cases between 1990-2010.\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41555515","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}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.07
Amalia Mărășescu
{"title":"Female Detectives in Romanian Literature: Vitoria Lipan and Minerva Tutovan","authors":"Amalia Mărășescu","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.07","url":null,"abstract":"\"The essay draws a parallel between two female detectives in Romanian literature: Mihail Sadoveanu’s Vitoria Lipan and Rodica Ojog-Brașoveanu’s Minerva Tutovan. While Vitoria Lipan is not commonly regarded as a detective, Minerva Tutovan is a professional State Security officer and investigator. Mention will be made of their marital status, profession, pets, moral qualities and others, in an attempt to show that although they differ in many respects including education, background, social status, historical epoch and purpose, they are equally skilful in finding criminals and bringing them to justice. They will also be analysed as mentors: Vitoria for her son Gheorghiță and Minerva for her subordinate, lieutenant Vasile Dobrescu.\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44550777","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}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.29
C. Borbély
{"title":"Folding Time: On the Long Eighteenth Century’s Material Temporalities","authors":"C. Borbély","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.29","url":null,"abstract":"C to the materialist-temporal turn in scholarship,1 Marcus Tomalin’s Telling the Time in British Literature, 16751830. Hours of Folly (2020) imaginatively reappraises the polymorphic understandings of time conveyed by different horological tropes in the literature of the long eighteenth century. It aligns itself with other recent endeavours to reconfigure the timescapes of modern literature2 and engages a massive corpus of time-related writings, seeking to show “how various essayists, poets, playwrights, and novelists meditated deeply upon the physical form, social functions, and philosophical implications of particular objects used to measure time.”3 In this review, I read Tomalin’s vast survey of literary renditions of prototypal time-measuring devices in the light of Michel Serres’s thoughts on time topologies. I take into account the two thinkers’ shared distrust of hegemonic accounts of time, their belief in the importance of balancing out, rather than sieving through, the multivalent temporal dimensions articulated by the (im)materiality of objects, as well as their endorsement of an ecological milieu within which different philosophies of time may be folded together or interlinked to generate, in the words of Tomalin, an accommodating view of the “pervasive pluralism” of time-determining methods, ranging from the most sophisticated mechanistic devices to the non-artificial bioand astro-rhythms of the natural and cosmological spheres.4 In his influential reflections on the “polychronic” and “multitemporal” nature of objects, Michel Serres notes that rather than conforming to the trajectory of an Carmen Borbély","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45573041","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}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.28
Andrei-Călin Zamfirescu
{"title":"Of Gateways, Rabbit Holes and Wardrobes – A Study in The Porous Frontiers of Secondary Worlds","authors":"Andrei-Călin Zamfirescu","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.28","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44873095","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}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.26
Hichem Ismaïl
{"title":"L’antagonisme du féminin et du masculin dans Salammbô de Flaubert","authors":"Hichem Ismaïl","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.26","url":null,"abstract":"\"In Salammbô by Flaubert, the representation of the ancient universe reveals a struggle between two opposing principles, masculine and feminine, which takes on a character that is both mythological and cosmological. While revealing the dangers of the encounter between these two poles, the story stages a fierce confrontation between these two imaginaries presenting themselves as mutually exclusive. This antithetical construction will give rise to a whirlwind of passion and cruelty that will consecrate the triumph of monstrosity over amorous emotions. In the Punic work, the language of violence prevails over that of love so much so that the deep energy that nourishes amorous desire is transformed into a veritable force of generalized annihilation. Flaubert’s nihilism strives to undermine the highest values of bourgeois culture, which disgusts it, and reaches its peak when it attacks the roles it assigns to the opposite sexes.\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42509448","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}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.14
Alex Văsieș
{"title":"Narrative Devices in Motion: From Genre Fiction to Mainstream Fictoin in Florin Chirculescu’s Prose","authors":"Alex Văsieș","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.14","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47754295","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}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.08
Roxana Eichel
{"title":"Intersecting Inequalities in Romanian Crime Series Shadows (HBO). Expressions of Identity between Authenticity, Stereotypes and “Eastploitation”","authors":"Roxana Eichel","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.08","url":null,"abstract":"\"The representations of gender, ethnicity and class play a particularly significant part in structuring the way in which East European crime fiction makes sense of its cultural identity. Issues of social inequality and discrimination are addressed by the European institutions through the promotion of inter- and multi-cultural values that are meant to foster awareness about social stereotypes and prejudices and promote the artistic expression of more balanced representations (i.e. the EIGE policies). Yet sometimes the gap between the inclusive aims pursued by the European policies and the realities represented in crime films, TV dramas and novels is more than noticeable. This article aims to discuss this fluctuation between disparity, stereotypization, realism and exploitation in the HBO production Shadows (Umbre, 2014-2019).\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45281208","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}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.23
Souad Atoui-Labidi
{"title":"Réinvention et détournement du féminin ou Schéhérazade au masculin dans ZABOR ou les psaumes de Kamel Daoud","authors":"Souad Atoui-Labidi","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.23","url":null,"abstract":"\"Scheherazade, an important female character in the collection of tales The Thousand and One Nights, its main storyteller and guarantor since she ensured its continuity by inventing each night a new story to achieve a specific goal: (to) save from the execution. She is also presented as the perfect embodiment of the therapist who wields speech with great intelligence to heal the king of his complexes and his insatiable desire for revenge. But what fate was reserved for her after the thousand and one nights stories? In this article, we analyze the novel by Algerian author Kamel Daoud ZABOR ou les psaumes focusing our attention on the reinvention and diversion of the female character of Scheherazade to the masculine.\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47406303","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}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.11
Ioana-Andrea Diaconu
{"title":"Creating and Destroying Prejudices. Romanian Characters in German Television Thrillers Beginning with the Millennium","authors":"Ioana-Andrea Diaconu","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.11","url":null,"abstract":"The study includes over 30 German TV thrillers and series aired during a 20-year period, with the plots located in different regions, in which Romanians play parts of different degrees of importance for the story. The main interest is to identify whether or to which extent the different roles are tributary to stereotypes about Romanians and to what extent the characters might contribute to creating a perception of Romanians in the German society, respectively to changing the existent one.","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46521587","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}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.17
Ruxandra Cesereanu
{"title":"The Savage Detectivism of Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction","authors":"Ruxandra Cesereanu","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.17","url":null,"abstract":"\"The present study analyses Roberto Bolaño’s engagement with marginality in the novels The Savage Detectives and 2666, via the conventions of the noir genre. The aesthetics of the peripheral, the poetics of triviality, vagrancy, bohemian wanderlust, and enigmatic rituals are performed in an inimitable personal style that problematizes issues pertaining to the theory of literature and the theory of the novel. Atomised, puzzle-like novels with deliberately obscure police procedural plots, The Savage Detectives and 2666 break several authorial and narrative architectural patterns, becoming major landmarks in today’s novelistic worldscape.\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45476504","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}