Vol. 73 No. 1 (2024): Rhetoric and Emotion
Selected Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, November 2024
Published:
2025-03-06
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ANALYSIS OF THE ROMANIAN TRANSLATION OF A FEW CHIASMI IN SHAKESPEARE’S MEASURE FOR MEASURE
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This paper discusses the Romanian translation of a few chiasmi in Measure for Measure. It proposes an interpretation of Shakespeare’s use of these chiastic structures in the play, and examines the form, the structure, and the effect of these chiastic structures after the translation. Since Measure for Measure inspires meditation through the idea of appeasing justice with mercy in the application of the law, but shows no limitation of the application of justice by mitigating it with mercy, the happy ending appears as an artifice of the Duke. This paper views the use of chiasmi as a means of enabling the audience to achieve a mental transfer from the worldly to the spiritual, in order enable it to understand the play in relation to the teachings of the Bible without mentioning such precepts as such, and discusses whether and to what extent the effect of this transfer is retained in translation.
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THEATRICAL ART AND RIVALRY IN THE MEMOIRS OF ACTRESSES HYPPOLITE CLAIRON AND MARIE DUMESNI
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Taking as our point of reference the classic art/nature argument about the actor's stage acting, we analyse which theoretical approaches become defining and convincing in the Hyppolite Clairon style or the Marie Dumesnil style: intelligence, lucidity, reason,
self-mastery or mastery of the technical means of expression, studied acting (which places the role in its historical context), constant effort, attention to detail, the art of exact declamation (studied and studied at length) or, on the other hand, sensitivity, emotion,
spontaneous and natural acting, passion, imagination, authentic enthusiasm (really felt and not constructed), transmitted to the audience thanks to the inspiration of the moment? The analysis reveals antagonistic positions expressed by the two actresses, subtly revealing on the one hand, in Clairon – an authoritative tone, with a strong personality that carries the theatricality of her characters beyond the stage, into society, and, on the other hand, in Dumesnil – an analytical, meticulous, argumentative spirit, which draws on examples and situations borrowed from the world of theatre, to firmly support a more contextually nuanced vision that brings out the rivalry between the two actresses. -
THE ISLAND AND THE PLAGUE: PLAGUE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS IN THE NOVEL VEBA GECELERI (“THE NIGHTS OF PLAGUE”) BY ORHAN PAMUK
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The story of the novel Veba Geceleri by Orhan Pamuk, published in 2021, takes place in 1901, during the third plague pandemic, on an imaginary island in the Eastern Mediterranean, which is claimed to be a part of the Ottoman Empire. The outbreak of the
plague, which is brought, like many other similar scourges, by sea, triggers a crisis of epic proportions within the small island community, forcing its vital limits and causing it to assert its identity (among other things through declaring independence and breaking away from Ottoman tutelage). Orhan Pamuk calls on all the resources of the epidemic and of the collective imaginary in times of restriction (the plague brought “from outside”, the plague as a foreigner, the foreigner as a scapegoat or as a possible agent of the plague, quarantine and the opposition to quarantine, the relations between the authorities and the population, the
idea of authority, its forms, implications and risks in times of social anomie, the isolation of individuals and their loneliness in an age of distress, humanitarian disaster as the germ of social implosion, etc.) in order to create a novel that nurtures the ambition to enroll, through its explicit and implicit references, the great pandemic literature of the world. -
STRATEGIC EMPATHIZING IN SERENADE FOR NADIA BY ZÜLFÜ LIVANELI
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This article is part of an extensive theoretical research I am conducting on narrative empathy in Zülfü Livaneli’s novel Serenade for Nadia, a novel whose topics approach issues facing society today. Putting forward the hypothesis that the novel comprises narrative strategies that aim at manifesting the reader’s empathy, I will analyze some aspects of the novel through the lens of the concept of strategic empathy, as defined by the theorist Suzanne Keen. This article will cover two potential strategies identified, namely strategic idealization, and the representation of a tragic love story, as tools for eliciting the reader’s empathic response.
Book Reviews
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MIHAI IACOB, ALA IZQUIERDA. Autoimagen de Mircea Cărtărescu en España (1993-2018). Almería: Editorial Universidad de Almería, 2024. 280 p. ISBN 978-84-1351-261-7
Abstract
Incluso desde el título que incluye un intervalo de tiempo, el libro de Mihai Iacob se revela no solo como una monografía de la mencionada novela cărtăresquiana, lo que lo confinaría a la crítica literaria tradicional, sino como un análisis que indaga mucho más hondo en la obra y en la construcción de la imagen pública del autor rumano con instrumentos de la imagología (tal y como el concepto autoimagen y el sintagma ala izquierda conceptualizado lo delatan).
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IOANA STOICESCU. The Acquisition of Tense and Aspect in Romanian. Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, 2013. 287 p. ISBN 978-606-160263-6
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This volume is an exploration of the acquisition of tense and aspect in Romanian, reliant on both longitudinal corpora and experimental data. It is based on Ioana Stoicescu’s dissertation, and it provides information on the production of tense/aspect verbal forms in child Romanian, while also looking at associations between grammatical and lexical aspect in child and parental speech. Additionally, it looks into children’s comprehension of some of the main tenses of Romanian: the present, imperfect, and future.
