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CONTENTS

Vol. I No. 1/2011


 


 

Onomastics and Linguistics

Aspects historiques de l'anthroponymie roumaine

Aspecte istorice ale antroponimiei româneşti

Domniţa TOMESCU.....................................................................................................................................9

Romanian-Spanish Onomastics Interferences

Interferenţe onomastice româno-spaniole

Ioana JIEANU………….............................................................................................................................................19

Proper Names in Romanian Fixed Expressions: Challenges in Translation

Nume proprii în expresii fixe româneşti: provocări în traducere

Adina NICOLAE……………….................................................................................................................27

 

Onomastics and Culture

Aspects of Anthroponomy in Romanian Formulaic Expression

Aspecte ale antroponimiei în expresiile româneşti cu caracter formular

Gabriela DUDA, Cristina GAFU.................................................................................................................41

Meta Incognita: Naming as Renaming in the Early Modern Exploration

of the New World

Meta Incognita: Toponime noi şi vechi în călătoriile către Lumea Nouă

ale exploratorilor din epoca modernă timpurie

Petruţa NĂIDUŢ…......................................................................................................................................50

Pas-de-noms/ Plus de noms. Derrida and Blanchot

Pas-de-noms/ Plus de noms. Derrida şi Blanchot

Arleen IONESCU........................................................................................................................................59

 

Onomastics and Literature

In Search of "what's in a name": The English Pessoa as Poet as SHAKESPEARE,

and the Case of SuperCamões

În căutarea a ce-i într-un nume": englezul Pessoa ca poetul ca SHAKESPEARE şi cazul SuperCamões

Mihaela IRIMIA......................................................................................................................................73

Onomastic Strategies in Contemporary Fiction

Strategii onomastice în literatura contemporană

Anca Mihaela DOBRINESCU....................................................................................................................84

Mimicking Subjection to the Name- of- the -Father in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming

Mimarea supunerii faţă de Numele Tatălui în Întoarcerea acasă de Harold Pinter

Alina Elena ROŞCA. ..................................................................................................................................92

Symbolique religieuse et noms des personnages chez Sylvie Germain

Simbolistică religioasă şi onomastica personajului în opera lui Sylvie Germain

Serenela GHIŢEANU................................................................................................................................100

Mircea Cărtărescu's Levantul. Foreground and Background Anthroponyms

Antroponimele de prim plan şi de fundal în Levantul lui Mircea Cărtărescu

Adelina FARIAS........................................................................................................................................107

A Few Considerations on Names in Apuleius' Metamorphoses

Câteva consideraţii asupra numelor în romanul lui Apuleius, Metamorfoze

Cristina IRIDON....………………………………………………………………………………………118

"Compartmentation of personality for the purpose of literary utterance":

Pseudonymity and heteronymity in the various lives of Flann O'Brien

"Compartimentarea personalităţii în vederea expresiei literare":

Pseudonimie şi heteronymie în diferitele vieţi ale lui Flann O'Brien

Adrian OŢOIU….......................................................................................................................................128
 

Miscellanea

The Complex Vowel Segment. A New Name: Tetraphtongs. Contextual Achievements

Segmentul vocalic dezvoltat (complex). Un nou nume: tetraftongii. Realizări contextuale

Cătălin ENICĂ...........................................................................................................................................141

The Spanish Civil War and its (Welsh) Afterlives: Memorialisation as a Political Act

Războiul civil în Spania şi reprezentările sale postbelice galeze: memorialul ca act politic

Anindya RAYCHAUDHURI....................................................................................................................151

Pour un modèle dynamique du temps présent

Pentru un model dinamic al timpului prezent

Laurenţiu THEBAN.…..............................................................................................................................164

 

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Răzvan SĂFTOIU………………………………………………………………………………………..172
 

Contributors……………………………...…………………………………………………….....175

 

 

 

CONTRIBUTORS

 

 

Anca Mihaela DOBRINESCU is a Reader in English Literature at the University of Ploiesti. She holds a PhD in British literature from the University of Bucharest. She teaches modernist and postmodernist literature. She is Director of the MA programme "Concepts and Strategies of Intercultural Communication", carrying out research into issues related to literature and intercultural communication. She published Modernist Narrative Discourse. Virginia Woolf in 2001 and The Discourse of Modernism. Lectures in the Modernist English Novel in 2004. She wrote many articles on Modernist and Postmodernist literature, as well as on intercultural communication.

 

 

Gabriela DUDA is a Professor in Pragmatics and Theory of Literature in the Philology Department, Faculty of Letters and Sciences at University of Ploieşti. She is the recipient of a Fullbright scholarship (1995-1996) at California University, Berkeley and a scholarship awarded by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication la (1999). She is a member of the Romanian Society of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature. She published extensively in Romania and abroad; her books include: Avangarde Romanian Literature (1997; 2004); Introduction in Theory of Literature (1998; 2006); Metaphor in Romanian Symbolist Poetry. Reflections on Analogical Forms (2001; 2007); Dictionary of Romanian Phrases (2002; 2007); Romanian Syilistics. Linguistic Stylistics and Stylistics of the Literary Text (2004); Dictionary of Phrases and Phrasal Idions (co-authored, 1985). She coordinated the volume Research Topics in Contemporary Linguistics. In memoriam Magdalena Vulpe (2005). She translated and anthologized: Henri Michaux, Mişcări ale fiinţei interioare (2001); she co-translated Jean Burgos, Pentru o poetică a imaginarului (1999) and Marin Tarangul, Prin ochiul lui Nichita (1997).

 

 

Cătălin ENICĂ has a bachelor degree in Letters at Al. I. Cuza University from Iaşi with a graduation paper on magical thinking. He has carried out research and elaborated studies of dialectology and folklore. He is a member of the Linguistics Department within The Faculty of Letters from Dunarea de Jos University, Galati. He has published numerous articles: literary exegeses, observations on the history of language and Romanian contemporary language, toponymy research, functional and artistic stylistics etc. He has also elaborated works on didactics and guides of improvement for the Romanian education, among which a Methodology of teaching phonetics in primary school. He has specialised in etymology and compared lexicology, focusing mainly on vocabulary of Turkish and Greek origin belonging to different variants of the Romanian language.

 

 

Adelina FARIAS is a Lecturer in the Department of Philology at University of Ploieşti. She holds a PhD in Romanian Literature from the University of Bucharest, with a thesis on the poetics of parody. She teaches inter war Romanian literature and cultural studies. Her research interests include imagology, comparative literature, and theory of literature. She published articles on Romanian Modernist and Postmodernist literature, as well as intercultural communication. She is currently working on a Spanish- Romanian project on the literary press of the '50s.

 

 

Cristina GAFU is a Lecturer in Ethnology and Folklore, working in the Philology Department of the University of Ploiesti. Her interests include the storytelling phenomenon, contemporary narratives, teaching folklore and Romanian traditional culture, having published more than 15 studies and two books dealing mainly with narratives in the urban environment and aspects of the urban ethnologic research.

 

 

Serenela GHIŢEANU is an Assistant Lecturer in French literature at University of Ploiesti. She completed a Ph. D. in French Literature at the Bretagne-Sud University, Lorient, France in 2009. She published Sylvie Germain. La Grâce et la Chute at Institutul European Publishing House, Iaşi in 2010. She is also co-author of Scriitorul, cenzura, published at ALL Publishing House, Bucharest, in 2009. She teaches French Civilization and French literature. She has published in the Romanian cultural reviews: Revista 22, Timpul, Observator Cultural and others. She has collaborated with the Alliance Française of Ploiesti where she has held several conferences on literary topics and has moderated cultural activities.

 

 

Arleen IONESCU is a Reader in the Department of English at the University of Ploieşti and the recipient of a research scholarship from the Zurich James Joyce Foundation in 2000. She has published widely on Joyce, and other related aspects of modernism, as well as on Beckett, Chaucer and Shakespeare. She is the author of Concordanţe româno-britanice (2004) and of A History of English Literature. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance, (2008). She is currently working on the notions of passion/passivity in Blanchot, Cioran and Beckett for a book-length project as well as on a project on hospitalities.

 

 

Cristina IRIDON is a Lecturer at the University of Ploiesti. She holds a PhD in Classic Languages and Literatures from the University of Bucharest. She teaches Latin and Comparative Literature to undergraduate students. She carries out research into issues related to classical studies and literature. She published Latin Language. Morphology in 2009 and Latin Language. Sintax in 2010. She also wrote more than 30 articles on the topics mentioned above.

 

 

Mihaela IRIMIA is a Professor in the English Department, University of Bucharest, where she teaches eighteenth-century and romantic literature, cultural theory, and cultural studies. She is Director of Studies of the British Cultural Studies Centre, Director of the Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity, as well as Director of the Doctoral School for Literary-Cultural Studies of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures. She has been Fulbright Professor at Harvard, Fellow of St. John's College Oxford, Yale, the Taylor Institution, and has been Visiting Professor or/and given invited papers at various universities in Europe and the USA.  Her recent publications include: ‘The Classic Modern Canon and the Disciplinary Separation', in Papadima, Liviu, David Damrosch and Theo D'haen (eds), The Canonical Debate Today: Crossing Disciplinary and Cultural Boundaries (2011); ‘The Ineffectual Angel of Political Hijacking', in Michael Rossington & Susanne Schmid (eds), The Reception of Shelley in Europe (2008); Lures and Ruses of Modernity (2007); ‘The Byron Phenomenon in Romanian Culture', in Richard Cardwell (ed.), The Reception of Byron in Europe (2004).

 

 

Ioana JIEANU is an Assistant Lecturer at University of Ploiesti where she teaches seminars in Contemporary Romanian Language and Romanian as a Foreign Language. Her research is mainly focused on the language spoken by the Romanians living in Spain, which is also the subject of her Ph.D. thesis entitled Romanian-Spanish Linguistic Interferences.

 

 

Petruţa-Oana NĂIDUŢ is a Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, where she teaches eighteenth-century literature, the theory of communication,  translation theory and practice. Her research interests include cartography, cultural geography, history of science, early modern natural and moral philosophy, early modern literature, eighteenth-century literature, translation theory and practice. She has published widely in Romanian journals and cultural reviews and translated three books from English into Romanian.

 

 

Adina Oana NICOLAE is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at University of Ploieşti. She teaches English phonetics and phonology as well as lexical semantics to philology students. Her research interests include cognitive linguistics, stylistics, CALL and ELT. In 2006 she published A Practical Guide to English Phonetics and Phonology and in 2011 she defended her PhD thesis at the West University, Timişoara.

 

 

Anindya RAYCHAUDHURI completed his PhD in 2010 from Cardiff University, researching the representations of gender and memory in the narratives of the Spanish Civil War. He is currently researching the collective memory and cultural representation of the 1947 Indian Partition and has published an examination of the representation of Partition in the works of the Bengali film director Ritwik Ghatak in the journal Social Semiotics. His other research interests include TV Science Fiction, Marxist and postcolonial theory, graffiti, urban studies, and subculture studies. He has written on, among other things, Doctor Who, food in detective fiction, the works of Christopher Caudwell and on British graffiti-artist Banksy. He is currently editing a collection of essays called Spanish Civil War: History, Memory, Representation to be published by the University of Wales Press in 2011.

 

Alina ROŞCA is a Tutor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Ploieşti. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Cultural and Literary Studies at the University of Bucharest. Her PhD thesis focuses on. She has published on issues related to postmodernism. She is currently working on her PhD thesis Multi-levelled Representations of Power in Harold Pinter's Plays which explores identity and otherness from a psychoanalytic perspective.

 

 

Laurenţiu-Ioan THEBAN is a graduate of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, at present the recipient of a scholarship to complete his PhD within the Doctoral School of Languages and Cultural Identity, University of Bucharest. In 2011 he was a research fellow at Classic University of Lisbon for three months. He is the author of Sémantique et syntaxe du verbe faire en français, roumain, latin, portugais (Revue Roumaine de Linguistique), and  Esquisse d'une grammaire actancielle du crêole français de l'Ile Maurice (Analele Universitatii Bucuresti).

 

 

Domniţa TOMESCU is a Professor in the Philology Department, Faculty of Letters and Sciences, at University of Ploiesti and senior research fellow at the The Institute of Linguistics Iorgu Iordan-Al. Rosetti from Bucharest. She supervises PhD candidates at Ovidius University of Constanţa. She was awarded two prizes by the Romanian Academy, she was a member of the international project PATROM and she coordinated two national grants. At present she is a member of the International Onomastic Sciences Committee. She published numerous articles in national and international journals, she participated in numerous conferences in Romania and abroad. She elaborated chapters of collective works published by the Romanian Academy: Romania's Toponymic Dictionary, The Romanian Language Grammar (both written in Romanian) and at present she is working on A Treaty of Romanian Language History. She is the author of The Grammar of Proper Nouns in Romanian (1998), Proper Nouns in Romania. A Historical Perspective (2001), Romanian Language. A Grammar (2001), The Grammatical Analysis of the text. Method and Difficulties ( 2003).

 

 

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ContentsPreliminaries ………………………………………………………………...…………………. 5Re RepliesLaurent MILESI: Dry Ink: Arguing (to) the Limits …………………………………...………… 7Ivan CALLUS: Criticism Limited: Singularities and Pluralities of Constraint ……...………… 25De-limitationsAnamaria SCHWAB: The Death and Life of Poststructuralism – Surmounting Dilemmas in Recent American Cultural Criticism ……………………………… 40Aidan TYNAN: Deleuze, Critique and the Problem of Judgement …………………………… 51Emma WEST: A Modern(ist) Mode: Fashion, 1910, and the Limits of Modernism …..……… 65Mario AQUILINA: “Let me (not) read you”: Countersigning Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116……. 79Marija GRECH: De-gen(d)eration: Writing Thru the Seriously Playful ………………….…… 91Arleen IONESCU: Artifices of Construction: The Unlimited Space of Literature in Adrian Oţoiu’s Coaja lucrurilor sau Dansând cu Jupuita ………………………………… 101***Diana COSTEA: Limits to the Logic of Temporal Coherence in Textual Sequences / Limites dans la logique de la cohérence temporelle d’une séquence textuelle .......................... 111Stanca MĂDA: Politeness Has its Limits: Avoiding Negation in Romanian Professional Context……………………………………..… 120Miscellaneous Off-limitsBrunilda T. REICHMANN, Paulo Roberto PELLISSARI: Primeval Rhapsody and Dionysus: An Interface between the Narrative and the Myth .……………………………….………….. 132Reviews Ltd. …………………………………………………………………………….…… 145Word and Text. Inc. (List of Contributors) ……………………………….………….…… 151