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Vintilă Horia’s novel God was born in exile seems to be written from the perspective of a refusal of history, of an opening to imagination and esoterism, to the detriment of a positive valorisation of the facts of the immediate reality. Fiction is thus the one that legitimizes Ovid’s existential adventure, the one that certifies his resistance to an annihilated and aggressive History. In this novel, we are witnesses of a spiritual metamorphosis, of a spiritual catabathic itinerary, whereby the retransmission in the values of esotericism and self, as well as the understanding of the meanings of existence, is the guarantee of sacrificial death and symbolic resurrection.
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In the Identity’s Labyrinth

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In this essay, we attempt an interpretation of the postmodernist literary discourse from the perspective of image, imaginary and character. As hyposthases of a self-generative type of fiction in Mircea Cartarescu’s postmodernist discourse, the body as text and the text as body are reccuring themes. <bold>The text is a written simulation</bold> of the materiality of the body, throught the lines of which the image of the author allows itself to be seen programaticaly. Approached from the point of view of the fascination exercised by the transformation of the body into letter upon the postmodernist writer, the theme of corporality unveils spectacular depths. This is the reading we propose for Mircea Cartarescu’s shortstory.
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Assoc. Prof., PhD, ‘G.E. Palade’ University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Târgu Mureș

The State of Postmodernist Discourse

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The assertion from which we start our study is that in the last decades the anaphor has been defined relatively homogeneously from one researcher to another, from two perspectives: a. The syntactical-semantic perspective; and b. The rhetorical perspective - in the linguistics of the text, cultivated in pragmatics, in cognitive sciences, etc. We approach the anaphor in our research, from a syntactical-semantic perspective, as a semantic relation between two linguistic elements, in which the element with subsequent occurrence in the speech does not have a stand-alone meaning, being interpreted by reference to the antecedent. The objective of the research is to analyze the anaphora in the medical discourse. The descriptive-linguistic, analytical and contrastive methods are used in the research. One of the main conclusions is that in the medical discourse, the typology, the ways of accomplishing the anaphora, according to the criterion of referential continuity, are particularly complex.
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Anaphora Issue in Medical Discourse

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We focused in this paper on the importance of punctuation marks and its teaching methods in Romanian language, underlining those cases when incorrect punctuation can even change the whole meaning of a sentence. We also illustrate some situations of incorrect use of comma and exclamation mark and we suggest some possible solutions to the problem of incorrect punctuation such as revision lessons, more applications on different texts, tests.
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On Punctuation Marks and the Importance of Adequate Teaching

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The human being, Lucian Blaga argues in his Genesis of Metaphysics and the Meaning of Culture, underwent a double biologic and ontological mutation, and thus was endowed with the gift of creation (revelation), unlike the other terrestrial creatures benefiting only from simple biological mutations. Thus, it has been concerned about the revelation of the mysteries of the world, which are defended by the transcendental brakes of the Great Anonymous. There are only two possibilities for cognition to be accomplished: the two types of metaphors, plasticizing and revelatory, or the two categories of myths: significant (rational) and trans-significant (with illogical content). Here, the philosopher also compares the two cultural typologies: minor or ethnographic culture with major or monumental culture, thereby formulating the “adoptive age theory”, explaining how an individual or a community adopts at some point a minor possibility or major creation. The antinomy culture-civilization report is critically filtered through the views of some well-known Western thinkers, the discussion being whether the two notions can be explained as simultaneity, succession or ontological dimension. Singularized in the Universe, precisely by their special condition, human beings have reached their last stage of evolution, being predestined to a tragic and painful creative destiny.
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Lecturer, PhD, ‘G.E. Palade’ University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Târgu Mureș

Innovating Ideas in Lucian Blaga’s Philosophy: Cognition Through Metaphor and “Mythical Spirit”

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The detection and the application of principles of other branches of science and art has been influential in reforming and forming new ideas and interpretations in other areas of science. This article has dealt with the detection and justification of the principles of chaos theory in the plays of postmodern dramatists. The postmodern absurd theatre can be closely justified at the shadow of the principles of chaos theory mainly regarding the themes afflicting humanity at postmodern era. The article makes it clear how the themes can best be justified within the frameworks of chaos theory and how these chaotic themes can lead to tranquilized condition of human being via the framework of dramatic art. This has enabled the unseen in-tumult layers of human mind regarding his condition and being emerged, made tangible, and get soothed in its condition, a phenomenon whose illustration would be impossible with no other way round. Finally, the paper presents the finding that the chaotic state of mind and being of postmodern man based on the chaotic state of the postmodernism era would capture the significance and meaning built based on his own findings and understanding.
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An Outlook of the Theatre of Absurd Via the Framework of Chaos Theory

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Simone de Beauvoir est une philosophe et militante universellement reconnue pour les droits des femmes, en France comme aux Etats-Unis, grâce à son ouvrage « Le Deuxième sexe » et à sa lutte ultérieure. Dans ses textes de fictions, par rapport aux textes autobiographiques, la condition de la femme est décrite pourtant de manière différente et nous avons choisi trois titres qui nous semblent représentatifs dans ce sens. Dans « L’Invitée », dans « Les Belles images » et dans « La Femme rompue » nous avons une héroïne principale qui ou bien se leurre elle-même, dans le premier roman, qui est émancipée mais limitée, dans le deuxième, et qui est carrément vaincue, dans le dernier titre. Femme rebelle dans sa vie privée, Simone de Beauvoir écrit des textes de fiction dans lesquels elle choisit de présenter la réalité telle qu’elle est : malgré une évolution à travers les années, les femmes sont encore dominées par les hommes.
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Sexes Et Differences Dans Trois Textes Fictionnels De Simone De Beauvoir

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The article continues my former analysis of “Social Identity in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine”, focusing on new aspects related to the characters’ multiple identities and how different factors (religion, race and ethnicity, customs and beliefs) shape these identities. It highlights Mukherjee’s deviation from postcolonial and diasporic literature. In fashioning new identities, unlike the postcolonial lament for lost origins, Mukherjee argues for the optimism of the immigrant experience, in which the characters are both victims and survivors. Immigration, in her view, unfetters positive energies in the process of transformation. This positive attitude makes her characters oscillate between names and social identities, which seems to be the only way of entering and adapting to this new and unfamiliar world. ‘Home’ becomes a fluid notion, which is negotiated by her characters, a possibility you can define wherever you can feel at home. Binary –old and new- customs, traditions, and beliefs co-exist and negotiate the characters’ cultural conflicts in a flexible manner.
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Assoc. Prof., PhD., ‘G.E. Palade’ University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Târgu Mureș

MA student, ‘G.E. Palade’ University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Târgu Mureș

Multiple Identities and Emerging Selves in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine

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The paper aims at highlighting significant episodes from the lives of Lawrence Durrel and Patrick Leigh Fermor, as reflected in their correspondence. With a focus on their concern for the craft of writing, the paper also touches some of the major political issues of the time, in the years after WWII. The Cold War period is reffered to with letters from behind the Iron Curtain, from Patrick Leigh Fermor’s first great love, the Romanian princess Balasha Cantacuzene.
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Layers of the Private Epitext: Lawrence Durrell and Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Correspondence

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Rudyard Kipling was always a writer of his time yet strangely not of it. Born in an era of uncertainties, the age of Victoria, when the British Empire was the dominant power in the world, he died in a time of fragmentation, on the eve of the Second World War, at a time when Britain could neither compete with her rivals, nor ignore the rising of the anti-colonial tide. A controversial literary figure, Kipling was both acclaimed and sanctioned for being the voice of Anglo-Saxon imperialism. His literary work was a political and ideological response to a historical reality. The writer is representing a reality, or a way reality was seen at the time, given the ideology available to him. Accordingly, Kipling’s life, attitudes and writings were a fusion of many contemporary currents, which generated the contradictions that enveloped him.
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Kipling and the Age of the Empire

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The present paper is intended to highlight the role of communication skills in the context of teaching English for Specific Purposes, given their importance of these skills both in the economy of the course syllabus and as an overall objective of any specialized language training. The study also identifies some of the most common obstacles faced by language instructors when designing and implementing communicative activities and suggests ways of overcoming them by resorting to specific methodological aids. Additionally, the author attempts to formulate a series of principles describing ESP teaching with a focus on communicative skills and starting from the theoretical background of the Communicative Language Teaching method.
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Communicative Competence in the Context of ESP Methodology

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The internationalisation of higher education has been for the last decade a priority both at the level of the EU and at national levels. However, complying with organizational and institutional criteria is not enough to become visible to future students, as most often they are not aware of the educational opportunities at national and international level. Awareness can be improved by using media channels preponderantly used by the would-be students and doing it non-intrusively, by ranking high on search engine results pages (SERPs).
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Beyond the Internationalisation of Higher Education. A Case of a Romanian Medical School on the German Medical Education Services Market

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The books of literary criticism of Alex Ștefănescu include reading notes, comments, interpretations and analyzes. The critic uses a strategy persuading readers through a language of deliberate simplicity, with a detached writing. The critic cultivates a certain hedonism of the encounter with literature, an unrepressed lust for reading and rereading. In the case of Alex Ștefănescu, frankness, the sharpness of the statements is combined with a dose of critical impressionism, determined by the identification with the relief of the literary work.
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The Eternal Return to the Eminescian Text

<italic>Homeric</italic> Or About The Magical Powers of Storytelling (Doina Ruști, <italic>Homeric,</italic> Polirom, 2019)

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This article brings into the foreground the nature of Ion Vianu’s writings. The books published by Ion Vianu are to be found under the tutelary sign of the memory and under the sign of the affective reverberation whichresults from the recovery of a lived past. This past can be recovered via a sort of anamnetic fervor.
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The Mirror Games of Memory

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Acta Marisiensis. Philologia

 Starting in 2011, the journal appears biannually. Since the first publication in 2002, 9 issues have been published, containing academic studies and reviews that reflect the development of the most important phenomena in the Romanian, British, French or Italian Literature, Literary Criticism, Linguistics and Cultural Studies. The Executive Editor of the journal is Prof. Iulian Boldea, PhD, Dean of the Faculty of Sciences and Letters from Petru Maior University Tirgu-Mures and head of the Modernity and Postmodernity in 20th Century Romanian Literature Research Center. Prof. Iulian Boldea is also a CNCSIS accredited assessor in the Commission for Social Sciences. During its nine years of publication, the journal has contributed to the drawing and development of scientific research at Petru Maior University in the field of Philology. A great number of studies and reviews generated by theoretical and applied research was published, more than 40 studies written by foreign contributors being published during the last three years. The editorial board is formed of prestigious members of the Romanian Academy, foreign and Romanian professors with remarkable reputations. Among the constant contributors are numerous personalities of Romanian and European culture, as well as professors and researchers from abroad.  Archiving  Sciendo archives the contents of this journal in Portico - digital long-term preservation service of scholarly books, journals and collections.  Plagiarism Policy  The editorial board is participating in a growing community of Similarity Check System's users in order to ensure that the content published is original and trustworthy. Similarity Check is a medium that allows for comprehensive manuscripts screening, aimed to eliminate plagiarism and provide a high standard and quality peer-review process.