VOLUME 1(1) • 2018
Henri Coandă and Constantin Brâncuși: unveiling the future
ABSTRACT. We introduce to the reader the research platform Creativity, whose conception is presented as standing under the sign of Henri Coandă and Constantin Brâncuși. Consequently, in a first contribution to this platform, we explore the connection between Henri Coandă and Constantin Brâncuși, whi..
Frontiers of influence: language and technology in the Japanese American fictions of Etsu I. Sugimoto and Karen Tei Yamashita
ABSTRACT. The following paper analyzes internal and external factors that can influence the creation of a literary work. There can be a great range of factors that fit well in these two categories, so much so that hereby we shall focus mainly on one major factor from each category (namely, linguisti..
On pre-translatability: the case of two fantastic short stories by Haruki Murakami
ABSTRACT. The present paper argues that Haruki Murakami’s fantastic mode of writing is a form of what Hijiya-Kirschnereit (2012) defines as “pretranslation,” i.e. a way to address international audiences by avoiding culturally specific terms that are incomprehensible beyond that specific cultural co..
Linguistic creativity with clitic left dislocated objects in Old Romanian
ABSTRACT. The following paper builds on diachronic data from the 16th century and 17th century Romanian language and argues that Romanian “clitic left dislocation” actually amounts to an umbrella term covering two different configurations: on older structure, already in place in the 16th century and..
The Dionysian negative theology between Neoplatonism and Christianity
ABSTRACT. Dionysius the Areopagite is undoubtedly one of the most enigmatic and intriguing thinkers of late Antiquity. Speculations on the identity of this unusual author had already begun by the middle of the 6th century A.D. Was Dionysius – as he describes himself – St Paul’s first Athenian conver..