VOLUME 1(2) • 2018
Harold Bloom and the brain-wave theory of creativity
ABSTRACT. The platform Creativity, which emerges under the sign of Henri Coandă and Constantin Brâncuși as defenders mainly of unlimited “frontiers” of knowledge and creativity, proceeds in its second issue with a presentation of one of the strongest critics of the 20th century, Harold Bloom of Yale..
Interferential creativity: the case of Paul Celan
ABSTRACT. Now recognized as one of the greatest poets of the 20th century (Harold Bloom included him in his list of one hundred literary geniuses; cf. Bloom 2002), Paul Celan left a literary legacy of highest rank. His creative originality was called in question when the “Goll affair” came to public..
Conceptualizing poetic futures in visions and variations: Sri Aurobindo & Christopher Caudwell
ABSTRACT. The present essay brings together two authors, Sri Aurobindo and Christopher Caudwell, in a comparative approach. For each of the two a major work will be considered in more detail, namely Sri Aurobindo’s The future poetry (1917–1920ff) and Caudwell’s Illusion and reality (1937). For all t..
An experimental investigation on Romanian polarity items
ABSTRACT. The aim of the present paper is twofold: on the one hand, to investigate the landscape of the focus particle ‘only’ in Romanian given the fact that Romanian exhibits two such focus particles, one whose use is mainly limited to assertive contexts and another one which is restricted to conte..
Adapting Zen to challenge Orientalism: trans-border representations in two short stories by J. D. Salinger
ABSTRACT. In Nine Stories (1953), J. D. Salinger presents both Eastern and Western thematic features in balance to each other, with what seems nonchalance, but is actually utmost care and attention. This way of balanced thematic representation prefigures Fred R. Dallmayr’s convincing argument of goi..