VOLUME 2(1) • 2019
The creative faculty in romantic poetics and poetry: Wordsworth and Lord Byron
ABSTRACT. The romantics revolutionized world literature when they undertook the project of fully identifying with the unity of being – a dangerous way, tasted, among others, mostly and fully by poets like Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Blake, P. B. Shelley, and Byron. All of these, in their own way, ..
Classic versus romantic: Irving Babbitt on culture and creativity
ABSTRACT. Irving Babbitt (1865–1933) was engaged on a critical quest for the elimination of all extremes in culture, society and life in general so as to reach a balanced center of persisting harmony. Thus, Babbitt made a critical radiograph of neo-classicism and romanticism, showing the shortcoming..
Passionate creativity: The Odyssey of Nikos Kazantzakis
ABSTRACT. The following is an exploration Kazantzakis’s masterpiece entitled The Odyssey: a modern sequel. In it one can find Kazantzakis’s philosophy at its best, as a challenge to surpass all ontological categories – a philosophy of eternal “beyonding.” Keywords: Odysseus / Ulysses; Nietzsche; su..
Interethnic solidarity in Joy Kogawa’s novels: the faith of Japanese Canadians and First Nations people
ABSTRACT. The depiction of the relationship between Japanese Canadians and First Nations people in relation to Christianity occupies a significant place in the novels of the Japanese Canadian author Joy Kogawa (1935–). Both of these ethnic minority groups in Canada share a victimized past that inclu..
Translating lexical negative polarity items
ABSTRACT. The aim of the present paper is twofold: on the one hand to broadly point out how English and Romanian differ in terms of the (im)possibility of having multiple instances of negative constituents in a sentence, and thus we talk about a Strict-Negative-Concord language, like Romanian, and a..
James Gleick on time travel
ABSTRACT. James Gleick’s Time travel: a history (New York: Pantheon Books, 2016) is a major achievement, one of the best books of literary-cultural criticism yet written. In the following review essay we propose the reader a tour de force through the labyrinth of Gleick’s literary-and-cultural criti..