VOLUME 4(2) • 2021
Franz Boas and the human matrix: the thousand and one faces of primitive and civilized man
ABSTRACT. Franz Boas (1858–1942), the major founder of American anthropology, started his career by asking what the laws of human evolution are and how mankind transformed as it advanced through time in its adventure on Earth. One of the greatest dilemmas he encountered was the question of nature ve..
The call of the South: Italy and happiness in German travel writing of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries – Goethe, Seume, Bierbaum
ABSTRACT. This essay looks at three samples from German travel writing: Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749–1832), Johann Gottfried Seume (1763–1810) and Otto Julius Bierbaum (1865–1910), because they represent significant stages in the development of German travel writing about Italy. Goethe’s Italian jou..
Orson Welles: reality and fiction in the documentary It’s all true
ABSTRACT. The following paper brings into discussion notions of reality and fiction in Orson Welles’s unfinished pan-American documentary It’s all true, with a focus on two of the episodes which survived the project – Four men on a raft and The Carnival. Considering the definition of documentary fil..
Twilight from the Mormon perspective
ABSTRACT. Through the following paper, we intend to identify and investigate the notions related to the imaginary versus reality in the work of Stephenie Meyer, to inventory the elements related to the mythical imaginary, and explore the connection established between vampirism and lycanthropy in th..
On plants in science fiction
Key words: plants; science fiction; ecocriticism; human-plant dichotomy; human-plant hybridity; posthumanism Ivana D (2021) On plants in science fiction. Creativity 4(2): 226–231. doi:10.22381/C4220215 {downloads}{slider Author's contact} DRAGOȘ IVANAdragos.ivana@lls.unibuc.roUniversity of Buchar..
Zelazny revived: new light on his works brought by F. Brett Cox
Key words: science fiction; Zelazny; myth; artificial intelligence; American literature; individualism; creativity; political violence; New Wave Asaftei L (2021) Zelazny revived: new light on his works brought by F. Brett Cox. Creativity 4(2): 233–245. doi:10.22381/C4220216 {downloads}{slider Auth..
William Blake in Romanian translation: Jerusalem – a critical bilingual edition
ABSTRACT. Jerusalem (1804–1820), an epic poem of four thousand lines, known to exist in six copies, is by common consent William Blake’s masterpiece, a magnificent complex of epic poetry and illuminated painting (water-colours). This verbal-visual poem contains the fullest account of the personal my..