VOLUME 5(2) • 2022
The ouroboros motif and Richardson’s Clarissa: the transmutation matrix
Abstract. Samuel Richardson’s use of the motif of the ouroboros in Clarissa (1747–1748), his masterpiece, has continued to baffle both his readership and his critics for 275 years now. The surprise and the puzzle derive from the sharp difference between the two traditions that have thus been forced ..
Laurence Sterne and the comedy of novel-writing in Tristram Shandy
Abstract. Laurence Sterne’s masterpiece novel Tristram Shandy (1759–1767) has kept its fascination with the public from the time of its publication to the present for very intricate reasons. While at first sight it may shock the reader as being a huge joke, the intricacy of the joke is so complex th..
Worlds apart: the dialogic imagination of Owen Barfield
Abstract. On the surface it seems that it is not easy to convey Owen Barfield’s ideas about language, participation and history to a larger public, all the more so as his speculations about a final participation may well be another version of master narratives or ideologies denounced by postmodern t..
How to believe in Destiny: aspects of dislocation in George R. R. Martin’s A game of thrones
Abstract. The aim of this paper is to examine the various aspects of character-building (including some supernatural magic powers involved in the process) and how they shaped the identity of two main characters in George R. R. Martin’s A game of thrones (1996; the first book of the fantasy series kn..
Towards a “personal mythology”: the epistolary poetics of Roy Kenzie Kiyooka
Abstract. Canada lends itself to a multitude of readings, interpretations and identity (re)articulations along such connecting nodes as culture, politics and literature. By investigating the epistolary poetics of the Japanese-Canadian artist Roy Kenzie Kiyooka (1926–1994) as reflected in a few essen..
William Blake in Romanian translation: Milton – a critical bilingual edition
Abstract. Milton (1804–1808), an epic poem of two thousand lines, known to exist in four copies, is William Blake’s second masterpiece (his first is Jerusalem, 1804–1820). Milton is a marvel of complexity in romantic poetry and illuminated painting (water-colours). It is indispensable for understand..