VOLUME 6(2) • 2023
Richardson’s first experiment in dramatic fiction: Pamela, or virtue rewarded
Abstract. With the publication of Pamela (1740), Clarissa (1747–1748) and Sir Charles Grandison (1753–1754), Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) no doubt revolutionized prose fiction by introducing the theme of ordinary English life as the focus of a literary work. Thereby he brought a major contribution ..
Romanticism, S. T. Coleridge and the origins of the Xanadu story
Abstract. Xanadu, like its milk of paradise, has become something of a universal symbol of the romantic imagination. The present study proposes the following quest: understanding the romantic imagination – mainly in Paracelsus’, Pascal’s, Blake’s, Byron’s, Keats’s and Coleridge’s acceptations – by e..
Creativity and the radical behaviorism of B. F. Skinner
Abstract. Major creative insights may challenge the fundamental assumptions of a discipline and may generate vigorous (and negative) reactions. Further, such creative insights may require that a scholar courageously defies the crowd and zeitgeist, strives to overcome obstacles and challenges to thei..
Kolade Oshinowo and his paintings in Nigerian textile art: reflections of Yoruba culture
Abstract. This paper examines a few paintings created by Kolade Oshinowo, a famous Yoruba artist belonging to the contemporary Nigerian textile art. It highlights and explains the thematic foci of its form, style and media as used by Oshinowo in his fabric paintings in Nigerian art scenes. Data for ..
The Book of Genesis: a systematic English-Romanian lexicon
Abstract. The present work, emulating more or less the form of a concordance dictionary, is a systematic bilingual English-Romanian lexicon of the Book of Genesis, created by using the authorized English & Romanian versions of the Book of Genesis. We focus on the linguistic and translational con..