VOLUME 3(3) • 2015
The Pericarpathian wine-growing zone
ABSTRACT. The following research, supplemented with an extensive bibliography, is an invitation to discover the diversity of Romania’s vinous heritage. It deals for a start, on a region-by-region basis, with the vineyards and wines in the Pericarpathian zone: the Moldavian Plateau, the Piedmont at t..
They intoxicate writers, don’t they?
ABSTRACT. A partial register of hard-drinking celebrities in the literary field will include James Agee, Sherwood Anderson, W.H. Auden, Charles Baudelaire, Robert Benchley, John Berryman, Louise Bogan, James Boswell, Robert Burns, William Burroughs, Truman Capote, Raymond Chandler, John Cheever, Sam..
Wine, women and song
ABSTRACT. In medieval universities to begin with, the idea of wellbeing seems to have been summarized in the “Wein, Weib und Gesang” hendiatris. The Nordic (English, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish) lore did not fail to assimilate this hedonistic philosophy on the spot, to see that it was by no ..
The half-empty glass
ABSTRACT. The philosophical debate whether the glass is half-full or half-empty usually finds the proper answer in our individual interpretation of reality. Thus, from an alcoholic’s perspective, the glass is oftentimes half-filled (preferably with wine, of course, with subjective variations from ca..
The ceaseless return
ABSTRACT. The focus in this paper is on the relationship of the self to autobiographical memory in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory. Despite the writer’s continuous vacillation between an artist’s imaginative freedom and a memorialist’s strict fidelity in recording the past, Speak, Memory provides a sense of..
The smell
ABSTRACT. The present study attempts to revalue the subtleties of smell, as one of the most anthropologically bidding senses. Exploring the map of urban smells, the argument goes from theindustrial neighbourhood, with its marginal mixture of garbage and perfume, to the social function of smell, as a..
A trial fibrillation
ABSTRACT. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a topical issue in medical research, the most common cardiac arrhythmia, with an occurrence rate of 1-2% in the general population. Over 6 million Europeans currently have this pathology and in 50 years the prevalence is expected to increase. The pathology is ex..
Cardioserendipity
ABSTRACT. Cardiac rupture is a severe mechanical complication of acute myocardial infarction that was first described in 1647 by William Harvey. It occurs mainly in acute transmural myocardial infarction and may include ventricular free wall rupture, ventricular septal defect or papillary muscle rup..
The protoparents of the cerebral ventricles
ABSTRACT. Herophilus, Erasistratus and Galenus are regarded as the proto-parents of cerebral ventricles in recognition of the fact that they systematized the first anatomical and physiological concepts concerning the cerebral ventricular system. We will present the context in which the first ever de..
The elegiac self
ABSTRACT. Latin erotic elegy is explored as a space of subjectivity, a tragic fracture between the individual ego and the consenting community, a shift from a physical to a psychological level, which occurs through the unsettling of boundaries between the self and the other. The association of eroti..
The road to Lethe’s goblet (II)
ABSTRACT. The following is Section II of a story of Hart Crane (Section I, previous issue) and John Keats (this issue), in which we focus on the dramatic aspects surrounding the works and the lives, with special reference to the letters. Section II explores in full detail the following with respect ..