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Employed in the study of national or transnational literatures, the relevance of digital humanities, computational analyses, and quantitative sociology can no longer be ignored. In this paper, we aim to argue that, in spite of it still being seen as a niche endeavor, the digital or quantitative study of literature generates paradigmatic shifts in literary scholarship, both in literary criticism and comparative studies. In order to demonstrate this statement, the following study will illustrate how three core principles of digital humanities are actively shaping humanities as we know it. These principles – openness, replicability, and collaboration – challenge the way we understand the role of the literary historian and their „traditional” tasks. To consolidate this argumentation further, we will briefly present an example of how digital humanities start changing the dominant narrative in Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The massive wave of economic migration of Transylvanians to America in the early 20th century had a considerable impact on the lives of both those who decided to temporarily leave their homeland and those who stayed home. The Transylvanian pattern of emigration, similar to the neighbouring Central and Eastern European countries can be sum up as follows: young male peasants, poorly educated, but with high hopes and determination left for America, for highly demanding physical work, but well enough remunerated in order to allow them to return home relatively soon. This paper seeks to contribute to the rich literature on emigration, by focusing on how this phenomenon influenced the villagers of Șona, a small community in the former Făgăraș County. By analysing photos, artefacts and documents that belonged to the emigrants, the Ellis Island Passenger Search Database, and by conducting interviews with their living descendants, I focus on the personal experience of migration – individual stories of migrants, their relations with their family and the community. Thus, I try to partially recreate some biographies directly connected to the experience of migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper briefly presents the evolution of terminology related to heritage (natural, cultural, and digital), reviewing the key moments which led to their institutionalization at the global level, as well as to the practices of valorization of heritage and patrimony elements, focusing especially on the appearance of their third type, the digital cultural heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study is to enrich the Romanian historiographical research concerning the British interest towards the Romanian Principalities in the nineteenth century. Historians such as Paul Cernovodeanu, Radu Florescu, Beatrice Marinescu and Constantin Ardeleanu presented us with different phases of this interest. Two of them, Marinescu and Florescu, also approached the subject of Stratford Canning's preoccupation towards the Principalities, but Marinescu did not have access to the ambassador's correspondence with the British State Secretary, the correspondence being at the Foreign Office Archives, while Florescu focused more on the British Consuls'activity in the Principalities than on the activity of the ambassador at Constantinople. Having access to the papers at the British Archives, this study comes to enrich the view of how the Principalities'space was perceived by Great Britain through the work and the diplomatic papers of a British ambassador in the capital of the suzerain power in a time when the Principalities were going through significant changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to attempt to offer a proper re-evaluation of Cella Serghi’s literary debut and overall importance when it comes to Romanian literature. Her debut novel was extremely well-received by the Romanian readership; however, many of the critics dismissed her prose as being a reflection, or at least the result of Camil Petrescu’s guidance and influence. After examining the marginalisation and the unjust simplification that her prose suffered, the paper introduces some considerations on feminism in Romania, for a more accurate depiction of her significance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper represents an analysis of gender studies regarding mass-media, mainly advertising. The study observes issues related to the way in which gender equality was identified in advertising, both in publications with individual authors and in collective specialised works, or in peer-reviewed scientific articles. We have subsequently observed and presented three essential directions in Romanian studies on gender stereotypes / inequality in advertising. Thus, we discussed the linguistic and semantic direction (terms such as stereotype, male-female distinction, patriarchy), then the typological direction (classifications of stereotypes, their characteristic and frequency) and last but not least the direction of consumer perception in advertising. In conclusion, the paper shows the research trends in the field of gender stereotypes regarding advertising, highlighting the opinion of recognized specialists on the influence such representations have on individuals and in society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Earlier research shows that the electoral system, political competition, the type of electoral campaign, access to the media and the political leader’s traits could influence the success of political actors. By using the case study approach, this paper shows why the electoral success of the far-right Hungarian party Jobbik stagnated during the 2018 parliamentary elections even though its success continously grew between 2006-2014. To answer this question the paper uses mostly secondary data (i.e. from the literature and the media). The results indicate that all the aforementioned factors (i.e. electoral system, political competition, type of electoral campaign, access to the media and the leader’s traits) were crucial in influencing the Jobbik’s lack of success during the 2018 elections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines how the party system in post-communist Romania has evolved following the nine rounds of parliamentary elections. Using Blondel’s classic explanatory model and, in addition, the ENP formula, the paper tries to outline a specific model of Romanian partidism. It analyzes every electoral moment and emphasizes that the party system in post-communist Romania falls rather within the multiparty type with a dominant party. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The memory of the Holocaust in Romania (i.e. the Romanian authorities’ involvement in the atrocious crime of the Holocaust) was ideologically distorted and occulted during the communist dictatorship. This led not only to the impossibility of recovering the historical truth, but also to it acting as a deterrent when it comes to the depiction of the living memory (i.e. journals, memoirs), as well as of the artistic and cultural representations of this tragic moment in our recent history. It was only in the last two decades, more precisely after the discussions initiated by the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania, chaired by Elie Wiesel, and especially after the publication of the Final Report (2004), that the Romanian authorities’ accountability for the Holocaust timidly penetrated the public discourse. This paper looks into the history of memorial occultation of the Holocaust in Romania by seeking to explore and explain the difficulties that the Romanian public discourse has had (and continues to have) when integrating this event into its cultural memory. Through a comparative analysis of how the memory of the Holocaust was embedded in the Western and the Romanian public discourse, we could notice that in Romania, in the last decades, these complications may be explained primarily through an absence in the manifestations of a prosthetic memory encompassing cultural representations of the Holocaust. Besides identifying the postmemorial artifact (i.e. the act of cultural and artistic reconstruction of the trauma of the Holocaust) as the main element of the prosthetic memory, this paper also describes a possible corpus of such postmemorial artifacts (film, literature), steadily growing in the Romanian culture in recent years, to be minutely analyzed in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Gustian School aimed to study the society to better understand it, in order to improve it. Knowledge and social intervention go hand in hand when it comes to the monographs. In order to achieve what Gusti would call a ”militant sociology”, the interwar researchers would often employ interdisciplinary methods that range from ethnology to history or economy. This papers aims to prove that, although the Romanian monographs did not explicitly conduct their research according to the social history's precepts, however, we can retrace many elements that are specific to the field of social history. Many monographic studies employ implicitly methods and concepts that belong to the field of social history such as the comparative method, the qualitative approach or the social microscope method, oral history interviews, everyday life studies, all used around concepts such as family, social roles, kinship etc, from an anthropological and historical perspective. Furthermore, this paper argues that the Gustian School's production can be used as invaluable sources for a social historical approach to the Romanian interwar era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Reconversion involves a complex process of change, improvement of a thing or activity, so, in this order of ideas, industrial reconversion is marked by a broad action of renovation or change of business direction of an industrial company. This paper aims to find solutions and implement them to facilitate the process of economic and visual regeneration of industrial spaces. In order to prepare this paper I used several techniques for analyzing and interpreting geographic data such as the method of bibliographic analysis, the method of observation, the historical method, the cartographic method, the method of analysis and the method of the questionnaire. These actions materialized through the analysis of historical documents within the municipal library, cadastral plans, scientific documents. The second stage materialized by observing the realities in the field and concretizing a general idea about the current state of the industrial units. The next step was marked by the processing of the obtained data and the production of statistical and cartographic results relevant to the analysis. The results obtained can be useful for understanding the decline of the local and regional economy due to the disappearance, illness or decommissioning of industrial units in Galati, but also materialize in starting points for new assumptions and solutions to improve and enrich the industrial heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering degradation and sexuality in its quest of reviving the readers need for representation, this paper challenges the possibilities of textual regeneration, problematizing the narrative practice as a way of voicing the multiple interfaces of the human body. Namely, through motifs like: the masturbating child, incest, sexual freedom of the mentally ill and the manipulator, this study explores the overlappings entailed in some of Ian McEwan's novels, such as: Cement Garden, Amsterdam, On Chesil Beach, The Confort of Strangers and Atonement. Furthermore, the paper will talk about sexuality and degradation using a series of concepts as the image that encrypts the directions of limit. Lastly, this paper will present the process of limit including the evolution of the author's narrative style and the way he treats schizoid universes through solutions such as degradation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper aims to highlight the concept of authenticity as a core and first objective of the 80`s literary generation with an emphasis on the prosaic sector of the time. In a hermeneutic approach, the paper relies on the presentation of a "new authenticity" differently marked from the modernist approaches and which is reflected in the concrete plan of writing, whose ontological investment or interaction with the (i)mmediated reality is attributed to the experimental context, but especially to the textualist paradigm of the generation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The redevelopment of brownfield sites, particularly in the Eastern European contexts, presents unique challenges and opportunities, as exemplified by the case study of Reșița, Romania. This paper delves into the historical evolution of Reșița, a city with a rich industrial heritage dating back to the 18th century and examines the necessity of urban regeneration following the decline of traditional industries. The study highlights the critical role of public administration in facilitating the transformation of abandoned industrial areas into economically and socially productive urban spaces. Drawing on a comprehensive review of relevant literature and the analysis of Reșița’s redevelopment strategies, this research underscores the importance of adaptive approaches to urban planning, tailored to the specific socio-economic and environmental contexts of post-industrial cities. The findings suggest that successful brownfield redevelopment not only addresses environmental contamination but also catalyzes broader urban revitalization, contributing to sustainable urban growth and improved quality of life. The case of Reșița offers valuable insights for other municipalities in Romania and beyond, emphasizing the significance of strategic public-private partnerships and community engagement in the regeneration process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines how the crisis phenomenon is discussed in the Romanian public communication environment. The authors argue that in the current context, where society is marked by multiple crises, the term “permacrisis” has become relevant, describing a state of permanent crisis affecting the society at multiple levels. The authors analysed how the topic of crisis has been represented in the Romanian media, focusing on articles published online between 2017 and 2022. Through quantitative and qualitative analysis, the study highlights a significant increase in crisis-related mentions since 2020, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This increase indicates a shift in public perception and media discourse, suggesting the normalisation and acceptance of the crisis as a constant state. Four dominant themes associated with the crisis were identified in media discourse: the economic crisis, the health crisis generated by COVID-19, the domestic political crisis and the crisis generated by the war in Ukraine. These themes illustrate the different facets of the permacrisis in Romania, from the economic and social impact, to political uncertainty and the consequences of pandemics and geopolitical conflicts. The paper highlights the importance of recognising and understanding the phenomenon of permacrisis in Romanian society in order to develop more eff ective strategies for managing crises and building a more resilient society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Honey is a natural product made by honeybees, containing numerous simple sugars, organic acids, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and enzymes, which provide good nutritional and medicinal qualities. Honey that has come into contact with foreign substances like pesticides, or antibiotics loses a lot of its beneficial properties. In addition to their advantages and significance in agriculture, pesticide use has escalated recently and has a detrimental effect on bees and the items they produce. Controlling the presence of pesticide residues is necessary since beekeeping and agricultural practices might contaminate bee products with pesticides. In apiculture, antibiotics are used to shield bees from a range of diseases that affect their young. Due to the emergence of oxytetracycline resistance, erythromycin and tylosin are being utilized more frequently for the prevention of as well as the care of these illnesses. More than 35% of all pesticides sold worldwide are fungicides, and usage of these products is expected to rise in the coming years. The purpose of this paper was to present and classify the main classes of compounds found in honey and to highlight the main residue detection techniques used currently in honey quality control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The orientation of phraseological nomination towards the human allows the reflection of everyday collective observations, experiences and evaluations of a certain (norm-deviating) behaviour or action. The paper explores the role of the linguistic image in the metaphorisation of the concept ‘Wahnsinn’/‘Verrücktheit’ in German and Romanian, in order to ask about the productive initial domains for the conceptualisation of this term, since conceptual spheres allow conclusions to be drawn about the models of thought and values anchored in the language. The interlingual analysis of this particular excerpt from the German and Romanian lexicon of phrases makes it clear that one cannot speak of serious differences in the phraseological realisation or of differing valuations and that universal and productive metaphorical patterns can be discerned in the conceptualisation of ‘Wahnsinn’/‘Verrücktheit’ in German and in Romanian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relationships between journalism and sustainability are seen as interdependent and mutually beneficial. On the one hand, sustainable development also includes a free, autonomous and strong press that can support itself economically, and on the other hand, responsible journalism brings the problems of the current world to the public and it can also involve experts to talk about the solutions possible to these issues, which generates a media discourse about sustainability and resilience now and in the future. The present paper examines the conceptualization of constructive journalism, interrogating, at the same time, its normative and societal role, as well as the resistance of this alternative direction, in the current context, marked by political instability and post-pandemic economic crisis. In Romania, the DoR experience, its course, but also the announced end of this journalistic project, shows the difficulties that constructive journalism encounters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirbel) Franco), an important North American softwood species, has been cultivated in Europe since 1827 and extended over a large area (831 thousand hectares) due to its (i) high growth and wood production, (ii) tolerance to summer drought, as well as (iii) wood with superior qualities and multiple uses. Since the natural pruning of Douglas-fir is defective/imperfect and slow, even in dense stands, intervention with artificial pruning is required, in stands intended for the production of superior wood assortments (e.g., veneer, solid wood furniture, class A lumber). In this context, the paper presents the results of an artificial pruning experiment in Douglas-fir, which sought to determine the duration of pruning and the costs related to the intervention at heights of a maximum of 2 m (penetration/access pruning) and over 2 m (high pruning). We worked in two stands with Douglasfir (one mixed, the other monospecific), in two teams of two people for each stand. 104 trees were pruned, of which all up to a height of 2 m and 28 up to a maximum height of 4.4 m, of which 75% were pruned to a minimum of 4 m. Average duration per meter of pruning from 0 to 2 m height ranged, in the four teams, between 0'46" and 1'5", a value that increased to 1'36" in the case of intervention at heights over 2 m. Based on these values, it can be considered that the duration of the artificial pruning of Douglas-fir at a height of 6 m reaches values of at least 7'30"-8', similar to the situation in Germany. If we consider the artificial pruning of 360 future crop trees ha-1 (the maximum number proposed in Romania for Douglas-fir stands) up to 6 m high, results a current pruning cost of 1,400 RON ha-1 (284 euro ha-1). This relatively low value economically justifies the application of artificial pruning to Douglas-fir if the production of high-quality wood with superior uses is targeted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper comes up with a methodology for evaluating the total economic value of the services provided by a forest ecosystem in a natural park, elaborated by the application of various research and evaluation methods, respectively: desk research, brainstorming, and multi-criteria analysis. In order to carry out the research, five methods of evaluating the value of the services offered by ecosystems, identified in the scientific literature, were selected: 1) Shadow pricing, 2) Production function, 3) Hedonic pricing, 4) Travel cost and 5) Contingent Valuation Method. Afterward, a brainstorming session was organized with the participation of 13 forestry specialists and researchers, who stated their ideas regarding the characteristics that the set of assessment methods of the ecosystem services provided by the Bucegi Natural Park should fulfill. Eight ideas/criteria were maintained: 1) To allow the quantification of the Total Economic Value of ecosystem services through monetary and non-monetary methods; 2) To be specific to the evaluated ecosystem services); 3) To be based on available/existing datasets; 4) To be carried out with the consultation of the interested factors and to respond to the requirements/needs of the central/local authorities and other interested factors, to provide information for making decisions regarding the proper functioning of the park in the context of changes climatic; 5) To have a high degree of objectivity; 6) To be easy/cheap/simple to apply; 7) To be replicable to other parks; 8) The development/testing time should be reasonable. The use of the multi-criteria analysis revealed that the second and the fourth criteria are the most important for being taken into account. Further processing of the data showed that Method 5 - The contingent Valuation Method, is the most appropriate to assess forest ecosystem services in Bucegi Natural Park. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Xylosandrus germanus (Blandford, 1894) is an invasive ambrosia beetle species that has already spread in most of Romania's territory and represents a potential pest for forestry, fruit growing, and viticulture. The objective of the research presented in the paper was to identify some pesticides usable in the EU and accepted by the Forest Stewardship Council, which could prevent attacks caused by this species. We tested four insecticides in a laboratory experiment organized in a completely randomized block with five variants and eight replicates. These were: BactoSpeine DF (54% Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki), Mospilan 20 SG (20% acetamiprid), Konflic (50% Quassia amara extract + 50% potassium salts of fatty acids), and Laser 240 SC (240 g/l spinosad). We studied pest mortality, attack intensity, and sublethal effects (on fecundity and offspring development) of the tested products on insects. All pesticides had a concentration of 1% (except the first one, which had 10%). We applied them on the surface of thin segments of beech stems (ST) by ST immersion in the prepared solutions for two minutes and then aired for an hour. Before the treatment, STs were kept for 24 h in an aqueous solution of ethanol (48%) to be attractive to insects. Each ST was placed in a transparent jar with 20 X. germanus females collected on the same day from the field. The experiment took place over 32 days, during which the average temperature in the test site was 24.1°C, relative humidity 81.6%, and maximum light of 250 lux, 15:9 (L:D) h. Cumulative insect mortality was between 10.6% (in control) and 61.9% (in spinosad), significant differences being recorded only between acetamiprid and spinosad, on the one hand, and the other variants, on the other hand. Attack intensity ranged from 8.0 ± 1.9 galleries/ST (mean ± standard deviation) (in spinosad) to 18.7 ± 1.1 galleries/ST (in control), and significant differences were recorded still only between acetamiprid and spinosad on the one hand, and the other variants, on the other hand. Because some females died or left the galleries after entering the wood, the number of females with offspring per ST (FDST) was slightly lower than the intensity of the infestation. Under all three aspects (mortality, reduction of infestation intensity, and reduction of FDST), the most effective was spinosad (57.4%, 57.2%, and 66.7%, respectively), followed by acetamiprid (46.6%, 53.5%, 60.5%), the other two products having efficacies below 10-20%. The mean number of offspring/ST ranged between 165.1 ± 105.6 (acetamiprid) and 265.0 ± 84.5 (control), but differences between variants were not statistically significant at p = 0.05. The fecundity of females that survived the pesticide interaction ranged from 13.1 ± 6.5 offspring/female (Konflic) to 23.9 ± 11.3 offspring/female (spinosad). None of the pesticides caused a reduction in fecundity, and spinosad even caused a significant increase. Of the offspring produced by females, 61% reached adulthood by the end of the experiment. However, acetamiprid or spinosad seemingly delayed their development. The adult proportions in the total offspring in these variants significantly differ from that in the control variant. The results indicate that - in the concentrations used - only two products (Mospilan 20 SG and Laser 240 SC) were sufficiently effective to be considered in future field trials. Further investigations are necessary on possible sublethal effects induced by spinosad and acetamiprid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The issue of participation in Christ, although not new, has received little attention in the study of Evangelical theology. In recent years, with the development of the New Perspective on Paul, participation in Christ has gained increasing interest among specialists. Therefore, in this paper we consider it necessary to observe some issues related to the concept of participation in Christ in Paul's theology and to show how Pauline soteriology, justification and ethical living can be understood by participating in Christ. This work can be integrated in the study of biblical theology, contributing to the understanding of Paul's theology and his perspective on soteriology, justification and ethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper approaches the concept of integrity within Christian ministry from a biblical perspective. We will first come with a definition of this concept, which in a biblical way implies the capability of being righteous and holy in all life situations. We will then go more in depth by underlying the incorruptibility and truthfulness as specific human traces in accordance with the supreme model of integrity, Jesus Christ. Secondly, we will try to provide an answer to the question "What does Christian ministry represent?", and also offer a general perspective on biblical ministry from a Christian point of view. Lastly, the key terms related to Christian ministry will be identified in both the Old and the New Testament, as they emphasize the need for moral and spiritual integrity within Christian missions, in fulfillment of the biblical mandate of being "the light of the world" and the "salt of the earth" for our contemporary society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we focus on how the biblical concept of neighbour, found and known by the general public through the Parable of the Good Samaritan, can acquire public applicability. In the first part of our study we will analyze the altruism which its two characteristics, namely mercy and compassion, unfold, and how they result from the public application of the concept. In the second part of our study we will dwell on the public character of those who partake in the relations described in the parable, with both their negative and positive stances. The final part of our study will look at the public applicability of the neighbour concept and how it can create order within the public space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The focus of this paper is Psalm 23, with its place within history and some important details concerning the critical analysis of its structure and style, in the hope that our efforts would lead to new ways of understanding the message of this text. At the same time, we will approach this psalm against the context of the Old Testament writings, and give some final hints as to its practical uses. Psalm 23 is rather a poem that invites people to put their trust in God, who is indeed their Shepherd and acts on their behalf at all times. The fact that this psalm is so widely used, generated a vast array of interractions with the biblical text, and in the end facilitated a more natural and simple apprehension of the text which we are invited to "hide" in our hearts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most difficult issues that Jesus' contemporaries had to deal with was the question about his identity. In the context of a fierce monotheism, highlighted by the effects of the Babylonian exile, which definitely eliminated idolatry from Israel, a man's claim to possess divine nature would have been outrageous from the onset. However, one's response to the challenge of recognising Jesus' identity depends on whether he or she belongs to those who accept the Kingdom of Christ or those who reject it. In this paper we propose an analysis of Mark 8.27-30 in order to see just how Mark constructs the debate over Jesus' identity. From a methodological point of view, we will present some general aspects regarding the challenges raised by this text, therefore we will refer to the available Romanian translation, with its rendition of Mark's insights on said identity. The text's exegetical aspects, its key phrases, structural elements and the context of the events, together with the comparison between the affirmation of Jesus' identity in Mark and the other gospels, will underline the process that rounds up the identity debates in Mark's gospel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social media has lately become a fertile space for self-expression. The Internet is widely used for communication, generating a new way of conveying messages, sharing impressions or criticizing the negative aspects of society. Cyberlanguage is characterized by various means of enriching the vocabulary, revealing non-standard writing or lexical changes in the substance of Romanian. The present study aims at exemplifying how derivation, word formation, puns or unconventional orthography are represented in social media, especially Facebook. The corpus of the paper is mainly based on commentaries displayed on different pages belonging to Romanian journalists and collected in 2022, approaching the most significant aspects of internal politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the present paper is to highlight the way Elena Vladareanu (a Romanian writer) turns a feminine experience (motherhood) into a main theme of her poetry. After following an outline that shows some significant points of view on the relation between repetition and creation, the study focuses on poems whose style is both autonomous and paradigmatic. An reflexive approach of body, connection, and disjunction is hidden in Vladareanu's poetry, by means of strategies that emphasize the mincing/hybridization of human subject and suggest the language crises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Flacăra Cenacle, the space where music, poetry and good humor were promoted, marked the existence of the "jeans generation" in a social-political context in which the communist society was not open to European culture. The purpose of this paper is to identify the role that the cenacle had during the totalitarian regime, which can be seen either as a political propaganda tool to serve the dictatorial couple, or as a cultural valve where young people could find themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Solitude creates a very different experience for each person, depending not only on which kind of solitude it is, but also on the type of personality each person possesses. We can feel lonely in a crowded room when we are not with the right people, we can experience loneliness when we do not feel wanted, or we can desire solitude when we need to process our thoughts in complete silence. It is imperative to make a distinction between imposed solitude and desired solitude. Thus, my paper explores the manners in which the multifaceted nature of solitude has an impact on the creative process, in both literature and visual arts. Moreover, my study aims to prove the beneficial effects of chosen solitude on the writers' creative process. For this reason, I begin my analysis with past examples of works of art and literary works created by artists while being in isolation. In addition, I focus on contemporary writers and the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on their writing process. Ultimately, my purpose is to reveal the solitude's power of enhancing creativity and intensifying a writer's workflow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the research on the main thematic layers in Istrati's work, we will direct it towards the evocation of certain biographical routes, then we will analyse the recurring themes, symbols and obsessive metaphors. The reference point in selecting the corpus of texts written by Panait Istrati will be the classification proposed by acad. Eugen Simion, in 2019, which clustered Istrati's narrative in: 1) The Danube-Balkan cycle; 2) The outlaw prose cycle; 3) The Picaresque prose cycle; 4) The confessional prose. Our study will emphasize the recurrence of themes such as Amity and the Mirage of Voyage, then it will investigate Istrati's archetypal background with examples of obsessive metaphors and symbol characters. From the plural identity of Istrati's characters, we will attempt to rebuild, such as a puzzle, Panait Istrati's representative identity profile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper proposes a semantic account of intersective, subsective and intensional adjectives within a framework of possible world semantics. It is argued that intersective and subsective adjectives describe properties and restrict the set denoted by the nouns they modify. Unlike these types, intensional adjectives do not express properties, but behave like logical operators: they modify the properties expressed by the nouns to which they apply and give back new properties that are a function of the intension of the noun with which they combine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses the statute of some function words, i.e. prepositions, in a lexicographical masterwork of the Transylvanian School, namely The Lexicon of Buda (1825). Based on an inventory of 47 articles, the paper approaches the treatment of preposition from a lexicographical perspective, highlighting their lexical, functional and discoursive values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inspecțiune is one of Caragiale’s most discussed texts. In this paper, I explore some possible sources of the enigma surrounding Anghelache's suicide. Suicide and its causes became a genuine subject of research in the second half of the 19th century. A new field of inquiry emerged then: moral statistics. Central to my discussion is one of Titu Maiorescu's articles, published in Convorbiri literare, in which he addresses that new way of investigating suicide, starting from Enrico Morselli’s book, An Essay on Comparative Moral Statistics. It is plausible to believe that Caragiale had read Maiorescu's article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I investigate how the interpretation of the Romantic poet Mihai Eminescu’ work verifies the European transition from a rationalist conception of “genius” (according to which “genius” is a phenomenon subjected to the laws of nature/ society) to an irrationalist conception, where “genius” becomes a supernatural, transcendental, miraculous or inexplicable phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the current context of globalization, the use of a widely known linguistic code becomes a requirement for maintaining the economic, political and trading relations between different nations around the world. Considering the phenomenal spread of the English language that contributed to its qualification as a “global language”, the aim of this paper is to establish what makes a language to be international. To this purpose, I discuss different sets of criteria elaborated by various researchers and I argue that the main test for classifying a language as “international” is not the mere number of its speakers, but the number of users who learn to speak it in an unconditional manner, i.e., the extension of what linguists call its “area of influence”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this research, the author investigates, using the school yearbooks, the way in which the religion class took place at "Alexandru Odobescu" high school from Bistriţa between 1925 and 1931, and the evolution of the confessional dynamics of the pupils. By highlighting the name and the activity of catechists Liviu Greab and Constantin Flămând, but also other aspects of the educational process, the number of Orthodox and Greek-Catholic students and their distribution over the researched period, the paper offers a glimpse on the history of schooling in North-Eastern Transylvania. The author also tries to emphasize the increasing presence of the Romanians and in particular of the Orthodoxies in the multi-confessional and multi-ethnic space of Bistriţa during the inter-war. Given the lack of researches dedicated to this important Romanian school in Bistriţa, the paper can also be regarded as "filling a gap" into the local contemporary research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to explain the concept of “identity” by drawing the intricate cultural and political history of an important piece of the Romanian peasant attire. Involved and instrumentalized within various political and cultural identity programs, traditional clothing was exhibited by ethnographers, anthropologists, cultural activists for a long time as an identity landmark meant to display racial differences, national stereotypes, and social hierarchies. The Romanian peasant attire was thus transformed from a community internal practical and symbolical object to an ethnic and then national identity tool. More recently, the national project of inscribing the traditional Romanian female blouse with embroidery on the shoulder on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage is an opportunity for various stakeholders and promoters to reuse and commodify this clothing piece within their own cultural and commercial programs and to redefine and redesign the concept of “heritage community”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]