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VOLUME IV, NO. 3-4, 2002. ORIENTALISM AND OCCIDENTALISM

I. ORIENTALISM AND OCCIDENTALISM Mihaela Irimia. ET IN ILLYRIA EGO

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Dinu Luca. ORIENTALISMS: EASIER SAID THAN DONE

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Sabina Draga BEYOND EAST/WEST ON SALMAN RUSHDIE’S SEA OF STORIES: STORYING THE FATWA

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Monica Bottez. OTHERING JAPANESE CANADIANS: JOY KOGAWA’S OBASAN 40 Ioana Luca. ORIENTALISM, AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MODE: SAID’S OUT OF PLACE. A MEMOIR

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Roxana Oltean. “INGENIOUS YOUNG AMERICA.” NEW WORLD BODYSCAPES IN DAISY MILLER

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Ioana Zirra. ANALYSING THE RHETORIC OF WESTERN CONTRADICTION AS SEEN FROM THE NORTHERN IRISH (POST?)-COLONIAL PERSPECTIVE

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Ludmilla Kostova A FATAL ADVENTURE IN EUROPE’S “WILD EAST”: FANTASY AND FEAR IN JULIAN OSGOOD FIELD’S “A KISS OF JUDAS” Lidia Vianu. THE DESPERADO AGE AND THE IRON CURTAIN

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II. TRANSLOCATIONS Stuart Sillars. QUESTIONING ENGLISHNESS: MARK WALLINGER AND THE ART OF INSTABILITY

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Monica Săulescu SUBLIME AND GROTESQUE BODY TEXTS IN MEDIEVAL ENGLISH CULTURE

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Mădălina Nicolaescu. ERRING BARBARIANS. OTHELLO’S BARBARIAN ERRING 147 Sorina Georgescu. CINDERELLA AND THE AMERICAN DREAM

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Veronica Popescu. NEGOTIATING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES: WEST SIDE STORY AND ROMEO AND JULIET

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Mihaela Precup THE AMERICAN TYRANNY OF SYMBOLOGY FROM JOHN WINTHROP TO ANDREI CODRESCU

189

Rodica Mihăilă. READINGS OF THE AMERICAN WEST: FROM MYTH-AND-SYMBOL TO CULTURAL STUDIES

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Corina Anghel. THE DIFFICULTY OF RETURNING IN KURT VONNEGUT’S SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

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Eric Gilder. OF MIND AND MENTORS: WAYNE BOOTH CONSIDERS THE INFLUENCE OF OLD MASTERS UPON THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIS AUTHORIAL VOICE 222 Gönül Bakay. ALICE WALKER AS A NARRATIVE STRATEGIST

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Ludmila Martanovschi. ‘WE ARE THE LAND’: LOCATING THE CONTEMPORARY POETIC SELF IN ITS NATIVE GROUND

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Arina Lungu. THE POWER OF FEAR: THE PROGRAMMATIC USE OF TERROR IN TOTALITARIAN REGIMES

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Anthony O’Keeffe. AUTOBIOGRAPHY’S INTERNAL CRITIQUE—THE CONTRIBUTION OF RODGER KAMENETZ’S TERRA INFIRMA AND PHILIP ROTH’S PATRIMONY 266

VOLUME V, NO. 3, 2003. SITES OF MEMORY

I. REINVENTING MEMORY Mihaela Irimia.THE ARCHI-TECTURE/TEXTURE OF MEMORY: T(R)OPICS OF REMEMBERING 7 Sorana Corneanu.‘STRIKING IMAGES’: LOCI MEMORIAE REVISITED

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Mihaela Czobor-Lupp. VICO’S CONCEPT OF MEMORY AND ITS ROLE IN IMAGING FORTH THE NATURE OF MAN

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Mihai Stroe. ROMANTICISM AND THE QUESTION OF TIME: ANAMNESIS AND CHRONOCENTRISM 48 Ana-Karina Schneider. STEREOTYPES AS SITES OF MEMORY AND “SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECIES”64 Alexandru Dragoş Ivana. ON DERRIDEAN FORGIVENESS AND “THE UNIVERSAL URGENCY TO MEMORY”

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Eric Gilder. HOW TO GET BEYOND THE “GOD” OF ABSTRACT TOLERANCE AND TOWARDS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE EMBODIED “GOOD”: RETHINKING THE PHILOSOPHY OF MAKING (NON)SENSE

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Geta Dumitriu. TRUSTING AND DISTRUSTING MNEMOSYNE: RECALLING SOME (POST)MODERNIST COMMON PLACES

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II. INTERCULTURAL, POSTCOLONIAL AND POSTMODERN REPRESENTATIONS OF RECOLLECTION Cristina Chevereşan. PUMPING LITERARY BLOOD: FROM THE CAPILLARIES TO THE HEART 109 Monica Bottez. HAGAR SHIPLEY’S JOURNEY THROUGH MEMORY: PURITANISM AND LIBERATION IN MARGARET LAURENCE’S THE STONE ANGEL

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Florin Pîtea. SITES, OBJECTS, MEMORY AND NOSTALGUA IN WILLIAM GIBSON’S FICTION 128 Luiza Maria Caraivan. VICTIMS AND EXILES: RETRIEVING MEMORY THROUGH ESTRANGEMENT

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Sarah Aitken. “FROM THE MEMORY OF ATROCITIES TO THE VIOLENCE OF TODAY” – THE FUTURE OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN GUATEMALA. 150 Francesca Prevedello. THE NARRATION OF SPACE AND THE SHAPING OF MEMORY IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY EGYPTIAN WRITERS 161

III. RE-MEMBERING EASTERN EUROPE James Christian Brown. FROM TRAJAN’S VISITING CARD TO ILIANA’S NOSE:

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CENTURY BRITISH TRAVELLERS AND THE MEMORY OF ROME IN THE ROMANIAN LANDS 175 Cristina-Eva Şandru. OF THE MAKINGS OF THINGS PRESENT: DOES ‘EASTERN EUROPE’ STILL EXIST? 186 Adriana-Cecilia Neagu. TIRED OF DIFFERENCE: COMPETING MARGINALITIESACCOMMODATING CENTRES, AND THEIR MNEMO-SCAPES

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Teodor Creangă. ORIENTALIZING ROMANIA, OR THE QUESTION OF RE-MEMBERING. EASTERN AND WESTERN PERSPECTIVES 211

Ioana Zirra. UNFORGETTING THE OGRES: MIRCEA CĂRTĂRESCU’S POSTMODERN ENCYCLOPAEDIA AS AN IRONIC SITE OF MEMORY

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KEYNOTE PAPERS Gordon Campbell. A CULTURAL HISTORY OF GOD 230 Wendy Ribeyrol. THE MEMORY OF HISTORY : THE TRIUMPHS OF THE CITY OF LONDON 242

VOLUME V, NO. 4, 2003. SITES OF MEMORY

I. BRITISH INSCRIPTIONS OF MEMORY Monica Săulescu. MEMORY AND EXPECTATION IN SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT

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Estella Antoaneta Ciobanu. CHALLENGING THE TRADITION: MEMORY AS AUCTORITAS AND ITS FLAWS IN SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT

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Andreea Popescu. RETRACING THE MEMORY OF THE HOLY GRAIl 33 Mădălina Nicolaescu. REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING IN SHAKESPEARE’S HENRY V 40 George Volceanov. RE-MEMBERING SHAKESPEARE IN THE ‘VASTY SEA’ 47 Daniela Davidescu Brown. PHOTOGRAPHY AS MEMORY IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE 58 Ana Olos. THE LOSS OF MEMORY AND HENCE REMEMBRANCE 69 Ana Liţă. IRIS MURDOCH ON MORAL VIRTUE 79 Clementina Mihăilescu. A SOUL IN DRY-DOCK: CHARLES ARROWBY’S OVER MANAGED DIARY OF MEMORY IN IRIS MURDOCH’S THE SEA, THE SEA

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Lidia Vianu. THE FUTURE AS A MEMORY IN DESPERADO LITERATURE 100 Alina Popescu. SITES AND MEMORY. MAPPING LONDON IN P. ACKROYD’S CHATTERTON

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Maria-Sabina Draga. STAGING MEMORY: THE RSC “SALMAN RUSHDIE’S MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN” 121

II. AMERICAN MNEMONIC PROJECTIONS Kimball MacKay. THE REMEMBERING ‘I’: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL IN RECENT AMERICAN POETRY

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Ioana Luca. NABOKOV AND THE POETICS OF MEMORY IN Speak Memory!

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Ilinca Anghelescu. AMERUSSIA: IDEOLOGIES OF REMEMBERING IN SOME OF NABOKOV’S AMERICAN WORKS

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Corina Anghel. RECONFIGURING THE HOUSE OF MEMORY IN MARILYNNE ROBINSON’S HOUSEKEEPING

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Cosana Nicolae. TRAUMATIC MEMORY IN PAUL AUSTER’S THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONS 181 Mihaela Precup. EXPLODING PATRIMONY AND THE RECOVERY OF AUTHENTIC MEMORY IN PAUL AUSTER’S LEVIATHAN

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Iulia Blănuţă. PARADISE AND FALL IN SOUTHERN CULTURE

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Adina Ciugureanu. (RE)COVERING MEMORY: THE MUSEUM AND THE THEME PARK 206 Radu Surdulescu. “BEING HERE HAS COME TO ME”: STANISLAW LEM’S AND DON DELILLO’S FANTASIES OF HYPERMNESIA AND FRACTED TIME 215

VOLUME VI, NO.3, 2004. THE SECRET AND THE KNOWN

I. SPACES OF SECRECY: TEXTS, THEATRE, MEMORY, KNOWLEDGE Mihaela Irimia. MR. TEXTE, SECRÉTAIRE, WITH A BOUQUET OF ROSES 5 BRYAN REYNOLDS. TRANSVERSAL POWER: THEATER’S SECRET WEAPON

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Eric Guilder. COMING TO “KNOW” “SECRET” MEANINGS OF TEXTS: TWO FOUNDATIONAL PHILOSOPHIES FOR CRITICAL INTERPRETATION

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Carlos Leone. A WELL KNOWN SECRET: INTELLECTUALS FOR A FUTURE PUBLIC 34 Alexandru Dragoş Ivana. SWEET SECRET AND NOXIOUS KNOWLEDGE: DON QUIXOTE AND THE ENCHANTMENT OF THE WAY TO KNOWLEDGE 38

Daniela Cârstea. THE ANALEPTIC PROTOCOLS OF MEMORY – THE HIDDEN AND THE REVEALED 43 Christian Tanasescu. THE VISIBLE SECRET – HERALDRY AND MODERN ADVERTISING 48 Raluca Vijiac. THE BUSINESS OF LAUGHTER- UNVEILING THE TERRITORY OF NONKNOWLEDGE 53

II. BRITISH CONFIGURATIONS OF THE UNKNOWN Michael Hattaway. BETWEEN SHAME AND GUILT: FROM MUCH ADO TO HAMLET 59 Madalina Nicolaescu WHAT IS LEFT UNKNOWN IN THE TRANSLATIONS OF HENRY V 69 George Volceanov. MARLOWE AND SHAKESPEARE AS COLLABORATORS BEFORE 1593 – SECRET OR TABOO?

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Andreea Popescu. FINDING THE SECRET PATH TO KNOWLEDGE: GERMANIC MYTHOLOGY AND THE WIFE OF BATH’S TALE

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Monica Oanca. THE HIDDEN IN THE MEDIEVAL CASTLE.

A STUDY OF A MENTAL

CONFIGURATION 92 Sorana Corneanu. THE ARCANA OF POLITENESS: LORD CHESTERFIELD’S LETTERS TO HIS SON 106 Gonul Bakay. MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN: SECRET DREAMS AND THEIR MONSTROUS EMBODIMENT

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Mihai A. Stroe. ROMANTIC COGNODYNAMICS FROM THE QUANTUM PERSPECTIVE OF THE BEKENSTEIN LIMIT:

Knowledge Barriers in Romanticism and Quantum Theory

versus the Disclosure of Hidden “Transhorizons”

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Mirosława Modrzewska. ROMANTIC BIOGRAPHIES NOW (‘EXHUMATION’ AND ‘DEMYSTIFICATION’)

129

Daniela Brown. THE SECRET INFLUENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY ON LATE VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND PAINTING

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Arina Lungu. FEAR AND THE PUBLIC SECRET 142

Olga Stroia. LIBERATING SECRETS OF FAITH VERSUS BINDING KNOWLEDGE OF REALITY IN JOHN FOWLES’S A MAGGOT

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Clementina Mihăilescu. KNOWINGLY ATTENDING TO EVIL: THREADING THE SECRET NEEDLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN BRUNO’S DREAM 153 Lidia Vianu. POSSESSION OF THE SECRET AND NARRATION OF THE KNOWN: A.S. BYATT

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Stan Smith. SET STILL ON THE SPIES’ CAREER: AND THE HERMENEUTICS OF PARANOIA

AUDEN, ISHERWOOD & CO

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VOLUME VI, NO.4, 2004. THE SECRET AND THE KNOWN

III. Secrets of Reality in North-American Culture Rodica Mihaila. VARIATIONS OF THE PURITAN CONSPIRACY PARADIGM IN AMERICAN CULTURE

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Mihaela H. Precup EXPOSING SECRECY AND DEFACING PROPAGANDA: THE KIENHOLZ CASE

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Irina Vasilescu. THE SEAL OF WHITENESS: HERMAN MELVILLE’S MOBY DICK

ESOTERIC SIGNIFICANCES IN

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Anca Peiu. ADDIE - THE RETURN OF THE LETTER A: THE CRYPTIC MESSAGE OF (RESUMED) BEGINNINGS 35 Sorina Georgescu. ‘HIDDEN’ IDEOLOGY IN EDGAR ALLAN POE'S “THE GOLD BUG” 45 Corina Anghel Crisu.

“I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A GOOD GIRL.”:

THE BODY-TEXT IN ALICE WALKER’S THE COLOR PURPLE

(RE)WRITING 55

Monica Bottez. RUDY WIEBE’S HISTORICAL NOVELS: IMAGINING THE PAST AND MAKING IT KNOWN

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IV. THE VEIL OF THE OTHER

Satyam S. Moorty. HYPOCRISY AND THE UNPLUMBED PENETRALIA: AN EXAMINATION OF MULK RAJ ANAND’S UNTOUCHABLE & U.R. ANANTHA MURTHY’S SAMSKARA 80 Adriana Elena Stoican. INDIAN FEMALE IDENTITIES: BEHIND THE VEIL OF TRADITION 88 Maria-Sabina Draga. WRITING THE UNSPOKEN: EXCLUSION AND ARUNDHATI ROY’S ÉCRITURE FÉMININE IN THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS

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Naji Oueijan. WESTERN TRAVELERS AND ORIENTAL TABOOS Francesca Prevedello.

IS THERE ANY SECRET IN ISLAM?

110 ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS

KNOWLEDGE, WESTERN CURIOSITY AND THE REPRESENTATION OF THE MUSLIM OTHER

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VOL. VII, NO. 3, 2005. A MATTER OF TASTE

I. KEYNOTES OF TASTE Adolphe Haberer. A CONTRIBUTION TO A POETICS OF TASTE Stephen Prickett. A TASTE FOR THE EXOTIC: DRAWING ROMANTIC MAPS OF THE.ORIENT Gary Holcomb. CODE NAME "SASHA": CLAUDE MCKAY DINES "OUT" ON AMERICA Laurent Milesi. TASTE, TASTARE, TACT: A DECONSTRUCTIVE TOUCH OF DIGITAL THEORY

II. REGISTERS OF TASTE Rodica Mihăilă. THE DYNAMIC OF TASTE CULTURES IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA Satyam S. Moorty. A DISCOURSE ON VARIEGATED ASPECTS OF "TASTE": AN ANALYSIS OF CLASS DISTINCTIONS IN F. SCOTT FITZGERALD'S THE GREAT GATSBY Cristina Chevereşan. CULTIVATING THE PURE FORM: OSCAR WILDE AND BRUNO SCHULZ Mariaconcetta Constantini. THE REFINED VILLAINESS: TASTE AND DEVIANCE IN WILKIE COLLINS

Mihai A. Stroe. THE GOLDEN SECTION, THE ARCHETYPE AND THE AESTHETICS OF "ABSOLUTE TASTE": LAO-ZI AND THE BIRTH OF "QUANTUM" ROMANTICISM Alexandru Dragoş Ivana. ON REASONS AND TASTES: HUME'S "OF THE STANDARD OF TASTE" AND THE DON QUIXOTE CASE Mihaela Irimia. AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY TROPE: TASTE

III. INSCRIPTIONS OF TASTE Mădălina Nicolaescu. THE TASTE FOR WAR IN THE ELIZABETHAN PERIOD Sorana Corneanu. "THE RELISH OF OUR MINDS": LOCKE ON EDUCATING THE SELF Daniela Brown. THE VICTORIAN TASTE FOR THE MEDIEVAL Simona Vasilache. THE TASTE OF TIME: AGEING À LA LETTRE IN THE 1900'S Iulian Cănănău. DEMOCRATIC TASTE AND MID-19TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE Aba-Carina Pârlog. LIBERATING THE RESTRAINED NON-CARTESIAN BODY: L. DURRELL'S COVERT HOMOSEXUAL IN JUSTINE AND BALTHAZAR Corina Crişu. REWRITING, REVISION, AND BLACK POSTMODERNISM: CHANGING THE ACADEMIC TASTE Mihai Mîndra. A TASTE OF DOOM: POSTMODERN DECONSTRUCTIONS OF JEWISHNESS IN MELVIN JULES BUKIET'S AFTER Carlos Leone: NOT JUST A MATTER OF TASTE: MODERNITY IN PORTUGUESE CULTURE

VOL. VII, NO. 4, 2005. A MATTER OF TASTE

IV. CULTURES OF TASTE Francesco Marroni. JOHN RUSKIN: MEMORY AND TASTE IN THE SEVEN LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE Maria Leonor Santa Bárbara. REALITY VERSUS MYTHOLOGY: THE CHANGE OF TASTE IN HELLENISTIC ART AND LITERATURE Dana Vasiliu. A TASTE FOR MAPS IN MEDIEVAL CULTURE

Estella Antoaneta Ciobanu. GOTHIC AESTHETIC SENSIBILITIES AND CHRISTIANITAS Eric Gilder. "IT'S AN ACQUIRED TASTE": THE SHIFT OF SACRIFICIAL PURPOSES AND FUNCTIONS AS RENDERED BY RENÉ GIRARD Monica Bottez. CAN MULTICULTURALISM BE A MATTER OF TASTE? THE CANADIAN CASE Jane Sunderland. CONTRADICTIONS IN GENDERED DISCOURSES: SEXIST.JOKES AS "TASTELESS", OR AVAILABLE FOR FEMINIST READINGS?

V. TASTE ACTS Richard R. E. Kania. PATRICIA CORNWELL'S MIX OF MURDER MYSTERIES AND COOKING RECIPES Mihaela H. Precup. NIBBLING AT CULTURE: SOCIAL ACTIVISM AND RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA'S RECIPES Ruxandra Vişan. REPRESENTING CULINARY TASTE IN SAMUEL JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY Ludmila Martanovschi. "MERCY ON THE TONGUE": NEGOTIATING SURVIVAL THROUGH TASTE IN LOUISE ERDRICH'S THE ANTILOPE WIFE Arina Lungu. DIVERSITY, DIFFERENCE AND "THE NEW CUISINE" Daniela Rogobete. PICKLED STORIES AND ECLECTIC VOICES Maria-Sabina Draga. "EMPERORS OF THE REALM OF TASTE": RASA AESTHETICS IN SALMAN RUSHDIE'S MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN AND ARUNDHATI ROY'S THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS

VI. PRETEXTS OF TASTE Lucia Opreanu. BYRONISM AND THE (R)EVOLUTION OF TASTE Camelia-Dana Mihăilescu. EARLY 20TH CENTURY POLEMICS OVER ETHNICITY: EASTERN-EUROPEAN JEWS AND THE AMERICAN TASTE FOR ASSIMILATION Raluca Rogoveanu. BETWEEN HARSH CRITICISM AND UNCONDITIONAL ADORATION: TASTING JACK KEROUAC'S PROSE Adriana Bulz. PUBLIC TASTE AND CULTURAL CHOICE: THE RECEPTION OF EUGENE O'NEILL'S MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA IN BUCHAREST

Cristina Iliescu. CONTEMPORARY TASTE IN CHARACTERS: REWRITING ALICE IN A. S. BYATT'S BABEL TOWER Sorina Georgescu. TASTE AS "THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT": ANDREI OIŞTEANU AND SPIKE LEE ABOUT INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES Christian Tănăsescu. THE NEW TASTE OF OLD TASTE: MANIFESTOS BY 31 YOUNGER U.S. POETS IN 2005

VOLUME VIII, NO. 3, 2006. MODERNITY: THE CRISIS OF VALUE AND JUDGMENT

FOREWORD 5 I. LIMITS OF MODERNITY Grigoris Ananiadis. KANT AND WAR: THE CRITIQUE OF LIMITS AND THE LIMITS OF CRITIQUE

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Maria-Ana Tupan. THE DARK SIDE OF MODERNITY

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Ana-Karina Schneider. “OH! IT IS ONLY A NOVEL!”: APOLOGETIC READING – A POSTMODERN AVATAR OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT

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Mihaela Irimia. WE ORDER TO DISSECT: KANT'S PLATYPUS, MR. SHANDY'S WHITE BEAR, AND THE FARMER KING'S COLLECTION OF NATURAL HISTORY

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Franca Bellarsi. ALLEN GINSBERG'S RE-READING OF WILLIAM BLAKE'S "SPIRITUAL WAR"

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Carmen Andraş. BETWEEN MODERNITY AND PRIMITIVISM, BARBARITY AND CIVILIZATION: BRITISH REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT ROMANIA IN THE 18-19TH CENTURIES

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Manuela E. Gheorghe. THE INTELLECT OF THE MIND - THE INTELLECT OF THE HEART: LEGACY FOR THE THIRD MILLENNIUM

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II. MODES OF REREADING MODERNITY Ivan Lupić. OUR THIEVISH PROGRESS TO MODERNITY: CRISIS OF PERMANENCE IN THE RENAISSANCE SONNET

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Leonor Santa Bárbara. THE EPIC IN MODERNITY: THE PERCEPTION OF LA QUERELLE DES ANCIENS ET DES MODERNES

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Ruxandra Vişan. SAMUEL JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY AND THE STRATEGIES OF LEXICOGRAPHIC MODERNITY

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Alexandru Dragoş Ivana. (RE)VALUING THE NOVEL: MICHAEL MCKEON'S DIALECTICAL METHOD

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Francisco Caramelo. NICOLAU DE ORTA REBELO – A PORTUGUESE TRAVELLER IN PERSIA (XVIITH CENTURY): RELATIVISM AND OTHERNESS

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Ludmila Volná. R. K. NARAYAN’S THE MAN-EATER OF MALGUDI AND INDIAN MODERNITY: VALUE CRISIS IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF INDIAN TRADITION 97 Iulian Cănănău. REPRESENTATIONS OF CITIZENSHIP IN MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY SLAVE NARRATIVES

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Ronja Vieth. THERON AND THE EVES OF MODERNISM: THE FEMININE INFLUENCE AS THE CANDLE OF ILLUMINATION IN THE DAMNATION OF THERON WARE OR ILLUMINATION (1896)

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Monica Bottez. POSTMODERN IDENTITY IN ROBERT KROETSCH'S GONE INDIAN 115 Paola Evangelista. “BETWEEN AN EDEN LOST AND PROMISED PARADISE”: CHARLES TOMLINSON BETWEEN MODERNITY AND MYTH

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Clementina Mihăilescu. MOVING BEYOND NEGATIVE VALUES IN P.K. PAGE’S AND BP NICHOL’S POETRY, VIA GAME THEORY

128

Eric Gilder and Mervyn Hagger. JOHN REITH AND THE FEUDAL VALUES OF BRITISH BROADCASTING IN A MODERN AGE

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Aba-Carina Pârlog. THE CONSUMED POST-CARTESIAN BODY IN L. DURRELL'S THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET

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VOLUME VIII, NO. 4, 2006. MODERNITY: THE CRISIS OF VALUE AND JUDGMENT

III. ARCHITECTURES OF MODERNITY

Mihai A. Stroe. PROPHETS AGAINST EMPIRE: BLAKE, THOREAU, GINSBERG AND THE TRANS-ARCHITECTURE OF THE FUTURE

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Estella Antoaneta Ciobanu. EUROPEAN MAPS OF THE MIND: MEDIEVAL AND MODERN CARTOGRAPHY BETWEEN THE MYTHICAL AND THE RATIONAL

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Agata Bielik-Robson. THE JEWISH ULYSSES: ADORNO AND JOYCE ON MODERNITY 25 Mihai Mîndra. MODERNISM AND FASCISM IN AMERICAN LETTERS: THE NASHVILLE GROUP

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Ruxandra Rădulescu. NATIONALISM AND/AS MODERNITY IN NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES: TOWARDS THE NEW AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES?

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Daniela Rogobete. CENSORS AND CENSORSHIPS OF MODERNITY

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IV. DIALOGUES WITH (POST)MODERNITY Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay. FIN-DE-SIÈCLE MALAISE, URBAN GOTHIC AND THE CRISIS OF VALUE AND JUDGEMENT IN ARTHUR MACHEN’S “THE GREAT GOD PAN” (1894) AND THE THREE IMPOSTORS (1895)

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Elena Butoescu. THE TALENTED MR. PSALMANAZAR: A FOOTNOTE TO AN ENLIGHTENED ENGLAND

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Michaela Niculescu. QUESTIONING THE MIND: TELEPATHY, MEDIUMISM, AND THE OCCULT FEARS OF EUROPEAN INTELLECTUALS AROUND NINETEEN HUNDRED 68 Ileana Sireteanu. FEEDING ON OLD MYTHS: ANGELA CARTER'S VAMPIRE TEXTS 74 Cristina Nistor. THE (RE)TURN OF MYTH IN BRITISH LITERATURE: A. S. BYATT'S POSSESSION

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Simona Elisabeta Catană. THE CRISIS OF VALUE AND THE PLAY WITH LANGUAGE AND TIME IN THE NOVELS OF PETER ACKROYD

88

Eduard Bucescu. REPRESENTATIONAL CRISES: THE MYSTIFICATION OF HISTORY IN KAZUO ISHIGURO'S NOVELS

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Fabiola Popa. HISTORY AND HISTORIES IN PENELOPE LIVELY'S MOON TIGER AND CLEOPATRA'S SISTER

100

Alexandra Mustăţea. MODERNITY WITH A TWIST OF JAPANESENESS

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Daniela Cârstea. HOLLOW CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE WAKE OF MODERNITY

109

Roxana Marinescu. VIOLENCE AND THE BODY IN CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY

113

Ştefania Tarbu. THE DIALOGICAL SELF AS A MARK OF POSTMODERNITY IN MIRCEA CĂRTĂRESCU'S NOSTALGIA AND IN THOMAS PYNCHON'S THE CRYING OF LOT 49 AND VINELAND

120

Brânduşa Prepeliţă-Răileanu. THE POLITICAL AMBIVALENCE OF POSTMODERNISM IN MALCOLM BRADBURY'S NOVELS

125

Arina Lungu. POSTMODERN DIS/RELOCATIONS OF IDENTITY IN DAVID LODGE'S FICTION

131

Maria-Sabina Draga. BLACK MODERNITY AND TONI MORRISON'S RHETORIC OF (ABSENT) LOVE

137

Christian Tănăsescu. FRANK ZAPPA: THE CRISIS OF POETIC DISCOURSE UNDERNEATH THE EXUBERANCE OF MUSIC AND POETRY

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VOLUME IX, NO. 3, 2007. IDENTITY AND ALTERITY: GEOGRAPHIES OF THE MIND

FOREWORD 5 KEYNOTES OF OTHERNESS Christian Moraru. HETEROTOPICS: SPACE, TIME, IDENTITY 8 Rodica Mihăilă. REPRESENTATIONS OF THE TERRORIST OTHER: FROM OFFICIAL DISCOURSE TO THE RECENT AMERICAN NOVEL

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Mihaela Irimia. ‘STRIK(ING) THE RACE IN THEIR FANCY, EAR AND THE HEART’: POETIC GEOGRAPHIES OF OTHERNESS OR THE CURE FOR SAMENESS 28

RE-INSCRIPTIONS OF BRITISHNESS Monica Bottez. BRITISH IDENTITIES AND NORTH AMERICAN OTHERS

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Aba-Carina Pârlog. ‘A SPECK OF DUST’ REMEMBERING THE PAST: FRAGMENTATION, INTUITION AND MEMORY IN SALMAN RUSHDIE’S MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN 43 Roxana Marinescu. IDENTITY AND MARRIAGE IN THE POSTCOLONIAL BRITISH NOVEL

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Monica Manolachi. HUMOUR, COLOUR AND RELIGION IN THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA BY HANIF KUREISHI 56 Eliana Ionoaia. ALTERITY OF RACES IN MIDDLE-EARTH: J.R.R. TOLKIEN’S GEOGRAPHIES OF THE MIND IN THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY

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Ileana Botescu-Sireteanu. QUEER IDENTITIES: JEANETTE WINTERSON’S NARRATIVE OF THE FEMALE BODY

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Ioana Zirra. RE-INSCRIBING IRISH HISTORY IN THE LANGUAGE OF POST-COLONIAL GEOGRAPHY

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AMERICAN GEOGRAPHIES OF IDENTITY Maria-Sabina Draga. INHABITING ALTERITY: THE AMERICANNESS OF FEMALE PROTAGONISTS IN JHUMPA LAHIRI NARRATIVES OF DISLOCATION/ RELOCATION 80 Ruxandra Rădulescu. SHERMAN ALEXIE’S AND GREG SARRIS’S URBAN INDIAN NOMADS: RE-POSITIONING CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN FICTION 86 Corina Mărculescu. BLACKFACE, ‘REDFACE’. COMMODIFYING THE OTHER IN ETHNIC FILM

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Martin Potter. IDENTIFICATION AND ALIENATION: SUBJECTIVITY, OBJECTIVITY AND REFLECTIVITY IN PAUL BOWLES’ THE SHELTERING SKY Martin Potter 100 Sorina Georgescu. IDENTITY AS ALTERITY IN THE BOSTONIANS: HENRY JAMES’S OTHER TURNED INTO A “WHITE SLAVE”

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Dana Mihăilescu. JEWISH STEREOTYPES BETWEEN SHTETL CULTURE AND MYTHIC AMERICA: THE BIRTH OF CONTINGENT JEWISH IDENTITY IN ANZIA YEZIERSKA’S PROSE

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Mihai Mîndra. EXILES OF THE ETHNIC MIND: NORMAN MANEA’S THE HOOLIGAN’S RETURN

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VOLUME IX, NO. 4, 2007. IDENTITY AND ALTERITY: GEOGRAPHIES OF THE MIND

SITES OF IDENTITY AND ALTERITY Oana-Alis Popescu. PERFORMING IDENTITY: HAL, A THEATRICAL MACHIAVELLIANPRINCE

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Simona Elisabeta Catană . THE LAST TESTAMENT OF OSCAR WILDE: THE GAME WITH IDENTITY – AN INTRICATE GEOGRAPHY OF THE MIND

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Lucia Opreanu. IDENTITY COORDINATES IN DAVID LODGE’S ACADEMIC TRILOGY 20 Cristina Nistor. WRITERS, CRITICS AND EPIGONES: IDENTITY BATTLES IN A. S. BYATT’S THE SHADOW OF THE SUN 26 Elena Nistor. METROPOLITAN EGOS: VERSIONS OF LONDONNESS IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH POETRY

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Fabiola Popa. CITY OF THE MIND - THE CITY OF CONTRASTS Raluca Şerban

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. ALTERITY AND IDENTITY: REPRESENTATIONS OF

AUTHORSHIP IN THE POSTMODERN AMERICAN NOVEL 47 Adriana Bulz . NEOCLASSICISM AS NEGATED ALTERITY: PETRU COMARNESCU’S READING OF EUGENE O’NEILL’S DRAMA THROUGH THE GRID OF KALOKAGATHON 58 Teodora Şerban-Oprescu. DIASPORIC SUBJECTS IN TRASNATIONAL SETTINGS 64 Ruxandra Vişan. LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: SAMUEL JOHNSON’S DICTIONARY AND THE BOUNDARIES OF REFINEMENT

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Ruxandra Boicu. PRAGMATIC IDENTITY AND ALTERITY IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE 77

CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS OTHERS Silvia Florea. CULTURAL LIMINALITY AND THE LOSS OF SELF

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Andrea Nagy. THE GEOGRAPHY OF ALTERITY: THE ROLE OF WATER IN OLD ENGLISH ELEGIES 88 Andreea Popescu. IDENTITY AND SACRED INITIATION SPACE IN THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY GRAIL 93 Monica Oancă. THE KNIGHT ERRANT AND THE CASTELLAN: TWO FACES/PHASES OF NOBILITY

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Christian Tănăsescu. THE SHADOWY (NON-)IDENTITY OF THE SHAMAN IN CONTEMPORARY U.S. POETRY: JIM MORRISON, GARY SNYDER, AND JEROME ROTHENBERG

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MISCELLANEA Alina Bottez. IDENTITY AND DISSIMILARITY: SHAKESPEARE’S THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR AND THE OPERAS IT INSPIRED 117 Ronja Vieth. BEN JONSON'S "TO PENSHURST": THE ARTIFACT OF A DIVIDED MIND 126 Daniela Davidescu Brown. THE ELUSIVE OTHERNESS OF WILLIAM MORRIS’S PAINTED SPACE

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Clementina Mihăilescu. POETRY AS THE “CIVILIZED DESTINATION” OF THE MIND IN JAMES MERRILL’S WATER STREET

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Lidia Vianu. RECENT MENTAL GEOGRAPHY OF FICTION: BORN-FREE LAURA HIRD 143 Notes on contributors 150