University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series

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Genres and historical forms of the literary imagination today: a philosophy of literature approach

The article looks at the generic repertoire of the experimental oeuvre of the moderns through T. S. Eliot’s theory and practice of banning emotion, creating objective correlatives but foregrounding a masked voice. The role of the masked vo...

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I started a joke text, cotext, context: the rouge rendering of “piracy” as a vexed legal construct over time and place

In the “co-text-ed” areas of maritime law, broadcasting law and commercial trade law, the word of “piracy” has been “overdetermined” by a number of varied historical, political, economic and social forces, both national and international....

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Canonical approaches to Shakespeare: Dr. Johnson and Coleridge

A canonical critical approach to a canonical author was defined by Harold Bloom as a combination of two critical standpoints. One aspect concerns the critic’s ability to solve formal and phenomenological issues which arise in a work of art...

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He titanic atom: Edgar Allan Poe’s romantic cosmology in eureka

In the present study we explore the romantic elements in Edgar Allan Poe’s cosmology as elaborated in Eureka, a major work which is representative for Poe’s thought system. The major point made here is that the primordial material particle...

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Means and ends in conceptual art

In this paper I intend to look at how a vocabulary borrowed from the philosophy of literature about the appreciative experience of literature can illuminate the approach to the appreciation of conceptual art. I will mainly focus on the Bri...

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Why world literature now?

How is the spectacular re-emergence of “world literature” since the turn of the third millennium to be explained? I suggest that ever since the coining of the term in the early nineteenth century, but especially so since the year 2000, wor...

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Postcolonialism /postcommunism: similarities and differences: the romanian case

The paper starts by showing that the liminality and hybridity that Bhaba finds characteristic of the postcolonial subject also perfectly illustrates the situation in postcommunist states. An awareness of both similarities and differences b...

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Perversion, purity societies and discursive control in fin de siècle England

The moral and sexual supervision of boys and young men became formalized in the purity movements which proliferated at the end of the century. Perhaps the most notable example was the Church of England Purity Society which was formed in 18...