Foreword by Codrin Liviu CUŢITARU

In “Poe and Psychoanalytic Criticism: Whose Unconscious is it Anyway?” Lorelei Caraman launches a fascinating critical hypothesis by turning, not towards the psychoanalysis of the literary work, nor towards that of its author, but towards the psychoanalysis of the critics who write about the author and/or their works. Her study investigates the boomerang effect of criticism or, in hermeneutic terms: its coming back upon itself. Reversing the usual subject-object analytic path, the author seeks to penetrate into the intricacies of the critical act itself. Consequently, the American Romantic writer Edgar Allan Poe on whom the book is centered becomes a cultural pretext for a more subtle exploration: namely, that of the more obscure dimensions of any critical gesture with hermeneutic implications.

Codrin Liviu Cuţitaru

Foreword by Adina CIUGUREANU

What this volume significantly contributes to numerous other contextual approaches to American literary phenomena is the articulation of a conceptual framework offered by a number of theories of identity which emerged and developed in the post-Enlightenment age, particularly from the second half of the 19th century onward, in the context of identity crises produced by, or linked to, industrialization and secularization. This framework includes a series of concepts, distinctions and pronouncements which have been found useful in the explorations of literary communication by means of the complex interactions that this type of communication involves, in addition to the mere, ‘distinterested’ reading of the texts proper. This theoretical construct takes shape as a selective history of the concept and of the theories about identity, focusing on, critically exploring and appraising the important developments that the 20th century contributed to it (the psychoanalytic, structuralist, poststructuralist paths), more specifically dealing with the theories of identity and social identity from postwar and contemporary social psychology.

Eduard Vlad
Florian Andrei Vlad

The Pillars of the Beat Generation: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs analyses from an ideological and aesthetic perspective, the beginning, development and the evolution of the Beat Generation in the mid 20th century. The book discusses poems and prose texts authored by the best known writers of the Beat Generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. The purpose of the volume is to identify the strategies employed by the Beat Generation writes to subvert mainstream political values, conventional social expectations and traditional narrative strategies. The Beat Generation is construed as a heterogeneous group, a hybrid and dynamic entity, with mutable margins and centers, while the Beat text is described as an unstable discourse, whose strong subversive accents give sometimes way to ideological compromises. The books explores the way in which Beat poems, essays and confessional texts become strategies of resistance in a game with high political and spiritual stakes. Drawing on Emerson's ideal of the poet-prophet, on the surrealist strategy of confounding art with life and on the relativism of postmodernism at times, the Beats created a new crucible of American values, a new philosophy of rebellion and acceptance. Key figures in the cultural politics of the mid 20th century, the Beats ensured the transition from the postwar avant-garde to the youth counterculture of the 1960s.

This book is both an in-depth study in the field of terminology and specialised translation and a practical demonstration of how corpus linguistics and its tools may be used in translation-related research. Advancing an interdisciplinary methodology that combines concepts and principles from several fields of study, it is, to our knowledge, the first applied analysis of this kind to use a parallel corpus of texts translated from English into Romanian (275 text pairs) and the first to propose a detailed taxonomy not only of Romanian information technology terms but also of the regularities and norms that govern their transfer from English into this language. Meant to be read by translation researchers and students as well as actual translators interested in this field, the volume discusses several important theoretical ideas relative to specialised translation and communication, corpora, corpus linguistics, and terminology while providing a wealth of methodological and linguistic examples taken from actual texts. In order to encourage readers to apply the notions discussed in their own work, each chapter ends with conclusions and suggestions for further research.

Vol. 10, N° 1 (19)/2017

Guest Editors: Noemi MARIN, Lara MARTIN LENGEL

This special issue of ESSACHESS—Journal of Communication Studies offers rhetorical and/or cultural-critical perspectives on peace, non-violence, and the role of civic discourse in contemporary times. Intended for both academic and civic readership, the issue covers international scholarship that focuses mainly on the last 30 years of communication and rhetorical perspectives on peace-related discourse, including the historic period following 1989 that created a democratization of public discourse throughout the world, yet engaging even more peace and conflict as paradigmatic perspectives on migration, terrorism, communism, and political and social change.