Abstract This paper discusses the results of a survey on university students’ perceptions and attitudes towards the writing-up process of their final graduation paper. The google form questionnaire was addressed to all the BA and MA graduating philology students, covering four study programmes in English, in a university in western part of Romania. The findings indicate a possible re-thinking of the curricula aiming at the inclusion of mandatory courses in academic writing and research skills at the incipient phases of the study programmes.
{"title":"Perceptions and Attitudes of BA and MA Graduating Students in Philology Towards the Writing of Their Final Research Papers. A Survey-Based Case Study","authors":"C. Goşa","doi":"10.2478/rjes-2022-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2022-0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper discusses the results of a survey on university students’ perceptions and attitudes towards the writing-up process of their final graduation paper. The google form questionnaire was addressed to all the BA and MA graduating philology students, covering four study programmes in English, in a university in western part of Romania. The findings indicate a possible re-thinking of the curricula aiming at the inclusion of mandatory courses in academic writing and research skills at the incipient phases of the study programmes.","PeriodicalId":30681,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of English Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"78 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43374113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Eliza Claudia Filimon, John Eliot (Eds): Cross-Currents / Curente La Răscruce Mosaïque Press, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, 2022, ISBN 978-1-906852-64-1","authors":"Cristina Nicolae","doi":"10.2478/rjes-2022-0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2022-0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30681,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of English Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"135 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43229652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract English phrasal verbs represent a specific phrasal lexeme which typically cannot be transferred directly to other languages. In addition, phrasal verbs cover a variety of meanings, from literal to idiomatic, which also presents a problem for translation. The proposed research analyzes the translation options in Romanian and Serbian, pointing to the similarities and differences between the two languages.
{"title":"English Phrasal Verbs with the Particles Off and Up and Their Romanian and Serbian Translation Equivalents","authors":"Predrag Novakov, Mihaela Lazović","doi":"10.2478/rjes-2022-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2022-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract English phrasal verbs represent a specific phrasal lexeme which typically cannot be transferred directly to other languages. In addition, phrasal verbs cover a variety of meanings, from literal to idiomatic, which also presents a problem for translation. The proposed research analyzes the translation options in Romanian and Serbian, pointing to the similarities and differences between the two languages.","PeriodicalId":30681,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of English Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"7 - 14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45425310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The sinking of the Titanic had a great impact on people around the world. It also attracted great thinkers to reflect upon the incident, go beyond it, and formulate the disaster in modern times. Thomas Hardy’s composition, one of the earliest writings on the Titanic, brought forward the idea of “Immanent Will”; its relation we will trace back to historical human will. George Bernard Shaw’s dispute with Arthur Conan Doyle shows how the Immanent Will relies on literary devices to modify reality and disaster. Joseph Conrad’s deliberations are the instance when one can see that the modern human has summoned powers beyond his control which are disastrous and void of humanity. Finally, Gilbert Keith Chesterton demonstrates the psychological process in which humans act void of compassion and create disastrous modernity. The Titanic disaster is the opportunity to gaze at the inevitable disaster inherent in modernity and formulate its internal logic.
{"title":"The Disaster in the Heart of the Modern Moment: The Titanic and Disastrous Modernity in the Writings of British Authors","authors":"Arash Poorakbar","doi":"10.2478/rjes-2022-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2022-0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The sinking of the Titanic had a great impact on people around the world. It also attracted great thinkers to reflect upon the incident, go beyond it, and formulate the disaster in modern times. Thomas Hardy’s composition, one of the earliest writings on the Titanic, brought forward the idea of “Immanent Will”; its relation we will trace back to historical human will. George Bernard Shaw’s dispute with Arthur Conan Doyle shows how the Immanent Will relies on literary devices to modify reality and disaster. Joseph Conrad’s deliberations are the instance when one can see that the modern human has summoned powers beyond his control which are disastrous and void of humanity. Finally, Gilbert Keith Chesterton demonstrates the psychological process in which humans act void of compassion and create disastrous modernity. The Titanic disaster is the opportunity to gaze at the inevitable disaster inherent in modernity and formulate its internal logic.","PeriodicalId":30681,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of English Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"96 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46637366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BOOK REVIEW Muguraş Constantinescu, Daniel Dejica, Titela Vîlceanu (Eds.) O Istorie A Traducerilor În Limba Română Secolul Al Xx-Lea BucureȘti: Editura Academiei Române, 2021 ISBN: 978-973-27-3438-4","authors":"Eliza Claudia Filimon","doi":"10.2478/rjes-2022-0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2022-0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30681,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of English Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"137 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46573967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Following the publication, in 2018, of a consistent part of Sylvia Plath’s correspondence, scholars interested in her complex biographical and literary story found new opportunities to read the American poet in a new light. I shall explore the letters she sent to her psychiatrist, Dr. Ruth Beuscher, while also critically observing their relevance in understanding Plath’s oeuvre.
{"title":"Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters","authors":"Gabriela Glăvan","doi":"10.2478/rjes-2022-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2022-0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Following the publication, in 2018, of a consistent part of Sylvia Plath’s correspondence, scholars interested in her complex biographical and literary story found new opportunities to read the American poet in a new light. I shall explore the letters she sent to her psychiatrist, Dr. Ruth Beuscher, while also critically observing their relevance in understanding Plath’s oeuvre.","PeriodicalId":30681,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of English Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"70 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42821338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article analyses Julian Barnes’s England, England and shows that it recreates England as a palimpsest, presenting to us a parody of the past and circulating an ironic story of a possible version of this country with a rewritten history. Julian Barnes redefines history and the role of the historian in a novel which illustrates the idea that history is a story.
{"title":"England as a Palimpsest in Julian Barnes’s England, England. Turning History Into a Story","authors":"Elisabeta simona Catana","doi":"10.2478/rjes-2022-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2022-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article analyses Julian Barnes’s England, England and shows that it recreates England as a palimpsest, presenting to us a parody of the past and circulating an ironic story of a possible version of this country with a rewritten history. Julian Barnes redefines history and the role of the historian in a novel which illustrates the idea that history is a story.","PeriodicalId":30681,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of English Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"50 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42570905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Peter Ackroyd’s historiographic metafictional novel Milton in America (2006) entails a critical return to history – critical in the sense that it questions the essence of historical knowledge and revisits the past in order to comment on the politics of national identity. Beneath a façade of historicity, the novel explores the continuity of English cultural identity and narrates a fictional story that centres on the conflict of Catholicism and Protestantism in the context of post-Restoration emigration of Puritans from England to New England. The “old faith”, although marginalized, continued to exist in post-Reformation England. The novel ties the significance of Catholicism to a thorough sense of Englishness. Catholic faith is shown as an ancient anchor of English identity. Peter Ackroyd delves into the collective memory of his race in search of a sense of commonality, believing in the continuity of English national identity. Challenging humanist assumptions about historical authenticity, the novel calls into question the idea of religious homogeneity, offering a different narrative as equally valuable.
摘要彼得·阿克罗伊德（Peter Ackroyd）的历史元小说《米尔顿在美国》（Milton in America，2006）要求批判性地回归历史——批判性地说，它质疑历史知识的本质，并回顾过去，以评论国家认同的政治。在历史性的外表下，这部小说探索了英国文化身份的连续性，并讲述了一个虚构的故事，该故事以天主教和新教在复辟后清教徒从英国移民到新英格兰的背景下的冲突为中心。“旧信仰”虽然被边缘化，但在宗教改革后的英格兰仍然存在。这部小说将天主教的意义与彻底的英国意识联系在一起。天主教信仰被认为是英国人身份认同的古老支柱。彼得·阿克罗伊德深入研究了他种族的集体记忆，以寻找一种共同感，相信英国民族身份的连续性。这部小说挑战了人文主义对历史真实性的假设，对宗教同质性的概念提出了质疑，提供了一种同样有价值的不同叙事。
{"title":"Remapping Englishness in Peter Ackroyd’s Milton in America","authors":"Masoud Farahmandfar","doi":"10.2478/rjes-2022-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2022-0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Peter Ackroyd’s historiographic metafictional novel Milton in America (2006) entails a critical return to history – critical in the sense that it questions the essence of historical knowledge and revisits the past in order to comment on the politics of national identity. Beneath a façade of historicity, the novel explores the continuity of English cultural identity and narrates a fictional story that centres on the conflict of Catholicism and Protestantism in the context of post-Restoration emigration of Puritans from England to New England. The “old faith”, although marginalized, continued to exist in post-Reformation England. The novel ties the significance of Catholicism to a thorough sense of Englishness. Catholic faith is shown as an ancient anchor of English identity. Peter Ackroyd delves into the collective memory of his race in search of a sense of commonality, believing in the continuity of English national identity. Challenging humanist assumptions about historical authenticity, the novel calls into question the idea of religious homogeneity, offering a different narrative as equally valuable.","PeriodicalId":30681,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of English Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"58 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46217645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This paper represents a case study of the translation of a criminal conclusion from Romanian into English. It resorts to the American Translation Association translation evaluation system to detail on the categories/ types of errors made and to evaluate the quality of the translated document, thus demonstrating the usefulness of such a grid for legal translation assessment (so much so that, in Romania, no grid of the kind is available).
{"title":"Quality Assessment in Legal Translation. A Case Study","authors":"L. Pungă, Denisa Ungurean","doi":"10.2478/rjes-2022-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2022-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper represents a case study of the translation of a criminal conclusion from Romanian into English. It resorts to the American Translation Association translation evaluation system to detail on the categories/ types of errors made and to evaluate the quality of the translated document, thus demonstrating the usefulness of such a grid for legal translation assessment (so much so that, in Romania, no grid of the kind is available).","PeriodicalId":30681,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of English Studies","volume":"109 1","pages":"22 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41281174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Tackling existential crevasses, Anuradha Roy’s latest novel, The Earthspinner, invites to pondering and multifaceted analysis in what we see as a plea for building metaphorical bridges in a world where the coordinates were long ago decided, where narrowed/biased following of tradition and religion undermine the coherent discourse of an identity that strives to survive the intrusion of the other. The artist and the act of creation prove once again vulnerable to the other’s inability to understand and accept.
{"title":"Hypostases of the Artist in Anuradha Roy’s The Earthspinner","authors":"Cristina Nicolae","doi":"10.2478/rjes-2022-0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2022-0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Tackling existential crevasses, Anuradha Roy’s latest novel, The Earthspinner, invites to pondering and multifaceted analysis in what we see as a plea for building metaphorical bridges in a world where the coordinates were long ago decided, where narrowed/biased following of tradition and religion undermine the coherent discourse of an identity that strives to survive the intrusion of the other. The artist and the act of creation prove once again vulnerable to the other’s inability to understand and accept.","PeriodicalId":30681,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of English Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"114 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41467444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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