Référence bibliographique : Interstudia no.18/2015Image, Imaginary, Representation, Alma Mater, 2015. EAN13 : 20653204.
Interstudia no. 18/2015
Image, Imaginary, Representation
Alma Mater, Bacau
Our journal proposes for this volume as main topic Image, imaginary,
representation in which we have tried to reunite scientific papers that will hopefully
find an echo in the scientific and academic communities across the nation and other
countries; this volume of our journal sought to offer the opportunity to have various
interdisciplinary discussions on this generous topic.
The universe of images and concepts such as imagination, imaginary and
imaginariness have drawn the public interest since ancient times. In the 20th century
their systematic analysis was approached from diverse (inter)disciplinary
perspectives (metaphysical, psychological, sociological, political, mythological or
religious, aesthetic, linguistic) and was undertaken by Humanities and Cultural
Studies following different research trends.
All these papers included topics related to the imaginary, imaginariness,
theories of reference and representation. How could we define an image’s nature,
which is real and imaginary at the same time? What relations are there among
simulacrum, image, the unreal and the supernatural? What connections could we
establish between different types of representation produced by the imagination
(reproductive representation and imaginary representation) and the categories of
time and space? Or among representations, perceptions and thought? Is an image the instrument of power? What does an image reveal or veil from the perceiver? Such
questions have always aroused the researchers’ interest and to such questions, we
hope we found some answers.
CONTENTS
Foreword…………………………………………………………………………….7
I. CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS
Ahmet Bese
The Image of Racial Minorities and Their Representation in American Democracy:
African- and Native Americans…………………………………………………….13
Raluca Nicolae
Below and Beyond: Travels to Tokoyo.....................................................................20
Mihaela Culea
Travelling, Culture and Literary Representation. English Travellers to Romania and
Romanian Travellers to England in the Nineteenth Century.....................................33
Corina Sorana Matei
Psychology of Religion in Paul Ricoeur’s Writings………………………………..41
II. IMAGES AND REPRESENTATIONS IN LITERATURE. BODY IMAGES
Cătălina Bălinişteanu
Jane Eyre – A Victorian Representation of a Fairy Tale...........................................49
Ioana Boghian
The Degeneration of the Human Body – Images of Hunger in Charlotte Brontë’s
Jane Eyre...................................................................................................................58
Fatih Bouguerra
A Psychoanalytical Approach to Le Fanu’s In a Glass Darkly…………………….66
Elena Ciobanu
Re-Imagining Art in Ekphrastic Poetry.....................................................................74
Ecaterina Cojoca
The Image of the Body in Walt Whitman’s I Sing the Body Electric........................81
Ioan Sava
Magical Realist Elements in The Firebird’s Nest by Salman Rushdie......................90
Andreia-Irina Suciu
Representations in Ali Smith’s Hotel World……………………………………….97
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III. TRANSLATION STUDIES AND LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATIONS
Raluca Galiţa
Analysing Representations of Language Learning Events ......................................109
Monica-Marcela Şerban
Cultural Representations in Translation...................................................................119
Gabriela Telibaşa
Metaphor: Image and Representation. The Language of Food
Advertisements........................................................................................................127
IV. TRANSDISCIPLINARY REPRESENTATIONS
Dumitru Borţun
Image and Representation. The Unlimited Power of Visual Image........................139
Cristina Cîrtiţă-Buzoianu
A Leader’s Image and Representation in the Romanian Public Space....................146
Nicolae-Sorin Drăgan
Metaphor, Paradox and Ambiguity. Discursive Strategies......................................155
Loredana Ivan, Corina Daba-Buzoianu, Alina Duduciuc
Media Coverage of Mobile Phone Base Stations Technology in Romania.............167
Mariana Tîrnăuceanu
Fallacious Reasoning in the Political Discourse of Crisis.......................................180