Référence bibliographique : Cultural Perspectives. Journal for Literary and British Cultural Studies in Romania (CP) , ALMA MATER Publishing House“Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, 2017. EAN13 : 1224239X.

Cultural Perspectives. Journal for Literary and British Cultural Studies in Romania (CP) is a peer-reviewed annual journal, issued by the Faculty of Letters, “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacau, Romania and published by “Alma Mater“ Publishing House.

With a twenty-year tradition in the field of cultural and literary studies in Romania, CP has recently become the official journal of CETAL Research Centre (Centre for Textual Exploration and Action through Language) and continues to disseminate scholars’ research findings, innovations and reflections.

The papers of issue 21/2016 point at the enduring or emerging symbolic meanings and cultural practices associated with physical and social cityscapes; they also encompass specific aspects of linguistic landscapes along with emotional and spiritual scapes of urban dwellers.

CONTENTS - Issue 21/2016

EDITORIAL: Urban scapes

Ioana Boghian

The Space of the Romanian Kitchen. Cultural Practices and Significations

Alicja Cimała

On the Translation of English and Polish terms Selected from the Field of Urban Monument Revitalisation

Maria Czaplicka-Jedlikowska

Jan Twardowski’s Literary Texts for Children. Building a Literary Noosphere through Spiritual Scapes

Agnieszka Grząśko

“What Lamb: What Lady-bird… Where’s this Girle?” On Shakespearean Terms of Endearment

Nadia-Nicoleta Morăraşu, Luminiţa Drugă

The Discursive Construction of Post-communist Romanian Social Identities in Urban Spaces

Nicole Ollier

Smyrna-Detroit-Berlin...: An Urban Quest for Personal Identity in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex

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