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The Melancholy of Resistance with Mircea Nedelciuand László Krasznahorkai: Symbolic Images Ofcommunity Under Communism and Alternativeconstructions of Moral Identity

Starting from a comparative analysis of the symbolic representations of community in the works of... more Starting from a comparative analysis of the symbolic representations of community in the works of two major Eastern European fiction writers of the 1980s (nationally praised Romanian prose writer Mircea Nedelciu and internationally acclaimed Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai), the present contribution brings together their fundamentally similar perspectives on community disaggregation under communist totalitarianism. The two authors’ aesthetic (re)constructions of community – favouring fantasy-like approaches and a poetics of absence often turning into actual representations of “spectrality” (in the Derridean sense of the term) – are meant to be read as (underlying) ethical standpoint(s) on the distortion of the moral component of personal and group identity under totalitarianism. Moreover, both writers are interested in exploring the possibilities (and limits) of marginal moral resistance (i.e. the possibility of moral resistance with socially marginalised individuals, margin...

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Identităţi suspendate şi surogate identitare in proza lui

Online Audio-Video Content as Homework in English Language Teaching: A Classroom-Tested Application for Undergraduate Programs Designed During the Coronavirus Pandemic

International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION

The paper explores the potential permanent benefits of using online audio-video content as homewo... more The paper explores the potential permanent benefits of using online audio-video content as homework for undergraduate students in English Language Teaching (ELT), based on the author’s classroom experience with the application of the said strategy during the Coronavirus pandemic. The classroom-tested implementation analyzed in the article was focused on English Phonetics and Phonology related objectives. Furthermore, a similar, but adapted potential homework design model for teaching Aviation English (radiotelephony phraseology) to Air Force Academy cadets is explored. The main purposes of the present contribution are to describe the activities themselves, along with their intended purposes and results, to analyze student behavior in relation to the said use of technology, and ultimately to review the shortcomings and potential long-term benefits of permanent use for university-level education.

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Mircea Nedelciu's Mysterious Territories

This article deals with the mysterious side of Mircea Nedelciu's fictional geography. Often u... more This article deals with the mysterious side of Mircea Nedelciu's fictional geography. Often underestimated by the critics in terms of their aesthetic and conceptual value, these "mysterious territories" (utopian "mysterious islands" and "vanishing points") play, however, an important part in the overall signification system of Nedelciu's works. In order to prove it, I have identified them and interpreted their symbolic value(s) through recent anthropological and cultural theories concerning the concepts of space and utopia , thus showing that they are a main contribution to the literary representation of the author's weltanschaaung.

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La (Re)Construction Textuelle de L'identité Chez Faïza Guène et Abdellah Taïa

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov, Series IV: Philology & Cultural Studies, 2012

&amp;amp;quot;This paper focuses on the re-construction of non-fictional (personal and cultur... more &amp;amp;quot;This paper focuses on the re-construction of non-fictional (personal and cultural) identity through textual mechanisms with contemporary francophone authors of North-African origin, relying on two recent representative illustrations: the novels Kiffe kiffe demain by Faïza Guène (2004) and L’armée du salut by Abdellah Taïa (2006). This approach means to defend – aesthetically and thematically – the general tendency of these marginal «écritures de soi» to mainly rely on “testimonial” discourses, as a viable alternative to – or as a literary way of dealing with – identity issues (and crises) related to postcolonial culture clash(es). &amp;amp;quot;

Romania as an Ongoing Vampire Story: Count Dracula and the Pop-Cultural Détente

Redefining Community in Intercultural Context, 2018

The present article analyses two recent fictional reiterations of Count Dracula's toposnamely, Al... more The present article analyses two recent fictional reiterations of Count Dracula's toposnamely, Alucard in Kouta Hirano's Hellsing manga series (1997-2008) and Fifi/FAD (Florin Anghelescu Dragolea) in Alexandru Muşina's novel Dracula's Nephew (2012)as two rather authoritative contemporary references modifying the vampiric epitome originally outlined by Bram Stoker (and others). The focus is set on the evolution of 'nation branding' related elements reflected inside the common fictional paradigm. More specifically, this imagological investigation revolves around the ethical-symbolic dimension of the two selected contemporary works, in its particular relation to the controversial tendency of 'branding' Romania (or Transylvania) as the 'actual' homeland of the vicious vampire count. The ethical response both works imply is distinctive as well as significant, in the sense that it illustrates a current tendency towards what will be referred to in the present study as a 'pop-cultural détente'.

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Microsoft teams as a potential asset in teaching English for the Air Force: Activities and skill-specific task types where permanent use may entail long-term benefits

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies, 2022

As the current international context has forced a faster integration of technology into teaching ... more As the current international context has forced a faster integration of technology into teaching in general, a hands-on assessment, based on the tutors’ experiences, of the benefits and shortcomings brought about by remote (online) learning tools in FLT is already feasible at this point. Based on the said premise, but with a narrower scope in view, the article focuses on the potential advantages of teaching ESP to Romanian air cadets via Microsoft Teams. The primary point of interest is to overview the situations (teaching/learning activities and skill-specific tasks) in which using the above-mentioned (business) communication platform may represent an asset in everyday teaching.

Guerrilla male libidos in Mircea Nedelciu’s fiction: from Gender to Genre in Eastern European context

Writing under Ceauşescu’s communist regime, Romanian author Mircea Nedelciu seems to fictionally ... more Writing under Ceauşescu’s communist regime, Romanian author Mircea Nedelciu seems to fictionally exploit the politically subversive potential of the male libido as emphasized by the imagery of the Western sexual revolution, through a gallery of male protagonists recurrently exhibiting unconventionally libertine and misogynistic erotic behaviours. However, his underlying ethical commentary regarding the issue actually generates a theoretical standpoint that might not only be significant for a regional (re)interpretation of “sexistentialism” as a (counter-)cultural topos in the Eastern European literature of the 1980s, but an interesting contribution to the nowadays renewed debates concerning the cultural achievements of the Sixties’ sexual liberation as well.

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Travelers, Transcultural Identities and Identitarian Reconstruction in Mircea Nedelciu’s Fiction

Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 2017

Having as a theoretical premise the idea that "essential personal identities" do not always synch... more Having as a theoretical premise the idea that "essential personal identities" do not always synchronise with the essential identity of the group they are supposed to belong to, and that this de-synchronisation can have an ethical opposition at its core, the paper focuses on the way in which Mircea Nedelciu's typical protagonistsnomads, socially marginal individuals with confusing, "unaccomplished identities"attempt to (culturally and morally) reconstruct their damaged personal identities by disengaging from their social and spatial appurtenance to the national macrogroup (dominated by the moral values, identity models and cultural stereotypes imposed by Ceauşescu's regime) and phantasmatically "relocating" their identities in the Western Counterculture of "the Sixties". This implicit refusal to belong can ultimately be read as an "ethics of reconnaissance", an anti-totalitarian counter-politics or negative politics of identity led by persons or small groups that thus become a (fictionally) "significant minority".

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The Melancholy of Resistance with Mircea Nedelciuand László Krasznahorkai: Symbolic Images Ofcommunity Under Communism and Alternativeconstructions of Moral Identity

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Identităţi suspendate şi surogate identitare in proza lui

Online Audio-Video Content as Homework in English Language Teaching: A Classroom-Tested Application for Undergraduate Programs Designed During the Coronavirus Pandemic

International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION

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Mircea Nedelciu's Mysterious Territories

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La (Re)Construction Textuelle de L'identité Chez Faïza Guène et Abdellah Taïa

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov, Series IV: Philology & Cultural Studies, 2012

Romania as an Ongoing Vampire Story: Count Dracula and the Pop-Cultural Détente

Redefining Community in Intercultural Context, 2018

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Microsoft teams as a potential asset in teaching English for the Air Force: Activities and skill-specific task types where permanent use may entail long-term benefits

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies, 2022

Guerrilla male libidos in Mircea Nedelciu’s fiction: from Gender to Genre in Eastern European context

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Travelers, Transcultural Identities and Identitarian Reconstruction in Mircea Nedelciu’s Fiction

Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 2017

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