Volumul XXII, nr.2/2011
Most of the articles published in the Cultural Studies section belong to the theme American Myths, Icons and Brands and are based on the research project Translations of American Myths, Icons and Brands in Post-Communist Romanian Culture (TRANSMIT), supported by CNCSIS-UEFISCSU, Project number PNII – IDEI – 802/2009.
Redactor Şef
Adina Ciugureanu
Universitatea "Ovidius" Constanţa, RO - E-mail:adina.ciugureanu@seanet.ro
Redactor Şef Adjunct
Nicolae Florentina
Universitatea "Ovidius" Constanţa, RO - E-mail:nicolae_flori@yahoo.com
Secretar ştiinţific de redacţie
Lucia Opreanu
Universitatea "Ovidius" Constanţa, RO - E-mail:luciaopreanu@yahoo.com
Colectivul editorial
James E. Augerot
University of Washington, Seattle,WA,SUA - E-mail:bigjim@u.washington.edu
Remus Bejan
Ovidius University of Constanţa, RO - E-mail:remusbejan@yahoo.com
Elena Comes
Ovidius University of Constanţa, RO - E-mail:elenacomes44@yahoo.com
Camelia Dragomir
Ovidius University of Constanţa, RO - E-mail:dcamelia@seanet.ro
Florica Hrubaru
Ovidius University of Constanţa, RO - E-mail:eta_hrubarufr@yahoo.fr
Ludmila Kostova
Veliko Turnovo University, BG - E-mail:lkostova@mbox.digsys.bg
Ileana Marin
Ovidius University of Constanţa, RO - University of Washington, Seattle, SUA - E-mail:solonmarin@hotmail.com
Lavinia Nădrag
Ovidius University of Constanţa, RO - E-mail:lnadrag28@yahoo.com
Paul E. Michelson
Huntington University, SUA - E-mail:pmichelson@huntington.edu
Ileana Alexandra Orlich
Arizona State University, SUA - E-mail:ORLICH@asu.edu
Linda Quinn
UNLV, Nevada, SUA - E-mail:linda.quinn@unlv.edu
Leonor Santa Bárbara
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Port. - E-mail:leosantabarbara@hotmail.com
Eduard Vlad
Ovidius University of Constanţa, RO - E-mail:eduardvlad@yahoo.co.uk
Christina Zarifopol-Illias
Indiana University Bloomington - E-mail:cilioaia@indiana.edu
CUPRINS
I. Culture and Linguistics
Proper Nouns and the Prior Denomination Feature [Pages 11 - 24]
Mihaela Miron-Fulea
Language and Identification of the Self on the Sites of Romanians Abroad [Pages 25 - 38]
Ana Maria Munteanu, Aida Todi
Postcolonial Englishes in America: The Chicano English Dialect [Pages 39 - 48]
Costin – Valentin Oancea
II. Literature(s)
A Structuralist Reading of Hardy’s Jude the Obscure [Pages 51 - 58]
Kamal Abbasi
Experiencing Sexuality: The Politics of Gender Identity in Ian McEwan’s Fiction [Pages 59 - 70]
Alina Buzarna-Tihenea (Gălbează)
Human Condition Between the Fantastic and the Absurd in Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros [Pages 71 - 82]
Marina Cap-Bun
Sins of the Father Revisited: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” [Pages 83 - 90]
Parisa Changizi, Parvin Ghasemi
The Murder of Gonzago: Reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Communist Bulgaria [Pages 91 - 96]
Ileana Alexandra Orlich
Allen Ginsberg and the Theology of Eclectic Mysticism [Pages 97 - 106]
Raluca –Nicoleta Rogoveanu
The Hidden Depths of García Márquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold [Pages 107 - 116]
Ali Shehzad Zaidi
III. Cultural Studies
A Museal Turn: Negotiating Memory in Romanian History Museums before and after the Fall of the Wall [Pages 119 - 126]
Adina Ciugureanu
The Discourse of Service Encounters in Post Communist Romania: Iconicity and Polite Routines of American Descent [Pages 127 - 140]
Diana Hornoiu
The Translation of the Ethnic Minority Discourse from the U.S.A. to Romania. The Case of the Rroma [Pages 141 - 148]
Ludmila Martanovschi
An Approach to Multicultural Education [Pages 149 - 156]
Lavinia Nădrag
CorpTweet: Brands, Language and Identity in Web 2.0 [Pages 157 - 168]
Otilia Pacea
Media Theory and Reception Specificities in Romania [Pages 169 - 178]
Raluca Petre
Icons of Irish Cultural Heritage and Tourism [Pages 179 - 188]
Nicoleta Stanca
Terror, Monkey-Wrenching and (Counter)Netwar: Reading Edward Abbey in the Age of Pure War [Pages 189 - 200]
Florian Andrei Vlad
Book Review
The Greek-Latin Mythology between Theoretical Framework and Exegesis Models (Maria-Luiza Dumitru-Oancea, Mitologia Greco-Romană. Bucharest: Editura Universităţii, 2010) [Pages 203 - 206]
Petre Gheorghe Bârlea