Recommended Citation: Le Juez, Brigitte. “Cosmopolitan Theory: Examining the (Dis-)location of Imagology”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 7.2 (2021). Doi: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2021.12.01

Abstract: Being interdisciplinary, reflexive and analytical, theory has practical effects, questioning assumptions such as those related to discourse, meaning or identity, and exploring the circumstances in which texts are produced. It offers new conceptual tools and...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Baghiu, Ștefan. “Translations of Novels in the Romanian Culture during the Interwar Period and WWII (1918-1944): A Quantitative Perspective”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 7.2 (2021). Doi: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2021.12.02

Abstract: This article continues the quantitative analysis of translations of novels in Romania for the 1918-1944 period. Baghiu discusses the decay of the French novel (from almost 70% of the total of translated...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Mitroiu, Simona. “Challenging the Roma Structural Discrimination: Deterritorialization Practices in Romanian Cinema”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 7.2 (2021). Doi: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2021.12.03

Abstract: This paper examines the cinematographic reworking of memory spaces associated with power relations and structural injustice. The way in which space is represented and used as a medium that reflects power relations allows to...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Łukaszyk, Ewa A. “(Post)colonial Chronopolitics and Mapping the Depth of Local Time(s) in Global Literary Studies: an Itinerary to Guinea-Bissau”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 7.2 (2021). Doi: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2021.12.04

Abstract: This article is an attempt at deconstructing the chronopolitics inherent to the (post)colonial way of thinking about the world. As it is argued, what should replace it is a vision of multiple,...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Gârdan, Daiana. “Shaping the Canon. The International Profile of Viața Românească (1906-1916)”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 7.2 (2021). Doi: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2021.12.05

Abstract: The present paper aims to investigate the circulation of foreign cultural input in one of the most important Romanian literary periodicals of the prewar era. The main focus of the present research revolves around the means by which the editorial...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Karaman, Hatice. “Reconsidering The World Republic of Letters: A Qualunque Community of Literatures”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 7.2 (2021). Doi: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2021.12.07.06

Abstract: In the preface to the English edition of The World Republic of Letters, Pascale Casanova focuses on the existence of a literary world/universe, which maintains a relative autonomy from the world and its political disparities and...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Goldiș, Alex. “The Untranslatables of World Theory. A Geopolitical Outlook”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 7.2 (2021). Doi: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2021.12.07

Abstract: The paper investigates the cultural transfers and translations of the term ‟theory”, as instrumented in some of the most influential anthologies of the past decades. It puts forward the argument that while in literature per se a widening of the canon has been produced,...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Chiorean, Anca. “The Vernaculars of No One, Really. The (Un?)Translatable Fictional Languages”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 7.2 (2021). Doi: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2021.12.08

Abstract: The present paper aims to show the two possible directions, effects, manifestations of the fictional languages in general. Thus, according to the purposes of their creation, fictional languages have, throughout history, been created in order to...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Gheorghe, Cezar. “Crossing Borders in Film Theory and Adaptation Studies”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 7.2 (2021). Doi: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2021.12.09

Abstract: The history of film theory is full of what we might call migrating concepts. From the Russian Formalists which, in their Poetica Kino (Poetics of cinema) adapt concepts initially created as part of literary theory (fabula vs. syuzhet, film as language, cine-stylistics)...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Manolachi, Monica. “Donald W. Winnicott’s Theory, Literature, and Migration”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 7.2 (2021). Doi: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2021.12.10

Abstract: When Donald W. Winnicott conceived his psychoanalytical concepts and theories, initially meant to address problems associated with the relationship between a mother and her child, the British paediatrician was aware they could be meaningful for understanding cultural...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Alajlani, Zaher. “Mission Possible: Intercultural Communication and the Quest for Finding Shared Meaning”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 7.2 (2021). Doi: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2021.12.11

Abstract: The source of objective meaning is a controversial topic. For most of human history, religion had a monopoly on meaning, truth, and values. But from the nineteenth century onwards and with relativism gaining more popularity, this began to...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Berszán, István. “Time as the Rhythm of Theoretical Practices”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 7.2 (2021). Doi: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2021.12.12

Abstract: Many scholars would agree today that no theory is timeless. But they would probably mean the historicity of theoretical thinking, including the concepts and preconceptions of time propagated by theoretical literary studies. In this paper, I will investigate a usually ignored but...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Ștefan, Elena Ancuța. “Trails of Cultural Memory: Rediscovering Shylock as a Father Figure in the 21st Century”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 7.2 (2021). Doi: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2021.12.13

Abstract: Given that in the last few decades theories of adaptation have advanced enormously, with such names as Linda Hutcheon setting the theoretical premise of these ideas, it is essential to see how certain aspects present in canonical...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Constantinescu, Cătălin. “Fiction May Confront Theories. Locating Determinism of the Newspeak in G. Orwell’s 1984”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 7.2 (2021). Doi: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2021.12.14

Abstract: The paper focuses on the relationships between theory and practice and the consequences of dislocating theory from practice as they are illustrated through fiction. The case study carried out here concerns an exemplary novel,...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Papuc, Oana. “Switching between Codes, Social Personas and Seminar Activities. A Case Study of Localized Hypersubjectivities Constructing a Laboratory-Based Superdiverse Micro-Community”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 7.2 (2021). Doi: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2021.12.15

Abstract: One perspective bound to rouse interesting ideas in relation to efforts of mapping out World Theory, especially in the interplay between ‘local cultures’...   ⇨ Read more

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Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University
Cluj Napoca, Romania
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Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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