This paper focuses on Chris Marker’s status as an essayist but, instead of taking his cinematic works, it explores his early print essays Commentaires (1967), Le Dépays (Chrismarker.org), and his later digital works – Immemory (Gorgomancy.net) and Ouvroir (SecondLife.com). This study is based on the argument that the essay is a malleable form and that it serves its primary function of expressing thought through a process of combining disparate elements in a non-linear format. Further, it argues that this...   ⇨ Read more

The aim of this paper is to describe and interpret some of the challenges that digital humanities pose to Romanian culture and Romanian studies. Apart from technical difficulties such as the lack of digitized archives, further problems arise when it comes to the interpretation of existing archives, to public perception of digitization in terms of free access to information but also, more often than not, in terms of exposing a “national identity” and national values to what are perceived as malicious...   ⇨ Read more

This article will analyse the various ways in which opera translations of William Shakespeare‟s works are part of the cultural adaptation process. Using examples from various libretti, from the classical to the Romanian versions, the author claims that these adaptations are actually making Shakespeare more accessible across linguistic and cultural borders.

Bogdan GHIU, Everything must be translated: the new paradigm [Totul trebuie tradus: noua paradigmă], Cartea Românească, București, ISBN print: 978-973-23-3101-9, 2015, 235 p.

Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue Scholarly Publishing Services, 2013. 375p.