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Annals of the “Dunărea de Jos” University of GALAŢI Fascicle XIII, New Series, Issue 25, XIII (XXIV), 2006 Book reviews pp. i - vii In mapping her theoretical concepts, the authoress comes closer to such specific aspects as the Western discourse about the Other (S. Mills), the reader-response theory (Wolfgang Iser’s translatability and recursive looping), colonial and post-colonial theorizing (Edward Said, Arnold Krupat) and, of course, postmodern and poststructural critical paradigms (Michel de Certeau, Michel Foucault, Brian McHale, Paul Ricœur, or H. White). Not infrequently, the dense scholarly discourse is enlivened by occasional (auto)biographical glimpses. At the beginning of her studies at Tromsø, Mirona Ciocîrlie confesses, she found herself immersed in a new cultural environment where she became aware of the political and administrative dimensions of the Indigenous Discourse which tended to describe indigenous communities as politically weak, economically inadequate and culturally stigmatized. While aware of being the product of a European type of civilization valuing critical, objective estimation of the facts of life, she found similarities in her childhood upbringing amidst rural population back in the rural Romania, relevant for a better understanding of how to deal with issues of difference. The scholarly tension is also released with cases taken from Sami past and recent history, of Shamanic tradition, of environmental protests, of legal action taken against expropriation of property, all of these meant to take the reader into the realities of the Sami people in Norway. However, the reader may consider that it takes more than two texts/ interviews to substantiate the point that seems to be focal for the study under discussion, viz. that the ways in which indigenous researchers have challenged the Western discourse on indigenous cultures are far more numerous and diverse than previously expected. Further cases in point might have indeed been welcome to demonstrate the diversity of the discourse of the intelligentsia in native communities as evidence of their mounting determination to preserve their spiritual and material identities. Despite being marred by a number of errors caused by editorial mismanagement, the book is an outstanding achievement of cultural synthesis coupled with a compelling analytical approach, and speaks to specialists and non-specialists alike. GABRIELA IULIANA COLIPCĂ THE WAYS OF THE NOVEL: OR, THE QUEST FOR VERISIMILITUDE IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH AND ENGLISH NOVEL UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN 2005 The second book to be reviewed is the result of its authoress’ full time doctoral research with the Comparative Literature Department at the University of Leiden as the recipient of a PhD grant by the Pallas Institute of that university. Also a graduate from the University of Galaţi, Gabriela Iuliana Colipcă received an MA degree in Translation and Interpretation from her Alma Mater where she has been employed since 1999. Now she holds the position of senior lecturer. In an impressive study (five hundred pages or so long), Gabriela Colipcă conducts a comparative examination of the emergence and development of fiction in two major European literatures, the English and French ones, with special focus on the verisimilitude-creating devices which, in her opinion, marked the shift from the Enlightenment to the Romantic age. Actually, the concept of verisimilitude appears indeed as the cornerstone that sustains the whole theoretical edifice informing this work. From the Aristotelian principle of mimesis to the early eighteenth-century concept of outer verisimilitude and further to inner verisimilitude in the latter half of the century, the book traces the avatars of the aesthetic component of lifelikeness placed within the framework iv
Annals of the “Dunărea de Jos” University of GALAŢI Fascicle XIII, New Series, Issue 25, XIII (XXIV), 2006 Book reviews pp. i - vii of the eighteenth-century European mentalities. This can be seen in each of the four sections (Parts) where verisimilitude is constantly resorted to as a key concept. Thus, Part One: Verisimilitude and the Illusion of Reality brings to the focus, through subsequent subchapters, the ways in which the novel managed to change its status from marginal to canonical by experimenting with new means of creating verisimilitude. Part Two: Verisimilitude and the Voyage Abroad. Philosophical Quests looks at travel narratives as marking the spiritual transition from stability to mobility when “realism of assessment” emerged as another essential dimension of the verisimilitude pattern of the voyage abroad (148). Part Three: Verisimilitude and the Picaresque Journey outlines and discusses the multiple uses of the picaresque vein as a favourite device of representing reality in the eighteenth-century novel. Part Four: Verisimilitude, Voyages and the Passion Pattern is perceived as the most heterogeneous of all since the examination of the preference for the voyage due to its capacity of conveying verisimilitude calls for a reiteration of all the main directions of the previous discussion. This section examines the gradual metamorphosis and final triumph of inner verisimilitude while maintaining that “the ideals and verisimilitude models of the Enlightenment man (…) make way for those of the Romantic, modern individual who continues to travel, but with a different goal and within the boundaries of different horizons” (473). Close reading exploration into the texts of representative eighteenth-century French and English fiction authors (mention is made of as many as 46 titles) provide a stimulating and thought-provoking addition. Making the most of a bibliography encompassing the whole gamut of theoretical research in the field from, say, the now classical Wellek and Warren to the very latest, Gabriela Colipcă’s book brings together all the salient points that landmark a crucial moment in the development of the modern novel. Excellently written, well documented, clearly structured, this is a compelling reading for students, scholars and anyone with an interest in the novel. LE GOUT DES MOTS. SAVOAREA CUVINTELOR. Dicţionar francez-român de termeni culinari*. Virginia Veja şi colectiv. Bucureşti: Editura Didactică şi Pedagogică. 2006 v Eugenia Gavriliu “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi Ce dictionnaire se propose d’investiguer une zone toujours intéressante de l’univers du discours public: le vocabulaire d’orientation gastronomique, plus spécialement le vocabulaire de la cuisine. Elaboré par un groupe d’étudiantes en DEA, certaines d’entre elles devenues par la suite nos collègues, le dictionnaire reflète les éléments thématiques en usage et tente de mettre en évidence le rapport qui existe, en général, entre la culture, la langue et leurs représentations lexicographiques. Né d’un évident besoin, tant pour l’utilisateur commun que pour le spécialiste terminologue et/ou le traducteur, ce dictionnaire met à la disposition du public intéressé une liste
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