Introduction

Emilia Parpală, Carmen Popescu ................................................................... 7

Part I. Cultural Identity and Comparative Literature

Ambivalent Magical-Realist Masculine Spaces in Junot Diaz’s “The Brief Wondrous

Life of Oscar Wao” and Ștefan Agopian’s novel “Tache de catifea”

Alina Ciobotaru ............................................................................................. 23

Vasile Voiculescu, the Light Seeker: Metaphors of Light in Vasile Voiculescu’s

Antemortem Poems

Steliana-Madalina Deaconu .......................................................................... 34

Literary Hypostases of the Venetian Chronotope

Cristina Durau ............................................................................................... 48

Feminist Concerns with Frederick Douglass and William E.B. Du Bois

Hayder Naji Shanbooj Alolaiwi .................................................................... 59

Theoretical Resources for the Study of Tragedy – Modern Comparative Perspectives

Carmen Popescu ............................................................................................ 71

Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: “Memories and the City”. A Stratigraphic and

Polysensorial Autobiography

Marinică Tiberiu Șchiopu .............................................................................. 84

Part II. Discursive Variation in Interactions

Prepositions in English Expressions of Disgust – A Cognitive Semantic Approach

Andrea Csillag ............................................................................................... 93

Intersections of African American Culture and Theology in James Cone’s “Black

Theology and Black Power”

Peter Gaál-Szabó ........................................................................................ 105

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The “Up” Series of Documentaries (1964-2019): From Imagined Community to

Unimaginable

Brian Michael Goss ..................................................................................... 114

Internationalization of Gastronomy-Related Terms

Cristiana-Nicola Teodorescu, Anca Gabriela Nicolae (Mic........................ 131

Absinthe in Advertising Discourse

Alina Țenescu .............................................................................................. 141

Contributors ......................................................................................................... 149