"Caesura"
Journal of Philological and Humanistic Studies
Caesura—Journal of Philological and Humanistic Studies is a biannual international journal of philology and humanistic studies currently published by Emanuel University Press. The journal investigates thematic subjects in literature and language, cultural studies and morals, hermeneutics and historical texts with reference to their literary and religious contexts, but it is also intended to cover fields such as theories of the novel, poetry, and political speech, postmodern literary discourses and argumentation, disruptive languages, symbols and images in literature and culture. Caesura is dedicated to scholars preoccupied with the manner in which momentous debates in philology can benefit from an extension into the broader and convivial space of humanities in order to acquire new insights and meanings.
Founding Editor-In-Chief
Ramona Simuț, PhD (Emanuel University of Oradea)
Advisori board
Professor Antonius B. M. Naaijkens, PhD (University of Utrecht)
Professor Takayuki Yokota-Murakami, PhD (University of Osaka)
Professor Éva Antal, PhD, Dr. Habil. (Eszterházy Károly College of Eger)
Professor Péter Szaffkó, PhD, Dr. Habil. (University of Debrecen)
Professor Marius Cruceru, PhD (Emanuel University of Oradea)
Caesura—Journal of Philological and Humanistic Studies is published twice a year in Spring (May-June) and Autumn (October-November) by Emanuel University Press and the «Ethics and Society» Research Center. All articles selected for inclusion in Caesura are peer-reviewed by external academics.
All articles in Caesura are open access under the liberal Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) license. The CC BY license allows unrestricted use and reproduction of the articles, provided appropriate credit is given to the original author(s).
Price of a print issue is eur 25, excluding postage and handling charges.
ISSN: 2360-3372
ISSN-L: 2360-3372
ISSN (online): 2360-6681
Peer Reviewing Policy
Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement
Instruction for Authors
Caesura 6.1 (2019)
"East to West: New Findings in Comparative Literature"
Yadav Sumati, Ramona Simuț
Issue Editors
Table of Contents
Pico Iyer’s Autumn Lights: Season of Fire and Farewells. A Global Perspective.
GURINDER KAUR SINGH
Gender and Narrative: A Comparative Analysis of The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood and The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakurni
KAUR KAMALDEEP
Man-Woman Relationship in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Poetry
MUTHURAMAN KANNAYAN
Writing Drought, then and now: A Comparative Assessment of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s The Drought and Anita Agnihotri’s RememberingP RASHANT MAURYA, NAGENDRA KUMAR
Constricting Life: Constructing/Deconstructing Violence in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian
JASMINE ANAND
Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on The Shore – A World of War and Magical Realism with Vedantic view
PATHAK TANUJA
Caesura 5.2 (2018)
"Experiences of the Body in Literature"
Ramona Simuț
Issue Editor
Table of Contents
Body, Soul, and Sin in the 17th Century British Puritanism. The Writings of Thomas Adams (1583 – 1652)
CIPRIAN SIMUȚ
Epistemology from Edward Schillebeeckx to Neil Postman and Its Leverage on Contemporary Literature
RAMONA SIMUȚ
Sergiu Grossu’ s Detention Poetry, Suffering, and Catharsis
ADRIANA FOLTUȚ
Body, Icon, and Mystery in Biblical Literatures
ALEXANDR COCETOV
Book Review
RAMONA SIMUȚ
Caesura 5.1 (2018)
"From Initiation to Adoption as Metaphors of Authority in Literature"
Ramona Simuț
Issue Editor
Table of Contents
“Who Watches the Watchmen? ” Historical Fiction and Transdiegetic Social Initiation in Alan Moore’ s Watchmen
CĂLIN D. DRAGOȘ
Keeping Up with the Gods: Divergence and Rebranding in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods
CĂLIN D. DRAGOȘ
William Perkins’ Legacy High and Low: From Teaching the Commoner to Massively Influencing the Grands of the Day
ALEXANDRU V. STROIE
William Perkins and Reformation through the Instruction of Preachers in Elizabethan Puritanism
ALEXANDRU V. STROIE
The Fruits of True Conversion in Jonathan Edwards’ Religious Affections
DINU MOGA
The Models of New Birth and Adoption in the Writings of John and Paul
DINU MOGA
Caesura 4.2 (2017)
"The Experience of Litherature"
Peter Mathews
Issue Editor
Table of Contents
A Tiny, Unrecognizable Speck: The Negotiability of Literary Experience in Ian Mcguire’s The North Water
NICHOLAS BIRNS
Disillusionment at the Caffe Florian: Ishiguro’s Cellists and the Destruction of Experience
PETER MATHEWS
Vicente Blasco Ibanez: From Storyteller to Soldier of the Pen
JEFFREY OXFORD
How Hemingway’s Cats Will Save Literary Studies
MELISSA E. SCHINDLER
“To Die Content”: Death and Writing in Chu Tien-Hsin’s Man of La Mancha
MAVIS CHIA-CHIEH TSENG
Isabel’s Sympathetic Reconciliation in The Portrait of s Lady
YU-WEN SU
Caesura 4.1 (2017)
"Perspectives on Writing from Creativity to Politics"
Ramona Simuț
Issue Editor
Table of Contents
Creative Writing in Ministry Preparation: Narrativizing Formational Reflection
BENJAMIN K. FORREST, MARYBETH DAVIS BAGGETT
Ideas on the Sublime with John Quincy Adams
MATTHEW F. STOLZ
Norse Women as Material for Modern Writing
RAMONA SIMUȚ
The Political Sublime of John Quincy Adams
MATTHEW F. STOLZ
Images of the Soul in Lucian Blaga’s Poetry
ADRIANA FOLTUȚ
Caesura 3.2 (2016)
"Political Speech in 19th Century Literature from the Representatives to the People"
David Lohrey
Issue Editor
Table of Contents
The Orphic Republic: the Citizen Orator
MATTHEW F. STOLZ
Romanian Literary Classics: Between Oblivion and the Urge to Make Them Known
RAMONA SIMUȚ
Caesura 3.1 (2016)
Osvaldo Di Paolo Harrison
Issue Editor
Table of Contents
Neoliberal Panic: The Untimely Hard-Boiled Critique of Germán Maggiori’s Entre Hombres
JUAN CABALLERO
Rethorics of Crime in Argentinian Neopolicial Novels. Stylization and Parody of Crime Fiction
FABIÁN GABRIEL MOSSELLO
Corruption, Crime and the Urban and Cultural Landscape in Argentina during Carlos Saúl Menem’s Administration (1988-1999)
OSVALDO DI PAOLO HARRISON
Evolution or Eternal Recurrence? Social Commentary in Eduardo Mendoza’s Detective Series
JEFFREY OXFORD
An Alternative Discourse: Crime, Criminals, and Victims in Mundial ’78: La Historia Paralela
KIMBERLY LOUIE
Hard-Boiled Novel and Rewriting of the Story in Las Islas by Carlos Gamerro and Segunda Vida. La Guerra No Siempre Te
Convierte En Un Héroe by Guillermo Orsi
MARCELA MELANA
Caesura 2.2 (2015)
"Aesthetic within the Humanities: The Good, the Beautiful, and the True"
Jordan Ryan Goings
Issue Editor
Table of Contents
Good (and Beautiful) News for Postmodern Apologists
DOUGLAS KEITH BLOUNT
Encountering God’s Beauty: How Hegelian Aesthetics Helps the Theologian
JORDAN RYAN GOINGS
The Painter and the Tree: A Biblical Rationale for Visual Art
MATTHEW ERIC RALEY
(Re)Uniting “Christ-Haunted” and “the South”: Bringing Allegory and Culture together in Flannery O’Connor’s Criticism
MEGEN F. BOYETT
Outside, Looking in: the Representative Aesthetic of Incompletion in Wuthering Heights
KYLE MARK JANKE
Literature and Film: Fantasy across Media
MATTHEW BRETT VADEN
Caesura 2.1 (2015)
"Experiments in Literature: The City between Demise and Revival"
Ramona Simuț, PhD
Emanuel University of Oradea
Yadav Sumati
PG Govt. College for Girls, Chadingarh
Table of Contents
“Tanta vis admonitionis inest in locis.” Czernowitz come spazio letterario della memoria
Chiara Conterno
The Hungry Tide: Climate Sustainability en Route from Ancient Texts to Modern Fiction to Humanity
Yadav Sumati
Profiles of History-Makers. Josephus’ Against Apion
Aurelian Botica
Mediums in Literary Settings: The Leverage of Technology in the Modern Novel
Ramona Simuţ
Can Death Be a Happy Event? On the Theology of Death with Nathanael Emmons (1745-1840)
Ciprian Simuţ
The Other Is Oneself. An Expansive Definition of Postcolonial Identity
David T. Lohrey
Caesura 1.2 (2014)
"Literature in the Middle: From High Authority to Word Reality"
Issue Editors
Ramona Simuț, PhD
Emanuel University of Oradea
Călin Lupițu, PhD
Emanuel University of Oradea
Table of Contents
“The All-Knowing God”. Old Testament and Hellenistic Metaphors in the Genre of New Testament Apocalyptic
Aurelian Botica
Dystopian Narratives and Humanism. What a Zombie Makeover Really Looks Like
Jordan Ryan Goings
“The Night Parade”. Experiencing the Folklore-Based Japanese Imaginary between Wabisabi and the Uncanny
Călin Lupițu
The Pain and Suffering of African Children Reflected in Uwem Akpan’s Short Stories Say You’re One of Them
Yildiray Cevik
La Citta Di Gu Cheng: Uno Scenario Apocalittico
Anna Simona Margarito
Great Metropolitan Creations. The Tectonics of Discourse in the Postcolonial City
Timea Venter
Caesura 1.1 (2014)
"The Literature of the Apocalypse: From Prophecy to Disaster"
Issue Editors
Ramona Simuț, PhD
Emanuel University of Oradea
Aurelian Botica, PhD
Emanuel University of Oradea
Irina Drexler, PhD
Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
Table of Contents
Postmodernism: Surviving the Apocalypse
David T. Lohrey
The Antichrist(ian) Turk in Seventeenth-Century England
Sinan Akilli
(Post-)Apocalyptic Imagination: Uncanny Undead between Sublime and Cynical
Călin D. Lupiţu
Persuading An Audience: Margaret Thatcher’s Speech to the Foreign Policy Association (“The West in the World Today”)
Irina Drexler
The Apocalyptic Tone of Irony in William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Éva Antal
Images of the Apocalypse in Latin American Hardboiled: Preterist, Futurist, and Postmodern Interpretations
Osvaldo Di Paolo