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Both novels are controversial and difficult to interpret due to their critique of the cultural, philosophical, and religious dimensions of the aestheticization of sexuality and gender from the perspective of human freedom and individuality. Our goal is to discover how both writers address this problem indirectly but openly, using irony, to show the insufficiency of the traditional, aesthetic fulfillment of the human being that we see, for example, in Don Juan. Moreover, it shows something that seems natural as som...

The urban structure reflects different stages of its life cycle land use efficiency. Extensive development of Slovak cities in the second half of the 20th century in combination with the construction method, demands on infrastructure and transformation of the industry, caused that there is an enormous number of dysfunctional, unused, empty areas and degraded sites in our cities. Such areas can be regarded as a problem, but above all as a potential and driving force for re-development, the city's urban vitality gen...

Modern theories of elites not always adequate and timely cover the diversity of elite groups practices with their scientific analysis, especially those who belong to the number of non-political elites – the elites of science, culture and religious societies. Each elite professional community needs its own separate set of criteria of elitism, reflecting the specificity of their occupation. The political elites cease to be the fashion to the elite breeders. Increasingly they are beginning to adopt the criteria of ot...

The icon is defined in the orthodox tradition as the Bible of the low literate, reason for which, in just a few colors it is synthesized important attitudes and events. The look of the believer is inevitably attracted by the face of Jesus and/or of the saints, for finding out and memorize easier the message of the Evangel. The icon "The Judgement of the Pontius Pilate 1829", kept in the Alexander Nevsky Crypt Museum, is an atypical one: Jesus is hard to find between the negative characters, dressed atypical and ke...

The aim of this paper is to present a design of a metallic structure. The structure was obtained by reusing of an old barge, which belongs to the Romanian navigation company. In order to respect the UN Sustainable Development goal and the COP21 objectives, the Waterborne sector in Europe is increasing and fits for next generations. Galati, a Romanian port on Danube river, with its cliff that have a length of 2.48 km, it’s included among 250 European ports and navigable inland waterway that measure 40.000 km. The e...

The aim of our study is to investigate the way teachers see the physical environment of their school, and what they would need for better teaching abilities and skills for 21 century students. Physical learning environment can have a holistic impact on user’s performances, teachers and students alike. In Romania, 60% of primary and secondary schools in rural areas and 20% in urban areas are not equipped with libraries, 72% of rural areas and 30% of urban areas lack laboratories and only 32% of rural gymnasiums and...

The concept of enantiosemy as a semantic category of language is investigated in this article. It has long been noted by scientists that the opposite knowledge can be expressed at the level of a sentence. The article discusses some interrogative sentences with enantiosemy meaning in the German language, which have a certain inconsistency in form and content. An additional circumstance potentially predisposing the syntactic constructions to rethinking the original meaning to the opposite is the asymmetry feature of...

The article shows the origins of coaching (one of the most effective ways of leadership development) in the Socratic dialogue as it appears in Plato's works. This origin appears in the most advanced way in cognitive coaching based on cognitive therapy. However, it is not only the roots of a young practical science that goes so far into antique philosophy. If we look at the elements of the Socratic method, it turns out that coaching belongs to it not only in the form but - or perhaps more - in its purpose. Formally...

The article under review presents a comparative study of the key features of ecological discourse (ED). The theme of ED is as vital linguistically as it is urgent environmentally. ED presents a complex phenomenon of speech and communication distinguished by a peculiar social and linguistic context. Applying the techniques of discourse analysis the article juxtaposes features of ED as they are manifested in narrative [ND] and media discourse [MD]. The undertaken analysis involves the comparison of participants, pla...

Viorel Munteanu is a prominent, complex, active, and constant figure in the musical landscape of nowadays Romanian culture. His artistic profile takes many shapes, from a bearer of the spiritual and material traditions of Bukovina (the area where he was born), a composer, a pedagogue, a musicologist, and a music editor, to his vocation as an organizer and supporter of artistic values. In his works, the sacred becomes a guiding and inspiring light, and his folk-based resonances evoke ancestral sounds. Sensitive and...

Human dwelling construction culture has been strongly shaped over time by the characteristics of the territories and of the local people, who gradually established building methods that cumulated perfect adaptations to specific geographies and socio-economic needs. This type of construction – called later on “vernacular architecture” – was built most of the times by the same people that were using it as housing, utilizing materials found in the vicinity. This “Non-pedigreed Architecture” – renamed so by Bernard Ru...

Biopolitics is an interdisciplinary field combining biology and politics. It is a study of politics whose subject is life administration according to the residence of citizens in order to “secure and sustain the manifold manifestations of human life and order them” and “to study the strategies and mechanisms by which human life processes are managed according to the knowledge of authoritarian regimes, power and process of subjectivizing” [1]. This term was created by Rudolf Kjellen in his work “The Great Powers”. ...

The article studies linguistic representation of the theme of love in the works of Carol Ann Duffy, whose poems can be considered a bright example of national literary language. About 30 poetic works were analyzed; several subtopics were distinguished in the field. The theme of love is manifested in poems with the help of numerous images and associations such as hope, dream and recovery. On the one hand, love is accompanied with the images of nature and carefree childhood. On the other hand, love is connected with...

The article analyzes the photographic series "The Doll" (1934-1935) by German photographer Hans Bellmer in the context of representation of an artificial body. Hinged dolls of Bellmer can be easily dismantled or cut into pieces, they are objects that represent new meanings of erotic content. The artist himself called them "articulating objects" and anagrams, the visual translatability of which was marked with tools deconstruction. The doll becomes for the artist an alter ego of a kind, a part of a fetishist's univ...

Orientalism is a doctrine based on the isolation of the East (opposed to the West) as a special cultural, ideological, historical and sociopolitical phenomenon and reference point in the implementation of cultural or political activities, which was started in the colonial era between the 18-th and 19-th centuries. It is divided into three main stages: colonial, post-colonial and the new Orientalism. Orientalism was created by the European world to study the countries of the East in the following directions: direct...

In English speaking countries, several literary monographs and dictionaries about cult fiction were published in the last decades. In our postmodern times, this seems to be quite an inspiring topic because it deals with constant tension between “high brow” literary values usually recommended by state education systems on the one hand, and spontaneous need to overcome these somewhat petrified systems of thinking about artistic values on the other hand. This effort is usually supported by independent intellectuals a...

The paper documents the research program entitled "SY4.0, Smart Yard: Industry 4.0 Production Process" financed with European funds under the ERDF Regional Operational Program 2014-2020. The research, through the use of automatic field data processing systems and their integration in the design, through the realization of technological demonstrators and through the improvement of operating activities and disseminating and sharing information, aims to come up with a new modalities for yard management based on digit...

The interest in ancient religions and their sources, essence and artefacts in society is increasing, which is a new feature of our age and requires many values to be reassessed. Among them, there are many low-quality sources and unreliable indications, as well as fakes and simple replicas of artefacts. There is always a lot of contradictive information in the media and it takes several years for researchers to refute it. However, such situation has certain positive elements as well, since such refusals require the...

The article reflects the theoretical basis of the creativity phenomenon in music education. It draws attention to similarities and differences in the phenomenon of creativity and creation as with the sensitive author Belo Felix – a distinctive personality of music pedagogy in Czech and Slovak environment. On the basis of relevant results, it focused on the methodology of managing and developing children's musical creativity. The article emphasizes the play as a specific kind of activity in the school environment. ...

Scientific and technological progress brought to life a completely new means of communication that combines the functions of the phone with its ability to communicate in real time and a telegram with its written summary form, providing cost-effective communication at any time and from anywhere in the world. The Internet as an information and communication environment is used as a tool for communication and cognition. Language becomes not only a means of communication, but also a means of creating a virtual reality...

The existence of water mills in the Pradnik Valley in southern Poland was a result of the riverside nature of settlement and industrial development. Located partly among the unique landscape the smallest national park in Poland – Ojcow – challenge the available means of preservation of architectural and landscape heritage. The research was carried out to review the past studies and to suggest the opportunities for the revaluation and protection of the area. The main research method used is synthetis – query of ava...

Current trends in applied linguistics research point to the importance of uncertainty tolerance i.e. low personal need for structure because it affects the development of communicative skills and linguistic self-confidence. In this study, we investigate the correlation of successful performance in German language with the low personal need for structure. Low personal need for structure represents one of the learning styles, the ability of an individual to tolerate ambiguity, the ability to work independently with ...

Mister Sherlock Holmes has appeared in the cultural space of Latvia at the very end of the 19th century. Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories were published both in the Latvian periodicals and in the books by different publishers. Unfortunately, the attitude towards the fictional character Sherlock Holmes was not serious; during the first half of the 20th century Doyle’s detective stories were regarded only as the phenomenon of the pulp fiction. It can be observed by the analysis of the translations carried out ...

People, who are not achieving common standards in their physical appearance or in their mentality, do not lead simple lives despite the declarations about their integration and inclusion in the current society systems. It is important to talk about their specific life situation, life feelings, self-reflection and the way of experiencing their world, especially with the children and youth by the means of literary art. This issue is elaborated into literary works with an intention to mediate life situation of people...

Political stability appears to have returned to the Gambia since the constitutional crisis that confronted the Country following the controversial presidential elections of December 2016. ECOWAS through the indefatigable efforts of the ECOMIG and the resolve of most West African Countries helped to resolve the disputed polls and return normalcy to the small West African nation. The action of ECOWAS in the Gambia has been likened to in scientific literature, political discourse and the media to a military invasion,...

The objective of the study is to reconstruct and describe the structure of a code-switching mechanism, functioning in the speech of Russian pre-school children, acquiring English language in a monolingual environment (without natural communication). A code-switching mechanism is studied on the survey of children’s code-mixing texts, received from an artificial bilingual environment – play situations with a talking setting to speak English. The article sets out, that the activity of a code-switching mechanism in ch...

A fairy-tale describes the events that are impossible in real life; it often combines fantastic, invented and real layers. But the most important purpose of a fairy-tale is not only to make a reader or a listener imagine fabulous actions and characters but also to teach a lesson of kindness and justice, to speak about important things in life in a vibrant and bright manner. Both a fairy-tale and a fable convey moral values, but the difference between them is that a fable moral is expressed explicitly while in a fa...

The paper presents thematic groups of proverbs and sayings of two Indo-European languages - Ossetian and English. The study of paroemias in various languages is undoubtedly relevant, since they are a part of the human culture. The matching method determines a degree of their semantic proximity and similarity of the lexical composition. Proverbs and sayings that have survived through oral folk art are simple in form, but capacious in content expressions. It should be noted that they are numerous and varied in Osset...

The song cycle “Intoarceri la Blaga” ("Revisiting Blaga") for soprano and piano, part of composer Viorel Munteanu's oeuvre, is both a moment of synthesis and the crowning of a creative effort spanning several decades. Starting from a melogram created using the name of the poet Lucian Blaga, the composer constructs a mode that will become the foundation for the motifs that will generate the entire cycle of seven miniatures. The specialists will appreciate the composer's craft, which has transformed just a few sound...

The research of allusions in economic discourse has assumed importance; a great number of researches is devoted to this subject due to interest in the issue of manipulating public’s opinion and forming people’s worldview by means of stylistic devices. The purpose of the present research is to identify regularities of usage of allusions in English-language newspapers. Theoretical background of the research includes critical analysis of linguistic works on economic discourse and allusions. The article includes stati...

Recent Orthodox Tradition is the perpetuity of Christ’s divine-human life in the Christians from our times understood as part of the Church or of the mystical body of the Resurrected Jesus Christ, the Lord, in Saint Apostle Paul’s own words (1 Cor. 1: 27; Eph. 4: 12). Contemporary theological writings, in their authentic state – as written testimonies of this real experience – are, in their turn, part of this continuous Tradition. They constitute scientific “recordings” of God’s indescribable uncreated unifying Re...

The article is aimed on the research of individual style of Vladimir Nabokov writing through the analysis of colour collocations with component “grey” functioning in the novel Lolita and in the author’s translation of it into Russian. The problem is reviewed by the researchers from the positions of Combinatorial Linguistics and Semantics of Colour. The methodological base of the study is “Harmonious Translation space” conception developed by Prof. L.V. Kushnina (Russia, Perm). As for the result we can assume that ...

The current study is focused on the influence of Nikolai Yakovlevich Grot (1852-1899) on the formation and institutionalization processes in Russian philosophy in the late 1880s. As the editor of the journal “Questions of Philosophy and Psychology” (Voprosi filosofii I psikhologii), Grot transforms this edition into the first press organ which accepts all the philosophical trends. This article aimed at examinating how Grot perceives positivistic, materialistic, scientific and metaphysical concepts, including the i...

The study aims at bringing to readers’ attention one of the creations of Olivier Messiaen, a composer whose name is among those who made music glorious in the 20th century European panorama. As the originality of the work, in terms of themes and structure – mostly ensured by completely innovative elements – would be impossible to analyze in a short paper, the adopted solution was that of a brief, but relevant presentation of its architecture and the absolutely novel ways in which the composer expressed his creativ...

Maltese megalithic temples are well known in the world as an outstanding prehistoric cultural heritage. Many of these ancient sites nowadays are included in the World Heritage List of UNESCO. These temple complexes have been built over a wide period of time - between ca. 3600 BC and 700 BC. They have been archaeologically studied several times and the most important temples have been reconstructed, which allows describing the prehistory of Malta rather completely. The significant value of these temples is in their...

The historic Brewery in Szczytno is a very interesting architectural object, but does not have accurate documentation. In works on historic buildings, it may be very helpful to make documentation in BIM technology. This technology allows you to create a virtual building that can be filled with all information about it. Thanks to this, it is possible not only to track changes in the documentation, but also to quickly find any collisions. In order to reproduce the documentation that can be used during the renovation...

Bach's genius could be discovered rather in those features of musical language that are no longer contiguous to the pathway initiated by tradition, in those novel solutions which, in spite of displaying a high degree of novelty, are way ahead of their time, foreshadowing evolutions that will become habitual in another stylistic period. One of the elements of the musical language that Bach excels at is harmony which he masters like no other from among his contemporaries. Often a visionary through his manner of appr...

The current theory of multilingual mental lexicon interprets it as a multidimensional network that exists in human brain and integrates units of different languages into a complex holistic structure. The network is put into operation by the spreading activation mechanism that determines retrieval of the necessary information during speech activity. It is assumed that activation in multilingual mental lexicon is non-selective: nodes of all the languages known to an individual can receive the activation impulse simu...

The modern Russian language is characterized by the increase in the use of invectives in speech. Invectives are a socially significant phenomenon; therefore their study is relevant for both linguists and the society. The increase in the use of invectives deserves a special consideration taking for the study the dialect material extracted from one dialect system, since it can provide an insight into the functioning of invectives in a separate social stratum. Research material: the whole corpus of invectives recorde...

Teaching the correct writing and usage of Romanian prepositions to foreign students may be a real challenge taking into account that the preposition is one of the most important inflexible parts of speech of the Romanian language, without which one cannot correctly express and last but not least considering the preposition’s high degree of usage in the everyday language. Most of the prepositions express varied reports, bearing multiple functions, their role is often understated, which leads to an increasing number...

Around 60% of the urban population in Romania lives in blocks of flats made of prefabricated panels, built mostly between 1960 and 1990. Interventions on these buildings are a highly debated topic in order to achieve the 20-20-20 EU targets, but less discussed is the part that makes these interventions truly sustainable on long run. The study presented in this paper constitutes the part related to social sustainability conducted for a project that defines some alternative solutions for Timisoara. These proposals a...

The web has become a very important source of information for users (students, researchers, general public, etc.) and commercial enterprises. This propulsion of data is related to the diversity of requests for information and the need for versatile knowledge. Access to digital data via web services is facilitated by search tools. Following a request from the user, the search engine has a long list of informational responses, but often containing parasitic pages. Although before the appearance of the web, the searc...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the life and work of Czech protestant theologian Jan Milic Lochman (1922-2004) and the influence of Tomas Garrique Masaryk on Loch-man?s concept of thinking. The author of this paper describes Lochman's works, espe-cially the Decalogue and the Credo, and emphasizes the truth and the struggle for truth. It also highlights the difficult situation between the World Wars in Europe, where ideo-logical struggle was present and the rise of Nazi Germany occured. Lochman and Masa-ryk are...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the connection between existential philosophy and the literary work of particular authors. In the first part, it will focus on the work of Egon Hostovsky, who belongs to the typical representatives of existential prose. Due to his Jewish origin, Hostovsky was forced to stay in exile at the time of the occupation of Czechoslovakia, but he felt very dissatisfied and never came to terms with his destiny of the emigrant. His feelings became the basis for his existentially oriented ...

Using Freud’s psychoanalysis as a starting point for our study, we want to investigate whether the built environment one grew up in has an influence on our brains and on our future architectural preferences. The Viennese psychologist aims to make the unconscious mind, conscious, and his findings teach us that the repressed emotions and experiences have an impact on our brains, and therefore on the quality of our lives. How does the brain influence our perception of the space? Everything is a matter of perception, ...

The study reflects contemporary Slovak art inspired by the personality of Milan Rastislav Stefanik from the perspective of his contribution to the development of diplomatic relations (Czechoslovakia – France), to the knowledge of the mysteries and laws of space (an astronomer), and the unbreakable belief in victorious battle against an enemy. It evaluates the immense merit through which he went down in Czechoslovakian and world history and surveys the features and acts of his personality that were inspirational fo...

Object: is to formulate provisions that basically would constitute an integral and consistent view of the role and significance of developing the legal framework for international cooperation in the context of responding to natural disasters. Methods: special historical methods, such as specific historical, comparative historical and chronological methods, as well as historical and legal and complex methods, which allowed to go beyond formal research and study the development of the legal field of the internationa...

The paper proves that the basis of cognitive phraseology is a linguophilosophical postulate which says that 1) any objects, matters or phenomena are verbalized by indirect derived means only through giving them a special meaning; 2) any facts, that are parts of a verbalizable denotative situation, become a single generalized figurative frame. This is due to the combination of discursively actualized meanings of archetypal and symbolic origin within the logoepisteme, which is under review. The interpretation of its...

Alexey Bartoshevich, a great Russian theatre historian and critic, often raises a question, “To whom was Hamlet written?”. This question is the starting point of the theatrical, philosophical and sociological discussion. What was the audience like then? What people tried to find in Hamlet later on – in XVIII-XX centuries? How modern theatre directors stage this play, how we see it, understand it, feel it? With each touch, each production the play gets new meanings, implications, contexts. According to Alexey Barto...

Rudolf Carnap, one of the most accomplished representatives of logical empiricism, finds himself in discussion with Heidegger in the most radical phase of his work. His radical, critical approach is significant for the syntactic period of Carnap's thought development. Heidegger is, according to Carnap, a philosopher who speaks out against the rules of grammatical rules. Heidegger does not perceive Carnap as a philosopher worthy of a long answer. There are only two Heidegger's responses to Carnap. In his intellectu...