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RETELLING THE STORY RECYCLING CHILDREN’S LITERATURE IN VIDEO GAMES

CHIRILA, CATALINA-ANDREEA (UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" DIN GALATI, 2020-09)

Many of the beloved bed-time stories from today were not created with the purpose of entertaining the young masses, but rather of educating it through rigid sets of values and morals; throughout time they were rewritten ...

THE NEW FEMALE GOTHIC IN CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA

CARP, MADALINA (UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" DIN GALATI, 2020-09)

Female Gothic constitutes a subgenre of the Gothic that focuses on the untold story of women. Replacing the stereotypical victimised feminine figure, Female Gothic allows its heroines to have agency and take action in their ...

THE THERAPEUTIC EFFECT OF STORIES- LITERARY AND FILMIC REPRESENTATIONS

VLADIMIROV, RALUCA (UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" DIN GALATI, 2020-07)

Our paper focuses on the therapeutic effect that storytelling and story creating can have when it comes to dealing with past unresolved trauma, both in and out of therapy. The twist is that in analyzing our “patients” we ...

CHAINED: A VICTORIAN NIGHTMARE

TEMELIESCU, ALIN (UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" DIN GALATI, 2020-07)

GOTHIC ELEMENTS IN MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN

TANASE, MIHAELA (UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" DIN GALATI, 2020-07)

The present paper focuses on Ransom Riggs’ works, on the impact the Gothic genre has had on writers and their texts, and on the evolution of the style up to the contemporary times. The main purpose of this paper is to ...

FICTIONALISING SHAKESPEARE’S LIFE ON PAGE AND SCREEN

IFTIMIE, ANA-MARIA (UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" DIN GALATI, 2020-07)

The present paper aims to examine representations of William Shakespeare’s life in popular culture, more specifically in two rising genres, namely biofiction and the biopic. The works that are thereby explored are Jude ...

“’SEE THE GREAT DOOM’S IMAGE!: CINEMATIC POETRY IN TWO FILM ADAPTATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE’S MACBETH”

HLIVNOI, ECATERINA (UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" DIN GALATI, 2020-07)

Along with Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s plays that captivated the imagination of the most creative filmmakers all over the world, presenting almost endless alternatives for the exploration ...

THE PORTRAYAL OF DEGENERACY IN OSCAR WILDE’S THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

GRASU, CONSTANTIN COSMIN (UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" DIN GALATI, 2020-07)

FROM THE VISUAL TO THE AUDITORY: PAINTED WORDS AND MUSICAL NOTES IN D. G. ROSSETTI’S THE BLESSED DAMOZEL

GODICA, ANDREEA (UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" DIN GALATI, 2020-07)

Art is “something” we experience from the first years of life until our last ones; being a broad expression of life, it can also be divided into categories: painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music, anything ...

GLOCALIZING SHAKESPEARE – KOZINTSEV’S KING LEAR AND KUROSAWA’S RAN

DROSU, CLAUDIU-GENARO (UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" DIN GALATI, 2020-07)

This paper aims to explore two filmic representations of William Shakespeare’s tragedy of King Lear: Grigori Kozintsev’s King Lear (1971) and Akira Kurosawa’s Ran (1985). The analysis of these filmic texts pays close ...