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This paper presents a methodology for assessing the accuracy of large collections of digital documents resulting from Optical Character Recognition (OCR) applied to their original print editions during scanning. We applied this methodology to the Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel, a digital collection of Romanian literary texts from the 19th and 20th centuries. With minimal text interventions, we compared each word token in our collection against custom-made lexicons to establish an OCR accuracy rate for each document. Additionally, this methodology provides hints regarding the common OCR mistakes in the collection that can be safely corrected, but also identifies potential improvements for the custom lexicons by listing and storing the possible additions. We believe that, with access to appropriate lexicons, this method can be applied to any language when working with large corpora of OCRed texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of films in teacher education is both an educational practice and a research direction with significant potential, offering diverse perspectives, numerous benefits, and high relevance for future teachers. This study aims to explore the potential of “school films” in the pedagogical training of pre-service teachers. Our analysis relies on four case studies of films such as Dead Poets Society (Weir, 1989), The Ron Clark Story (Haines, 2006), Freedom Writers (LaGravenese, 2007), Entre les murs [The Class] (Cantet, 2008) that have become classics within the “school films” cinematic sub-genre. The selected films illustrate concepts, theories, or educational practices pertinent to students in the process of their training as future teachers. They also reveal the dynamics of the teacher-student relationship in different contexts, aspects of school life, and the challenges of the teaching profession. Based on these four films, we developed a training project for final-year students in Level I of the Psycho-Pedagogical Training Programme. The project includes activities such as film viewing, debates, and reflective learning strategies. The concept of this project, along with the accompanying tools – primarily worksheets with reflection tasks – can inspire other teacher educators to provide engaging and interesting learning experiences for future educators based on films. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to challenge, both theoretically and practically, the concept of genre in translation studies. First, starting from the conceptual delimitation and theoretical boundaries between text type, genre and register, this article presents the characteristics of these concepts and their applicability in relation to the translation process. Secondly, by exploiting the functionality of interdiscursivity and hybridisation of genres, the present analysis proposes a discussion of how the neuronovel fluidises the boundaries between literary genre and neuroscientific discourse through the "neurologisation" of vocabulary, style and narrative strategies, and of the particularities that the translation of neuronovels or literary neurotranslation reveals. The study concludes with a case study of the translation into Romanian of Jonathan Lethem's novel Motherless Brooklyn (1999), focusing on the translation strategies of simple and complex vocal tics and on the translation difficulties imposed by the atypicality of narrative discourse told from the perspective of a character diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on "The Emotions of London", a research project initiated at the Stanford Literary Lab, my article focuses on two relevant issues. First of all, I aim to demonstrate, as the "geography of emotions" experiment has already proved, that distant reading approaches and big data interpretation do not necessarily have to replace traditional methods of analysis. In other words, by using a corpus of 157 texts, I intend to outline the affective image of Paris as presented in the nineteenth century Romanian novel. Secondly, the aspect that makes my article different from "The Emotions of London" is that my purpose does not lie in analysing emotions associated with certain place-names in Paris, but with the overall image of the city, because Paris is an "abstract", rather than a "concrete", presence in the Romanian novel of this period. Another hypothesis that I will address is the interpretation of the emotions towards Paris, taking into account the two tendencies characteristic for the Romanian culture of the nineteenth century, namely the self-colonial tendency and the anti-colonial one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on Edward Said’s concept of “travelling theory” and on Pierre Bourdieu’s perspective concerning “the international circulation of ideas”, this article aims at revisiting two notable studies in analyzing the phenomenon of French Theory: François Cusset’s French Theory. How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States and Johannes Angermuller’s Why There Is No Poststructuralism in France. The Making of an Intellectual Generation. More specifically, my paper focuses on discussing both the factors that led to adopting the French philosophers’ works across the ocean and the differences between the French culture and the American one that resulted in finding new interpretations of the theory. In this respect, emphasizing some aspects such as the “intransitive” character of the theory, the literary and political approaches of the philosophical discourse and even the debate on the concepts of French and American (post)structuralism plays a major role in viewing French Theory as a “travelling theory” and as a result of the “decontextualization” and “recontextualization” processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article approaches a series of conceptual optimizations of the subgenres of the Romanian 19th century novels established by the Chronological Dictionary of the Romanian Novel from Origins to 1989 (2004). Starting by analyzing the corpus of works digitized for ASTRA Data Mining. The Digital Museum of the 19th Century Romanian Novel, the authors revisit possible definitions of some of the most preeminent and discussed typologies of the 19th century novel production in Romania: the outlaw novel, the social novel, the novel of manners, the rural novel, the historical novel, the sensation novel, the erotic novel, and the family novel. The central goal of the article is, therefore, to shape a taxonomy that fits the formal, thematical, and rhetorical variety of the Romanian novel in the 19th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study assesses the existing archives that gather and preserve in digital versions the Romanian novel published in the 19 th century. Digitalization projects, both in Romania and in Europe, are the main subjects of this research. Adding to this, we share the particular and common experiences of the Astra Data Mining: The Digital Museum of the 19th Century Romanian Novel in terms of the process of digitizing the 157 novels in our corpus. Other details such as the specific editions digitized, the process of selection, as well as any difficulties met along the way are also provided. At the same time, the activities of our project are also corroborated with similar European projects. In order to address our digitization practice, we also explore a theoretical and methodological framework borrowed by Stanford Literary Lab in terms of conceptualizing what the American researchers call "the published", "the archive" and "the corpus". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study sets out to analyze the concept of self-colonization, theorized by Alexander Kiossev, as a phenomenon caused either by colonial or national constraints. To put it another way, self-colonization becomes a form of anticolonization and anti-nationalism. The studies on translation published by Andrei Terian, Cosmin Borza and Ştefan Baghiu in The Culture of Translation in Romania represent the starting point for this approach. On the one hand, I focused on the cultural politics promoted by the leaders of the Romanian populist movements. The numerous translations of literary works belonging even to peripheral cultures represent a form of self-colonization. In this case, the self-subordination attitude is caused by the attempt to counterbalance the monopoly of French culture. On the other hand, the same strategy can be observed during the second half of the 20th century, when the translation of texts belonging to Western cultures aimed at avoiding both the Soviet colonization and the national-communist doctrine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to analyze Radu Stancas works of literature from the perspective of the concept of "transitivity", term which belongs to Gheorghe Craciun, but also, to prove why Stancas poetry, even though denotes a transitive attitude, has never been examined from this point of view. The comparison with Romanian poets, such as Bacovia and Abăluçă, or with American and English poets, like Walt Whitman, Robert Frost and Dylan Thomas, demonstrates the fact that Radu Stancas writings are relevant to the present study. The confrontation between "transitivity"and "intransitivity", encountered in his poems, serves to delimit these concepts theoretically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study is a comparative approach putting under observation two philosophical systems of the interwar period - namely those of Lucian Blaga and of Norbert Elias. The author is mainlv interested in the representations of the concepts of „culture” and „civilization”, such as the two philosophers have defined them, following the radical division between culture and civilization operated by prewar and interwar German philosophy (mostly by Georg Simmel). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]