Stanca Nicoleta

Universitatea Ovidius Constanţa | UOC · Faculty of Letters

Nov 2022 Twice-yearly Conference on Bridging Science and Spirituality

This article draws the portrayal of the church support for Romanians as depicted in articles from the most important Irish newspaper, The Irish Times (1992-2020). The articles analyzed show: the help of the Church of Ireland for the Romanian people in the aftermath of the 1989 fall of the communist regime; the interest that the Irish society showed...

Nicoleta Stanca‘s latest work, Defiance of “Magdalenes.” Female Challenges in Recent Irish Fiction explores the female characters in a range of novels by more contemporary Irish writers. Of course, the Ireland of today is very different from the State in its infancy. We like to think of ourselves as modern, liberal, outward looking, welcoming diffe...

MOTIVATION: Whatever we approach the subject of ‘health’ – in every sense, physical, mental, spiritual, religious, or holistic - society has always been the perfect environment for them to grow, flourish and refine their tendencies. Today, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the humanitarian crisis and global upheaval while after the Covid-19...

Sebastian Barry’s novel The Secret Scripture (2008) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize before being named the 2008 Costa Book of Year and winning the Irish Book Awards Best Novel, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The novel is an exquisite example of trauma narrative in Irish recent fiction. Almost one...

The present study presents and analyzes the Russian administration installed in Dobrogea after the occupation of the region by the Tsarist troops at the beginning of June 1877 and until November 1878, when most of the region (Constanța and Tulcea counties) was taken over by Romania following the decision of Berlin Congress (July 13, 1878). Romanian...

Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin (2009), considered a New York, Irish- American, immigrant, 1970s and post 9/11 novel, starts with Philippe Petit’s walk on a tightrope between the World Trade Center towers in New York in 1974. This historical event is used as a symbol which links space (Park Avenue and the Bronx at the extremes), time (1974...

The article presents the beginning of navigation in the Black Sea in the early Antiquity, especially on the west coast. We will highlight the role of Thracian-Getae, the ancient Greeks, Romans, Byzantium and Italians. Since the fourteenth century, Romanians asserted their interests in the Black Sea through the institution of the rulers of the princ...

The article retraces the historical development of the most important elements that constitute the founding pillars of the Dintr-un Lemn Monastery (Romania): the ancient oak trees, the wooden church and the miracle-working icon of Virgin Mary with the Baby. The endurance of the oak trees, the legends around the building of the wooden church and the...

Religion is and it has always been the most paradox, intriguing and social active factor in the world history since the beginning of human society and till the end of it, no matter how evolved or primitive its precepts ever were. For that reason Religion was always a subject for endless study in different perspectives and with different outcomes. W...

Elizabeth Cullinan’s short story “Life After Death” depicts a day in the life of a young New Yorker, Constance, walking along Lexington Avenue, attending the evening Mass at a Dominican church and visiting the Catholic college where she worked part time to pick up her paycheck. Though the woman is involved with the married Francis Hughes and confro...

The aim of this paper is to show that the key image in Beckett's play Endgame may be considered to be a decay of the body and a parallel shrinking of the entire universe. There are no more bike wheels, pap, nature, sugar-plums, tides, navigators, rugs, pain killers or coffins. The absence of the last item points to an image of a landscape of unburi...

Mapping Ireland (Essays on Space and Place in Contemporary Irish Poetry) will focus on spatiality and the place of postcolonial and feminist Ireland and Irish America as envisaged in contemporary poetry, illustrated by writers such as John Hewitt, John Montague, Thomas Kinsella, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Paul Muldoon, Tom Paulin, Eavan Boland,...

The reader must not identify Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man with James Joyce in every respect. For instance, Stephen is represented at Clongowes as a timid boy, conscious of his smallness and weakness. Conversely, young Joyce was keen on hurdling and cricket, won cups in sports competitions and earned the nickname “Sunny...

The paper will discuss Seamus Heaney's ars poetica in connection to the tension between poetic identity and Irish identity constant ly present in his poetic creation. It will also attempt to examine various aspects of his poetry in the context of contemporary Ireland, taking into account the Irish tradition of the poet as a public figure - and audi...

The paper aims to discuss borderlines and borderla nds, focusing on aspects connected to the cultural identity of the communiti es living on borderlands or divided by frontiers of some kind, yet united through other me ans. Various approaches concerning what we have discussed as the dual nature of borders are presented, the examples supporting the...

The article discusses gender representations in the twentieth century Irish-American popular culture. Post-war Hollywood female and male r epresentations are relevant to the process of diasporic identity formation through a constant neg otiation between Ireland and Irish America. From the 1960s, for example, Irish masculinity was percei ved in term...