UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST TIMIŞOARA

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

BRITISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES / XX

TIMIŞOARA, MAY 20-22, 2010

 CONFERENCE ORGANISERS

Department of English, University of the West, Timişoara

CONFERENCE COORDINATORS

Hortensia Pârlog
Pia Brînzeu
Luminiţa Frenţiu
Loredana Frăţilă
Reghina Dascăl

Sponsored by

University of the West, Timişoara; The Department of English, University of the West,
Timişoara; BCUT; Longman Romania; Macmillan Romania; Oxford Educational Centre;
Uniscan; Apă minerală Perenna Premier; Revista "Timişoara. What? Where? When?"
 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Thursday, May 20

8:00 - 9:00 Registration and coffee

9:00 - 11:00 Paper presentations
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00 Opening address:
Prof. Dr. Ioan Talpoş, Rector

Prof. Dr. Florin Foltean, Vice-Rector

Prof. Dr. Otilia Hedeşan, Dean, Faculty of Letters

Jonathan Gayther, Director ELS, British Council Romania
Prof. Dr. Ecaterina Popa, RSEAS Chair
Lect. Dr. Loredana Frăţilă, Head of the English Department
Prof. Dr. Hortensia Pârlog
12:00 – 14:00 Plenary lectures
Professor Zoltan Kövecses - Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Metaphor, Discourse, Creativity
Professor Michelle Gadpaille - University of Maribor
The Ojibbeway Invasion of Europe: Charles Stuart and the Narrative of Native
Spectacle
14:00 - 15:00 Lunch break
15:00 - 17:00 Paper presentations
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 - 19:30 Paper presentations
20:30 Cocktail – “Texas” Restaurant, Circumvalaţiunii St., 10-12 (“Timco” building unit)

Friday, May 21

9:00 - 11:00 Paper presentations

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 13:30 Plenary lectures
Professor Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza – University of La Rioja, Logroño
Cognitive Constraints on Syntactic Alternation
Professor György Endre Szönyi - University of Szeged
Enoch, Magic and Angels from Blake to Aleister Crowley
13:30 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - 18:00 Paper presentations

20:00 Conference dinner – “Reghina Blue” Restaurant, Cozia St., 51-53

Saturday, May 22

10:00 – 15:00 Outing to Recaş; wine-tasting party and reading by creative writing students.
Thursday, May 20, 9:00 -11:00
BRITISH LITERATURE AMERICAN LITERATURE CULTURAL STUDIES GENDER STUDIES LANGUAGE STUDIES ELT
Room: 101 Room: 521 Room: 522 Room: 328 Room: BCUT Conference Room: 523
Hall 1st floor
Moderator: Martin Potter Moderator: Stephen Tapscott Moderator: Ted Bailey Moderator: Nadežda Silaški Moderator: Brian Mott Moderator: Csaba Czeglédi

Aba Carina Pârlog Cristina Chevereşan Frank Brevik Milan Miljković Daria Protopopescu Sorina Chiper
The Pursuit of Power: Transforming “I Talk White” “Thought is Free”: The Tempest, Irony, Carnivalization and Gender Word Order Patterns and Intercultural English Language
Bodies in Lawrence Durrell's The Freedom of Expression and the Identities in Fay Weldon's novel Spa Manner Adverbs in Teaching in Practice: Office
Alexandria Quartet New World Decameron Romanian Interactors and the Power of
Collaboration

Arijana Luburić-Cvijanović
Reliving Tragic Histories: Caryl
Phillips's Higher Ground
Mirna Radin-Sabados
Lazarus of the New World
Cristina-Georgiana Voicu
From the Mirror to the Sea: The
Modern Semiotic Nature of
Identity in Jean Rhys’s Wide
Sargasso Sea
Muzaffer Derya Nazlipinar Gordana Dimković- Lia Coşer
The Female Identiy Exploration in a Telebaković Who Likes Grammar?
Patriarchal Society as Reflected in Aspectual Adverb
Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out and Distribution and Licensing
Halide Edip-Adivar’s Handan

Luiza Caraivan Izabella Penier
Post-Apartheid Johannesburg: an Urban From “Limbo” to “Contrapuntal
Palimpsest. Awareness.” The Formation of
Migratory Subjects in Edwidge
Danticat’s Krick? Krack!
Maria Kissova
In the Cultural Melting Pot (On
Various Aspects of Culture in
Modern Children´s and Young
Adult Literature)
Elisabeta Zelinka Beniamin Pop Marinela Cojocariu
‘I mapped the knitting-balls’. The Adverb's Ability to Enhancing Creativity
Cunningham versus Woolf: a Reveal the Writer's
Shape to Remember Involvement in the Written
Register of News

Mirela Lăpugean Ovidiu Matiu
Postcolonialism: the Inheritance of Loss Aspects of Thanatology in
Cormac McCarthy's Suttree
Sorin Ciutacu Olivia Bălănescu
The Political Semantics of Postmodern Romance and
Global Shift Illusion-Making Tendencies
of Historiography
Renáta Gregová Cătălina Iacobuţă
the Evaluative Morphology and Developing Creative
(Mor)phonological Changes Writing in English
in Diminutives of Indo- Classes
European Languages

Patricia-Dorli Dumescu Adina Baya
Colonial Versions of a Postcolonial History as Televisual
Reality: V.S. Naipaul’s The Mimic Men Experience in Don DeLillo’s
Libra
Anamaria Fălăuş Anemona Alb Éva Kovács Elena Korshuk
Exile, as a Catalyst for Identities What’s in a Rank? Foregrounding On the ’Diminutive’ in Cross-Cultural Aspects of
in Andrei Codrescu’s An Secondary Characters in ‘Cick Lit’ English Teaching English
Involuntary Genius in America’s
Shoes (And What Happened
Afterwards)
Thursday, May 20, 15:00 – 17:00
BRITISH LITERATURE
Room: 101
Moderator: Frank Brevik
Agata Dabrowska
Clown, Demon or Martyr?
Shylock in Polish Culture after
1989
Laura Tommaso
The Supernatural and the
Representation of Power in
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Pia Brînzeu
Words, Images: Shakespeare’s
The Rape of Lucrece
Dana Percec and Andreea
Şerban
Youth and the Elisabethan Stage
Andreea Verteş-Olteanu
Of Contracts and Bonds
AMERICAN LITERATURE
Room: 521
Moderator: Rodica Mihăilă
Korinna Csetényi
Dystopia à la Stephen King: The
Long Walk
Darko Kovačević
Paul Auster’s Novel “Invisible”
as a Collection of Etudes in
Narration
Öznur Cengiz
A Postmodern Problem: Multiple
Identity in The New York Trilogy
Enikö Maior
The Magic of “The Magic
Barrel”
Georgiana Elena Dilă
Father-Son Relationship in
Miller’s Death of a Salesman
and All My Sons
CULTURAL STUDIES
Room: 522
Moderator: Lia Hanţiu
Barbara Nelson
Toward a National Romanian
Film Industry
Alexandra Moraru
Western Conceptualisations of
the Romanian Identity during
Communism
Iuliana Borbely
Film Adaptations from the
Perspective of Intermediality
Catherine MacMillan
To Join or Not to Join? An
Analysis of British Political
Discourse on Turkey’s EU
Accession
Charles Sabatos
American and Central
European Captivity Narratives
in the Ottoman Borderlands
GENDER STUDIES
Room: 328
Moderator: Hilde Klein Hagen
Alin Cenan
What Are We Doing Here?
Gender vs. Women vs.
Feminist Studies
Ramona Bran
Love and Courage and Our
Generation- Two Stories of
Insubordination
Nadežda Silaški and
Tatjana Đurović
Slave to Love – a Contrastive
Analysis of LUST Metaphors in
English and Serbian
Carolina Diglio
The Migrant Woman in
Contemporary French
Literature
Roxana Diana Cruceanu
A Fancy Exterior: Appearances
of Charm and Style in the
Protagonist of Byron’s Don
Juan
LANGUAGE STUDIES
Room: BCUT Conference
Hall 1st floor
Moderator: Andrei Avram
Brian Mott
The Monophthongs of
Traditional Cockney and
Popular London Speech
Irina-Ana Drobot
Aboriginal English:
Phonological Features
Nataša Milivojević
Lexical specification and
Argument Structure of
English and Serbian Sound
Emission Verbs
György Rákosi,
Tibor Laczkó and Gábor
Csernyi
On English Phrasal Verbs and
their Hungarian Counterparts
Antoanela Marta
Dumitraşcu
Collocations are Back in
‘Business’
ELT
Room: 523
Moderator: Elena Korshuk
Csaba Czeglédi
Rethinking Language
Pedagogy
Annmaria Stan
Improving Negotiation
Skills in Business
Students through
Speaking Activities
Ana-Maria Pascu
Examination Anxiety –
Can Language Teachers
Help?
Monica Oprescu and
Florin Oprescu
Alternative Methods in
Teaching Literature
Thursday, May 20, 17:30 -19:30
BRITISH LITERATURE
Room: 101
Moderator: Pia Brînzeu
Martin Potter
Art as State of Mind:
Henry James' The Tragic
Muse
Marinela Lupşa
The Quest for Individual
Freedom in John Fowles’s
Novels
Mihaela-Sorina Roibu
Complementary Perspectives on
the Double in Oscar Wilde and
Will Self
Sandra Josipović
The Work of Catholic Converts
Graham Greene, G.K.Chesterton
and Evelyn Waugh in the
Serbian 20th Century Literary
Criticism
Alina Simuţ
British Romantic Echoes in the
19th Century Romanian Prose
Fiona Tomkinson
Murdoch and Canetti: A
Headless Dialogue
BRITISH LITERATURE II
Room: 102
Moderator: Ileana Şora
Dimitriu
Noemi Bartha
SIN TAG MA TRICKS as/and
Diagrammatic Iconicity in
Christine Brooke-Rose's Novel
Thru
Merve Demirtaş
The Same Old Storıes wıth a
New Perspectıves: An Analysıs
of Weıght: The Myth of Atlas
and Heracles by Jeanette
Wınterson
Uros Tomić
Yearning for the Womb:
Postcolonial Aspects of
Margaret Atwood's novel
Surfacing
Nina Muždeka
Magical Realism in Angela
Carter's Wise Children
Adriana Elena Stoican
Competing Western
Hegemonies in Kiran Desai’s
The Inheritance of Loss
AMERICAN
LITERATURE
Room: 521
Moderator: Frédéric Dumas
Viktorija Krombholc
Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby:
Meaning of Space and Place
Anamaria Schwab
Knowledge and Uncertainty in
Toni Morrison's Jazz
Octavian More
The Last Largeness, Bold to
See: a Bohmian Reading of
Wallace Stevens’s Early Poetry
Aleksandar B. Nedeljković
Millennial Fascination: How
we did not believe that 21st
century will ever really arrive
Rodica Mihăilă
Is There a Place for Literature
in the Field of American
Studies? –
A View from Eastern Europe
Sorina Chiper
Gertrude Stein in
Autobiographical Mirrors
CULTURAL STUDIES
Room: 522
Moderator: Barbara Nelson
Ruxandra Vişan
Remake and Adaptation in
Kenneth Branagh’s Film
Sleuth
Jillian Curr
Identity in Kamila Shamsie’s
Burnt Shadows
Márta Pintér
“National Parallels”:
Ideologies of Cultural and
Linguistic Nationalism in
Nineteenth-Century Ireland
and Hungary
Carlos Sanz Mingo
Arthurian Traumas
Sabrina Zerar
History, Culture and Race in
William E. B. DuBois's The
Souls of Black Folk
Ergün Baylan
Is there a Negative Literary
Canon in T. S. Eliot’s
“Tradition and the Individual
Talent”?
GENDER STUDIES
Room: 328
Moderator: Adriana
Răducanu
Nadežda Silaški
Dealing with the Mortal
Enemy – the WAR Scenario in
the Conceptualisation of
Some Beauty Issues in
Women’s Magazines
Virginia Formisano
A Female Linguistic
Approach to Climate Change
Adriana Răducanu
The Urban Gothic as a
Borsalino Hat in Gregory
David Roberts Shantaram
and Orhan Pamuk’s The
Black Book
Hildegard Klein Hagen
The Nourishing Function of
Women in the Emotionally
Barren Male World in Mark
Ravenhill’s Plays
LANGUAGE STUDIES TRANSLATION STUDIES
Room: BCUT Room: 523
Conference Hall 1st floor
Moderator: Elena Croitoru Moderator: Albert Vermes
Andrei Avram Elena Croitoru
English and Romanian Translating Identity:
Truncated Names Rethinking, Right Wording and
Reconceptualization
Renáta Panocová Nadina Vişan
On Evaluative Suffixes in Free Temporal Variation in
Slavic Literary Translation
Cristina–Mihaela Zamfir Daniel Dejica-Carţiş
Semantic Density: State Working with Information
Changing Words in the Frames in Specialised Texts
Business Language
Octavian Coste Cezar Octavian Tabarcea
Lexical Gaps in the Field Different Approaches:
of Verbal Communication: English and Romanian
The Case of English and Translations of an Excerpt
Romanian from Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
Maria Juncu Luminiţa Frenţiu and
On Aspect and Tense in Codruţa Goşa
English and Romanian A Case Study on Translating
Humour in Fansubs
Friday, May 21, 9:00 – 11:00
BRITISH LITERATURE I BRITISH AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES GENDER STUDIES LANGUAGE STUDIES ELT
Room: 101 LITERATURE II LITERATURE Room: Room: 522 Room: 328 Room: BCUT Conference Room: 523
Room: 102 521 Hall 1st floor
Moderator: Rory Waterman Moderator: Ioana Zirra Moderator: Tibor Tóth Moderator: Carlos Sanz Moderator: Senka Moderator: Mariana Neagu Moderator: Lia Coşer
Mingo Gavranov

Elisabetta Marino Ladan Amir Safaei Frédéric Dumas Ted Bailey Ildiko Domotor Diana Ioniţă Loredana Frăţilă and
Visions of Italy in Mary Individual Acts vs. Social “Ha !—ha ! ha !": the From Social Darwinism to The Settler and the Savage Is Implicature Cancellable Romaniţa Jumanca
Shelley’s Short Stories Forces Point of Dots in Mark Pragmatism: Evolutionary in Australia – the and Detachable? Does Math SPEAK to
Twain’s Innocents Abroad Thinking in American Representation of You?
Political Culture Aboriginal People in
Colonial Women’s Life-
writings

Ivana Krsmanović Claudia Doroholschi Eszter Ormai Toshihiro Kawano Richard Kania Peter Pelyvás Alina T. Nistorescu
John Keats’s Letters - a Odds, Stakes and Young Men and Women Restating the United States: Amanda Cross and Epistemic Modality: a The Use of You Tube
Remarkable Resource Oddities: Gambling in under Pressure: The Social A Reading of the Work of Androgyny Choice between Alternative Videos in English
Oscar and Lucinda and Construction of Youth in Samuel Weber Cognitive Models Language
Middlemarch the Tales of Nathaniel Teaching
Hawthorne

Maria Elena Gherdan Deniz Karaca Mihaela Prioteasa Sorina Maria Ailiesei Vladislava Gordić Larisa Avram Mihaela Cozma
Coleridge's Physiogony Veiled Racist Eureka is Poe Biculturalism or Cultural Petković and Nataša Modals and the Scope of Translator Training vs.
Unconscious Aphra Displacement: Embracing a Karanfilović the English Language
Behn’s Oroonoko; or, The “Diasporic” Identity in the Female Appropriation of Perfect Teaching: the Challenge
Royal Slave Asian American Context the Plot in Contemporary of Culture
Literature

Dan Negruţ Cristina Băniceru Teodor Mateoc Irina Diana Mădroane Remina Sima Jelena Prtljaga Simona Nicoleta Staicu
The Mad, Bad and Tristram Shandy: Apocalypse, Now in Don de Romanian Youth Magazines Demarcating the Boundaries Dynamic Modality in How to Teach Medical
Dangerous-to-Know Trickster or Seducer? Lillo’s White Noise – (Counter)discourses of English and Serbian: a Terms in English or
Heathcliff Commodification Contrastive Approach Romanian

Adrian Radu Dragoş-Alexandru Ivana Sinem Yazicioglu Bianca Neszmerak

Monks and Wordly Ways Economics, (Un)Natural “Passion for the Real” Presentation of Grammar
Affections and the Novel through Snuff Film in Bret Changes in Present-day
Easton Ellis’s American English
Psycho
Friday, May 21, 14:00 -18:00
BRITISH LITERATURE I BRITISH LITERATURE II
Room: 101 Room: 102
Moderator: Elisabetta Marino Moderator: Adrian Radu
Ileana Şora Dimitriu F. Zeynep Bilge and Şebnem
A Spiritual Turn in Recent South African Sunar
Writing Identities Re-considered /
Mythology Re-written
Tibor Tóth Andreea Popescu
Running with the Hare and Hunting with Christmas Game, Exchange of
the Hounds Winnings. The Poetical
Discourse in Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight
CULTURAL STUDIES
Room: 521
Moderator: Jillian Curr
Bojana Vujin
The Road to Hell is Paved with
Yellow Brick: Emerald City as
Pop Culture's Metaphor for
Disillusionment
Alina-Andreea Dragoescu
The ‘Garden vs. Wilderness’
Myth in Western Civilization
CULTURAL STUDIES
Room: 522
Moderator: Charles Sabatos
Evan Williams
Multicultural Australia: the
Language of Multiculturalism
Lia Hanţiu
Expressing Canadian Identity
through Art: The Group of
Seven’s Impact on Literature and
Music
GENDER STUDIES LANGUAGE STUDIES TRANSLATION STUDIES
Room: 328 Room: BCUT Conference Room: 523
Hall 1st floor
PANEL: THE WEST AND THE Moderator: Peter Pelyvás Moderator: Rodica Superceanu
REST… Postcolonial Configurations
of Womanhood
Moderator: Reghina Dascăl
Ana Sentov Imola-Ágnes Farkas Albert Vermes
Female Characters Amidst Political Verbs in Resultative Focus Problems in English-to-
and Cultural Clashes in Khaled Constructions Hungarian Translation
Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns
Marta Tryzna Annamaria Kilyeni Andreea Năznean
Woman is Wolf to Woman: Tales from The Grammar of Skin in Print Translation and Use of Mother
the Middle East Ads Tongue in English Language
Teaching

Rory Waterman Monika Szuba
Philip Larkin’s Americans The Girls that are Wanted are
Good Girls”: Difference and
Repetition in Michel Faber's The
Crimson Petal and the White
Adina Ciugureanu
Iconic and Symbolic Codes in
American and Romanian
Electoral Posters
Alice Bailey Cheylan
American and British Expatriate
Writers in France
Slobodanka Markov and
Senka Gavranov
Gender and Migration of Students
from Serbia in the 90's
Claudia Elena Stoian
Power Relations in Advertising
Discourse: A Contrastive
Analysis of Politeness across
Cultures
Rodica Superceanu
Culture-specific Items in Official
Documents relating to Legal Status:
a Model of Administrative Culture

Ioana Zirra Zennure Köseman Georgiana Lolea Veronika Szelid Andreea Pele Mariana Neagu Tania Petcovici
The History House in the (Post-) The Reappraısal of George Los Angeles in the Writings of ‘Love’ in English and Csángó Road Companions. The ‘He almost scared me out of Translating Legal Realities.
Colonial Perspective – a Comparative Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalıon in Romanian Travellers Hungarian folksongs Feminine Experience under my wits’. Figurative Uses of
Study of Anglo-Indian and Anglo-Irish the Context of Wılly Russell’s Communism the Caused-Motion
Homeland Representations and Educatıng Rita Construction
Repressions
Daniela Rogobete Amalia Mărăşescu Petruţa Naiduţ Dana Vasiliu Reghina Dascăl Ildikó Gy. Zoltán Adrian Năznean
London between the Death of the Reality, Fiction and Metafiction Before the Spatial Turn: the Medieval Images of the Viragos and Pariahs: India’s Women Number, Amount and Measure Challenging Translators: the
Metropolis and the Emergence of the in Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Discipline of Geography in Creator: God as Scribe, in English Idioms Translation of Medical Texts
Postmetropolis in Will Self’s The Book of Parrot Britain at the Beginning of the Geometer and Architect of
Dave 17th Century the World

Tomislav Pavlović Andreea Varga Bouti Riche Oana Cogeanu Colomba La Ragione Attila Imre
Platonic Dialogues in Robert Graves’s Metamorphosis and Mutations James Leander Cathcart's In the Beginning was the The Namesake: Two Women ‘at Metaphorical Expressions with
Historical Novels in Waiting for the Barbarians. The Captives, Eleven Years Triangle: A Semiotic Essay Work’ between India and deasupra
a Prisonerin Algiers: the America.
Emergence ofAmerican
Orientalism
Florentina Anghel Ecaterina Pătraşcu Iolanda Vasile Dan Horaţiu Popescu Anca-Mariana Pegulescu
Intersections in Harold Pinter’s One for India of Darkness in Aravind Translating Spaces A Case of (Re)Writing: Red Using Conceptual Mapping to
the Road Adiga’s The White Tiger Riding Hood Analyse Romanian Proverbs
Meaning
Artur Jaupaj Adina Oana Nicolae
Deconstruction and/or Reconstruction of Cross-discursive Patterns:
the British West Indies History and Career Metaphors in English
Establishment of a Literary History in
Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge