The Partial Truth of Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator

The impartial spectator is often mentioned as the basic mechanism of moral truth validation in Adam Smith's view. However, Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments seems to be a paradoxical ongoing exposure of the spectator's inconsistencies...

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Emma’s avatar in romanian literature or similarities between the characters represented by Emma in Gustave Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary and Zița in Ion Luca Caragiale’s play A Stormy Night

The objective of this article is, on the one hand, to highlight connections between Mrs. Bovary and Zitza, two heterogeneous characters who belong to different literary contexts and antinomic stylistic registers. Mrs. Bovary is an iconic f...

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Diagnostic Features of English Pidgins/Creoles: New Evidence from West African Pidgin English and Krio

The paper presents new evidence regarding the occurrence in West African Pidgin English and Krio of the diagnostic features of English-lexifier pidgins and creoles proposed by Baker & Huber (2001). It is shown that features thought not to...

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Romanian Aspectual Verbs: Control and Restructuring

The aim of the present paper is to investigate the behaviour of those Romanian aspectual verbs which denote the end of an activity and which select a supine complement. I focus on whether they evince control and/or raising behaviour and on...

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ÉVOQUER MARCEL PROUST POUR RÉFLÉCHIR SUR LA MATRICE DU MONDE ET SUR LES ENJEUX DE LA CRÉATION

Marcel Proust’s literary legacy continues to captivate contemporary writers, serving as both an aesthetic benchmark and a tool for exploring the human consciousness as it wrestles with the challenges of time. Challenged by the ambitious an...

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SOBRE LOS PRÉSTAMOS LIBRESCOS DE LOS DECIRES LÍRICOS DEL MARQUÉS DE SANTILLANA

The current article aims at analysing the Latin loanwords that appear in Decires líricos, which is an important lyrical creation by Íñigo López de Mendoza, Marqués de Santillana (1398-1458). The hypothesis we start from is that, through hi...

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MICHELANGELO POETA – NINA FAÇON A 29 ANNI

This research intends to be a recollection and a tribute to Nina Façon, the illustrious scholar in Italian studies, a Romanian author of exceptional studies on Italian literature and language and an extraordinary translator of some monumen...

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NINA FAÇON, UN MODELLO DI PEDAGOGIA UNIVERSITARIA

The purpose of this brief contribution is to pay a personal tribute to Professor Nina Façon, a great role model for my endeavor to teach Italian at the university. Her lectures on the history of the language and of contemporary Italian lit...

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