The Metaphor of the Body as a House in 19th Century English Novels

The paper aims at identifying the way in which the human body functions as a metaphor for the concept of the house. The metaphorical process will be approached from a semiopoetic perspective, while the textual support will be provided by such novels as: Great Expectations, Dombey and Son, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens, The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy, Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë. Clothes will be approached as extensions, boundaries and modifiers of the human body and of the way in which human bodies are perceived

Teachers' Guide to Differentiated Instruction

La publicación consta de 5 secciones, una en inglés y otras en cada uno de los idiomas de los países participantes en el proyecto (griego, rumano, esloveno y español). María Bermúdez-Martínez es coautora del volumen y proof reading de la sección en español.Se adjunta la sección en españolGuía sobre Enseñanza DiversificadaEuropean Union, Proyecto Erasmus + KA2, Proyecto Differentiation of instruction for teacher professional Development and students' Success (DiDeSu) (Erasmus+ 2015-1-CY01-KA201-011845

The Metaphor of the Body as a House in 19th Century English Novels

The paper aims at identifying the way in which the human body functions as a metaphor for the concept of the house. The metaphorical process will be approached from a semiopoetic perspective, while the textual support will be provided by such novels as: Great Expectations, Dombey and Son, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens, The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy, Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë. Clothes will be approached as extensions, boundaries and modifiers of the human body and of the way in which human bodies are perceived

Towards a Metaphorical Type of Architecture: The Inside of the Victorian House

Abstract: The current paper starts from the concept of relatedness 1 as an act of signifying: everything inside a house signifies. The metaphorical type of architecture that we have attempted to construct aims at viewing the types of objects within a house as linking knots in the web of the house, while the way in which these objects (be they ornaments or tools) are distributed in space reveal not only a character’s profession and/or personality (objects as extensions and projections of the self), but also indicate some kind of social hierarchy. Key words: architecture, space, relation, identity, hierarchy. I. R. West-Pavlov (2009: 21) stresses the fact that the “spatial thought”, the common denominator of Kristeva, Foucault, and Deleuze (despite their different approaches to space: psychoanalytical, historical-sociological and exploratory-speculative respectively) is what Baudrillard (1987: 20-1) identified as a “production paradigm”: common to all these three thinkers is the dual motif made up of ‘producer ’ and ‘product’, a duality constantly blurred by the introduction of the term ‘production ’ – the manner in which the spaces we inhabit are to be understood as processes, dynamic, ongoing series of events of which we ourselves are a part. Space is thus approached as a material/phenomenal rather than abstract notion, a more fluid and dynamic conceptualization (Masse

A Semiotic Approach to the Act of Naming Houses in Victorian Novels

Abstract The semiotic approach to the act of naming houses found in 19th-century English novels is meant to reveal the significations of a common cultural practice of the time, particularly belonging to middle-class and wealthy families owning a house/manor/hall: that of attributing names to houses. Rezumat Abordarea semiotică a nominalizării locuinţelor în romanele din sec. al XIX-lea are drept scop dezvăluirea semnificaţiilor unei practici culturale comune a timpului dat, şi anume cea de a atribui nume caselor, conacelor, sălilor etc., adică locuinţelor care aparţineau famiilor de mijloc şi celor bogate ale societăţi

LiBRI Journal - The Game of Irony in Charles Dickens's Novels - Mocking at Victorianism Through Male Characters -

ABSTRACT The paper aims at identifying the three types of irony – verbal, dramatic and of situation – in some of Charles Dickens’ novels in order to reveal the author’s contribution to the modern understanding of Victorianism. The ironic discourse will be analyzed so as to show the true underlying meaning of Dickens’ texts. It is said that Dickens revealed through irony more than historians could have ever revealed through direct telling, and to show whether this is true or not represents the purpose of the current paper. As far as Victorianism is concerned, the first major paradigms which irony is aimed at are precisely Victorian respectability, domesticity and stability. Fragments from the novels that we have chosen as textual support will provide us with evidence that, for example, respectability, domesticity and stability are ironically mocked at through such characters as Mr. Bumble (Oliver Twist), Mr. Dombey (Dombey and Son), Mr. and Mrs. Merdle (Little Dorrit) or Pip (Great Expectations)

(De)stabilizing Patriarchal Power through Representations of Women's Hair in Charles Dickens's Novel "Dombey and Son"

In Victorian male fiction hair occurs as a recurrent synecdoche, as a part of the object which represented female sexuality. Women’s hair related problems were seen as indicators of pathologies challenging not only domestic relationships but also social order and political stability. Hair became a criterion of classification, and hairiness suggested sexual abnormality, madness and weak-mindedness, a belief also supported and promoted by scientists. By a semiotic approach to images of female hair in Charles Dickens’s novel “Dombey and Son”, this paper aims at identifying the way in which women’s hair representations functioned as indicators for the (de)stabilization of patriarchal power in the Victorian age

BRAIN Journal - An Excursion Into the Medical Activity of Doctor George Marinescu

ABSTRACT Gheorghe Marinescu (February 28, 1863, Bucharest – May 15, 1938, Bucharest) was a Romanian neurologist, founder of the Romanian School of Neurology

BRAIN Journal - Towards a Metaphorical Type of Architecture: The Inside of the Victorian House

<div><i>Abstract</i></div><div><br></div>The current paper starts from the concept of relatedness as an act of signifying: everything inside a house signifies. The metaphorical type of architecture that we have attempted to construct aims at viewing the types of objects within a house as linking knots in the web of the house, while the way in which these objects (be they ornaments or tools) are distributed in space reveals not only a character’s profession and/or personality (objects as extensions and projections of the self), but also indicates some kind of social hierarchy.<div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Find more at:</b></div><div><b>https://www.edusoft.ro/brain/index.php/brain/article/view/10</b><br></div

BRAIN Journal - An Delphi Application for the Syntactic and Lexical Analysis of a Phrase Using Cocke, Younger, and Kasami Algorithm

<div><i>Abstract</i></div><div><br></div>This paper focuses on the Cocke, Younger, and Kasami (CYK) algorithm. We present a Delphi application that analyzes the lexicon and the syntax of a sentence in Romanian. We use a Chomsky normal form (CNF) grammar. We will present the source of a Delphi implementation of the CYK algorithm.<div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Find more at:</b></div><div><b>https://www.edusoft.ro/brain/index.php/brain/article/view/22</b><br></div