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Hybrid Topologies of the Self

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Diaconescu A.
Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies
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2023
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vol. 19 (Multifaceted Approaches to Humanities I)
128-154
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The following study focuses on Matthew Baker’s Hybrid Creatures (2018) and Irvine Welsh’s The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins (2014) in order to explore the problematisation of mediation, remediation, and transmediation that fiction potentially occasions beyond mere ekphrasis, highlighting their elusive and seemingly self-erasing presence in the signification practices that inform representations of identity and reality. Their outlines are mediated by the plurality of discourses weaving the fabric of the cultural matrix, blurring ontological and categorial boundaries into zones, spaces that fold back onto the sites they delimit and identify. The self-reflexive and self-referential interplay of abstraction and materiality articulates topologies of hybridity, a nowhere space onto which the human is displaced and deferred
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Quantum Histories, Contingency, and Stardom: Narrativizing the Self in Music, in a Foreign Language and My Life is like a Fairy Tale

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Diaconescu A.
Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies
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2023
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vol. 20 (Multifaceted Approaches to Humanities II)
10-32
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Andrew Crumey’s Music, in a Foreign Language (1994) and Robert Irwin’s My Life is like a Fairy Tale (2019) foreground protagonists who undertake writing as a – fictional or fictionalised – means of representing the self against the pressures of collective histories represented by totalitarian regimes in the background. As contextualised, their practice emphasises the temporal dimension of both subjectivity and reality. While diametrically opposed, their approaches encompass a space that occasions the problematisation of such notions as history, temporality, and consciousness, at the intersection of chance and determinism, as well as the questioning of the interactions between their representations across a number of disciplines. The following study draws on theories from history, chaos theory, and quantum mechanics as discourses interwoven in the textual fabric of the two novels in order to examine the means by which fiction affords the exploration of the interplay of theoretical constructs while repositioning itself in the process.
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(Re)Coding Space

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Diaconescu A.
Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies
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2022
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vol. 17 (Intermediality: Translation, Adaptation, Performance I)
67-80
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Drawing on theories of intermediality focusing on ekphrasis, aesthetic illusion, metalepsis, and (im)possible worlds, this essay undertakes an examination not only of literary representations of other media or media products, but also of the potentialities afforded by the way in which these are employed in constructing and encoding worlds, spaces, and subjectivities, as well as their involvement in the production of narrative discourse. The specific qualities of literature as a (qualified) medium allow for the problematisation of the categorial borders that outline both media representations and the representations of media, capitalising on the subjunctive mood inherent in the fictional convention in order to reveal and explore their plasticity and their capacity for infinite interplay and reflection. What is ultimately unveiled is constantly postponed absence, undecidability, and instability at the heart of the ontologies and identities they help create.
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