The purpose of the present paper is to investigate some of the issues raised by a number of analysts who either consider globalization as beneficial (opening numerous cultural possibilities, multiple identities and choices) or as a threat (the loss of individual thought and local culture caused...

In keeping with the demands of the contemporary globalising digital era, communication is heavily supported by the Internet. Addressing an international audience and having societal goals, public institutions resort to carefully designed web pages to carry the message across frontiers, cultures,...

This paper tackles issues of gendered authorship and the connection female writing/female body in Jeanette Winterson’s novel, „Written on the Body”. I interpret the cancerous body of Louise from „Written on the Body” as an excessive body: the multiplication of cells in her diseased...

The insight of David Ricardo’s international trade theory can be proved by the way he managed to capture the economic problems of his era and by the fact that his theory is still studied and applied in the construction of new economic models and theories. Ricardo has accepted Adam Smith’s...

A public figure endowed with a broad cultural horizon, Vintilã Horia maintains his place among the controversial cluster of novelists belonging to the period of exile. The fact that he became the winner of the Goncourt Prize for the novel Dumnezeu s-a nãscut în exil (God was born in Exile)...

In this paper, I will approach the body as a spatial metaphor and discuss Jeanette Winterson’s „The Passion” and „Gut Symmetries” comparatively, in light of their engagement with the concept of border. While „The Passion” depicts the city of Venice a trope of female corporality,...