👤Author Name: Simona GalațchiAffiliation: “G. Cälinescu” Institute of Literary History and Theory ofthe Romanian AcademyContact: simonagala@yahoo.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: Galațchi, Simona. ”Reveries By The Fireplace”. Synthesis, no. XLI, 2014, pp. 47-56Title: REVERIES BY THE FIREPLACEPages: 47-56Language: EnglishURL: https://synthesis.ro/pdf/2014/XLI/5_S_Galatchi.pdf Abstract This article analyses the symbolism of the fire in literature from a psychoanalytical perspective. Among the authors taken into consideration for this purpose range romantics like Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Byron, Alfred Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, T. S. Eliot. Fire is mainly referred to express passion, longing, love and death at the same time, purification and redemption. Matthew Amold’s Empedocles, the character of his dramatic poem Empedocles on Etna, is explained by his living and dying instincts. With W. B. Yeats, fire has a complex and wide range of meanings. Like Tennyson, Yeats reaches the sublimation of fire symbolism with repre[1]sentations of rose. T. S. Eliot brings up the idea that fire can unify two opposites of a paradox and facilitate our passing through by the power of imagination, of reveries Keywords: fire, reveries, psychoanalysis, complex, literature

👤Author Name: Ana-Maria DascăluAffiliation: “G. Cälinescu” Institute of Literary History and Theory ofthe Romanian AcademyContact: ana_romitan@yahoo.de 📄Article Citation Recommendation: Dascălu, Ana-Maria. „Die Ewige Sehnsucht nach Liebe — amori, passioni, dolori in Ugo Foscolos Sonetti”. Synthesis, no. XLI, 2014, pp. 35-45Title: DIE EWIGE SEHNSUCHT NACH LIEBE — AMORI, PASSIONI, DOLORI IN UGO FOSCOLOS SONETTIPages: 35-45Language: GermanURL: https://synthesis.ro/pdf/2014/XLI/4_A-M_Dascalu.pdf Abstract The eternal longing for love completes the conflict between ragione and cuore, one of the main themes in Ugo Foscolo’s Sonnets. The purpose of this article is to show how Foscolos describes/ inserts the theme of love in the verses of this particular literary genre, especially in the Sonnets IV, V, VI and VIII. As it can be seen seen in these four love sonnets, Foscolo succeeds in unifying the two elements (feeling and poetry) in this literary genre, his adventurous life being the source of his inspiration. Finally Ugo Foscolo, the lonely, solitary poet, who worshiped the reason and who tried to follow the ragione, let himself led by feelings (sentimenti) and passions (passioni), as long as love plays an important role not only in his life but also in his work, this feeling being considered one of the main motifs of…

👤Author Name: Alexandra CiocârlieAffiliation: “G. Calinescu” Institute of Literary History and Theory of the Romanian AcademyContact: aciocarlie@yahoo.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: Ciocârlie, Alexandra. „Deux études roumaines sur la tragedie antique”. Synthesis, no. XLI, 2014, pp.11-23Title: DEUX ÉTUDES ROUMAINES SUR LA TRAGEDIE ANTIQUEPages: 11-23Language: FrenchURL: https://synthesis.ro/pdf/2014/XLI/2_A_Ciocarlie.pdf Abstract Alice Voinescu and Zoe Dumitrescu Busulenga are the authors of some important Romanian monographs on Aeschylus and Sofocles. Despite of the fact that they are not sharing the same points of view on these Greek authors, Alice Voinescu and Zoe Dumitrescu-Busulenga examine the works of the two writers from a similar perspective, focusing on the way the human condition is defined by the aforementioned tragedians. Keywords: Aeshylus, Sophocles, Romanian criticism, human condition, fate.

👤Author Name: Ioana CostaAffiliation: University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Department of Classical PhilologyContact: ioana.costa@lls.unibuc.ro 📄Article Citation Recommendation: Costa, Ioana. ”Ancient Tables of Contents”. Synthesis, XLI (2014): 3-9.Title: ANCIENT TABLES OF CONTENTSPages: 3-9Language: EnglishURL: https://synthesis.ro/pdf/2014/XLI/1_I_Costa.pdf Abstract Table of contents (Latin summarium) is a vital component of a book, meant to reveal both the topic and the approach and to create a rapid connection between the author and the reader. The ancient books, mostly those written on papyrus scrolls, sometimes included a summarium: two major examples are Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis historia and Cato the Elder’s De agri cultura. These two works have in common the magnitude of the content, either in the encyclopaedic dimensions, in 37 extended books/chapters, or the pragmatic significance of a handbook about running a farm. Both summaria are placed before the actual work, as perfect opening and plea for being read and frequently used. The long ordeal of transmitting these writings from ancient times to the printing era and, nevertheless, from a specific printed edition to another, reveals the importance of summarium in keeping alive a book. Keywords: summarium, Pliny the Elder, Cato the Elder, text transmission. Bibliography CATON, De l’agriculture. 1975. Raoul…