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This study looks back at the picaresque, with its Spanish roots, and especially with its tradition in English literature; then, it comes to contemporary times, and identifies elements of the picaresque in contemporary novels. The main thesis of the author is that the picaresque has never left the literary scene in Britain, being an aesthetic invariant, which expresses a natural inclination of the British authors towards the picaresque story. Postcolonial authors also favour this genre as a consequence of their own literary tradition, which includes particular variants of the picaresque, and...

This volume represents the end-product of the fourth edition of the anniversary conferences organized in Baia Mare, Romania, since 2009. The conference celebrated the 1630 years since the Vulgata (St. Jerome's translation of the Bible), and the 60 years since the Creation of the Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics in the US. The conference brought together scholars from different domains, yet all shared an interest in translation studies; the event hosted a selection of specialized papers which represent the outcome of these scholars' dedicated research.

This volume is dedicated to Francis Bacon, to William Golding and to the tradition of writing utopias and dystopias. Although some of the articles contained herein were presented at the conference from which this book originated, there are also other contributions which join these to complete a 21st century vision on utopia, from the point of view of specialists in philology, philosophy, anthropology, etc. The novelty of such an undertaking comes from the fact that the editors enabled researchers from different fields to come together and create an interdisciplinary volume which contains very...