Contents

Editor’s Note

Being // Non-being as Vectors of Thought and Expression
EMMA TĂMÂIANU-MORITA 1

Proemial Study

“To Be or Not to Be”: Was That the Question? On My Book
Los poemas del ser y el no ser y sus lenguajes en la historia
ANA AGUD 9

Revisiting the Question: Insights from Linguistics, Semiotics,
Philosophy

“To Be or Not to Be” in Translation: Ay, There’s the Point
GIOVANNI GOBBER 34

Triangle(s) of Being. Linguistic (Coserian)
and Semiotic (Peircean) Perspectives
CORNEL VÎLCU 46

Words Matter: Being // Non-being in Language(s) and Text(s)

Grammatical Number from an Ecological Perspective,
Focused on the ‘Here-Now-I-Real’
TOSHIYUKI SADANOBU 73

When Anomalous Language Is Acceptable:
Suspension and the Motivations
Behind Breaking Convention in Shaun Tan’s Cicada
KEITA IKARASHI 100

Explicitation and (In)directness in Literary Translations from Japanese into English and Romanian: A Contrastive Analysis
MAGDALENA CIUBĂNCAN 127

“In the Midst of Chaos There Was Shape”:
Formalist Aesthetics and Ekphrasis in To the Lighthouse
KEHAN LIU 145

More than Meets the Eye:
Being // Non-being in the Performing Arts

Representations of Non-Being in David Lynch’s Eraserhead, Edmund
Elias Merhige’s Begotten, and Darren Aronofsky’s Pi: A Comparative
Analysis from Indian Philosophy Perspectives
CRISTIAN PAȘCALĂU 162

Towards a Historical Be(com)ing into Universal Benevolence:
Anastasia and Geopolitical Reconfigurations in Late Modernity
MARIA GRAJDIAN 186

A Glimpse into the Future

Big Data and (the New?) Reality
MANUELA MIHĂESCU 208

Postcards

“The Myriads of People Are All One”:
Andō Shōeki’s Self-with-others
ROMAN PAŞCA 232

Evolving to Science Poetry: Three Poems by Ernesto Cardenal
JONATHAN COHEN 239

Reviews

Pier Paolo Piciucco (ed.). Contemporary Vulnerabilities
MERRITT MOSELEY 247

Sten Pultz Moslund, Marlene Karlsson Marcussen
and Martin Karlsson Pedersen (eds.).
How Literature Comes to Matter:
Post-Anthropocentric Approaches to Fiction
ANAMARIA SCHWAB 250

Rapatzikou, Tatiani G., and Ludmila Martanovschi (eds.).
Ethnicity and Gender Debates: Cross-Readings
of American Literature and Culture in the New Millennium
ANCA-LUMINIȚA IANCU 256

Notes on Contributors 262

Call for Papers 269