About Cultural Perspectives
Cultural Perspectives. Journal for Literary and British Cultural Studies in Romania (CP) is a scientific publication issued yearly under the aegis of CETAL Research Centre from the Faculty of Letters of “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania.
Journal history
The journal has been issued yearly since 1996 at “Alma Mater” Publishing House of “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, being initially under the patronage of the British Council. Starting from 2016, it has become the official journal of CETAL Research Centre (Centrul de Explorări Textuale și Acțiune prin Limbaj – Centre for Textual Exploration and Action through Language).
The history of the journal marks the transition from articles presented at conferences/scientific manifestations by faculty members to articles by Romanian and foreign scholars that develop applied research topics corresponding to directions configured in and through research groups.
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Publication language
All articles (editorials, sicentific articles, interviews, book reviews) are published exclusively in English.
Editorial Office
Website: http://cpjournal.ub.ro/
E-mail: cpjournal@ub.ro
Thematic areas
The thematic area of the journal covers the area of interference among literature, cultural studies, discourse analysis and semiotics. Each issue focuses on a specific theme, outlined through all editorials and most articles:
- 2023: Bridging cultural gaps and adapting to change
- 2022: Modes of cultural resistance
- 2021: Culture in crisis
- 2020: Urban culture
- 2019: Cultural branding
- 2018: Cultural identity in the European space
- 2017: Cultural heritage
- 2016: Urban scapes
- 2015: Nature and culture: a semiotic perspective
- 2014: Semiotics of culture or cultural semiotics?
- 2013: Location of cultural identities
- 2012: Cultural changes and exchanges
- 2011: Representing the 21st century’s realities in cultural discourse and the crisis of representation
- 2010: Modes of Signification in Cultural Discourse
- 2009: Diversity of Identities
- 2008: Text and discourse
- 2007: Words (or, managing the whole lot of them)
- 2006: (Paper)beings
- 2005: Cultural Spaces and Types
- 2004: Gift-giving Acts
- 2003: (Ulysses)or, The Sense of Adventure
- 2002: -Isms (Victorianism)
- 2001 & 2000: Virginia Woolf and James Joyce
- 1997: Myth, history and literature
- 1996: Cultural Studies, (British) Identity
