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Accepted Paper:
The truth between the lines
Roxana Vieru
(Alexandru Ioan Cuza University)
Paper short abstract:
Romanian old texts with their prefaces and marginal commentaries are examined carefully to see what is there hidden from the intolerant society. What is authors' reason(s) for such a choice is something we need to find out.
Paper long abstract:
Europe is now a melting pot of cultures due to globalization. I like to think that we are now more open-minded than centuries ago so we are now ready to adapt to diversity and change of different kinds. But let's have a close look to what happened in the past; and for that, we have texts as witnesses. Reading between the lines, we can draw some conclusions on how willing people were to tolerate (if not to accept) others'opinions, beliefs (either religious, cultural or scientific) and aspirations. In the marginal texts or in the prefaces there are some things hidden from the intolerant's eyes that we can now discover after careful analyses. I shall examine some Romanian texts written by "marginal" communities to see the truth beneath.