Употреби на възрожденската поезия – от антологии до YouTube
Usages of Bulgarian Revival Poetry: From Anthologies to YouTube

Summary/Abstract: The text traces how the notion of Bulgarian Revival poetry and its textual corpus were formed and used in three different historical periods. It turns out that the field of Revival poetry is not statically given, but is evolving in the process of its later study and reception from the 1920s to the 1980s and on. Paradoxically, the further we have moved away from the Revival era, the more its poetry has grown - a deferred growth, literally and metaphorically. The Revival period itself leaves us no literary anthologies. A peculiarity that is structurally determined – the Revival literature is still at the stage of collecting, not selecting; it is in a phase of pre-canonicity and pre-anthologizing. Today, in our times of new media, new mobilizations, waves of nationalism and populism, the new active and quite narrow „anthology“ of the Revival poetry can be found on the Internet, in YouTube compilations of patriotic songs.

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