Архитектурен канон и литературен канон, или войната за една чешма
Architectural Canon and Literary Canon or the War for a Fountain

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses a curious plot about preserving and deviating from the norm for understanding the literary work. The subject of the study is the extensive inscription of a fountain of Mahmoud II’s epoch, which rose to the center of Varna in the first half of the 19th century and the interesting story about its demolition. The text of the inscription, which is a poem devoted to battle glory, is interpreted. This text is laid on the layers of the Bulgarian literary canon. The work is also related to the artifact of her “media” – the big marble fountain. Analogies have been made between the functioning of the canon in literature, music, architecture, and fine arts. The messages of the text are interpreted in synchronic and diachronic terms,in the order of aesthetic, poetic and socio-historical and ideological suggestion.

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