Кирило-методиевските традиции в българската книжнина - възрожденски символи и интерпретации
The Cyrillo-Methodian Traditions in Bulgarian Literature as Reflected in Symbols and Interpretations during the National Revival

Summary/Abstract: The paper defines the Cyrillo-Methodian traditions as a part of the cultural dimensions of Bulgarian literature. The author bases her work on a systematization of the national and European principles and factors that formed these traditions, principles and factors that are characteristic of the work of Cyril and Methodius and of the literary activities of their immediate disciples and of those that followed their work in mediaeval literature and the literature of the Bulgarian National Revival. The paper outlines the comparative continuity of the tradition among Bulgarian men of letters of all epochs, who honoured the Cyrillo-Methodian oeuvre as a symbol of the first fruit of Bulgarian alphabet and literature, a tradition that stems from the early spontaneous canonization and the veneration of the personalities and the work of Cyril and Methodius and their disciples. The paper gives a generalized overview of the literary forms, which are determined by the interpretations of Cyrillo-Methodian research and problems from the manuscript stage to the stage of the printed word and which are also determined by the symbolic images of the First Apostles of the Slavs, images that are the work of the men of letters. This overview presents these literary forms with regard to their present-day importance and their multiple role as a fact of Bulgarian culture, a fact that goes across time and space - on all territories of the Bulgarian ethnos.

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