Научни трудове - Пловдивски университет "Паисий Хилендарски". Книга 1. Сб. Б. Хуманитарни науки : Филология, том 59 (2021)
Scientific Works - Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski". Book 1. Coll. B. Humanitarian Sciences : Philology, Volume 59 (2021)
Contributor(s): Yuliana Chakarova (Editor)
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, Bulgarian Literature, French Literature, British Literature
ISSN: 0861-0029
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: literary Studies; comparative literary studies; Bulgarian literature; foreign literature
Summary/Abstract: The edition covers structural, functional, pragmatic, social and cognitive aspects of studies in language, literature and culture, including a broad range of interdisciplinary issues. In addition to research articles, the edition also welcomes book reviews.
- Page Count: 212
- Publication Year: 2022
- Language: English, Bulgarian, French
Поучителните „примери“ от „Шестте дни“ на Себастиано Ерицо
Поучителните „примери“ от „Шестте дни“ на Себастиано Ерицо
(The instructive “examples” of Sebastiano Erizzo’s “Six days”)
- Author(s):Petia Petkova-Staleva
- Language:Bulgarian
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Italian literature
- Page Range:9-19
- No. of Pages:110
- Keywords:short story; collection; narrator; storyteller; narrative frame; lesson
- Summary/Abstract:Sebastiano Erizzo's Six Days follows Decameron's model of fitting stories into a narrative framework that gives rise to storytelling, but differs from it by an all-male company of storytellers. The author calls his stories “examples”, emphasizing the lessons that the reader can learn from them for himself, and the fun and enjoyment of storytelling set aside. There is no laughter, no joy, and the characters and storytellers are similar in their reasoning aimed at encouraging virtue and integrity.
Self as malady in Diary by E. B. B.
Self as malady in Diary by E. B. B.
(Self as malady in Diary by E. B. B.)
- Author(s):Yana Rowland
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, British Literature
- Page Range:20-30
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:Elizabeth Barrett Barrett (Browning); diary; Self; Other; memory; narrative
- Summary/Abstract:The diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (first published in 1961), reveals the poetess’s polemical treatment of Self as duty to Other. Spread over less than a year of actual time, the content of the narrative is overwhelming. Diary by E. B. B. is an undisguised autobiographical articulation of the writer’s sense of her physical weakness, her doubts about her own sanity, her worship of God, her fear of redundancy, her disturbing interest in reading, and her fixation on death. This thematic range provides a foundation for a hermeneutic (and varied by feminism) examination of identity as incompletion. A kind of incompletion partially fulfilled through diary narrative as dialogue.
Pictures from an Exhibition: the great exhibition in Henry Mayhew’s novel 1851
Pictures from an Exhibition: the great exhibition in Henry Mayhew’s novel 1851
(Pictures from an Exhibition: the great exhibition in Henry Mayhew’s novel 1851)
- Author(s):Maria Dimitrova
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, British Literature
- Page Range:31-40
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:Victorian literature; Henry Mayhew; the Great Exhibition; production and consumption
- Summary/Abstract:The paper discusses Henry Mayhew’s novel 1851: Or, the Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and Family, Who Came Up to London to ‘Enjoy Themselves,’ and to See the Great Exhibition. The novel, itself written in 1851, offers a valuable commentary on one of the most significant events in Victorian economic and social history. In particular, the paper explores the novel’s ambivalent attitudes to production and consumption and to the producing and the consuming classes, as well as the way these attitudes are created or sustained at the level of narrative structure.
“Bardell v. Pickwick”: the significance of the legal system in Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick papers
“Bardell v. Pickwick”: the significance of the legal system in Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick papers
(“Bardell v. Pickwick”: the significance of the legal system in Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick papers)
- Author(s):Efstratios Kyriakakis
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, British Literature
- Page Range:41-48
- No. of Pages:8
- Keywords:Dickens; identity; society; legal system; hermeneutics
- Summary/Abstract:This paper is an introduction to the importance of the legal system in Dickens’ writing. Dickens’ early beginnings as a clerk at a law office and as a journalist reporting on civil law cases are very much intertwined with the everyday life in the courts of Victorian England. This makes it no surprise that the legal system is present in almost any novel by Dickens. In this paper I aim to establish a connection between the legal system and Dickens’ character and world-building. This will be done based on Dickens’ first novel The Pickwick Papers.
Intralingual translation and Frankenstein in the nineteenth-century British press
Intralingual translation and Frankenstein in the nineteenth-century British press
(Intralingual translation and Frankenstein in the nineteenth-century British press)
- Author(s):Vitana Kostadinova
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Translation Studies, British Literature
- Page Range:49-59
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:Frankenstein; Mary Shelley; simile; metaphor; translation
- Summary/Abstract:After the publication of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein in 1818, the story took on a life of its own. People started comparing every-day occurrences in their lives to the fictional character. Initially it was about monsters and creators of monsters, and then other interpretations crept in: artistry, creativity, and scientific progress among others. This paper provides an overview of the development of the Frankenstein simile and metaphor in post-Romantic nineteenth-century Britain and treats the range of meanings as intralingual translations of the original story.
Contemporary visions of love in Jacqueline Woodson’s Red at the bone
Contemporary visions of love in Jacqueline Woodson’s Red at the bone
(Contemporary visions of love in Jacqueline Woodson’s Red at the bone)
- Author(s):Bozhidara Boneva-Kamenova
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, American Literature
- Page Range:60-69
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:contemporary African American literature; coming of age; black sexuality; family relations; gender; race
- Summary/Abstract:Jacqueline Woodson‘s latest novel, Red at the Bone, unveils pressing issues concerning the contemporary African American experience. Through sixteen-year-old Melody’s coming-of-age party, the author meditates on themes such as teenage pregnancy, sexuality, queerness, urban life, familial relations, class division, history, and education. Woodson’s mastery in constructing the narrative situates the story at the border of prose and poetry; thus, the immediacy of the problems transgresses the limitation of genre. The current paper shall attempt to investigate the various manifestations of love that affect the characters’ personal growth, their agency and motivations in the new century.
Identity and existential loneliness in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections
Identity and existential loneliness in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections
(Identity and existential loneliness in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections)
- Author(s):Daniel Kamenov
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, American Literature
- Page Range:70-79
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:existential loneliness; identity; Jonathan Franzen; Charles Taylor; existentialism
- Summary/Abstract:In The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen introduces the reader to the Lamberts: a dysfunctional family of highly individualistic characters whose goals and ideas never intersect. Throughout the course of the novel, the elderly parents and their three grown-up children further degrade their relationships – both within the family and even with reality. They are utterly, self-consciously alone and incapable of creating a stable connection to one another or with anybody else. In the current paper, I shall try to explain their inability to connect to others by using their intrinsic loneliness as a starting point and the manner in which it helps in forming their identity.
Maupassant et les orientals
Maupassant et les orientals
(Maupassant and the oriental images)
- Author(s):Sonya Aleksandrova-Koleva
- Language:French
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, French Literature
- Page Range:80-91
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:Maupassant; otherness; foreigner; female character
- Summary/Abstract:The text aims to reveal some of the weaknesses of perceiving one’s own face compared to that of a foreigner in the prose-fiction works of Maupassant. For this purpose we analyze novels and stories dedicated to Algeria and the Arabs, with an especial emphasis Allouma as well as on the otherness of female character. Exploring a foreigner’s characteristics, we encounter initial duality in the description which affords approaching closer the foreigner’s, and moving away from one’s own, image. In addition, an impression of compassion to a foreigner’s problems arises while critique of one’s own emerges.
La perception de la réalité en Bulgarie dans le récit de témoignage de René Arav Diplomates et Espions français, héros oubliés, Balkans 1940-1945 et le roman La nuit sera calme de Romain Gary
La perception de la réalité en Bulgarie dans le récit de témoignage de René Arav Diplomates et Espions français, héros oubliés, Balkans 1940-1945 et le roman La nuit sera calme de Romain Gary
(The perception of reality in Bulgaria : René Arav’s testimonial story Diplomates et espions français, héros oubliés, Balkans 1940-1945 and Romain Gary’s novel La nuit sera calme)
- Author(s):Maya Timénova-Koen
- Language:French
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature, French Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:92-102
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:totalitarian regime; war; hero; perception of reality; freedom; memory
- Summary/Abstract:In this work my purpose is to analyze the perception of reality in René Arav’s testimony story Diplomates et espions français, héros oubliés, Balkans 1940 – 1945 and Romain Gary’s novel La nuit sera calme. The interpreted events took place in Bulgaria during and after WWII . I have chosen to found my study on Tzvetan Todorov’s works Le siècle des totalitarismes and Les abus de la mémoire.
Bénarès de Barlen Pyamootoo: narration versus description
Bénarès de Barlen Pyamootoo: narration versus description
(Bénarès de Barlen Pyamootoo: narration versus description)
- Author(s):Zlatorossa Nedeltcheva-Bellafante
- Language:French
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Other Language Literature
- Page Range:103-114
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:narration, descriptionnarrative rhythm; narration dynamic; narration scope; descriptive interlude
- Summary/Abstract:This paper analyzes the narration specificities of the novel Benares by the Mauritian writer Barlen Pyamootoo, as well as the narration itself – description ratio and its impact on the narrative rhythm. We try to determine the role description plays for the economy of narration in the text, where its place is important, and we also analyze the extent to which description integrates the narrative. We consider that the dynamic of narration is subdued, giving place to monotony, and this, in our view, is a sought reception effect.
Рецепцията на Артур Шницлер в България до 1944 г. с оглед на издателските серии
Рецепцията на Артур Шницлер в България до 1944 г. с оглед на издателските серии
(The Reception Of Artur Schnitzler In Bulgaria Until 1944 With Regard To Publishing Series)
- Author(s):Mladen Vlashki
- Language:Bulgarian
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Austrian Literature
- Page Range:115-125
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:Arthur Schnitzler; reception; Bulgarian literary field; publishing series; reader's horizon of expectation after 1918
- Summary/Abstract:Up until 1944 Arthur Schnitzler was the most widely read author of the Young Vienna group in Bulgaria. The model of reception of his work shows how in the field of the free book market there can function categories that we tend to define more often as negative (publishing series, cheap publications, mass publications, social crises, etc.) yet such as would impose the significance of a particular writer’s oeuvre . The balance gets secured by the knowledgeable intelligentsia which, in critical discussions, only guides the process.
Неуловимият Гетсби, или за конюнктурното препревеждане на модерна класика
Неуловимият Гетсби, или за конюнктурното препревеждане на модерна класика
(The Elusive Gatsby, Or On The Conjunctural Retranslation Of Modern Classics)
- Author(s):Maria Pipeva
- Language:Bulgarian
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Translation Studies
- Page Range:126-137
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:The Great Gatsby; Bulgarian translations; conjunctural retranslation
- Summary/Abstract:Through the lens of some contemporary tenets of Retranslation theory, this paper discusses the simultaneous publication of three new Bulgarian translations of F. S. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in 2013, nearly five decades after the first and already „canonized“ one. For this pattern, increasingly manifested in the retranslation of modern classics, I introduce the notion of conjunctural retranslation – i.e., one triggered by extraliterary circumstances and driven, above all, by economic interests. The ramifications of this practice are examined through a comparative microanalysis of the translators’ approaches, as well as macroanalysis of the receiving sociocultural context.
Растителният код в „Китка“ от К. Я. Ербен
Растителният код в „Китка“ от К. Я. Ербен
(The Botanical Code In K. J. Erben’s Collection Kytice (Bouquet))
- Author(s):Tanya Yankova
- Language:Bulgarian
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Czech Literature
- Page Range:138-148
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:botanical code; personal literary experience; floral image
- Summary/Abstract:K. J. Erben creates a fictional world that „grows“ on a folkloric and mythological foundation, which the author „assimilates“ and „integrates“ to transform it into a personal literary experience. The characters are in a constant relationship with the botanical world. In his texts there are references to floral and arboreal species which turn out to be full-fledged participants in communicative situations. The abundance of such references testifies to man's close relationship with nature and guides us to a consciousness permeated by floral images in order to refer to and present human qualities. In the collection of ballads Kytice (Bouquet) the world of plants functions at various literary levels – from a detail in the overall epic storyline to an expanded image and a symbolic key for the accomplishment of literary meaning.
Детската памет като „терапевтична алтернатива“ на реалността в творчеството на словашките конкретисти
Детската памет като „терапевтична алтернатива“ на реалността в творчеството на словашките конкретисти
(Children’s Memory As “A Therapeutic Alternative” To Reality In The Works Of The Slovak Concretists)
- Author(s):Irena Dimova-Gencheva
- Language:Bulgarian
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Slovak Literature
- Page Range:149-158
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:memory; therapeutic alternative; children’s literature; Slovak literature
- Summary/Abstract:The proposed article examines the Slovak Trnava group and the use of children's memory in the poetical works and manifestos of its representatives as a “therapeutic alternative” to the existing ideological discourse of the second half of the 20th century. The writers find an opportunity for free expression in the field of children’s literature which they furthermore discuss in one of their manifestos, “There will be a talk about children's poetry.” The focus of the study could be defined as the “therapeutic mechanisms” of returning to childhood memory found both in the truly aesthetically conceived presence of Slovak writers in literature and in their own texts.
Образът на Италия в творчеството на Шатобриан
Образът на Италия в творчеството на Шатобриан
(The Image Of Italy In The Work Of Chateaubriand)
- Author(s):Ivanka Nenova
- Language:Bulgarian
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, French Literature
- Page Range:161-168
- No. of Pages:8
- Keywords:Chateaubriand; diplomat; Italy; flow of time; transience of man; beauty of nature; human perception
- Summary/Abstract:This text studies the image of Italy seen by the man, writer and diplomat Chateaubriand. This is a country which occupies a special place in his work. Whether that be in Voyage en Italie, travel notes oscillating – in terms of form and genre – between letters to friends and a diary recounting his stay in 1803, or in Les Martyrs, an epic novel, or even in his autobiographical work Les Mémoires d’outre-tombe.
Исторически реминисценции при изграждането на художествените образи в романа „Тримата мускетари“ на А. Дюма
Исторически реминисценции при изграждането на художествените образи в романа „Тримата мускетари“ на А. Дюма
(Historical Reminiscences In The Construction Of Fictional Characters In The Novel “The Three Musketeers” By А. Dumas)
- Author(s):Anna Shkodrova
- Language:Bulgarian
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, French Literature
- Page Range:169-178
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:parallel; prototype; artistic construction; historical context; Romanticism; historical novel
- Summary/Abstract:In this article we will try to draw a parallel between the historical prototypes of the main characters in the novel „The Three Musketeers“ and their artistic construction in the course of the narrative. We will also look at the historical context in which the novel itself appeared as part of a new genre: the historical novel. The combination of real historical events and fiction is very characteristic of this new genre, which became more and more widespread in literature in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Light In November – Thomas Hardy’s The Return Of The Native
Light In November – Thomas Hardy’s The Return Of The Native
(Light In November – Thomas Hardy’s The Return Of The Native)
- Author(s):Dimitar Karamitev
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, British Literature
- Page Range:179-189
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:Thomas Hardy; light; picture; narrative
- Summary/Abstract:The present paper examines the presence of light as a narrative instrument in Thomas Hardy’s novel The Return of the Native. Attention is paid to how the author uses it uniquely and variously in order to develop plot. Some scientific definitions of phenomena are provided and a categorization of the uses of light is made, the focus being mainly on the revelatory function of light. The employed critical perspectives are founded on phenomenology and hermeneutics.
Музикалните форми в романа на Емилия Дворянова „Passion или смъртта на Алиса“ – бягство от социума
Музикалните форми в романа на Емилия Дворянова „Passion или смъртта на Алиса“ – бягство от социума
(The Musical Forms In Emilia Dvoryanova’s Novel Passion Or The Death Of Alice – An Escape From Society)
- Author(s):Vesela Ganeva
- Language:Bulgarian
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature
- Page Range:190-199
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:passion; Bulgarian postmodern novel; Emilia Dvoryanova; fugue novel; biblical elements; musical novel; experimental novel; deconstruction; onomastics
- Summary/Abstract:The study traces the interrelationships between literature and the musical forms fugue and passion. Significant for the analysis is the information about the personality of Bach and the science of onomastics. I find a connection between the names of the characters of the novel and the great composer. I initiate a new reading of the traditional musical form of passion and the novel by exploring biblical and musical elements, arguing that they are deconstructed by the author to create unconventional meanings.
