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Книги 2014–2015 г.
Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in 2014-2015
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Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in 2014-2015
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Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in 2015-2016
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Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in the current year.
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Content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography, archaeology and art studies
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Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in the current year
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Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in the current year
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This article introduces Tod Browning’s 1932 film Freaks, in conversation with nineteenth century carnival and fair practices and further explains the creation and development of the freakshow. In tandem with theoretical work by authors such as Judith Butler, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Adrianna Cavarero and Lennard Davis, the article positions the freakshow within disability and trauma through the notions of ‘staring’, ‘normal’ and ‘horrorism’. Using two contemporary texts such as American Horror Story: Freakshow and the reality television series Freakshow, this article firstly introduces these texts thematically before analysing all three in conversation with one another as a means of further contextualizing the role of the freakshow in contemporary cultural products, then connecting these texts to the notion of violence and the use of disability as a tool for horror. The article concludes that although the freakshow has been dismantled in the literal sense, the obvious bodily difference that predicates it still remains present in today’s cultural sphere.
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Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in the current year.
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Defended Ph.D. theses in Bulgaria in the field of linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography and art studies.
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Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in the current year
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The aim of this article is to present the results of the author’s profound investigation on German-Bulgarian cultural relations since the beginning of the 20th century to the mid-1940s of the 20th century and to give an assessment of the cultural contacts between both countries in the context of Bulgarian political and historical development. The article reveals different aspects of the cultural contact between Germany and Bulgaria in the fields of theatre, fine and applied arts. The author emphasizes the role of the training of many Bulgarian artists in German art institutions and the establishment of German-Bulgarian cultural associations. The article is based on the findings of published studies as well as on the author’s own research undertaken in many museums, archives, private and institutional art collections, situated in Germany and Bulgaria.
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The text analyzes specific examples from the festive life of the Hungarian cities of Mohács and Debrecen and in particular different manifestations of the contemporary masquerade game. The author pays attention to the construction of urban identity (part A) and searches for basic characteristics of the urban cultural space as a place of national memory (part B). The field research method is applied for the purposes of the present study. In conclusion it is noted that it is especially important for the participants to identify with a particular masquerade community that builds additional social networks outside of the carnival chronotope. The consistency with the culture and traditions of the city is also significant as far as these are manifestations of urban identity. The national identity finds expression in symbols and signs of the national manifested under conditions of deterritorialization. Through the self-perception of the people in the city (as people tied to it and belonging to it) and through their identification with it, the urban social space acquires its anthropological dimensions contributing to its unique spirit and particularity (genius loci).
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The article’s goal is to imagine a productive form of teaching creative writing as part of a Master's program in fields only remotely connected to literature and literary studies, such as digital media and videogames research. The text begins with a discussion on talent as the ability to perceive and submit to adequate and working models of writing. The topic is then further developed by analyzing talent within the framework of specific creative tools such as close reading and worldbuilding. Finally, the idea of creative writing as a model oriented and model guided activity is connected to the nature of the computer game as a space inhabited by a variety of new discourses, which the player - like a careful and attentive reader – has to learn to read and work with, thus making them part of her personal experience.
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A review of the collection “The Soft power of popular music in media (by examples from Bulgaria and the Balkans”, comp. Lozanka Peicheva. Sofia: “St. Kliment Ohridski” University Press, 2020 (160 p.). The collection is part of research collective’s work on the eponymous scientific project “The soft power of popular music in media (by examples from Bulgaria and the Balkans”, financed by the Bulgarian national science fund.
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Content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography, archaeology and art studies
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The article examines the National festival of folklore in Koprivshtitsa – a culmination of the assembly-singing movement – by looking for sustainable media representations of the folklore festivals, which has already been held for twelve editions (between 1965 and 2022). The mechanisms for organization and media coverage are sought in the chronological lines before and after 1989. The focus is on the discourses and presentation of the festival as a manifestation of collective and national identity, “the face of Bulgarianism”
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The text examines the narrative of the video game Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice through Jean-Noël Thon’s three-part perspectivist model, focusing on its third dimension - the ideological perspective. It states that the elements of the gameplay, usually defined as purely ludic, in fact play a prominent narrative role. The game manages to trick the player without lying to them by relying on classic video game relations such as believing in what is seen and told, the self-identification of the player with the avatar, and uncritically accepting the game’s instructions/information as relating to their own actions, not to those of the avatar. The ideological perspective of the characters combined with the thus created ‘misleading’ gameplay question the game-player relationship, while at the same time succeeding in an original way to distance the player from the avatar and ultimately succeeding to make the player feel towards the game as the character feels within in his own world. Accordingly, if the gameplay has a message, i.e., allows itself to be semanticized independently of and in conflict with the cinematic cuts in the game, it functions narratively and creates a dissonance resulting from two different and parallel forms of storytelling.
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The edited volume “Journalism, Values, World. A Jubilee Collection in Honour of Prof. Dr. Maria Neykova” (University Press “St. Kliment Ohridski”, 2022) contains 20 articles united by 5 common themes that contribute to the understanding of a wide range of issues of journalistic practice and to professional debates in the field
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The unconscious (das Unbewusste; etymologically, that which is unknown) is a relatively modern concept that naturalized areas of the unknown previously explored by literature, mythology, and metaphysics. Each in their own domain, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche, the three ‘masters of suspicion’ (according to Paul Ricoeur), debunked the hubristic claims of modern rational consciousness, exposing its social, existential and psychological grey zones. 1 Inspired by, yet critiquing humanity’s confidence in the power of reason, their acknowledgement of the limits of the Enlightenment is emblematized in Freud’s charting of the conflictual relations between the orderly ego and the unruly id.
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