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The article reviews the history of translation of the brothers Grimm’s fairy tales in Bulgaria. Important stages of the translation of the Brothers Grimm‘s tales in Bulgarian are marked for a longer period of time from the end of the 19th century to the present day. The role of the socio-cultural context is commented on, as well as the relevant participants in the translation process (translators, editors, critics of translation) in the selection of translated fairy tales, the reproduction of linguistic, genre and cultural features inherent in fairy tales, the design and promotion of printed publications, the critical reception of translations.
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The article considers the modern instruction of German as a foreign language from various practical aspects. Special emphasis is placed on important didactic-methodological principles, work and social forms, teaching and learning strategies, development of competencies and use of the media, which are important for the planning, organization and preparation of lessons. Appropriate teaching examples, tips and ideas are offered, which are the result of the author's own professional experience.
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Language is not only a tool for fast and cost-effective transmission of information, but also the eternal environment for the development of communicative competence, which is based on worldview(s) and intercultural interactions and creates and respectively strengthens communication between individual and collective agents. In view of the specific conditions in the information society of our century, this article comments on the need to develop the pedagogical aspects of university instruction ofGermanforforeigners.
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The article presents briefly the concept of digital body language and focuses on some aspects of writing as an essential part of digital communication. The study also reviews school writing and suggests some ideas about modifying the task of writing emails so as to enhance students’ motivation to write and improve their writing skills setting the writing activities in a more practical context.
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The paper focuses on the topic of linguistic landscape and suggests some ideas for its implementation in ELT through a variety of tasks and tips for project work with students who study English either as a major or a minor. Linguistic landscape awareness can be integrated in English language courses for students of different levels. ULL can boost language learning and development, critical thinking, intercultural communication skills, students’ independent learning. It can also be successfully integrated in courses meant for applied linguistics students.
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The focus of the article are the analysis results of the author’s personal experience and the views of students on the topic Challenges to (digital) online learning. The article presents the main highlights of the issue – the advantages and disadvantages of digitizing the learning (online) process which in varying degrees are valid for different subcultures in a community. On this basis, conclusions are drawn about the future development of the educational process in a digital society.
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Language is often a barrier and a means of separation, but language is also the element that unites nations. It serves as a bridge and makes communication across borders possible. The article discusses the difficulties and challenges in acquiring language knowledge and skills when learning a foreign language in the context of the intensive development of information technology and digitalization. The article lays emphasis on Vera F. Birkenbill’s method of foreign language learning. This method gives learners a chance to develop their language and communication competence.
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The paper examines the changing cultural perceptions of one of the most famous and mysterious geographic expeditions of the 19th century,John Franklin’s search for the Northwest Passage. Analyzed here in in closer detail are two novels:The Discovery of Slowliness by Sten Nadolny and Wanting by Richard Flanagan, as well as three texts by Margaret Atwood:the short story The Age of Leadfrom the collection Wilderness Tips, her Oxford lecture “Concerning Franklin and his Gallant Crew”,published in the volume Strange Things.The Malevolant North in Canadian Literature,and the foreword to the reissue of O. Beatie and J. Geiger’s book Frozen in Time. The Fate of the Franklin Expedition. All of these tales of Franklin’s expedition reflect the vicissitudes of human fantasies about exploring unknown and menacing spaces – not just the mythical frozen North. They are also narratives about our relationship with Nature and all the fears and hopes associated with that relationship.
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The aim of the article is to discuss the ways in which the world of advertising is created in selected works by writers born in the late 1970s and early 1980s who had a background in marketing. The author presents the socio-economic situation of young aspiring writers in Poland at the beginning of the 21st century. He points out the reasons why they decided to work in advertising agencies and how it translated into their literary work. The author analyzes the novels Copy fighterby Łukasz Krakowiak,Nieżyję, więc jestem[I’m Dead, Therefore I Am] by Katarzyna Byzia and Małż[Mollusk] by Marta Dzido, focusing on the ways of creating the presented world, protagonists and language.
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The article attempts a literary analysis of certain aspects of texts that belong to the so called geoliterature, here referred to as “literary city guides”. The author analyzes three different texts, corresponding to three descriptive strategies adopted in the books. The first, Pragaz Hrabalem[Prague with Hrabal] by Tomaˇs Mazal, represents the “creator’s perspective”, and it deploys a guidebook narrative to tell a biography of an author. Next guide book, Dublin z Ulissesem[Dublin with Ulysses]by Piotr Paziński, concentrates on a specific literary work and invites the reader to explore it with the help of special scenarios. The third, Mariusz Szczygieł’s Osobisty przewodnik po Pradze[A Personal Guide to Prague], is an “authorial guide” which presents a unique personal perspective on the city. Summing up the analysis of guide strategies, the author of the article signals the possibility of looking at guide-related practices as a kind of model for literary studies.
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The article reviews in the context of contemporary avant-garde theories the book by Alina Świeściak Współczynnik sztuki.Polska poezja awangardowa i postawangardowa między autonomią i zaangażowaniem [The Art Factor. Polish Avant-garde and Post-avant-garde Poetry Between Autonomy and Commitment]. The reviewed monograph is a discussion of examples of poetry of the historical avant-garde, neo-avant-garde and post-avant-garde and demonstrates the intertwining tendencies that liberate literature and engage it socially. According to the author of the review, Świeściak remains sensitive to both historical and ahistorical definitions of the avant-garde. In the researcher’s proposed interpretations, the interplay of autonomy and engagement was shown in different perspectives, depending on the unique character of the poetics in question.
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The article offers a critical reading of two popular science works about domestic servants Służące do wszystkiego [Servants for Everything] by Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak and Instrukcja nadużycia [Instruction on Abuse] by Alicja Urbanik-Kopeć. According to the author, until recently domestic servants in Poland were exclusively the subject of academic consideration. At present,the subject has been taken up by popular science literature,which offers the reader a portrait of an archetypal female servant – a young (about20–25 years old) and uneducated single woman, tormented by life and exploited by “masters”. The author of the review ponders the question to what extent such a portrait genuinely reflects historical reality. She believes that the books under discussion deploy certain historical and literary tropes, which are intended to portray the history of servants and employers in a certain way. This raises the question of why exactly this way of narrating the subject has gained an audience, and whether it really fulfills the need to give voice to servants.
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This paper analyses the construction of space as depicted in Olga To-karczuk’s novel Empuzjon. The novel is set in the autumn of 1913 in the spa town of G ̈erbersdorf located in the Sudetes. The town, with a spa house at its centre, is situated in a valley surrounded by forested hillsides. This location encloses the space, unlike the surrounding mountainouslandscape. This contrast can be reflected by the oppositions of “civili-sation–nature” and “masculine–feminine” (where the space of nature is feminine and “wild/primal”, while the world of the town is dominated by the masculine element). From the biographical perspective of the main character, the androgynous Mieczyslaw Wojnicz, the vertical axis of the world plays an important role. His development proceeds from the memories of trips to the basement during his childhood to the attic in the guest house in G ̈erbersdorf.
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Encyclopedic ideas are implemented in the forms of a summa, encyclopedia, dictionary, as well as a novel. In Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pecuchetalso their spatial modalities have been subjected to fabularisation (a cabinet of curiosities, a library, a museum). The aim of the article isto interpret these spatialisations in the context of the thematic order of chapters in the discussed work and selected elements of the presented world, as well as to evaluate the diagnoses made by Flaubert in relation to systematic knowledge and the very idea of encyclopedism in the period of modernity.
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The considerations on geopoetics have so far emphasized the assumption that geographical experience determines the foundations for the creation of a literary work. The accepted premises for practicing space allowed the so-called topographic turn in the humanities. In the presented research concept, we are heading in a different direction, namely we would like to consider the following formulation: poetics precedes geographical experience. Therefore, we introduce the term reversed geopoetics. We assume that the word shapes the landscape and that it is the cause of spatial determination. We chose a void as the essence of our research, in which we perceive the lack of someone or something and wait for potential events. One can consider “nothing” instead of the ubiquitous “something”. We called this thread of thinking, entering a new epistemological area, “the geography of absence”. In the considerations presented, we used elements of the semiotics of space.
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