Успение Кирилово в южнославянската православна традиция (= Кирило-Методиевски студии. Кн. 28. Кирило-Методиевски извори. Т. 3).

Author(s): Boyka Mircheva / Language(s): Bulgarian

Since the moment of its discovery, the Short Vita of Cyril (Assumption of Cyril) has been incorporated in the Slavic Cyrillo-Methodian sources on a regular basis. Scholars exploring the work of Cyril and Methodius and their disciples have been using this text as a complement to their main research material. The text of Assumption of Cyril is significantly less explored in comparison to the rest of the Slavic Cyrillo-Methodian sources and so far there hasn’t been a complete edition of this important work based on all extant copies. This study seeks to collect, publish and explore all known copies of Assumption of Cyril contained in different types of codices. This, on the other hand, calls for examining the reasons for its inclusion in the manuscripts, in which it functions, thus forming a complete picture of the textual history of Assumption of Cyril in the context of the literary and cultural history of the Balkans. The drawn textological parallels don’t confirm the hypothesis of the text’s archaic nature. The dependence of the text on Vita Methodii suggested by some authors is not confirmed by the textological parallels either. The loci communes between the two works result from the influence of other, later Cyrillo-Methodian sources. It is possible that the compiler of Assumption of Cyril hadn’t known the text of Vita Methodii, at least he never used it. One of the reasons may be rooted in the fact that Vita Methodii was not as widely spread as Vita Cyrilli; moreover, no South-Slavic copies of this work have survived. The text of Assumption of Cyril bears closest similarities to its contemporaneous Assumption of Methodius, to which it is connected by numerous and close textological parallels. The fragment in BAS23 features the authentic text of Assumption of Cyril where the praise to the Bulgarian Orthodox Kingdom is preserved in the same form as it is found in two other works of the Tarnovo pre-Euthymian school: in the Life of Patriarch Joachim I and in Assumption of Methodius. The distinctive features of the work lead to the conclusion that the creation of the text of Assumption of Cyril should be related to the period of the restoration of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom and the rise of the Bulgarian Patriarchate in 1235, as part of the Tarnovo hagiographical cycle in praise of Bulgarian saints. Especially important are the copies of Moldovan origin of Assumption of Cyril, which account for half of the extant copies. There the praise to the Bulgarian Orthodox Kingdom has been reworked into a blessing to all orthodox kingdoms. The earliest witness of this textual tradition is preserved in the Collection of Gavriil Uric of 1439. It appears that political reasons have been behind the composition of the text, that it has been connected with works of the same period, in line with the same political and religious trend, as an outspoken advocacy of Bulgarian statehood and Orthodoxy. As testified by the copies, the text’s political line was used in its further life. Assumption of Cyril entered Romanian literature with the collections structured according to the Jerusalem Typikon and became one of the emblems of the political and religious identity in Moldova at the turn of the seventeenth century, remaining largely connected with the era of the Moldovan Metropolitan Anastasius Crimca. The book includes an edition of all extant copies: deciphered text and photocopies of the manuscripts.

Hudebně-literární slovník. Hudební díla inspirovaná slovesným uměním: Čeští skladatelé. II. díl slovníkové trilogie

Author(s): Vladimír Spousta / Language(s): Czech

The second volume of the Musical-Literary Dictionary deals with the Czech composers’ works which relate to literary art in some way. These relations could have the form of inspiration, but they could also be found in the idea, subject, contents or the text of a literary work. The Dictionary includes works of 891 composers reflecting the literary creation of 2203 writers that inspired them. Its contribution to Czech musical lexicographic literature consists in a new approach to the Czech musical production, in the worldwide context as well. In this senseit is new and unique. The Dictionary is intended for specialists, as well as for the general audience interested in music. Music theoreticians and employees of musical archives will appreciate the extensive list of specialist literature.

POEZIJA • PROZA • 1952. Almanah

Author(s): / Language(s): Croatian,Serbian

Zapisywanie wojny. Dzienniki z lat 1939–1945

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The publication is a collection of texts on diaries from the Second World War. The authors, analyzing diaries of Polish writers, present their innovative proposals on the definition and language usually applied in existing literary and cultural research on diaries.

Svět v sinogramech

Author(s): Tereza Slaměníková,David Uher / Language(s): Czech

Languages using a pleremic writing system, from which Chinese is undoubtedly the most widespread, show a much deeper connection between language units and their graphic representations since it involves the semantic dimension. What makes the Chinese writing system a truly unique phenomenon is how its graphics capture the meaning of the represented linguistic unit. This semantic connection was primarily established through graphic components with their own meanings, so-called determinatives. Although their use was primarily associated with an effort to distinguish by graphic means the (often too many) different meanings of one sinogram, the entire system also undoubtedly provides unique insight into how ancient Chinese experienced reality. The semantic diversity of sinograms subordinated to one determinative forms a particular network of contexts with some relationship to the basic concept. This book provides a concise Czech translation of the oldest known study on Chinese grammatology Shuo Wen Jie Zi (Meaning Explanation of Primary Sinograms and Structure Analysis of Secondary Sinograms) which endeavors to reflect on the Chinese writing system as an essential bearer of Chinese culture. Based on the procedures of Chinese cultural linguistics, it adopts the author's determinative-based setting and analyses the so-called semantic profile of all the 540 determinatives by arranging sinograms into groups sharing certain semantic features

Четенето и читателите в българското общество (1878 – 1944). Институцията библиотека

Author(s): Polly Mukanova / Language(s): Bulgarian

The book presents the research of the reading habits in the modern Bulgarian society after the Bulgarian Liberation (1878). It also presents the oldest and the biggest Bulgarian libraries in the cities of Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, and Ruse founded and developed between 1887 – 1944 under the influence of various institutional and public factors. The research methodology for analysis of the processes forming institutional reading in this period uses an interdisciplinary approach applicable to the research field of History of Book and Reading. The characteristics of the library reader are analyzed through statistical data and the method of historical retrospection. The research follows the development of a new kind of reader after the year 1878 within the context of the modern Bulgarian library. The reader is key factor in constructing a cultural and social identity, and part of the development processes of modern Bulgarian society. The research singles out the institutional reader as an important figure outlining the reading habits in the libraries in Bulgaria.

Edukacja humanistyczna V4 dla klimatu. Rozpoznania – dobre praktyki – rekomendacje / The V4 Humanities Education for the Climate. Diagnoses – Best Practices – Recommendations

Author(s): / Language(s): Slovak,Czech,Polish

The publication is the result of cooperation between researchers and teachers from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary as part of the project titled “The V4 Humanities Education for the Climate. Diagnoses – Best Practices – Recommendations” (VF 22020071) coordinated by the Interdisciplinary Center for Research on Humanistic Education at the University of Silesia in Katowice. The publication aims to present the issues of climate change and the idea of reformulating the tasks of contemporary humanities in the V4 countries and the world. The chapters address the issues related to the interdisciplinary perspective in academic and school environmental education and present a wide range of its implementation: from the theory of ecodidactics at both university and school level, through educational research, teaching concepts, eco-transformations in education, new methodologies, to examples of good practice (in the form of lesson plans, eco-activity or presentations of implemented projects).

Czytanie księgi zwierząt

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The book contains dissertations on animals in the Old Polish culture: it talks about human–nature relations, the respect man had for nature, his empathy for all creatures and also about defining humanism through contacts with the world of nature. The volume is the result of work of an interdisciplinary research team centered around the studio Humanism. The Hermeneutics of Values at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” of the University of Warsaw.

Naród: wspólnota wyobrażona

Author(s): Artur Jabłoński / Language(s): Polish

The book analyses and attempts to reconstruct the notion of the Kashubian nation as imagined by Jan Rompski (1913-1969) – writer, national activist and ethnographer. Rompski, founder of the Zrzeszińce political and literary group, envisioned the Kashubian identity as a collection of features from an open set encompassing in particular: territory, language, culture, and civic sense. Intertwined with the discussion of Rompski’s views are modern Kashubian identity discourses that serve to confront his narrative with ways in which Kashubian identity is imagined today.

Becoming bell hooks

Author(s): Aneta Ostaszewska / Language(s): English

This book is the story of Gloria Jean Watkins (1952-2021), a Black woman from a small town in Kentucky who became a bell hooks – a feminist icon, one of the most significant and courageous voices of the contemporary debates on racial discrimination, feminism, and women’s and minority rights. The author focuses on the autobiographical dimension of bell hooks’ essays – it is a story about “biographical work” of a woman who creates herself in the course of writing her autobiography.

Obrazowanie Zagłady

Author(s): Krzysztof Rybak / Language(s): Polish

The book analyses Polish literary works on the Holocaust for children and young adults published in the 21st century. The author examines the representation of the Shoah in books for young readers and investigates how literary and visual portraits of people, space and time as well as peritexts are constructed. To achieve this, he uses narratology, post-memory and ideology studies.

The Migration Conference 2023 Selected Papers

Author(s): / Language(s): Turkish,English,French,Spanish

The Migration Conference 2023 Selected Papers includes short papers from several tracks that were included in the TMC 2023 Hamburg programme. Migration Conferences are annual scholarly gatherings accommodating debates about migration, migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, integration, diasporas and all other relevant topics from various social science disciplines while also hosting debates involving policy makers, media and third sector representatives. The Migration Conference 2023 was hosted by the Faculty of Law at Hamburg University in Germany. Details of the conference programme and the links to the online sessions can be inspected here. www.migrationconference.net | @migrationevent | fb.me/MigrationConference | Email: migrationscholar@gmail.com

Будителският XIX век на българите. Сборник с научни статии, посветен на 200-годишния юбилей от рождението на Добри Чинтулов

Author(s): / Language(s): Bulgarian

The collection book includes 20 scientific articles by leading specialists and researchers from a National Scientific Conference in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Dobri Chintulov, held in 2022. It was organized by the Regional History Museum "Dr. Simeon Tabakov" in Sliven and the Municipality of Sliven.The topics cover various aspects of Chintulov's work, such as his roles as a teacher, poet, composer and compiler of textbooks. Part of the publication focuses on the portrayal of Sliven during the Revival period, and notable personalities are also presented. The processes of the formation of educational work, ethnology, theater, and fine art in Bulgaria are also traced in detail.

Anthology of Turkish Science Fiction Stories

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Turkish science fiction dates back to the early years of the twentieth century and serious development has been seen ever since. The writers, who escaped from the darkness of the First World War and took refuge in utopian science fiction, added the excitement created by science and technology to their texts over time. Turkish writers, who followed the science fiction works from the West and made efforts for the development of this genre, produced very qualified works that could compete with their contemporaries at some points. However, due to some historical, social, and economic problems, it was not possible for these works to meet readers in the West. In this anthology, the works of Turkish science fiction writers are brought together for the first time in English. Contemporary science fiction writers have written short stories for this anthology. Hence, the resulting diversity of stories represents a contribution to science fiction literature. An important feature of the anthology is that it includes examples showing how science and technology are perceived philosophically by authors outside of Europe and America. Since literature is an indispensable resource to investigate the equivalent of science fiction, which was born with modernism, in “post-modern” societies. This anthology of Turkish science fiction will be an important Non-Western SF source for both science fiction readers and researchers.

Преходът след 1989 г. в съвременната българска литература. Сборник с докладите от едноименната научна кръгла маса, проведена на 5 ноември 2021 г. в СУ „Св. Климент Охридски“

Author(s): Inna Peleva,Ani Burova,Albena Vacheva,Nikolay Papuchiev,Totka Monova,Boris Minkov,Liudmila Mindova,Milena Kirova,Gergina Krasteva,Kamelia Nikolova / Language(s): Bulgarian

The collection contains the papers from the academic round table “The Post-1989 Transition in Contemporary Bulgarian Literature,” held at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” in November 2021.Three decades after the onset of the Transition, the articles collected here explore its dimensions in the mirror of literature. What images of the post-1989 era does literature create? How do the contemporary works interpret the recent socialist past? Does literature participate in the formation of the perceptions and the memory of the transition? The above issues are also examined in a broader interdisciplinary perspective, in relation to the media, theatre, cinema, and cultural anthropology.

English for a Successful Career: A Study of the ESP Needs of Students of Economics and Socio-Political Studies

Author(s): Albena Stefanova,Denitsa Bozeva / Language(s): English

The monograph presents a study of the ESP needs of students of economics and socio-political studies aimed at course optimisation. The research includes two stages with the pilot one having finished in June 2021 and involving the students at the University of National and World Economy (UNWE) in Bulgaria as well as the subject, and ESP lecturers at UNWE. The second stage included students from universities with the profile of UNWE in Bulgaria and worldwide (April-October 2021). Altogether, 1106 students from seven Bulgarian and twelve foreign HEIs took part in the survey along with thirty-two faculty members who teach English, subject or both. The impressive number of respondents allowed for an in-depth and insightful research. The results from the study were analysed in detail, which led to the development of comprehensive recommendations that could be used in order to optimise course parameters and hence design more effective and engaging ESP courses for students of economics and socio-political studies. Even though the examination of the issue was related to the educational process at a particular university, there are implications for all academic institutions worldwide whose mission is to offer high-quality programmes and provide a learning-enhanced environment.

Diskurzus, kultúra, reprezentáció / Discurs, cultură şi reprezentare

Author(s): / Language(s): Romanian,Hungarian

This volume offers a selection of literary, linguistic, cinematographic and cultural studies in Hungarian and Romanian, grouped around broader themes.

Respublica Litteraria in Action

Author(s): / Language(s): English

The fourth publication in the Respublica Litteraria in Action series, part of the editorial project Corpus Epistularum Ioannis Dantisci conducted at the University of Warsaw for two decades under the direction of Anna Skolimowska and Jerzy Axer. The series features papers from participants in the scientific sessions held alongside the international council meetings of the “Registration and Publication of Ioannes Dantiscus’ Correspondence (1485–1548)” programme. The issues of the meetings deal with various aspects of the international environment in the sixteenth century, called in Latin respublica litteraria, formed by the literati, scholars and intellectuals of Europe. The latest volume, in addition to texts related to the broad topic of the representation of geographical space in the culture of the Early Modern era, includes an itinerary of Piotr Tomicki, covering the period of his tenure as Sub-Chancellor of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.

Hodnocení variabilních mechanismů hlasu, jazyka a řeči v kontextu logopedického a neurovývojového bádání

Author(s): Kateřina Vitásková,Jana Mironova Tabachová,Lucie Nohová / Language(s): Czech

"The collective monograph is focused on the investigation of selected physiological and pathological mechanisms of voice, language and speech in the context of logopedic (speech language therapy), special edcuational and neurodevelopmental, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research. These are twelve selected areas of specifics and deviations of communication, including respiration, phonation and resonance, articulation, intelligibility and understanding of speech, phatic functions, lexia and pragmatics of communication, both in the context of their development and acquired and so-called symptomatic (secondary) speech disorders. Individual sub-areas were examined with a primary emphasis on speech therapy and special pedagogical diagnostics and therapy using a mixed methodological research design, using special instrumental, test, registration and specific therapeutic methods, some of which will be adapted or newly created during the project. The publication has a transdisciplinary intersectoral character – it covers both the educational and clinical and counselling environment, uses newly adapted experimental and diagnostic methods and therapeutic materials and extends the current state of knowledge in the field of determinants of development and communication disorders in its individually and situationally variable form. The presented research responds to the long-term pandemic situation, and thus to changes in the assessment of changes and deviations in communication in the context of prevention and impacts of COVID-19, including innovated research methods and its enrichment with a combination of face-to-face field and distance electronic formats."

Život ve 30. a 40. letech dvacátého století v multikulturních regionech střední Evropy na základě autobiografických próz německy píšících autorů – Ota Filip, Horst Bienek a další

Author(s): Jan Kubica / Language(s): Czech

The text deals with life in the 1930s and 1940s in the area of today's western and northern Bohemia, southern Poland and northern Moravia, based on the autobiographical prose of Ota Filip and Horst Bienko. The texts of these authors refer mainly to northern Moravia and the historical region of Upper Silesia. The memoirs of other authors - Frank Sikora, Eva Althammer-Švorčíková, Hubert Sigmund and Gerold Tietz - deal with life in western and northern Bohemia. In addition to the texts of these authors, the writings of other memoirists (oral history), publicists (contemporary and contemporary texts) and historians (monographs, historiographical studies) are also taken into account.