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This book presents the two main Old-Bulgarian dualistic apocrypha dealing with the creation of this world, that is part of The Secret Book of Bogomils, and also a legend about the Antichrist and the end of the world.
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Another – third – volume in the self-promotion-related series entitled Self-promotion, self-presentation and one’s image presented in mass media constitutes a collection of articles which this time seek the strategy of creating one’s image in mass media. In this exceptionally receptive space one may perceive realisations of various self-promotion-related strategies which are embraced by those who attempt to make an impact on the mind of the reader, listener or spectator.Therefore the strategies which were mentioned not only furnish inspiration for reflection about various individuals or social groups who use the public space in order to promote their image but also a splendid starting point for an analysis of the media space which was embraced and in which a presentation of specific attitudes is preformed by means of word and image.We hope that the text which we present to the reader will be engaging, and will inspire reflection and discovery in the field of self-promotion-related discourse.
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Shakespeare’s King Lear is the third book of the new bilingual library "English Poetic Classics" by the East-West Publishing House. The bilingual format of this library provides readers with the opportunity to get deeper into the subtleties of the text regarding some of the most valuable works of English literature by comparing original text and its translation, and also to get into the specifics of poetic translation of classical works. Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Lear himself rages until his sanity cracks. What, then, keeps bringing us back to King Lear? The play tells us about families struggling between greed and cruelty, on the one hand, and support and consolation, on the other. Emotions are extreme, magnified to gigantic proportions. We also see old age portrayed in all its vulnerability, pride, and, perhaps, wisdom—one reason this most devastating of Shakespeare’s tragedies is also perhaps his most moving.
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This lexicon, which is structurally the first of its kind among our dictionaries, includes presented nouns and adjectives, as well as insignificant number of verbs in the Bulgarian language. The common feature is that they are derived from their proper names, with the main purpose of creating new terms in different areas of knowledge. Information in dictionary articles has a marked etymological and tight encyclopedic character. Derivatives are words formed from the headword by the addition of a suffix (for example, enshrined at the entry for enshrine). These are often entered as the final section of an entry. Many derivatives are included as headwords in their own right. They are followed by a quotation block illustrating examples of usage.
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“Bulgarian Lexicology and Lexicography” is a result of the lasting interest of V. Radeva in semantics of the words as the main language unit. It does not only lean on lectures and lecture courses in Leipzig, West Berlin and Saarbrucken, but also it contains a wealth of information that gives the opportunity to create interest in further lexicological issues. Built on the theoretical foundations and achievements of modern lexicology, the work reveals the character of the word as a nomination unit, which through its speech realization performs the communicative function of language. The presentation of word formation is consistent with the role of the derivative word in structuring the lexical system and clarifying the link between word-forming and lexical meaning. Semantic connections in the lexical system are addressed in their development and modification to reveal the dynamic nature of vocabulary. The creation of new lexical units, the elimination of outdated words and meanings, as well as the acquisition of a foreign language vocabulary are clarified as adaptation of the vocabulary to the communicative needs of the spokespersons of the language. Included lexicography section contains information that shows the close relationship of lexicology with lexicographical theory and practice. Designed primarily for philology students, this work will be useful for anyone who seeks to learn and use the Bulgarian word(s) correctly.
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The publication of the present Festschrift volume was suggested and initiated by the Department of Bulgarian Literature and Theory of Literature, School of Letters at Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski. It is dedicated to the seventieth anniversary of assoc. prof. Atanas Buchkov, long-term head of the department. This volume includes papers of literary scholars in various areas from Bulgarian and foreign academic centres – Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, The Institute of Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, St Cyril and St Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, The South-West University Neofit Rilski in Blagoevgrad, Queen Mary University London, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Tver State University Russia. The papers are published in honour of the literary scholar and teacher who merits a place amidst the most prominent representatives of Plovdiv philological community, a person of incontestable contributive influence and renoun in nurturing and solidifying the philological and humanitarian education at Plovdiv University. This Festschrift unites scientific researches devoted to issues representative of prof. Atanas Buchkov’s scholarly interests – the theoretical heritage of M. M. Bakhtin; the dialogic principle of/in literature and culture; author and his aesthetic and social roles; methodology of literary theory and of the humanities; the possibilities, premises, and routes of interpretation.
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The collective work contains 37 analytical texts in the field of Bulgarian and European works of literature and cultures. The main ideologies, aesthetical trends and literary languages are observed in the articles.
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Plato, Cicero and Machiavelli are considered the classics of political philosophy. Their research constantly stimulates the imagination of researchers and provokes further interpretations. What seemed particularly interesting to me was to illustrate, by dint of deliberations focused on the ethos of a political leader, a certain continuity of thought that can be noticed in the views of these thinkers, and also to indicate the differences appearing in them, resulting from the personal nature of their perceptions and individual understanding of state reality. Despite a keen interest in the writings of Plato, Cicero or Machiavelli, and in the few works that compare ancient thought with the opinions of Renaissance authors, there is still a shortage of this kind of study. My sense of unsatisfaction was augmented by the realization that the work of Francesco Guicciardini – which is a valuable source of information about the social and political situation of Renaissance Florence and offers an additional reference point for Machiavelli's opinions, in this way painting a more complete picture of the era and allowing a better understanding of the contemporary trends – has not been properly recognized in the Polish literature.
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Memory – Discourse – Identity. Interdisciplinary Reflections is a bilingual book aligning with the memorial discourse trend. It contains reflections on the condition of man and the world in the context of Polish and German memory discourse in the post-war culture. The authors refer to the category of memory in public and private dimensions and present various approaches to the issues of memory turn and transformations concerning mutual relations and interpenetration of literature, music, art. And contemporary media. The book includes the papers written by German and Polish studies scholars, historians, and art. Historians from Poland, Germany and Spain.
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This sixth volume in the series From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria offers readers wide-ranging explorations of the society, literature and culture of 18th- and 19th-century Britain, with investigations of Victorian social problems, the visual and material culture of the Victorian period, and comparative studies of international and trans-national questions. Some themes and authors have long been well-known to the series, but this publication also contains new names and new ideas.
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At the court of Komnenoi, in the twelfth century only four novels (romances) were written. One of these was Rhodanthe and Dosikles by Theodor Prodromos, the first novel since eighth hundred years. The author was the most famous poet of his time and he wrote numerous secular and religious works. Prodromos’ Rhodanthe and Dosikles consists of nine books in which the author describes, in the realities of ancient Greece, the adventures of two young beloveds. Rhodanthe and Dosikles were captured by pirates, imprisoned and separated, but in the end they meet again. Behind the trivial tale there is a work full of rhetoric art and full of allusion to the twelfth century Byzantium.
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The book I, Euripides presents a wide array of interviews, records of meetings, and remembrances of Teodor Parnicki, published in press from 1957 to 1988. They are programmatic, critical, and autobiographical in character, and they reveal a very interesting image of literary life in the Polish People’s Republic. The texts collected in the book enable a better understanding of the reformulation of the poetics of the historical novel, a goal Parnicki accomplished in the 1950s and 1960s. They also show the turn toward experimental prose in the author’s writings in the subsequent decade and explain Parnicki’s philosophical, theological, and literary inspirations. Parnicki’s biography plays an essential role in both Parnicki’s literary and non-literary work. The changes over time in his autobiographical discourse, itself conditioned by changing political circumstances, are immensely interesting. The first texts gathered in this volume were published during Parnicki’s period in Mexico, when Instytut Wydawniczy PAX [PAX Publishing House] reprinted Aecjusz, ostatni Rzymianin [Aetius, the Last Roman] and Srebrne orły [Silver Eagles], both heralding Parnicki’s return to national literary life. In the 1960s and 1970s, Parnicki published over a dozen novels which were widely commented upon in the press and during literary sessions. The last text reprinted in the volume is a recording prepared by Parnicki for the event promoting his prose, which took place in Moscow several days before his death. By bringing together the texts written during three decades, it is possible to perceive changes in Parnicki’s attitude toward the historical novel and toward literature and the role of the writer. The book I, Euripides gathers texts which have not been published together in any anthology and were written by one of the most outstanding Polish prose writers of the twentieth century.
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This study brings together three canonical Greek orators from different periods. Antiphon, chronologically the first in the canon, takes us to the latter part of the 5th century BC, to the Peloponnesian war, echoes of which are heard in his speeches, and which ultimately brought about his downfall and death. Dinarchus on the other hand, the last of the canon, made a name for himself at the end of the Classical period, and lived on to witness the upheavals of the early Hellenistic age. Lycurgus finally whose life and work to some extent chronologically overlaps with Dinarchus provides a glimpse into the traumatic memory of Chaeronea (338 BC) which marked the end of Athens’ imperial ambitions. In this book the reader will find a Polish translation of the extant speeches of the three orators along with a selection of the preserved fragments of their work. The speeches in question all belong to the forensic genre. Their translations are generously annotated and prefaced with an introduction dealing with the authors’ biographies, an outline of the historical moment in which they lived, and a handful of observations about their style and idiolect. In addition, each of the speeches is also provided with more specific remarks which concern the nature of the case at hand, its legal underpinning, and a prosopography of the parties involved in the dispute.
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The volume inspired by Michaił Bachtin’s idea of language expression, allows to define, analyse and interpret modern Polish culture – with reference to historical changes in media context – in terms of verbal creativity and language practice appropriate to it. It shows emerging communication environments, determined by the appearance of new media, creating new spaces and new, different spheres of action, which are linguistically exploited and transformed in everyday artistic practice by cultural participants.
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A team of specialists prepared a critical edition of the oldest census in the Nahuatl language, complementing the text with the tools for independent translation and interpretation of its content. This book is the first publication of this sixteenth-century Aztec manuscript, which for centuries was almost “invisible” to scientists. One of the most valuable features of the Tepoztlan census is that it creates the opportunity to look into the homes of ordinary people.
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The essays in this volume discuss various aspects of urbanscapes and landscapes, and analyse their depiction and significance in selected literary and visual works, exploring various approaches to the city, urban spaces, landscape, countryside and topography in the British literature and culture of the long 18th and 19th centuries.
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The volume "Peripheries in the Croatian Language, Culture and Society" is the second colllection of articles, which are the result of the meeting at the international scientific conference that took place in Katowice in 2019. The first and most extensive chapter of the volume, titled "Croatian Standard Language and Dialects" consists of articles in which the peripheries and peripherality appear most often in relation to the marginal position of certain linguistic phenomena in the Croatian standard language and in regional variants. In the second part, titled "Croatian Language in Teaching and Translation", there are texts in which the peripheries and peripherality are related to the glottodidactics of the Croatian language and traductology. The third chapter of the volume, "Croatian Language Abroad", covers works in which the peripheries and peripherality are closest to their original, geographical meaning, as they refer to a place remote from the center, which in this particular case is Croatia. The diachronic perspective in the study of the peripheries and peripherality is visible in the texts collected in the fourth chapter of the volume, titled "Croatian Language and Croatian Writing over the centuries". The last chapter, "Cultural and Sociological Contexts of the Periphery", presents the results of research that differ from purely linguistic issues, but the peripheries and peripherality analyzed in them fit into the main theme of the project.
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The book consists of three cycles, “Express pot”, “Nervus vagus” and “Letters”. Every story, especially those in the cycle “Express pot”, suggest unresolved emotional tensions / relationships / situations that culminate in the kitchen and with food. Blagojević places these primordial, traditional spaces of women's business in and around the kitchen on a new level and transforms them into spaces of culmination or resolution of the inner dramas of her heroines. The stories told in this way reveal a new dimension of sauerkraut, polenta or meat hammers because they cease to be food or tools in the kitchen and become a symbol of rebellion, disapproval, social disintegration, social status. Overall, “Nervus Vagus and Other Stories” is a collection of likable and readable stories that will easily win over readers with a strong emotional charge, interesting influences in everyday life and a constant walk between the tragic and the comic and make them look at seemingly ordinary things from a different perspective.
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This book deserves attention and positive criticism, primarily because it is a strongly engaged anti-war reminder of the refugee suffering, the forgotten column of the poor, the trouble from which God seems to have given up. Without any embellishment and idealization, often characteristic of children's literature, even naturalistic refinement you would say, Dakić records and literary shapes his memories. The book “Fiver” is characterized by narrative polyphony and skillfully organized auto-referential text. In it, different destinies, stories and confessions touch and intertwine. They literally flow from several branches, as towards the Danube, and merge towards Željko Nišević and his life story, his discreet heroism. They flow like individual refugee destinies that merged into an indelible column of the main road of recent history.
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