The Shameless Dance Cannot Last Forever

Author(s): Kinga Dunin / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

From a sociological perspective, shame is an instrument of social control, while shamelessness is a way to break out from under that control. One strategy of shamelessness is camp, both as a poetics and as a practice. Dunin’s analysis of Witold Gombrowicz’s short story ‘Lawyer Kraykowski’s Dancer’ as well as Michał Witkowski’s ‘life writing’ attempts to answer how effective this strategy is and to identify its limits.

„Грозни прози“ на Гео Милев. Преосмисляне на библейските символи

Author(s): Evdokia Petrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2015

The “Ugly proses” texts are devoted to uprising in 1919 in Germany. By his ecstatic expressionistc language Geo Milev paint a verbal picture of a burst, outdated moral reality, which is like a resurrection for those who are like already dead in this reality. This historical event is presented in the symbolism of the biblical context which enchances the feeling of predertermination of the event and its perception as an apocalypse. Namely that is typical in the spirit of expressionistic poetics.

Фантастиката – медиум на модерността: Светослав Минков

Author(s): Nikolina Burneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The article introduces the reader to the context of the momentous transformations of the aesthetic and worldview paradigms at the end of ‘the long 19th century’ and the arrival of modernity in Bulgarian culture which had– until then – been traditional and folklore-based. In this context, the author traces the early work of Svetoslav Minkov – a distinguished author of fantastic literature and cofounder of Bulgarian diabolical literature. The article focuses on comparative reading of several short stories by Gustav Meyrink and Svetoslav Minkov in order to highlight the arguments supporting the discussion of this literary movement in a broad, European context.

Историите на Джуха ал-Хариси

Author(s): Nedelya Kitaeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 40/2020

Short introduction to Jokha al-Harthi, her writing and the cultural context she comes from by the translator, Dr. Nedelya Kitaeva, who is teaching Arabic language and Culture at the New Bulgarian University.

Pandemia koronawirusa w utworach dla dzieci. Analiza w świetle badań nad dziecięcą książką informacyjną

Author(s): Krzysztof Rybak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2020

The paper analyses e-books and – contextually – animated films about the coronavirus pandemic in the light of the research on children’s informational books. The first part of the article is to outline the terminology and definitions fostered in the Polish scholarly discourse. The second part provides a proper analysis of selected works available in Polish. Three important elements of children’s informational books are discussed: the use of illustrations, inclusion of fictional elements, and presentation of the current state of knowledge.

Tihana Klepač. 𝐷𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑅𝑒𝑑 𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑒𝑠: 𝐵𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑎 𝐵𝑎𝑦𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑦𝑡ℎ

Author(s): Vanja Polić / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

Loss of Home and Loathing Nostalgia in the English Writing of Central and Eastern European Exiles

Author(s): Christoph Houswitschka / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Writers who are forced into exile by a hostile government tend to suffer from the grievances of loss and deprivation. They either divorce themselves completely from their former home country or they look back in nostalgia. After 1989, leaving central and eastern European homes was not only a free decision, but could also be an act of liberation. Leaving had not been an easy option before the Iron Curtain had come down. Changing one’s language and writing in English represented this act of liberation. Creating a new memory (e.g. Eva Hoffman) and a literary persona in the language of globalization and cosmopolitanism meant to look back and to discover the new at the same time. This article investigates this tension by reading writers who have published books about both their former home countries and their new English-speaking environments. Loathing nostalgia in the creative process of writing has helped authors, such as Bulgarian Kapka Kassabova and Miroslav Penkov and Czech writer Jan Novak, to imagine new spaces of cosmopolitan belonging without being in denial about the places of their childhood thus redefining the concept of eastern Europe altogether.

𝑅𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑑𝑖𝑒’𝑠 𝐶𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠-𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 by Dana Bădulescu

Author(s): Galina Devedjieva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Красотата като автентичност и автентичността като красота в разказите на Николай Хайтов

Author(s): Nikolay Turlakov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

In this article, I examine some philosophical intuitions and existential motives in the descriptions of the beautiful in the stories of Nikolay Haitov. When Haitov asks what the "soul” of our language is, “its beauty", he does not give an explicit answer, but simply describes the beauty he sees in the richness of the Bulgarian language. If the beauty of language, which has found expression in folk songs and stories, implies the gift of unknown "talented masters", bards and story tellers, then, for its part, this beauty lasts only insofar as it is daily revived and shared in people’s soul. The soul wants a soul. Haitov's stories are valuable from a philosophical point of view, because they show the primordial and inseparable connection of beauty and language – the sense of beauty is cultivated as an experience in language. And then any masterly artistic description of the beautiful can be considered as a kind of reciprocal relation of language to the sense of the beautiful, in which the latter is enriched and constructed as taste.

Teaching Conrad’s “The Secret Sharer” from the Perspective of Postcolonial Ecocriticism in Twenty-First Century Taiwan

Author(s): Pei-Wen Clio Kao / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

The article explores some of the key challenges of teaching Joseph Conrad’s fiction in present-day Taiwan. It focuses on how to teach “The Secret Sharer” (1910) through the lens of ecocriticism, aided by Peter Fudakowski’s 2014 film adaptation. Targeted at a class called “Literature of the Sea,” teaching Conrad’s fiction is expected to guide students to re-evaluate the literary canon from a contemporary perspective. The film adaptation is employed as a teaching supplement to the original short story. The entire process of teaching and reading this work is structured by the threefold role of “Intercultural Translator,” “Intercultural Interpreter,” and “Intercultural Mediator” played by the director Fudakowski, the teacher, and one of the film’s characters, Li. The article reflects on how Fudakowski’s film adaption helps students understand the significance and relevance of Conrad’s short story to the twenty-first century world in general and Taiwan in particular.

Ономастикон драматичної поеми «Бояриня» Лесі Українки

Author(s): Tetyana Krupenyova / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 1/2018

Le bilboquet, un badinage dangereux ? Une étude sur Le Bilboquet de Marivaux

Author(s): Pan Jingxuan / Language(s): French Issue: 13/2023

The “Le Bilboquet” of Marivaux illustrates the social frenzy incited by this game at that time. Driven by resentment against the bilboquet, which distracts his mistress, the narrator elaborates on how Madness has conquered the people of Europe through this frivolity. Through the depiction of the contagion of the game, we could observe how the pleasure it brings and the mimetic desire of men contribute to the success of the bilboquet. The social disorder resulting from this ludic frenzy leads us to question the nature of the game: is it merely an entertainment or does it actually represent a danger? Such a trifle could have grave consequences, in line with the logic of reevaluating the “nothingness” that we can find in most of Marivaux’s works.

LITERARY AESTHETICS, CRITIQUE AND HISTORY IN THE PAGES OF FAMILIA MAGAZINE, THE FIFTH SERIES, FROM 1965 TO 1989

Author(s): Ruxandra Gavra / Language(s): English Issue: 36/2024

The fifth series of “Familia” magazine, from 1965 to 1989, under the direction of Alexandru Andrițoiu, is notable for its retention of established, permanent columns as an element of identity. The large number of collaborators ensures that all components of culture are covered. The direction of critique and the foregrounding of the essay constitute a benchmark of this series. The “Familia” writers defend ideas or values, theorizing on the basis of the concepts of aesthetic canon, aesthetics and the direction of critique.

STRANGE HUTSULS STORIES-CASIAN BALABAȘCIUC. FOLK LITERATURE OF THE HUTSULS

Author(s): Constantin-Andrei Pătrăucean / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 36/2024

In the present study, we created an overview of the popular literature of the huts of Bucovina, starting from the volume of stories of the writer of hut origin Casian Balabașciuc. The popular literature specific to the shacks of Bucovina starts from a symbolic interpretation of the world that the shacks often considered hostile or mysterious. Casian Balabașciuc's stories surprise the reader by presenting a world of simple people, with all their rituals, traditions and beliefs. The popular literature specific to the huts is based on animistic beliefs, the transmission of strong sacred values and the existence of a mysterious life, which unfolded as they pleased in the middle of the forest.

Ролята на баснята за възпитаване на емоционални социални компетенции

Author(s): Slawomir Krzyszka / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2024

In the article I bring the issue of using fairy tales in creating emotional social skills among children. It occupies a special place in bibliotherapy on the grounds of unique effect. The fairy tales strengthen, in fantastic form, the regional views on human intercourse and show ideals of good and justice and criteria of assessing human actions. Thanks to fairy tales, they stimulate moral development and enable to adapt socially accepted patterns of behaviour. In fairy tales the life matters are shown. They try to answer the question what the world is, which rules it governs and how to cope with fears and risks.

Българският фолклор в читанките за първи и втори клас

Author(s): Anna Georgieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2024

The article presents part of the results of a research activity carried out under the project “SUMMIT – Research, testing and analysis of the implementation of innovative approaches in the education of students and pupils from 1st to 4th grades – Part I”. The goal is for students to be prepared methodically and correctly to develop the topics related to studying/teaching works from Bulgarian folklore, included in the 27 alternative reading books from first to fourth grade, through which the “Literary Education” component is realized. Tables No. to No. 14 show the number and titles of texts from Bulgarian (and foreign) folklore that are included in the analyzed 15 reading books for first and second grade. The relative share of works from Bulgarian folklore, compared to the total number of studied works, as well as texts that are present in more than one reading book, is highlighted.

Special Issue: Hausa texts from Maradi (Niger) collected by Claude Gouffé in 1968 (with annotations in French)

Author(s): / Language(s): English,French Issue: 58/2024

SALC Special Issue 2024 is documentation of the Hausa oral tradition from Niger. The texts, originally handwritten notes from field research, are the legacy of the outstanding French researcher of the Hausa language and culture, Claude Gouffé (1926-2013). The edition preserves the original spelling rules of the texts and comments on linguistic forms and content. In the presented edition, records of interviews with an informant using the Hausa dialect from Niger are presented in thematically separate sections: ethnographic texts, oral literature texts (stories) and praise poetry (kirari).

Възприемането и осмислянето на художествен текст в начален етап на основната степен на образованието в контекста на използването на междупредметни връзки (през погледа на преподавателя)

Author(s): Desislava Krasteva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2024

The article examines the problem of perceiving and making sense of a literary text, using interdisciplinary connections for this purpose. A brief retrospective analysis is introduced, then the relevance of the problem is emphasized. The methodology of the research is presented with the survey conducted among teachers from the initial stage of the basic level of education and conclusions from the two components are drawn. The survey is entirely online. It is based on two criteria with corresponding co-indicators to them. It includes questions about the perception and understanding of literary text by students in the elementary stage, as well as the use of intersubject connections by teachers - opinions about their usefulness, examples of their application and achieving the motivation of students for the learning process; as well as the strategies used to improve skills, the difficulties students encounter, and the joint activities with parents. Relevant conclusions have been drawn.

Circulation of Books, Manuscripts, and Ideas between Hungary and Italy. Cultural Transfers in the Environment of György Klimo, Bishop of Pécs (1751–1777)

Author(s): Ágnes Dóbék / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

The period between 1750 and 1800 witnessed a significant transformation in the modernization of Hungarian culture and literature. The members of the ecclesiastical elite, who had completed their studies at the Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum in Rome, played a pivotal role in this process; they emerged as key figures in the Catholic renewal upon their return to Hungary following their studies in Rome. Their contributions extended beyond the revitalization of the Hungarian Catholic Church and religious life, encompassing the reconstruction of bishoprics, the establishment of educational institutions and libraries, and the publication and dissemination of both religious and secular literary works. This dissemination of knowledge was also closely intertwined with the influential court in Vienna. On the one hand, the rich heritage of ancient Rome played a crucial role in reshaping the baroque tradition. High-ranking clerics began to take a keen interest in the historical context of their immediate surroundings, initiating local excavations and conducting research in the Vatican Archives. On the other hand, they were greatly influenced by the vibrant culture of contemporary Rome, including Catholic reform efforts, the patronage of the Roman aristocracy, and the volumes of recent Italian literature. This paper explores the cultural influence of Bishop György Klimo of Pécs through an analysis of his correspondence with members of the ecclesiastical aristocracy in Rome and Vienna. Notably, Klimo made significant contributions to the spreading of Ludovico Antonio Muratori’s ideas in Hungary. He also played a pioneering role in disseminating knowledge by being the first among his contemporaries to open his personal library to the public. Furthermore, he commissioned research at the Vatican to compile a comprehensive history of his diocese. By examining Klimo’s endeavors, we gain valuable insights into the transformative influence of Roman culture on the Baroque tradition in Hungary. Moreover, the analysis sheds light on the distinct and organic development of the Italian line within Hungarian culture.

THE NARRATIVE CONCEPT IN MEDICAL EDUCATION. THE WRITER DOCTOR, TRANSCULTURAL EXPERIENCES

Author(s): Gabriela-Mariana Luca,Göksel Altınışık / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 38/2024

In their 1999 study, Greenhalgh and Hurwitz emphasize the importance of story in the success of the medical procedure and recommend turning the therapist's gaze to tradition. Mythology and how we treat personal histories should be included in medical practice because history is part of our lives. Our life itself is a story in itself ("a novel - if I tell you, “We hear almost constantly from all interviewees). Although people's stories are subjective, they contain a "narrative truth" that is somewhat related to "historical truth" and can provide researchers with keys to (re)discovering identity (McAdams et al., 2006: 19).Everything that happens to us is recorded in the memory of the body with which we show ourselves to the world: hope, joy, sorrow, despair. As a doctor, knowing how to listen to your patient means knowing how to use your life experience for both curative and educational purposes.The study we propose is based on the use in medical communication of a volume of short stories, signed by Göksel Altınışık, doctor, sociologist with master’s degree and writer. The volume, "As Our Hearts Keep Beating”, appeared at the Victor Babeș Publishing House in 2023, and brings attention to how a doctor can actively listen to his patient, then using his literary ability to immortalize the treated cases, turning them into working models for younger colleagues.The subjectivity of the medical author is in permanent dialogue with the anthropologist collaborator who can define the framework of the study area in a common narrative space.