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Attention to the tensions between vernacular and cosmopolitan languages has been growing in recent years. This article discusses various aspects of vernacularity, focusing on Dante’s classic treatise, as well on twentieth-century authors, and reflects on its significance for how one understands 'world literature'.
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The aim of the paper is to present the subversive role of literature on the example of the Feral Tribune magazine and library. The analysis begins by listing the types of repressive measures the magazine was dealing with in the time of SFRJ and independent state of Croatia which ultimately led to the cancellation of the magazine in 2008. Following the literary procedures in the published texts, the interpretation deals with forms and contexts of literature which are deemed as subversive in the Feral. As examples of the most important art forms in the Feral, the author singles out the columns Bilježnica Robija K. and Greatest shits, shorthand forms of burlesque comedy, provocative aphorisms and travestied forms of poems published in the magazine. Additionally, the paper is also looking into the method in which the publishing venture of the Feral Tribune library subversively influences the social and cultural atmosphere of Croatia and its vicinity. The criteria of the book selection for the library itself and the manner in which the literary discourse of the chosen works was undermining nationalist and clero‑fascist metanarratives are further explained in the final part of the paper.
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Book review: Books as Events in Europe and the Ottoman Empire (17th c. -19th c.). Editors: Nadezhda Alexandrova, Raya Zaimova, Anna Aleksieva. Sofia, Bulgarian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, 2020.] http://bulgc18.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Dalgiat-osemnadeseti-vek-3.pdf
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Homi Baba, American-Indian literary theorist and philosopher of cul- ture, is one of the key figures in postcolonial theory. His original contribution is in the introduction of the terms „hybridization“, „mimicry“, „cultural difference“,„ambivalence of colonial discourse“ and „third space“, which enriches the repertoire of postcolonial theories and problematizes these theories in the key of poststructur- alist philosophies, especially those of Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault. As a postcolonial literary and cultural theorist, Baba opposes binary divi- sions of theories / policies in The Location of Culture (1994) to try to show the true meaning of postcolonial theories. Of course, in order to arrive at this new practice, it was necessary to discuss some aporia into which his thought often falls, especially to develop a complicated dialectic of the ambivalence of post/colonial discourse. In parallel with postcolonial thought, Baba develops philosophy of culture, which is thematized in the second part of the text. In the essay „DissemiNation“ (1990), as a poststructuralist-inspired thinker he does not derive a systematic transcultural theory, but only deconstructively points to the „splitting points“ of the unison-understood Culture as a monolithic and monopolistic Western narrative.
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Starting from the premise that contemporary crisis is a pervasive continuation of the modern “series of interrelated crises” (Fernández-Caparrós and Brígido-Corachán vii), this article examines the manner in which the US theater has responded to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Simultaneously considering crises as “agents of change and transformation” (xvii) and bearing in mind the #MeToo, and Black Lives Matter movements, the article questions the likelihood of contemporary American theater overcoming its own crisis of representation. Relating modern and current crises, the essay first outlines twentieth century dramatic literature and theaters against the backdrop of the World Wars, the 1918 health crisis, economic depression, and post-war (racialized) society, focusing on plays by American women of color. The study then centers on dramatic and theatrical developments brought about by the annus horribilis of 2020, surveying new genres, authors and performances, and discerning no significant improvement in systemic discrimination on Broadway stages. The essay also offers complementary reading of Trouble in Mind (1955), a meta-drama mirroring systemic racial and gender discrimination in American theaters, and By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (2011) which unravels similar issues, albeit in the film industry.
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The basic link between the four authors, mentioned in the title of the present research, is the constituting of the dialogue between the cultures in the topos of ‘between’, ‘the border space’. Central to the plotline of the novels are the so-called ‘not-places’ (non-lieux, Nicht-Orte) (Auge), transtopoi (Foucault) - airports, railway stations, harbours, planes, trains, ships, refugee camps, hotels, vacation places, parking lots, gas-stations, shopping malls. „The open“ spaces are not the only local markers; they often turn into a main character in that type of literary texts. These are the spaces that question standard models of behaviour and thinking; that change identities, transfer and gather together different cultural standards.
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The text presents the views on Dostoevsky’s work of Polish emigrant writers after 1939, who published in the emigrant publishing house “Culture”: Witołd Gombrowicz, Czesław Miłosz, Stanisław Lem, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Stanisław Mackiewicz, Jerzy Stempowski, Józef Czapski. Their main texts are analyzed, in which the following issues are covered: the Russian specificity of his religious and philosophical views; Polish-Russian relations and the question of Dostoevsky’s „polonophobia”, relations between Russia and the West; universal philosophical-psychological and existential views of man and society; literary polyphony.
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Book review: Galin Tihanov. World Literature, Cosmopolitism, Exile. Sofia, Kralitsa Mab, 2022.
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Book review: Vladimir Sabourín. Studies. 2023
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Book review: Antoaneta Robova. Artistic Characters and Cycle of Arts in Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s Prose Writings. Sofia, St Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2022, 304 p., ISBN 978-954-07-5505-2
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Book review: Angel V. Angelov. Philology, Literature and Symbolic Geography of Europe: Erich Auerbach, Leo Spitzer, Edward Said, Stefan Zweig, Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Sofia, Bulged, 2022.
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Book review: Miglena Nikolchina, God with Machine. Subtracting the Human (From Romanticism to Transhumanism). Sofia, Versus Publishing, 2022
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Mihai Eminescu’s indianism has been researched by scholars and critics like Amita Bhose or Mircea Itu, but the Buddhist component of his writings was not thoroughly analysed. The present study aims to investigate some fundamental Buddhist concepts that the Romanian writer recycled in his works. All of Mihai Eminescu’s friends knew about his keen interest in Buddhism, as Cătălin Cioabă’s book Mărturii despre Eminescu (2022) revealed to the public, and his fascination for this particular philosophical Indian system was reflected in his poems. The main research questions of this paper are: “Which are the Buddhist concepts that Mihai Eminescu intertextually used in his works?” and “Why did he choose those philosophical ideas?” In the analysis of the Buddhist dimension of Eminescu’s poetry, the following methods will be indispensable: close reading, hermeneutics, intertextuality and stylistics.
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This article compares the way a play was structured in ancient Greece and ancient India. The different types of actors that can appear during a play (heroes, heroines, companions, etc.) and the qualities they must have (both physically and morally), the types of plays, the length and their ultimate purpose.
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This paper compares the five texts regarding Padmasambhava written before Zangs gling ma (dBa’ bzhed and four manuscripts discovered in Dunhuang - Pelliot tibétain 44, IOL Tib J 321, IOL Tib J 644 and Pelliot tibétain 307) with the texts from Zangs gling ma, in an attempt to identify similarities and differences between them and to reach conclusions resulting from examining them together. The paper also addresses the question of historical credibility of Zangs gling ma, taking into consideration its connection with dBa’ bzhed, as well as the question on length of Padmasambhava’s stay in Tibet, by identifying texts in Zangs gling ma that refer to places in Tibet where the master stayed.
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Review of: Mihaela Gligor and Elisabetta Marino (Eds.), Tagore beyond Borders: Essays on His Influence and Cultural Legacy. London, New York: Routledge, 2023
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Review of: Mihaela Gligor & Lipi Ghosh (Eds.), Between Two Worlds: Romania and India. Essays on Expanding Borders through Culture, Cluj-Napoca: Cluj University Press / Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2023.
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Review of: Lipi Ghosh (Editor), Rabindranath Tagore in South-East Asia. Culture, Connectivity and Bridge Making, New Delhi: Primus Books, 2016, 138 pp., ISBN: 978-93-84082-80-2.
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Review of: Mahasweta Devi, Our Santiniketan. Translated by Radha Chakravarty, London, New York, Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2022, 133 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8574-2-901-8.
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