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Lingua colorum nell’”Egloga III” di Nemesiano

Author(s): Anna Kucz / Language(s): Italian Publication Year: 0

The expressions which determine colours are indispensable element of the world description in Nemesianus’ Eclogues. Their specification provides further precious information about the models of perception and interpretation of the world presented in the works written by the Carthaginian poet in the third century A.D. I would like to show in what way mentioned poet exploits colours in the world representation. Carrying out research on the linguistic material I put great emphasis on updating linguistic and cultural connotations in one of the Carthaginian poet’s Eclogues. As far as the colours indicating is concerned, it is necessary to highlight its strong connection with social tradition embodied in the Latin poetry.

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Lipy czarnoleskie, lipy borzęcińskie. Na podstawie twórczości Jana Kochanowskiego i Józefa Barana

Author(s): Kalina Sikora / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article attempts a comparative study of two poems: a Renaissance and a contemporary one, connected through a species of a tree, i.e. the linden. In both poems, the linden situates itself at the center of the poetic imagery. The article is particularly interested in the portrayals of the tree and the world of the poem created around it. Those two poems, written four hundred years apart, complement each other at the same time as they enter a dialogue concerning the place of nature in the life of man. Moreover, the search for the sources of inspiration allows to investigate the significance of the motif of the linden against the backdrop of the entire oeuvre of both writers.

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David Hoppius i jego parafrazy horacjańskie (prolegomena)

Author(s): Piotr Urbański / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article presents a hitherto unstudied volume of paraphrases of Horace, penned by David Hoppius and entitled „Parodiae in libros odarum et epodon Q. Horatii Flacci rebus sacris maximam partem accomodatae”, published in Szczecin in 1634. The volume was conceived as a spiritual reading for pious Lutherans, who could find there Christian equivalents of all songs, epodes and Carmen saeculare. The volume constitutes one of the largest Protestant collections of paraphrases of Horace, if not the largest one, whose structure and contents closely resembled volumes popular among the Jesuits. Hoppius’s choices and decisions as a translator (since such parody‑paraphrase should be considered intercultural translation) are informed by the idea of varietas, which serves – similarly to Horace’s version – as the organizing principle for the particular chapters.

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Опит върху литературния ХХ век. Хипотеза и методологически импликации

Author(s): Cleo Protokhristova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

This text discusses the possibility for the literary twentieth century to be rationalized as a definite given. Focusing on this problem is a reflex of the fashionable in the last few decades fundamental questioning of the capacity and validation of historicist discourse. The routine uses of the concept of a “literary century” are juxtaposed to an alternative construct, pragmatically applicable because based on a notion of entirety, imagined in relative synchronicity and marked by a paradigm of availabilities.As a result of this strategy, an alternative image of the literary twentieth century springs up. Unlike the traditional literary-historicist perspective, this image comes from a sort of ‘mapping’ as its role is to establish the compatibility of selected components and then to systematize them. Such a strategy certainly prioritizes synchronic over diachronic overview and posits the domination of paradigmatic over syntagmatic patterns.

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Ferrying a Thinker Across Time and Language

Author(s): Galin Tihanov / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This article is an attempt to understand how the work of a thinker travels across time, and what journeying through languages and cultures has to do with these peregrinations. There is more at stake in this process than the certainty of canonization would suggest. Building on my previous work, I want to examine the principal trajectories of appropriating Bakhtin in the West since the 1960s; this will allow me to revisit the question of Bakhtin’s longevity, and the potential of his work to gain traction in current debates on world literature. The agenda of reviving and opening up Modern Languages is inseparable from thinking through their encounters within the practice of translation, and Bakhtin’s work can serve as a litmus test of appropriation that involves constant meta-reflexion on what constitutes translation in different cultural zones.

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The Myth of Er and the Roots of Literary Polyphony

Author(s): Atanas Manchorov / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This paper seeks to explain why literary polyphony is not only a formal analogy, as Bakhtin argues, but also a significant offshoot of Western learning. In the myth of Er, the spindle of Necessity (Ananke) represents the universe: when in motion, celestial bodies make music (musica universalis), which is by its very nature polyphonic. Hence, attention is drawn to this concept and its presence into the integrated liberal arts curriculum: from Pythagoras and Plato to Robert Fludd and Kircher. The conclusion is that Dostoevsky’s literary polyphony is not a complete novelty and that his contribution is one of degree rather than kind.

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Литературата като фабрика, литературознанието като фабрика

Author(s): Rumyana Zlatanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The emergence of Russian formalism as a literary-theoretical school in the 1910s coincides with the systematic and violent implementation of communist state order in Soviet Russia. Although the first years after the October Revolution were mainly characterized by physical terror and atrocities, soon after the assumption of power the communist regime introduces as an additional implementation tool a severe ideological censorship forcing all agents in the cultural field – individuals, groups and institutions – to act as promoters of communist propaganda. One of the distinguished trends in the propaganda especially in the period 1918-1923 was the development of the concept of the so-called “production art”. Particularly in this environment and as part of their own participation in the debate, the leading members of Russian formalism Viktor Shklovsky and Osip Brik launched a theoretical analogy between literature and factory, on the one hand, and between literary studies and factory, on the other. The paper describes and discusses the gradual structuring of this two-fold analogy in some works of the two literary scholars in the period 1917-1929. It focuses especially on two aspects. Namely: how the analogy was integrated into the overall literary theory of Russian formalism, and how the two literary scholars used the analogy in order to outwit the communist doctrine.

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Още веднъж за изпитанията на авторството

Author(s): Radosvet Kolarov / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The article deals with the doomed to failure efforts to break the bond between writing and the biographical personality of the author, to erase the traces of his biography. Emphasis is put on the responsibility of the writer to the society in which he lives. It is pointed out that the modern paradigm, outlined by the chaos theory, the catastrophic theory, dissipative systems, as well as by the so called “butterfly effect”, puts in a new light the possibility of the writer to have an effect on the social system.

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От смъртта на автора до възвръщането на една писателка

Author(s): Milena Kirova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The article stems from the popular concept “crisis of authorship”, promoted by the Russian literary scholar Mihail Bakhtin, implemented and developed by Atanas Buchkov in his works throughout the years. The crisis of authorship gradually developed into a new concept, “the death of the author”, in the context of French post-structuralism. Yet, Bulgarian literature knows another process which could be called “oblivion of the author”. What I have in mind is its capacity to forget, sometimes completely, some writers even among those who have been well known in their time. Such is the case with Evgenia Dimitrova (1875-1930), the best known Bulgarian woman prose writer during the first three decades of the 20th century, author of the first psychological novel in our literature. The article aims to revive and to introduce her name and her works in the history of Bulgarian literature.

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"Не съм": Естетическа волеизява и апофатически определения

Author(s): Albena Hranova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The paper deals with the “I am not…” formula of Bulgarian lyric poetry and refers to two specific cases – that of a 1873 satirical poem of Bulgaria’s greatest poet of the nineteenth century Hristo Botev, and that of Nikolay Liliev’s lyrical discourse, a paragon of Bulgarian symbolism of the second and third decades of the twentieth century. Botev rejected his own context by making an apophatic canon, a list of writers taken as laughing stock. Liliev did not pronounce any writers’ names yet he rejected the social images and roles of the writers of his decade. Thus, by negating names and discourses or by negating writers’ roles and images, both authors aimed at definitely declaring their bias of non-belonging to their literary contexts.

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Възрастта на персонажа като морално-религиозен проблем в Петокнижието на Достоевски

Author(s): Nikolay Neychev / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The article deals with the problem of time and its influence on the moral world of the characters in Dostoevsky Pentateuch. It turns out that the age of the hero determines his place in the spiritual scale of values, where the highest value is childhood, and the lowest degree is old age. Dostoevsky believes that it is possible to save man from the defamatory power of chronos. Remembrances and suffering return the child's guise, restoring in the person the "image and likeness" of God.

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Световна литература & Превод: Рапсодия за две понятия

Author(s): Lyubka Lipcheva-Prandzeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The present paper traces the reasons for the mutual (mis)recognition of two in essence intrinsically semantically inter-related concepts: World literature and translation. By chartering some stages in the cultural debates about them in the period between the 19th and the 21st century (Goethe, Auerbach, Schleiermacher, Ortega y Gasset and a number of contemporary scholars), the analysis does not aim at presenting a panorama but at elucidating the biases and prejudices that led to this “theoretical shortsightedness”: the high expectations of cosmopolitanism from the beginning of the 19th century, the sharp negativism towards mass culture, the denial of the creative essence of translation, today’s heightened demands for inter- and transcultural communication, behind which we can very often straightforwardly discern, among other things, market mechanisms.

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За диалозите в литературата, политкоректността и инакомислието

Author(s): Inna Peleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The study is focused on Yordan Radichkov’s novel Everyone and No-one (1975). At first glance, the work meets the normative requirements of socialist realism for “correct” artistic representation of reality. A closer scrutiny, however, will discern in Radichkov’s text a number of “incorrect” things, among which one can feel the expression of deep disappointment over the unfulfilled (and unfulfillable) project of the Revolution to create a new (better) man and a new (better) world. This disappointment partly manifests itself in the peculiar dialogue with Geo Milev’s poem September – one of the most powerful “prophetic” articulations of left-wing ideology in the Bulgarian context…

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"Поэма осени" Рубена Дарио в переводе Геннадия Шмакова и "Пьяцца Маттеи" Иосифа Бродского: Проблема влияния

Author(s): Alexandr Stepanov / Language(s): Russian Publication Year: 0

The object of study is the comparative analysis of Ruben Dario’s Poem of Autumn, translated by Gennadiy Shmakhov, and Joseph Brodsky’s “Piazza Mattei”. The aim is to find grounds for the possibility of Shmakhov’s influence on Brodsky’s work. Both poems are written in rhymed 4-to-2 step iambic quatrains with a slight difference in the structure of clauses: in Shmakhov’s translation there is the alternation of male and female endings, while in Brodsky’s poem we find only female ones. In the course of the analysis, we come to the conclusion that the rhythm, the tonality, the topical structure and the atmosphere of love of life with elements of hedonism, as well as the mythological semantics of some images of Ruben Dario’s poem could be taken to persist in Brodsky’s memory and to somehow manifest themselves in Piazza Mattei. Even if Brodsky had not known Shmakhov’s translation, still the typological proximity of the two poems makes an interesting example of literary interrelations.

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"Истанбул" от Орхан Памук - западният поглед

Author(s): Elena Getova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The paper traces the possible parallels between Walter Benjamin’s Book of Passages and Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk. The conclusions lead to identifying a search for the “Western gaze” as a narrative model for constructing the personal world of memory in the novel by the Turkish narrator.

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Как геният ни се вдражава, или още веднъж за понятията от областта на културата през българското Възраждане

Author(s): Adelina Strangeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The article considers the process of assimilation of aesthetic and cultural concepts in mid-nineteenth century Bulgarian literature. It comments on the place of these new terms in books, textbooks, and popular science editions, and compares their interpretation and understanding by different authors.

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От фейлетона и разказа до романа

Author(s): Ivan Ruskov / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

Stoyan Zaimov is the first reviewer who analyses in detail the biography of Hristo Botev‘s by Zahari Stoyanov. Zaimov shows weaknesses of different types, he adds and corrects facts from Botev‘s life. On the other hand, he admires the pages in which Zahari Stoyanov, in his inimitable style, displays events and scenes from Botev‘s life and those of the Bulgarian revolutionaries. In his analysis Zaimov uses a metaphorical language clear for the wide range of readers; in addition, however, he uses a terminology which would require a special audience (including terms like feuilleton, short story, drawing, novel, political novel, historical novel, biographical-historical novel, the term novel-biography is also implicated). As a whole, the biographical work has been evaluated as a superb accomplishment. According to Zaimov, the author Zahari Stoyanov has managed the difficult task of writing a history of the Bulgarian people and at the same time – a personal biography of Botev.

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Образите на Яворов в литературата

Author(s): Tsvetan Rakyovski / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The article deals with several literary works (poems, parodies, dramas), dedicated to Bulgarian poet Peyo Yavrov. The main focus is the change in the image of Yavorov throughout the twentieth century.

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"Аз живея в Портартър"

Author(s): Julija Nikolova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The text deals with the topos “Portartar” of the story of Yordan Yovkov’s „Drugoselets” through the prism of anthropological geography and conceives the notions of otherness, borderline and marginality in their philosophical and moral dimensions.

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Болести, диагнози и терапии в повестта "Търновската царица" на Емилиян Станев

Author(s): Tatyana Ichevska / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The object of the present paper is to study Emilian Stanev’s novella The Queen of Turnovo through the prism of the medicine – literature relationship by virtue of which his work holds a special place in Bulgarian literature. Therefore, this paper brings up a host of medical and social issues for discussion – the activities of the formally trained physician, hygiene care, prostitution and venereal diseases, tuberculosis, destructive passion, political insanity, war (as) syndrome, cholera, and clashing views on (in)effective medical therapies. On the one hand, these problems suggest the need for a diagnostic consultation; on the other hand, they reveal the impossibility of making an accurate diagnosis and finding a way to deal with this alarming situation. They allow one to construe illness and the morbid in the flesh and soul of the body politic, to make sense of the eternal questions about free choice, guilt, responsibility, and punishment.

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