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Poems written by Belarusian poets A. Bachila, P. Prudnikov, S. Grakhovskiy are analyzed. The author of the article describes individual features and genre peculiarities in the works devoted to tragic events of the Stalin epoch, pays attention to the variety of thematic motifs.
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In the article motifs from the Belarusian folk creations used by Bahushevich in his prose, mainly tales, as well as particular poetic works have been presented. Special attention is paid to fairytale and fantasy elements. Additionally, the role and the significance of the folk sense of humour and the specific language are emphasized.
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Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum is published by Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski and edited by the literary scholars of the Balkan Studies Masters and Doctoral Studies Program (Department of General, Indo-European, and Balkan Linguistics with the Faculty of Slavic Studies). This journal aims to encourage the study of Comparative Literature. The similarities and overlaps between less popular literatures and the well-researched canonical phenomena remain rather unexplored. Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum wants to give priority to such issues; to reconsider the clichéd notions of centres and peripheries, of one-way influences, temporary delays and topic deficiencies. It makes sense to seek the meaning of common affinities and trends, in other words – to look at what is positive, stimulating, and creative about the communication between literary and cultural phenomena. In fact, the Balkans are home to just a small share of the less researched literatures in the field of Comparative Literature. In Europe, we often know too little about our neighbours, unless they happen to be the French, German or British literatures.
Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum expresses itself in three languages: Bulgarian, French and English. It provides new opportunities for communication between scholars of Comparative Literature with the aim of a complete, conceptual and terminological understanding of new ideas within our field of research.
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The article focuses on Julius Margolin’s life and memoirs. Margolin was born in Pinsk, survived the Sovietization of Poland, and then spent five years in Soviet gulags. He witnessed the cruel history and functioning of the Soviet regime. The analysis is made on the basis of Margolin’s work Journey to the Land of the Ze-Ka, in which he wanted to show to the world the truth about the Soviet totalitarian system. In that way he intended to fight for freedom of millions of people and for human rights.
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The article analyzes the process of literary translation and the scientific study of Modern Belarusian playwriting in Poland of nowadays. The author notes the growing interest of Polish researchers and translators to the modern plays of the Belarusian writers. This fact is due to the success of Belarusian Drama Art abroad as well as with the development of Slavic studies in Poland, the advent of a new generation of researchers and translators. Polish researchers have noted that as a result of the Russification process in Belarus, the majority of young authors writes in Russian, however middle and older generations of the play writers prefer to use their native language. Most Polish translators and researchers (Andrei Moskvin, Agnieszka-Lubomira Petrovskaya, Carolina Niewiadomska et al.) are concentrated on Russian language drama in Belarus, but thanks to the efforts of Beata Siwek, Malgorzata Buhalik, Agnieszka Goral Polish readers have the opportunity to get acquainted with the works of Belarusian authors.
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“Emigrantologia Słowian” is an interdisciplinary scientific journal of the Committee of Slavonic Emigration Studies affiliated by the International Committee of Slavists. The main aim of “Emigrantologia Słowian” is to publish research papers, reviews and reports on various aspects of life of the Slavonic communities in emigration: culture, literature, language situation (with special reference to bilingualism).
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In this article, I analyze the problem of the interaction between literary and paralit-erary genres in the work of the Belarusian writer Andrus Horvat, winner of the Maxim Bahdanovich “Debut” Award in 2017. The intermedial potential, especially genealogical features of his work Radziwa ‘Prudok’ [‘Prudok’ Radio Station] will be discussed, as well as how it operates within the context of literature and various forms of visual art, which are subsumed under the main theme of this work, i.e. the search for the lost identity by the young generation of Belarusians.
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In der vorliegenden Studie wurde gezeigt daß die Weißrussische, Russische und Mordwinische Überlieferung von der Einladung an Gott (Bog, Dobro, Raj, Sparyš, Škaj-paz), das Haus zu besuchen, mit der lettischen Überlieferung vom mythischen Helden Jumis, der in der Erntezeit durch sein Treiben eine reiche Ernte sichern soll, eine Einheit bildet Ebenso wurde auf die auffallende Parallelität mit dem von R. Katičić rekonstruierten urslawischen Mythus vom Ins-Land-Kommen des (grünen) Georg hingewiesen und eine mögliche Interpretation des mythischen Inhalts des auf den Ackerbau bezogenen Zyklus der slavischen folkloristischen Überlieferungen dargeboten. Es erschließt sich eine dramatische Biographie eines mytischen Helden (Sohn des Donnergottes) die von seiner Geburt am Jahresanfang (als Božić, "kleiner Gott") als der von den Seelen der Verstorbenen (der maskierten Umzügler, koledari) in das immergrüne Reich jenseits des Meeres entführt wird, Uber seine Rückkehr im Frühling als Juraj/ Jarylo der, unerkannt, seine Zwillingsschwester Mara ehelicht, weiter über seine Untreue und die Rache die ihn erreicht (nun als Ivan, Ivo ), über sein Treiben am Feld und die Heimbringung in Form der letzten Garbe oder des Erntekranzes (Sparyš, Jumis) bis zu seinem letzten Erscheinen am Jahresende als der alte Großvater (dedo, did, diduh ) der im Feuer verbrannt wird, hinreicht.
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The article considers the problematics of the work of the writer of Yugoslavia, Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić. His heritage is reviewed in the light of the problems of multiculturalism. Its role in characterizing of ethno-confessional problems in the world is noted. A survey of the studies of Belarusian philologists devoted to Andrić is conducted. The journalistic texts containing references to I. Andrić are analyzed. Parallels between the Bosnian borderland and the peculiarities of Belarusian history are considered. The role that the historiosophical content of the works of the Yugoslav writer can play in dealing with these issues is also taken into account.
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The article discusses the ideological and philosophical content of the novel by Alexander Adamovich “The Punisher”. It also analyzes the process of exposing ideas of ”superhuman”of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A. Adamovich’s approach is innovative in the use of methods of “streams of consciousness” and “black psychology”. Putting Belarusian writer creativity in the context of European humanistic literary and social trends of anti-Nietzsche trend, the author draws parallels between “The Punisher” and the works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.
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In the article the philosophical problems of the classical and modern Belarusian dramaturgy are analyzed. The author reveals continuity and distinctness of aesthetics of a new generation of authors. She also analyzes the features of a director’s drama reading in modern Belarusian theater: directors preserve the tradition of psychological realism, develop the forms of national metaphorical theater, make use of the elements of post-dramatic theater.
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On the basis of the analysis of the letters of Vladimir Naklajev to his wife, Vola, the author con- cludes that the linguistic forms used in the letters serve the function of conceptualisation of the emo- tions of their author. In fact, they are an example of ego-documents that represent the self-perception and interpretation of a particular political event in Minsk in 2010, through which the Belarussian poet, Vladimir Naklajev, verbalises his personal accounts of himself, events and other people linked with these events in the Belarussian capital. It is worth pinpointing that the language of the letters has a specific emotional climate that changes in accordance with events, situations and people, to which their author refers. The properties of the linguistic code of the letters allow to understand them as texts that symbolise the personal senses of their author.
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The purpose of the article is to present the poetic activity of Joseph Morelowski and his career path as a hardworking educator and student of the Jesuits in Polotsk. Morelowski devoted his life to teaching at Jesuit colleges, the Academy of Polotsk, as well as in the schools in Galicia. He was known as an educator of the youth, a professor of Rhetoric and Poetics, teacher of languages: Russian and French. The testimony of his efforts as the youth educator, the cleanliness of the Polish language and survival of mother tongue at the Time of Partition can be found in his literary work. Daily job as educator and attention to his own poetic work and certainly religious duties were associated with the need to impose him much of discipline. Despite the immensity of work for Morelowski the great importance was the pursuit of excellence in the art of poetry. A large part of his literary works was dedicated to reflection on the writer’s work. Some remarks are also devoted to places of work and rest of the Jesuit because there can also be found poetic ‘documentation’ forms of recreation in his poetry.
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Belarusian literature is currently written under difficult circumstances, which, however, neither stimulates nor restricts its development. In fact it flourishes both in metro¬politan and provincial Belarus as well as abroad. The much repressed language, after a chequered history, survives mainly in literature and in the use by mainly young nationally conscious Belarusians for whom it may act as a socio-political statement. The history of Belarus as the main successor state of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is inalienable, though disputed and minimized by some of the country’s leaders whose historical consciousness begins with World War II or even later. Most writers who left the country in voluntary or involuntary exile have gained new created energy, though the Belarusian Free Theatre would gladly return, were circumstances different. Whatever its difficulties, Belarusian culture re-mains strong.
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Speaking about Belarusian literature in Poland we focus on fiction, its translation into Polish and the study of literature. The existence of the Belarusian literature in Poland in the post-war period is indicated by the following bibliographies: a bibliography of translations for the period 1945–1994 (G. Charytoniuk, Literatura białoruska w Polsce. Bibliografia przekładów za lata 1945–1994, Białystok 1996) and a subject bibliography for the period 1945–1998 (G. Charytoniuk, Polskie białorutenika literackie. Bibliografia przedmiotowa 1945–1998, Białystok 1998). The new political, economical and social conditions in Poland after 1989 have had an influence on the situation of the Belarusian literature. In addition to the existing departments some new university departments and scientific branches have been organized. Their aim is to realize new scientific projects connected with the Belarusian literature in Poland and Belarus. A lot of nongovernment organizations (funds, partnerships, associations) have been organized not only in Bialystok region, but also in the other parts of the country. A new publishing market has been established which has focused on the modern literature of Central and Eastern Europe including Belarusian literature. The Internet also plays an important role in popularization of the Belarusian literature. That literature has been included in the database of the National library (Przewodnik Bibliograficzny, Bibliografia Zawartości Czasopism), regional libraries (Bibliografia województwa podlaskiego) and the digital library (Polska Bibliografia Literacka). The information is searched by institutional scientific depositories and digital libraries. The considerable part of the information has not been registered in the bibliographic database. In this situation it is necessary to develop an integral literature bibliographic database of the Belarusian literature in Poland.
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The paper presents previously unknown manuscript of Vandalin Shukevich which was found at the archive of the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow. The manuscript contains the list of the objects forming an ethnographic collection donated by Shukevich to the museum in 1913. The paper focuses on Belarusian dialectological denominations of these objects and tends to evaluate the importance of the manuscript for further dialectological studies. Also lexical comparative analysis of dialect forms aiming to identify research lacunae of the Northwest dialectological area and to determine the degree of language interferences at the Baltic-Slavic language border was made.
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