Big Data : el crítico frente al algoritmo (Lectura distante de la narrativa española editada en el año 2019)

Author(s): Adolfo R. POSADA / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 10/2019

Resumen: El modelo teórico de Franco Moretti fundamentado en la distant reading no es solo útil para reflexionar acerca del papel desempeñado por el crítico en la era de los algoritmos y el futuro de la investigación filológica con el auge del posthumanismo, sino además para gestionar la información recabada y realizar un análisis acelerado y sintético del fenómeno literario por medio de la abstracción de datos de alto volumen (big data). Así pues, sobre la base de los planteamientos de Moretti, se propone en este trabajo una lectura distante del panorama de edición de la narrativa española en el año 2019 a través de las gráficas elaboradas ex profeso con los datos obtenidos durante la pesquisa, a fin de ofrecer una visión general de su estado actual en términos de volumen de edición, programación anual de las publicaciones y distribución de los autores según el lugar y año de nacimiento, así como su género. Abstract: Franco Moretti’s theoretical model based on the distant reading not only is useful to think about the role played by the critic in the age of the algorithms and the future of the philological research with the rise of the Post-humanism, but also to manage the collected information and carry out an accelerated and synthetic analysis about the literary phenomenon by means of the massive data sets abstraction (big data). Consequently, in the light of Moretti’s approach, in this work we address a distant reading of the Spanish narrative’s edition panorama in the year 2019. Through the graphs generated ex professo from the data gathered during the inquiry, this article aims to bring out a general vision upon the current situation of the Spanish narrative in terms of the number of literary works edited in 2019, the yearly publishing plan and the authors distribution according to the place and the year of birth, as well as their gender.

Творческа лаборатория „Текстът Георги Марков“

Author(s): Diyana Boeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2020

In October, 2019, the School Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (StudyBAS) announced a competition for creating small study-research communities (SSRC) within the framework of the program “Education and Science” financed by the Ministry of Education and Science and performed by BAS. The project made by the teacher of Bulgarian Language and Literature, Diyana Boeva from “Geo Milev” Foreign Languages High School – Dobrich, ”Creative laboratory “Georgi Markov as Text” – has been approved among over eighty project proposals from the entire country. This article showcases aspects of the concrete plan of the Laboratory, examines some challenging opportunities for the school students related to the development of their analytical skills so necessary for studying science. Thus, we overcome the stereotype that the literary field is an unattainable abstraction unrelated to science. Four students with their teacher prove that the name Georgi Markov is appropriate not only for a projection of a research community, but is also a way of legitimizing the humanities in times when purposefully or not the STEM education is being regarded in opposition to studia humanitatis.

Ценности и поведения в няколко новели от "Декамерон" на Джовани Бокачо

Author(s): Angel Angelov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2020

The aim of the text is to historically contextualize Decameron and to analyse the motives for certain behaviour of the characters in several of the novels. The author tries to outline some more general social values, which determine the personal behaviour. Decameron is referred to such events as the famine in 1346 – 1347; it fosters the plague in 1348, and to the changing socio-psychological situation from the end of the 1340-ies in Florence. An answer is sought to a question, topical for our contemporary society as well: what is the sense of security of the inhabitants in the town-republic in the 1340-ies and the beginning of the 1350-ies? The irresistible vitality in Decameron, most frequently expressed in intimacy of the bodies, is considered an effect of the sense of insecurity, which reigns both minds and hearts at the time of the plague pandemic. The value of life is enhanced and the experience of love makes this value tangible. A reference is made to the fabliau from the 13th c. and to The Romance of the Rose. In Decameron is present, although in an idealized form, the actual background of the republican government of Florence.

Авторската музикa в популярните видеоигри

Author(s): Teodor Penev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 7/2020

Original music plays a leading role in many popular video games. Although it's not always the best solution for all titles, developers often resort to the services of experienced composers to create an original soundtrack that fits the atmosphere of the game. But this is not the only role of original music in video games, and sometimes it’s creators are not experienced composers, but gamers themselves

Проектно ориентираното обучение като метод за развиване на комуникативната компетентност на учениците от гимназиалните образователни етапи

Author(s): Stoyka Chakarovа / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2020

This presentation offers a methodological solution for the development of communicative competence of students in 8-12. class in a vocational high school, related to the implementation of an interdisciplinary project involving interaction with institutions, companies, organizations and people outside the educational institution. Its potential for supporting the teaching of Bulgarian language (and other academic disciplines) is analyzed; for the development of the student's personality in psychological, behavioral and value plan; for its socialization; to improve communicative, social and linguistic competence. The conclusions are based on project-oriented activities conducted in natural conditions of authentic communication, and observations made in the process of its implementation.

Служебни досиета на Боян Пенев, Тодор Боров, Александър Балабанов, Константин Гълъбов и Стоян Каролев в Университетския архив на СУ „Св. Климент Охридски“

Author(s): Alexandra Antonova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2020

Cityscapes in Zadie Smith’s NW

Author(s): Andreia Irina Suciu,Mihaela Culea / Language(s): English Issue: 25/2020

The article focuses on the manner in which the space of the city is employed in Zadie Smith’s NW so as to reveal not only a cosmopolitan map of contemporary London, but also to draw a map of the journey of the contemporary individual in finding himself/herself. Smith adopts in NW an experimental manner of introducing the contemporary individual in a strongly cartographied space both at the level of the city and at the level of the body of the text. Thus, through the space of North West London, the author speaks about family, social class, (inter-racial, marital) relationships, (complying or not with) gender roles (and dealing with the defiance against such roles), mobility (at the level of the cityscapes and at the level of the mindscapes), community and possibilities (and impossibilities) of belonging.

За възрожденските разговорници: рецепция и спомоществователи

Author(s): Diana Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2020

The object of research in this article is the phenomenon of sponsorship in Bulgarian book printing during the Revival, and more specifically in the bilingual phrasebooks. An overview of the printed phrasebooks during the Renaissance is presented, with a focus mainly on French-Bulgarian phrasebook by Ivan Naydenov of 1858, which established itself as a classic example of the genre. Data from a similar study highlights issues related to the Bulgarians' interest in learning foreign languages, their preferences for a particular language and the textbooks through which it is studied, their reception and sponsors.

Стихотворенията в проза на Христо Смирненски

Author(s): Aleksandar Hristov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2020

The article examines Hristo Smirrnenski’s prose poetry. It aims to discuss and remind us about some of his half-forgotten works, to outline their main themes and ideas, the characteristics of the poet’s poetics, but also to discuss the genre specificities, the heterogeneity of the works, the essence of the genre, the process of marking the texts, their interpretation through the prism of literary multiplicity.

Еротизации на женските коси в цикъла „Царици на нощта“ на П. К. Яворов

Author(s): Boryana Vladimirova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2020

The article examines the image of women's hair in Yavorov's poetic cycle "Queens of the Night". The focus is on the poems “Cleopatra” and “Sappho”. They analyze the erotic symbolism that hair has. The text also outlines the dialogue between the Yavorov’s cycle and the cycle "Queens of the Night" by Kiril Hristov, mentioning similarities between the two poetic cycles. The image of “Cleopatra” is also traced in the works of poets Emanuil Popdimitrov and Lyudmil Stoyanov. The article very briefly marks the genesis of Bulgarian erotic poetry, as well as the apologization of women's hair in Yavorov's poetry, which are most vividly presented in his poem "Sappho".

Страшни истории в градските легенди в чешки и български контекст

Author(s): Rosina Kokudeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

The article offers a study of horror stories in urban legends from Bulgaria and the Czech Republic in comparative aspect. It proposes a specific classification, which groups horror stories as follows: 1) mysterious events and encounters with supernatural beings, which neither harm, nor help the participants; 2) omens or encounters with supernatural beings, which cause death or other harm to the participants; 3) mysterious signs or encounters with supernatural beings, which help people; 4) evocation of spirits; 5) crime stories: murders or harm – with or without deliberate intention; 6) rumours; 7) parodic horror stories. Parallels drawn between particular stories from the two countries point to the existence of a common folkloric substratum that manifests their universal character and international distribution. Largely, the motifs in those stories result from social life and specific social practices of modern times, but some also have deeply archaic origins.

Анатол Анчев. Лудостта в българския фолклор. София: Издателство на БАН „Проф. Марин Дринов“, 2018

Author(s): Petya Bankova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

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За ранните преводи на разказите на Йордан Йовков и тяхната рецепция в полския културен контекст

Author(s): Galia Simeonova-Konach / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

This article is devoted to the first translations of Yordan Yovkov's stories in Poland and some problems related to the reception of translated literature in a foreign cultural environment. The works of the Bulgarian writer in the mentioned period were published in Polish magazines with an orientation towards the so-called women's topics. Their literary supplements published novels and short stories by the world's most famous authors at the time and were intended for adherents of women's emancipation, with broad intellectual horizons and good literary taste. The choice of specific works by Yordan Yovkov makes it possible to assess the literary reception and the dominant aesthetic norms in the host culture and literature. The article also analyzes the issues of language and poetics of the text, as well as the attempts of several generations of Polish translators to "overcome" the difficulties of the style and poetics of Yovkov's work.

Интертекстуални мотивни гнезда при интерпретация на темата „Обществото и Властта“ от учебното съдържание по литература за XI клас

Author(s): Stefka Karaivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

This article aims to interpret the intertextual motive nests on the Society and Government topic – part of the curriculum in literature for 11th grade, combining texts from compulsory and specialized training, module Dialogic Readings. The artistic interactions between the literary texts included in the curriculum and those that are outside it are considered in order to highlight the dialogic nature of literature as a special type of cultural significance. Based on the specific interpretive commentary are highlighted the leading problem-thematic lines, which would become the basis for effective educational work.

Новите учебници по литература за ІХ клас от съдържателна и дидактико-методическа гледна точка

Author(s): Valentin Stoyanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

Through comparative and content analysis, the article discusses the ways in which Byron's poem "Don Juan" is presented in the new textbooks for ninth grade. Numerous explanations and references, as well as the unusual for the myth of Don Juan choice of the obligatory for study of Chapter VIII, require from the authors of the textbooks very careful handling of the scientific and didactic-methodical apparatus. When an approach in accordance with the literary experience of ninth-graders is not chosen, the study articles have a low informative value. The known discrepancies in the analyzed motives make it difficult to compile tests that can be correctly solved by students using different textbooks. In some cases the tasks from the methodical part do not create skills for independent learning, but require repetition of what is written in the theoretical part. Textbooks fail to realize interdisciplinary connections

UNKNOWN 19th CENTURY ATHONITE POEM ABOUT A QUARREL FOR LAND AND CHOLERA

Author(s): Cyril Pavlikyanov / Language(s): English,Greek, Modern (1453-) Issue: 1/2021

The article analyses an Athonite poetical text which describes a conflict between the monasteries of Zographou and Chilandar over landed property situated inside the Holy Mountain. It refers to no place names, but pays special attention to the visit of a nameless Ottoman governor of Thessalonica, accompanied by the consuls of France, Russia and Austria, to Mount Athos. His intention was to solve the difference and to reconcile the two monasteries, but his efforts failed. He then granted a special document (ilam) to Zographou, and met an unnamed ex-patriarch of Constantinople in the monastery of Espigmenou. The authorized representatives of Zographou and Chilandar, Dositheos and Onouphrios, travelled to Constantinople in order to present the case to the sultan’s court, but during their stay in Istanbul cholera struck the city and the final decision was postponed until the end of the epidemy. Three Greek and two Turkish documents make it clear that Zographou and Chilandar were claiming the terrain of Giovantza on the northwest coast of Mount Athos as well as that the conflict was rather important for the two monasteries.

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.

„Apropos за учителката“. Рада Киркович и фигурата на Найден Геров

Author(s): Adriana Spasova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2021

The focus of the research is the discovery of one of the less-known Bulgarian intellectuals of the nineteenth century – Rada Kirkovich, who lived nearly a century (1848, Koprivshtitsa – 1941, Sofia). Her public presence as a teacher, public figure and writer is an important example of the gradual displacement of a woman from the marginal sphere and the breaking of patriarchal stereotypes in Bulgarian society. The article consistently focuses on the letters, memoirs and solemn words of the Revival teacher R. Kirkovich, which testify precisely to the changes in the cultural and political situation during the Bulgarian National Revival. Some of the materials reviewed and analyzed are from the personal archive of Nayden Gerov (Fund 22 of the National Library – Bulgarian Historical Archive). In this library are kept unpublished and unexplored letters (F. 22, I, a.u. 190, l. 1 – 29) of Rada Kirkovich , as well as one of her triumphant speeches on the feast of the Annunciation. (F. 22, I, a.u. 595, 29 – 32b). These entries prove to be productive and not so timid and modest and show the entry point of the educated woman within the strictly regulated limits of the Revival publicity.

Жанрът – проблематизиране на ключа

Author(s): Tsvetelina Draganova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2021

In the context of the topic of the Competence-Based Approach in teaching Bulgarian language and Bulgarian literature, the current text is based on the understanding of the development of literary competence as a leading goal in the teacher’s work and the need to provide consistent reflection on the essence of the genre of the studied texts as a basic characteristic of the literary field. Taking into account the specifics of the theory of the genre and the ambiguity of some definitions, as well as some fundamental methodological principles, the suggested approach sees the work with the category in literature classes as an opportunity to problematize and to encourage a dialogue, to form and enrich the reading competences of contemporary students. The last part of the text defines general parameters of a possible methodological project on the topic of genre conventions and their connection with certain models of understanding and experiencing nature as a major theme in the world of fiction.

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Author(s): / Language(s): English,Bulgarian,Polish,Macedonian Issue: 1/2021

This first issue of volume 9 of Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT titled “Discourses of Change: Language and Literature” encompasses five papers dealing with different aspects of language, comparative linguistics, literature, and journalism.