ПРЕПОТВЪРЖДАВАНЕ И ПРЕОСМИСЛЯНЕ НА САКРАЛНОТО ПРОСТРАНСТВО: ПОТОПЕНИТЕ ЦЪРКВИ НА С. ЗАПАЛНЯ И С. ВИДЕН

Author(s): Yana Gergova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 19/2021

The paper is going to present two equal in their base cases of effacement of a sacral site but with distinct differences, observed in their present development, status and usage. These are the church of the former 162 village of Zapalnya “St. John of Rila”, submerged by the waters of Zhrebchevo dam in the 1960s, and the church of Viden village “St. Athanasius”, flooded after the construction of Koprinka dam. Nowadays the remains of both “submerged” church buildings are on the surface – visible experienced in a new way. The analysis is based on field and bibliographic research conducted in 2019 within the project “Submerged Heritage. A Village on the Lake’s Bottom: Migrations, Memory, Cultural Practices” (NSF, 2018–2021).

Aizpagājušā gadsimta beigas Latvijā, no Jaunā laika – 20. gadsimta – beigu perspektīvas

Author(s): Guntis Šmidchens / Language(s): Latvian Issue: 37/2018

Review of: Benedikts Kalnačs, Pauls Daija, Eva Eglāja-Kristsone, Kārlis Vērdiņš. Fin de siècle literārā kultūra Latvijā. Apceres par literatūras sociālo vēsturi. Rīga: Latvijas Universitātes Literatūras, folkloras un mākslas institūts, 2017.

СБОРНИКЪТ „БЪЛГАРСКИ НАРОДНИ ПЕСНИ“ НА БРАТЯ МИЛАДИНОВИ СЛЕД 160 ГОДИНИ (Опит за реконструкция на музикалното съдържание на една песен върху примери от Вардарска и Егейска Македания)

Author(s): Veselka Toncheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 21/2022

The text is inspired by the 160th anniversary of the publication of the Miladinovi brothers’ collection. Through analyzes of variants, recorded in Bulgaria and in Vardar and Aegean Macedonia, was made an attempt for a reconstruction of the musical content of a popular song – the song about Shar Mountain, which is still performed today.

ЗА ЕДНА МАКЕДОНСКА ШУРОБАДЖАНАЩИНА

Author(s): Ivanka Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 21/2022

Doubtless the citizen of Ohrid Kuzman Shapkarev had a substantial merit to keeping from oblivion the memory of the Miladinov brothers from Struga and to forming an adequate appraisal of their capital work BULGARIAN FOLKLORE SONGS. Due to ill fate he was a member of the family only from September 1863 till March 1870 being the husband of Elisaveta – Dimitar’s eldest daughter. Though, as he wrote in the preface to the first edition of his “Materials about the life description of the Hr. Miladinov brothers”: “…. I am flattered by the confidence that, I will be able to provide our grateful people with evidence about their lives, deeds and martyr’s deaths, which although being not the most true and precise, will be at least incomparably much more true, precise and complete than all those which might have been produced by anybody in any amount till now.” The research presents how Kuzman Shapkarev succeeded in overcoming the cronyism in this work of his and how he through the vicissitudes 58 in the lives of his in-laws and collaborators managed to give an insight of the national liberation movement in Macedonia during the second half of the 19th century. Though closely related to the Miladinov brothers, he did not save his criticism regarding the shortcomings of the presentation of the songs they had collected. Moreover, his disapproval of the publication aimed at evoking true philological preparation of a new critical edition, which took 80 years to appear.

БЪЛГАРСКАТА ФОЛКЛОРНА РЕЛИГИОЗНОСТ: ЛОКАЛНИ МОДЕЛИ И/ИЛИ УНИВЕРСАЛНО ЗНАНИЕ (Eдин фразеологизъм от град Самоков и Самоковската котловина)

Author(s): Konstantin Rangochev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 21/2022

The paper discusses the following expression used in the region of Samokov: “The arm of the Church is Virgin Mary/ St. George or another saint” that means that this church is dedicated to Virgin Mary/ St. George, etc. and its local feast is at the respective date. The author looks for the sources of such expressions and puts forward the hypothesis that they stem from the anthropological view of the Orthodox Christians living in this region towards the church and church temples: they are perceived as and designated with the human body members: Christ is the head of the church, while its arms are the saints.

ПРИПИСКИТЕ В БОГОСЛУЖЕБНИТЕ КНИГИ НА ЦЪРКВАТА „УСПЕНИЕ БОГОРОДИЧНО“ В СЕЛО ШИПОЧАНЕ – ГЛАСОВЕ ОТ МИНАЛОТО

Author(s): Georgi Zahov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 21/2022

This article will explore the postscripts in the Divine books, kept in the church “Uspenie Bogorodichno” in the village of Shipochane near Samokov. In many of the available manuscripts, write-in notes are found, more than 20. From them, we can piece together when the book was purchased, who was the buyer and his intentions. Most of the postscripts are from the first haven of the 19th century. The oldest dated postscript is found in a handwritten gospel from the 15th century. It was gifted to the church by the villagers in 1678. The postscripts are valuable historical records and are keys to understanding the history of the temple and the village. Amongst the pages echo the voices of people long gone.

ИСТОРИЧЕСКАТА И ДУХОВНА ТРАДИЦИЯ, ОТРАЗЕНА В САМОРЪЧНИТЕ НАДПИСИ ОТ КАМБАНАРИЯТА НА МИТРОПОЛИТСКИЯ ХРАМ „УСПЕНИЕ НА ПРЕСВЕТА БОГОРОДИЦА“ В ГР. САМОКОВ

Author(s): Mihail Kolev,Danaila Koleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 21/2022

The Diocese of Samokov, centered in the city of Samokov, was a spiritual, literary and unifying center of the Bulgarian and Slavic population in the southwestern Balkans during the Renaissance of the 16th – 19th centuries. The Metropolitan Cathedral ‘Assumption of the Holy Virgin‘ (1711) in the city combines is the ecclesiastical and historical memory of the Christian generations depicted in architecture literary heritage, early carvings and icon painting masterpieces. A significant place in the adjacent architectural complex is occupied by the church bell tower separated from the church. It is built after the Russo-Turkish war of liberation (1877–1878) and it appears as an integral part of the ensemble of church buildings and it has an important religious and social purpose. Ones of particular interest in the interior are the handwritten inscriptions of builders church officials and citizens located on all architectural levels. There are names and initials some important events and years inscribed with various means and techniques. There are two-piece bell ensemble in the highest part of the building with donor inscriptions, icons and manufacturers stamps.The Diocese of Samokov, centered in the city of Samokov, was a spiritual, literary and unifying center of the Bulgarian and Slavic population in the southwestern Balkans during the Renaissance of the 16th – 19th centuries. The Metropolitan Cathedral ‘Assumption of the Holy Virgin‘ (1711) in the city combines is the ecclesiastical and historical memory of the Christian generations depicted in architecture literary heritage, early carvings and icon painting masterpieces. A significant place in the adjacent architectural complex is occupied by the church bell tower separated from the church. It is built after the Russo-Turkish war of liberation (1877–1878) and it appears as an integral part of the ensemble of church buildings and it has an important religious and social purpose. Ones of particular interest in the interior are the handwritten inscriptions of builders church officials and citizens located on all architectural levels. There are names and initials some important events and years inscribed with various means and techniques. There are two-piece bell ensemble in the highest part of the building with donor inscriptions, icons and manufacturers stamps.

ОБРАЗЪТ НА ЦЪРКВАТА В БЪЛГАРСКАТА ПРОЗА ОТ ОСВОБОЖДЕНИЕТО ДО КРАЯ НА ПЪРВАТА СВЕТОВНА ВОЙНА. РЕЛИГИОЗНОСТ И ПАТРИАРХАЛНОСТ – АВТЕНТИЧНАТА ДУХОВНОСТ НА БЪЛГАРИНА, ВЯРНОСТ КЪМ ТРАДИЦИЯТА И ОБИЧАЯ

Author(s): Daniela Belichovska / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 21/2022

The image of the church, presented in history and sociology, is of an institution, a supporter of patriarchal morality, which is of key importance for the preservation of Bulgarian identity. Religion and traditions preserved the memories of our past greatness and independence. During this period, the church became a key factor in preserving our national identity. The question of the religious psyche of the Bulgarian villager has been studied by most historians, many of whom believe that the patriarchal man is self-aware as directly connected with tradition and customs, his spirituality is a consequence of this relation.

Daily Life during Bărăgan Deportation: Time of Chores and Space of Fear

Author(s): Claudia-Florentina Dobre / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2020

The everyday life of the deportees was orchestrated by the authorities through work, education and leisure and through intrusion in their family life. Under constant surveillance, people submitted themselves to the demands and executed the chores established by the regime. However, from the very beginning they struggled to preserve their agency. This article, based on the memories of former deportees, underlines their capacity to resist repression, to overcome the social constraints and to create social groups parallel to the official ones.

ИДЕОЛОШКИ РАСПОНИ САВРЕМЕНИХ ПРИЧА О КОСОВУ

Author(s): Aleksandra D. Matić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 78/2022

This paper examines the ideological ranges of contemporary stories about Kosovo, as reflections on the social, political, and cultural background in which they arise, as well as the processes of establishing or abandoning the dominant identity matrices, based on the Kosovo myth. As Kosovo is our great story, the constitutive narrative of our national being, but also of Serbian literary-historical consciousness, it proved necessary to shed light on how contemporary Serbian prose reflects this narrative, but also to elucidate the diachronic perspective, which gives ideologies a mythical or symbolic dimension. The five authors and texts I am analyzing are Branislav Janković, “Nightingale the Chicken” (Slavuj-pile), Muharem Bazdulj “From Prizren the tame place” (Iz Prizrena mjesta pitomoga), Dejan Stojiljković, “No cour- age” (Nema hrabrosti), Vesna Kapor “What would you like to remember” (Čega bi voleo da se sećaš) and Ana Radmilović “Kosovo - three hundred miracles” (Kosovo– trista čuda). Among the selected contemporary stories, a range from establishingand empowering to challenging the dominant ideological discourse on Kosovo and its mythology is noticeable. The common intention is to constitute “small” stories by referring to a “private” view of Kosovo resulting from a fragmentation of the world image, and hence deconstruction or rethinking inherited identities based on new policies and ideological constructs represented in our era, which produce internal dissonance in the text itself.

ЖЕНСКЕ ФИГУРЕ У ФРАНЦУСКИМ СРЕДЊОВЕКОВНИМ БЕСТИЈАРИЈУМИМА: БИОЛОГИЈА КРОЗ ПРИЗМУ ИДЕОЛОГИЈЕ

Author(s): Marija Panić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 78/2022

L’article examine la représentation et la valorisation de la féminité dans le corpus formé par cinq bestiaires français traditionnels du XIIe et du XIIIe siècle : le Bestiaire de Philippe de Thaon, le Bestiaire de Gervaise, Le Bestiaire divin de Guillaume de Normandie, le Bestiaire de Pierre de Beauvais et le Bestiaire du pseudo-Pierre de Beauvais. Notre analyse démontre que les figures féminines (humaines et animales) sont représentées dans le corpus conformément avec l’idéologie de cette époque, notamment avec la valorisation des sexes dans le Moyen Âge, héritée de la culture judéo-chrétienne et de l’antiquité grecque et latine.

Book review

Author(s): Piotr Kałowski / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

Krytyka w technopresji

Author(s): Michał Krzykawski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2 (20)/2022

In the article, it is argued that in order to rejuvenate critical theory we need to revive the critique of technology first and, by the same token, redefine the very concept of critique in the context of the digital reality, with an account of how digital devices impact our ability to think in general. The function and meaning of critique under new circumstances (conceptualized as technostress) is discussed in a dialogue with three thinkers: Immanuel Kant, Michel Foucault, and Bernard Stiegler. It also suggests how Bernard Stiegler’s philosophical critique can be fruitfully these combined with social theory developed by Hartmut Rosa.

IMAGES TO REMEMBER: Nostalgia and Hegemonic Identities in „Italia 90: The Movie”

Author(s): Bértold Salas Murillo / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

The reconstruction of the past and memory is examined in the feature film Italia 90: The Movie (2014) by Miguel Gómez, which depicts the first participation of a Costa Rican team in a World Cup. The analysis includes the narrative, visual, and sound operations with which the past and memory are recreated (... or created), as well as the ways in which the story involves the viewers, particularly those who remember the episode. It is explained that, although the story resorts to certain topics of sports cinema, it is presented more as an adventure of the community, which would eventually include an entire country, and favors the exploration of the intimate over the epic. Italia 90: The Movie appeals to nostalgia, through recognizable images and sounds, as well as figures anchored in the hegemonic Costa Rican imaginary (such as the “common peasant”), to narrate an episode that, in addition to being central in the history of sports in Costa Rica, it is among the events that symbolically mark the country’s entry into the globalized world.

TO STAUNCHLY “REMAIN A READER” AND BUILD UP A WORLD COMRADESHIP. Reflecting with Rabih Alameddine on World Literature

Author(s): Lisa Marchi / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

What is a classic? To what extent are books and book collections endangered goods? What is the role and meaning of literature and translation in times of hardship? In An Unnecessary Woman (2013), Rabih Alameddine addresses these questions, while also indirectly contesting traditional canonical practices based on rigid hierarchies and the logic of national and linguistic purity. Alameddine highlights the violence inscribed in the practices of book selection and canon formation. In doing so, he troubles perceived notions of the canon, the classics, and especially of world literature, offering an alternative conceptualization of this long-debated category as an intimate, cosmopolitan assemblage of worldly texts.

Elemente de cultură și civilizație polonă în povestirea „Copiii verzi” a Olgăi Tokarczuk

Author(s): Cristina Godun / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2022

The practice of using literary texts as auxiliary teaching materials in the process of teaching a foreign language has a long tradition. Culture texts can illustrate Polish reality and present linguistic issues in an attractive and accessible way. Therefore, this paper assumes that the use of the didactic and functional potential of a literary text during the classes of Polish as a foreign language contributes not only to diversification of the didactic activity by awakening and cultivating interest in the language and culture being learned, but also to improvement of the learning process. It also stimulates the interest of students in specific Polish cultural phenomena. In addition to aesthetic values, the literary text offers expressive images of the Polish society, mentality and spirituality over the centuries, being an invaluable source of knowledge about the essence of Poland through the decoding and interpretation of socio-cultural codes and ethno-national or identity symbols. The aim of the paper is to discover what elements of Polish culture and civilization are found by Romanian students in the short story Green Children by Olga Tokarczuk. The narrative universe of Olga Tokarczuk is often inhabited by real characters, special individuals who existed in reality at some point, covered by oblivion, but being unusual during their lifetime. Olga Tokarczuk brings them out of the basket of history, reinterprets them, gives them a chance for a new life, and, above all, gives them a voice, thus bringing them back to the present day. In the Books of Jacob, we rediscover, among other people, Józef Andrzej Załuski (bibliophile and bibliographer), Andrzej Stanisław Załuski (patron of the arts), Benedykt Chmielowski (the first Polish encyclopedist) and Elżbieta Drużbacka (the baroque poet). In Green Children, William Davidson was a Scottish physician, chemist, and biologist. Through his eyes, we discover the political, social, and cultural realities of those times. Through Davidson, we can draw out and discuss the elements of old Polish culture and civilization, such as the situation in the political arena, internal tensions between the king and the gentry, the relationships between such concepts as center and periphery or between “I” and “the other”, the interesting phenomenon of plica polonica, or echoes of Sarmatian ideology.

斯坦尼斯瓦夫·莱姆作品《泥人十四》中的后人类主义哲学思考

Author(s): Yinhui Mao,Yan Sun / Language(s): Chinese Issue: 2/2022

In the 1990s, posthumanism gained popularity in interdisciplinary research, and its concept of the personification of technology and the “cyborg” offered a wide scope for science fiction. But as early as the 1970s, Polish science fiction novelist Stanisław Lem had already made a manifesto of posthumanism in his work, in which he created Golem XIV, a typical cyborg, and expressed his own views on the relationship between human and technology, human and non-human, etc. through the narration of this artificial intelligence. In his book, he created Golem XIV, the archetypal cyborg. The philosophical ideas of Lem in Golem XIV not only coincide with the present theories of posthumanism in many ways, but also have some insightful thoughts that go far beyond the framework of posthumanist thought and are more forward-looking. This paper includes the history of the development of the discipline of posthumanism, discussion on the content of Lem’s Golem XIV, an in-depth analysis of posthumanist thinking, and Lem’s own unique philosophical views in the hope of providing new ideas for interpreting Lem’s work.

Философия на храненето и идентичност

Author(s): Silvia Petrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

The article aims to analyze the relationship between food and identity from an aesthetic and ethical perspective. New media and technology are seen as a tool for constructing and demonstrating identity. Eating practices and the understanding of food in the modern world are explored from the perspective of symbolic meanings. The analysis focuses on the concept of identity in social networks and popular culture. The methodology is textual and visual content analysis in new media. The text distinguishes between the traditional approach to food with a central concept of 'taste' and the new media context where the approach focuses on 'image'. From an ethical point of view, the relationship between the (non)consumption of meat and animal products and the identity that is widely advocated in the modern lifestyle culture is analyzed.

Българското население на Перм: възникване, разселване, численост

Author(s): Alexander Chernykh,Mikhail Kamenskikh,Vladimir Klyaus,Marina Petrovna Klyaus / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2022

The article deals with the history of the emergence of the Bulgarian community in the Perm region, including an analysis of its migration and displacement at the end of the 20th century. The ethnic-dispersed group of Bulgarians in the Ural-Povolgaregion was formed as a result of a series of state-regulated migration campaigns. The analysis of the archival materials of the Perm State Archive for Socio-PoliticalHistory (PermGASPI) shows that a large part of Bulgarians ended up in the region as a result of forced emigration (dispossession (Dekulakization), deportation) from the territories of the Ukrainian SSR, the Moldavian SSR and the Crimean ASSR, and only several people are political emigrants from Bulgaria itself. In the text are used, in addition to archival materials, interviews containing memories of Bulgarians concerning their life in the Perm region.

O ślepocie poznawczej i etycznej i o świeckiej humanistyce naturalnej wywiedzionej z opowiadania „Świat i ślepa dziewczyna” Adolfa Dygasińskiego

Author(s): Kordian Bakuła / Language(s): Polish Issue: 31/2022

Kordian Bakuła’s article deals with chosen problems of ecological humanities. Adolf Dygasiński’s short story has been regarded as a precursor of contemporary trends in the humanities due to the way in which it addresses issues which are alive and topical nowadays: natural cultivation of truth, sensual and direct cognition, coexistence and compassion with nature. According to Bakuła, they constitute the project of the natural secular humanities.