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This book gives an opportunity for a different view of Hungarian essayism. Literature is always framed within a certain input language and the critics, except the translators, are the ones that are making certain title known in an output language. The essays in this book give a chance for everyone that is interested in Hungarian literature to receive new information and topics that sometimes show similarities in Bulgarian literature.
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This collection of essays constitutes a mosaic. Romans were fond of mosaics, for instance, at the entrance of their houses. The numerous little tiles could make up a skeleton, for instance, but that did not imply that one should ”flee this place for this is the dwelling place of Death”, but rather that ”Death, you do not belong here”. Let us attempt to read this book in this spirit.
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U malo poznatoj paraboli, na tri strane kriptičnog teksta, krajnje neočekivano od „patrijarha eksperimentalne fi lozofi je”, kako su ga nazivali njegovi sledbenici, Fransis Bekon identifi kuje mitsko čudovište Sfi ngu sa naukom. Nauka je, obrazlaže Bekon, potencijalno opasno čudovište koje boravi na uzvišenim mestima znanja, a istovremeno „zaposeda drumove“ gde smrtnike izaziva svojim pitanjima. Nauka-sfi nga postavlja dve zagonetke: o prirodi stvari i prirodi čoveka. Pitanja vezana za prirodu čoveka predstavljaju posebno veliku opasnost, o čemu najbolje svedoči sudbina Edipa. Osim toga, nemoguće je nauku odvojiti od njene sestre bliznakinje tehnologije, kao što je Sfi nginu ljudsku glavu nemoguće odvojiti od tela lava. Ili, kontemplaciju muza iz kojih nastaju zagonetke od bolnih i okrutnih rešenja, izbora i odluka sa kojima Sfi nga suočava čoveka svojim zagonetnim pitanjima. Priroda je nauke takva, zaključuje Bekon, da se mora obazrivo postupati sa njom, i stalno imati na umu koliki je rizik potrage za odgovorima na krajnja pitanja, kao što su tajne života i ljudskog uma, pošto „ljudi obično nastupaju ishitreno i u preteranoj žurbi nude rešenje“. Drugim rečima, nauka je zavodljiva i opasna, i zato je treba ukrotiti, njenim se izazovima odupreti, ili će nas kao kakvo čudovište prožderati.
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The cultural landscape of the southern part of historic province Bukovina (situated in North-East of Romania) is a resource for a sustainable development of tourism in the area, being considered that the tourist product and service supply combine Bucovina's main assets: nature and culture [1].Named the "Land of Beech", well known for its vast forests, Bukovina was the region where the woodworking craftsmanship has taken shape since ancient times.Here we can talk about a real development of the wood culture (wood was used to build the house, the barn, the stables, the gate and the fence, to make the furniture inside the dwelling, for example the dowry chest, the table, the bed, the dish shelf, the kneading-trough, the barrels, the spoons, the loom, the spinning wheel, the spindle, the towing torch). This wood culture was influenced by historical and geographic factors, it had particularities from one area to another regarding the working techniques, especially due to the influence of the German, Polish and Slovak colonists, who came to Bukovina after its annexation by the Austrians (1774).Recently, the preservation of cultural landscape, as a solution that contributes to a sustainable development of the region, was brought again to the attention of specialists. To have access to all written resources, could be a challenge, if we take into consideration that most of them were produced between 1960-1990, in a limited number, with a limited circulation. The present paper will result of the documentation work of the authors, that have centralized all bibliographic resources that are relevant for the material patrimony of Bukovina.
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András G. Kelemen shares his stories from a long transnational professional career. Kelemen worked in various roles in transnational organisations. He has four children and three grandchildren. When it comes to daily politics, while being a diehart patriot and simultaneously a cosmopolitan, Kelemen says “I am a diehard democrat. However, to confuse anyone” he admits during his professional years as a top manager he had to skip some democratic processes as the pressures of time specific critical decisions dictated. Kelemen, as clearly seen from his satirical story telling in this book, says he would listen eagerly to the opinions of his colleagues if there was enough time, “but this happened rather scarcely”.
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The publication of the present Festschrift volume was suggested and initiated by the Department of Bulgarian Literature and Theory of Literature, School of Letters at Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski. It is dedicated to the seventieth anniversary of assoc. prof. Atanas Buchkov, long-term head of the department. This volume includes papers of literary scholars in various areas from Bulgarian and foreign academic centres – Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, The Institute of Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, St Cyril and St Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, The South-West University Neofit Rilski in Blagoevgrad, Queen Mary University London, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Tver State University Russia. The papers are published in honour of the literary scholar and teacher who merits a place amidst the most prominent representatives of Plovdiv philological community, a person of incontestable contributive influence and renoun in nurturing and solidifying the philological and humanitarian education at Plovdiv University. This Festschrift unites scientific researches devoted to issues representative of prof. Atanas Buchkov’s scholarly interests – the theoretical heritage of M. M. Bakhtin; the dialogic principle of/in literature and culture; author and his aesthetic and social roles; methodology of literary theory and of the humanities; the possibilities, premises, and routes of interpretation.
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The author discusses well-known theories on sex and sexuality and analyses the works in which the narrative focuses on the issues of biology, body, sex, and eroticism. Moreover, the ongoing discourse in culture regarding this subject is presented against a broad backdrop of civilization changes and the thresholds of linguistic resistance, established by law, customs, or religion, which the language of literature overcame, more and more freely describing the issues of eroticism.
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In modern world, the need to change mentalities is an important necessity from the psychological, pedagogical, social and especially managerial point of view. The central ideea, in this sense, is that the school assumes as an organization, through the aims and objectives pursued, at the basis of the instructive-educational activity, carried out in a formal and / or non-formal environment, highlights the values cultural aspects of the whole society, reflected in the pedagogical plan. S. Cristea said that: the school is an organization that performs a pedagogical activity within a specialized institutionalized framework with socially defined statutes and roles in order to achieve the micro-structural finalizations of the educational process and the macro- structural education system. By paraphrasing this definition, we could argue that the school is the organization whose main purpose is to make the student's personality within a specialized process, conceived at the same time as a teaching-learning-evaluation activity.
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The book, an example of breaking literary conventions, comprises the texts concerning different, often absurd, aspects of reality. It is a critical analysis of academic work, which compels self-reflection and warns against perceiving the world in a stereotypical way and a wordplay, which oversteps the boundaries between the language and imagination.
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The genres of the imaginary multiply according to two models: genealogy or hybridization; some themes; or engrams; combine the paths of the two trials by combining the legacy of black romanticism; and the mythical embroidery of dark fantasy... Bit‑ lit reclaims and recycles; for example; the great universals of L’Amour and the West; while creating the more and more distinct star‑ crossed lovers – most often characterized by their vampiric nature.Indeed; American fantasy writes about a couple’s dance by following two totally opposite narrative regimes: all that is addressed to the youth is romantic; chaste; marked by beautiful and strong feelings; everything for adults is much rawer; with a rather explosive mix of kitsch and trash; characteristic of mass‑produced steamy novels; which shares the readership market with the holders of a very strong sentimental conventionalism. By analyzing some great vampire series; and some novels rich in “gaslight romance”; I aim to show how the recent stereotypical “gritty” changes by introducing a skillful mix of yesterday’s techniques; transposed into today’s perspective.
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This study explores the notion of the imaginary in Barbe bleue by Nothomb in two complementary ways. Sartre’s phenomenological vision of the imaginary constitutes the methodological fundament for exploring initially the condition for the imaginary to occur. As an act of the individual consciousness to be comprehended by others, the imaginary requires the activation of a common field of reference directed towards the object of representation. It is suggested that this faculty could be described as a conceptual framing of the object. The specific thematic of the imaginary in the narrative (i.e. creation, idealisation, alchemy, liberation, transformation) is then linked to this framing as well as to the discursive mode which structures the story, a mode based on plausible actions taking place in a coherent, contemporary society. The imaginative writing of Nothomb is seen partly as the consequence of this latter choice of composition, with the need to introduce new motifs and to rationally justify the actions, partly as her proper creation of cunning stylistics, which generates the reader’s hermeneutic activity and even engenders the risk of creating an imaginary interpretation of her texts.
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This paper aims to shed light on the various uses made of the zombie to evoke contemporary memory of the Holocaust in two novels published in Quebec and Poland: Mavrikakis’ Le ciel de Bay City; (2008) and Igor Ostachowicz’ Night of the Living‑Jews; (2012). In these two works; zombies are linked with what Giorgio Agamben has called “bare life” of death camp prisoners and survivors; but they also establish a connection between both past and present catastrophes; as well as urban or suburban spaces in which they are deployed. The borrowing of a figure coming largely from pop culture composes an interesting scheme to represent the impossible mourning in contemporary imaginary.
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The purpose of this article is to study uchronia as a literary genre. I propose to take criticism one century back and to put aside the considerations of research on this genre in its current state. Uchronia is a genre of the nineteenth century, whose antecedents are: utopia, the historical novel, and the romanticism movement. The twentieth‑ century’s uchronia is in fact only a splintering of the “original” genre into three streams: the science fiction and especially the steampunk, a historicizing current, which has become a controversial discipline among historians, known as the counterfactual history, and finally the pure “literary” uchronias.
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Constructed languages are increasingly common in imaginary fictions. Creating languages was considered in Tolkien’s time as a simple hobby or even a secret vice, and now tends to be more democratic, but also a marketing product.
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The publication of the present Festschrift volume was suggested and initiated by the Department of Bulgarian Literature and Theory of Literature, School of Letters at Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski. It is dedicated to the sixtieth anniversary of prof. Zapryan Kozludzhov, longtime Rector of Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv. This volume includes papers of literary scholars in various areas from Bulgarian and foreign academic centres – Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski, Queen Mary University of London, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, The Institute of Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, St Cyril and St Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, The South-West University Neofit Rilski in Blagoevgrad, Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen. The papers are published in honour of the literary scholar and teacher who merits a place amidst the most prominent representatives of Plovdiv philological community, a person of incontestable contributive influence and renoun in nurturing and solidifying the philological and humanitarian education at Plovdiv University.
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Published in 1937 by Querido-Verlag (Amsterdam) the author offers an essay about the situation of Modern Civilization facing the results of sociographic, technical, intellectual, cultural and political development since the industrial revolution. // Konrad Heiden (born August 7, 1901 in Munich, † June 18, 1966 in New York City) was a German-American journalist and political writer who wrote Hitler's first substantial biography in 1936. // The social democratic journalist has been writing about the political scene in Munich since the early 1920s and thus became one of the earliest observers and a staunch opponent of the Nazi movement and Adolf Hitler. After Hitler came to power, Heiden fled to the USA via several stations and obtained American citizenship in the 1950s. Heiden dealt primarily with the ideology and character of National Socialism. // After his death, Heiden and his writings were quickly forgotten. Since 2007, however, his works on Hitler and National Socialism have been reprinted or re-edited in German for the first time.
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“I was born at the end of World War II, and so I was young in the ’60s. This means that I belong to the so-called (at least in Hungary) ‘great generation’. Young people of this generation, especially in America and Western Europe, rebelled against the existing system, showing their dissatisfaction by protests, new types of music and by outrageous clothes and behaviour. We – here and in the other socialist countries – experienced this, only because of the limitations of the repressive system, in a much gentler way. I have never been a rebel myself, and yet what tied me to this great generation was my desire to know the world much better, to be more informed than the average, to be a real cosmopolitan. That is why I studied languages and travelled much more than most.”
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At the first sight, this book is a compilation of notes on private, political and social matters. However, it is far more than just that. The essays in the Diary form the City of P. tackle the signals of state poverty or, rather, state power that is barely noticed in Croatia; the books read only by a few in Croatia, the nearly unreal facts that are strange to almost nobody in Croatia. What does a microcosmos of a garbage bottles gatherer really look like? Where do the new highways lead to as they descend to the borders of Schengen Area, towards the unfortunate regions of the Balkans? How does a simple building demask the whole history of a former Austro-Hungarian war port? Finally, how did the Kajkavian dialect end up in the gutter, as a social caricature, during the language wars of the last 150 years? This diary, whose geographical determinant (a city by the sea), and a historical moment (the year of Croatia’s entrance into the EU) are a necessary context, is in fact unconventional anatomy of the reality that flows, thorough and encompassing at the same time. Publisher, translator, and writer Nenad Popović was born in Zagreb in 1950. He attended colleges in Zagreb and Bonn, and Freiburg with the scholarship Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. He graduated in German Language and Literature and South Slavic Languages and Literature from the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. In 1980. he became an editor, and afterwards the head editor of the publishing house Graphical Institute of Croatia. In 1990. he co-founded the publishing house Durieux, one of the first independent private publishing houses in Croatia, where he worked as the head editor until 2013. In 1999. he participated in founding of the literary Group 99. In 2002 he became one of founders of the Croatian Writers’ Society, becoming its vice-president afterwards. Since 1978, he has occasionally written for newspapers, magazines and radio, and since 1985 for the media of German speaking countries (Manuskripte, Literatur und Kritik, Kulturaustausch, Frankfurter Rundschau, Die Zeit, Weltwoche, et al.). For theatre he translated such authors as Sternheim, Bruckner, Bernhard, Fassbinder among others. He also translated books by Erwin Piscator, Kazimir Malevič, Boris Kelemen, Benn Meyer-Wehlack, Tilla Durieux and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. During Bosnian wars, he translated articles by Bosnian writers (Karahasan, Lovrenović, Filipović, Jergović) for German newspapers and magazines. He published books A World in Shadow (2008), A Treatise on Population (2014), Diary from the City of P. (2017), and Living with Them (2021). For his work he received many awards and accolades: Premio '92 per il lavoro letterario from the Italian Cultural Institute in Zagreb (1992), The Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding (1999), and, with Freimut Duve, Bruno Kreisky Award (1999). He was also awarded the Hermann Kesten Medal by the German PEN Centre in 2000. The same year he became an honorary citizen of Sarajevo. He is a member of the following organisations: Croatian PEN Centre, Cap Anamur - German Emergency Doctors, Cologne; Journalisten helfen Journalisten, München; International Forum Bosnia, Sarajevo; Association of Literary Translators of Croatia. He lives in Pula.
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A small thing: four oikological essays, preceded by an introductory word, on our entanglement in the “home-world.” If we were to take the title as the question, “Where does the home meet the world?”, the answer would be: “In the points that require our attentiveness of life.” Attentiveness requires discipline and precision, and it is not only about precision in actions and observations, but about our being at home and in the world, in the changing rhythms of being rooted and wandering. Being mindful guides us towards a place, and concern extends over time to finally lead us home. Home is a peculiar time(lessness); it is a dynamically understood and open place that allows us to direct our desire to what is distant, inconceivable, and unimaginable. When we say ‘home,’ we do not mean a familiar and closed stronghold but a home rooted in the idea of the cosmos. It corresponds also to the idea of Heimat. The four points of contact between home and the world are found through (1) the humanities, (2) man, (3) friendship with the place, and (4) the university. The four oikological essays look into the entanglements, overlaps, but also the truest lack of the indeterminate at the boundary of home, around the threshold that symbolically not only testifies to the boundary in rituals, but delineates the space of attentiveness. At these points where home meets the world, our entanglement in the "home-world" is brought out.
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