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The article discusses the Synopsis Apostolorum attributed to Dorotheus of Tyre, which purports to be a list of the Seventy Apostles. It gives a brief overview of the history of the text in Greek and Slavonic. In contrast to the Greek tradition, where it may be found in miscellanies of various types and also in manuscripts of the Apostolos which are provided with relatively extensive apparatus, in Slavonic it is found exclusively in Apostolos manuscripts. The redaction of the Synopsis, moreover, corresponds to the redaction of the Apostolos; there are discernible differences between the texts in each of the three Slavonic redactions in which it is represented. This indicates that it was translated as part of the accompanying text each time that the Apostolos itself was translated. This means that the Slavonic version (unlike the Greek) exists exclusively as paratext, but that this paratextual status, being dependent on the version, is not intrinsic to the work but a function of its history. This in turn points to the necessity of taking the paratext into account in any study of the text of the Bible.
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This article is dedicated to the problems in the research on the processes of creating local ideas for the so-called cultural universals of modernity from the point of view of the history of ideas. The author focuses her attention on the Project entitled Migrating Ideas in the Slavic Balkans. XVIII-XX century (OPUS 2014/13/B/HS2/01057) which was implemented in the period 2015-2018 in the Polish Academy of Sciences; she presents its formulations and reveals its obscure connections with the Polish (Warsaw) tradition of the history of ideas, analyzes the risks posed by the methodological ‘uncertainty’ of the study arising from an inter(trans)-disciplinary approach.
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The title of the reviewed collection quotes Aristotle's ΠΕΡΙ ΨΥΧΗΣ, however, the book compounds 37 contributions that give insights to the notion through a large scale of sciences: philosophy, psychology, cultural studies, linguistics, etc. The Soul is examined as a notion, but also as an entity in common practices, concerning other objects and contexts, or exemplified by myths and literary plots.
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The paper discusses the first marriage and divorce of Laura Karavelova and her complicated relationship with Peter Neykov, Ivan Drenkov, and her mother Ekaterina. Laura was one of the most cultured, enigmatic, and emancipated Bulgarian women at the beginning of the 20th century but she was also a tragic figure. Her tragic destiny was influenced by literature and the whole artistic world of the time – theatre, music, and visual arts. The study presents Laura Karavelova as a personalistic feminist, whose struggle for personal freedom confronted her with traditionalist Ekaterina Karavelova.
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The research subject of the study is the poet Lalio Marinov, who is known by his creative pseudonym Lamar. Attention is focused on his presence in the Bulgarian literary process between the two world wars. Lamar's path in the already formed aesthetic trends of post-war Symbolism and Expressionism is examined. Attention is paid to the traces that imaginism and anarcho-communism leave in his poetry. The more prominent intertextual relationships that took shape in the 1920s are traced. More important are those relations between Lamar, on the one hand, and Geo Milev, Dimitar Hadjiliev, Yassen Valkovski, Ivan Perfanov, on the other. It comments on the changes in imagery and poetic expression that accompanied Lamar and his books, as well as his publications in literary periodicals in the years between the two wars.
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In this article, I delve into Otets Paisiy magazine (1928-1943), an organisation of the right-wing patriotic All-Bulgarian union ‘Otets Paisiy’. I aim to reveal how the image of the Hilendar monk was formed as a symbol at a time of crisis of nationalism. The main question is why it was Paisius of Hilendar who was chosen as the symbol of Bulgarian revisionism after the Treaty of Neuilly. The subject of the analysis are texts by Spiridon Kazandzhiev and Boris Yotsov as they express different visions of historical perspective, rethinking the history-life relationship, and ultimately getting over major principles of the ‘philosophy of life’, still modern between the two world wars. Finally, I trace the institutionalisation of the celebration of Paisius in Bulgarian culture in the context of the symbol crisis in the 1930s.
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In the period of the Slovene moderna in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century Slovenian women writers were establishing themselves in the literary field for the first time. With the analysis of their correspondences from the point of view of the history of emotions we focus on how they experienced the new roles they assumed in this period: the writer/poet, the editor, the intellectual, the critic and emancipated woman. The analysis shows the struggles they experienced when trying to be a part of the Slovenian literary system. Their letters were a place of critical reflection and intimate relationships forming a community of women writers that at the time were a marginalised group.
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In this paper we presented the different ways in which three monolingual online English dictionaries (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online, Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries and Merriam-Webster Dictionary) define the same lexemes that belong to different language levels (from A1 to B2). Aside from the formal elements present in all of the (online) dictionaries – part of speech, pronunciation, examples, register, pictures and synonyms, we highlighted the very nature of the definitions. We studied two lexemes for each of the language levels. When analising individual examples we employed the descriptive method, while the comparison method was used to point out the key differences in which these dictionaries define concepts such as: artist, government, immortal, meanwhile, etc. The aim of the analysis and comparison was to highlight which of the aforementioned dictionaries would be suitable for high school students to use when learning English as a foreign language. We came to the following conclusions – Longman and Oxford dictionaries break down the more complex meanings into digestible instances and use language that is appropriate for the language level of the desired lexeme. Webster’s dictionary is more formal and often uses sentence patterns and words that are above the language level of the target lexeme.
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The multifaceted human personality apparatus tirelessly and somewhat incessantly keeps on giving rise to both surprising and equally dishearteningly bland revelations as regards to how the idiosyncratic denizens of this blue-hued marble encode and decipher various cultural phenomena. This is particularly pertinent in view of the relentless endeavours to peel off the deeper layers of the pseudo-proverbial human cognitive onion. It would doubtless come across as supremely hauteur-suffused should a paper harbour a latent claim to fame in terms of comprehensiveness and immaculate insight into what appears to be nothing short of a rabbit hole-like bottomless pit of hopeless scholarly efforts at inching ever so slightly more towards the neighbourhood of the metanarrative fount of all creativity and meaning. Therefore, the succeeding pages shall do away with that specific delusion and attempt to labour under merely one and relatively monotonous question: how do we go about explaining the impulse to root for the prototypical villain instead of bowing to the infinitely promulgated notion of archetypal goodness?The conception of strength and weakness is attached to the discussion in order to substantiate the propositional mosaic herein stipulated. Bearing this in mind, a greater degree of free expression no longer obtains for our generation unless attained by dint of explicit, yet veiled of norm-dictated defiance.This inflexibility dovetails neatly with the first assertion at the outset in the hope of shedding off a shroud of superfluous duplicity so successfully inculcated that it now, perhaps, gives the reader pause to learn that human cognition is deeply convoluted, leaning dangerously to the dark side of the mind and conceptualisation. Claims that linguistic adepts favour the through line of goodness over evil are handily belied, which, in itself, is not a bad thing necessarily. It might even be daring to think it a liberating and healing modicum of catharsis.
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This paper examines the role of women in the Mexican Revolution starting from the novel La Negra Angustias written by the Mexican writer Francisco Rojas González. The research is based on the assumption that the protagonist of the novel, Angustias Farrera, symbolically represents a powerless and downtrodden part of the Mexican population that, after centuries of suffering oppression, rises up in arms demanding a respect of basic human rights. We point out that in the period of the Mexican Revolution (1910– 1920), Angustias gets the opportunity to transform from a marginalised and passive mulatto peasant woman into an active social factor that tends to change the social system. As the military officer that forms part of the Liberation Army of the South, guerrilla force led by Emiliano Zapata, one of the most famous Mexican revolutionaries, Angustias stands up for the vulnerable part of the Mexican population, primarily women, demanding the right to freedom, independence and education. Her initial enthusiasm, however, gradually weakens under the influence of the teacher with whom she falls in love. The teacher Manuel in this Novel of the Mexican Revolution plays the role of an opportunistic intellectual who joins the Mexican Revolution in order to gain material benefit. By getting married with a greedy opportunist, Angustias abandons the revolution, and betrays her friends and ideals. From an active military officer, Angustias once again becomes a passive woman whose role in the context of the patriarchal Mexican culture is reduced to a self-sacrificing wife and mother. Therefore, following the fate of this revolutionary woman from childhood to adulthood, we try to follow the course of the Mexican Revolution in terms of armed rebellion, from the initial excitement, through the heated struggles to a status quo return.
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The aim of the present study is to examine the extent to which French philology students’ informal learning – in the area of multimodal literacies and leisure activities – reinforces the gains in French literature and French history and culture courses through creative mediation. We report on an experiment conducted in the years 2020–2022 in five online courses at the French Philology department of the University of Wrocław during the Covid-19 pandemic. In these courses, students were expected to personally mediate the texts or content studied in class and present them on a group Facebook site. The students’ projects are classified according to two criteria (intersemiotic and intrasemiotic mediation; mediation of form and content) and prove that the involvement of informally acquired knowledge and skills not only developed the students’ creativity, but also promoted interpretative processes by anchoring the formal learning of the course in personal experience.
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A description of seventeen manuscripts from the collections of the State Jewish Museum written in Judeo-German. The manuscripts date from the 18th-19th centuries and include prayers, homilies, dramatic texts, and recipes.
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Composed by Jerome at the end of the 4th century, the Life of the Monk Hilarion (BHL 3879) was translated into Greek in a variety of contexts. The richness and diversity of the Greek dossier of this Latin legend provides an excellent starting point for examining the linguistic and cultural transfers of Latin hagiographical texts to the Greek-speaking world. After a brief literature review of the subject, this article presents a comparative study of the prefaces to the two main Greek versions of the legend of Hilarion (Lives BHG 752 and 753). Life BHG 752 is re-edited here in the light of a new manuscript discovery. By looking closely at the two prefaces, we can explore the ways in which a Latin hagiographical text was translated and rewritten in Greek.
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The third part of the catalogue of selected Prague Hebrew prints from the collections of the State Jewish Museum contains 18th cent, prints published by the printing house belonging to the Gersonides-Katz family (so-called “Katzische Buchdruckerei“). The author characterizes the printing house and their Hebrew prints and provides the readers with a list of their partners. The Prague Hebrew printing house belonging to the Bak family and “Bakisch-Katzische Druckerei“ are presented in a similar way. Czecho-German printing houses participating in the publication of Hebrew books in Prague are metioned, too.
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Geschlechtergerechte Sprache ist seit mehreren Jahrzehnten ein in Sprachwissenschaft und Gesellschaft intensiv diskutiertes Thema. Die aus der Frauenbewegung hervorgegangene Beschäftigung mit diesem Thema führte zur Entwicklung der feministischen Sprachwissenschaft, deren Anliegen es ist, die Sichtbarkeit und Gleichbehandlung der Frauen in der Sprache zu gewährleisten, was durch nichtsexistische und geschlechtergerechte Sprache zu erzielen wäre. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der deutschen feministischen Sprachwissenschaft und die Möglichkeiten geschlechtergerechten Sprachgebrauchs.
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This is the last part of the catalogue of selected early Hebrew printed books of Prague provenance kept in the State Jewish Museum. The printed books discussed here were published in Prague by M. I. Landau’s Hebrew printing house. The introductory passage acquaints the readers with the history of the printing house, then there is a catalogue of fifty-nine prints dating from the years 1824-1852 followed by editions of biblical texts published in the years 1824-1839. Mentioned at the very end of the catalogue are the first Landau’s editions of the Babylonian Talmud dating from the years 1829-1831 and second editions dating from the years 1839-1846.
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The aim of the article is a historical and philological analysis of the mythology of Dyado Ivan (Russia-Liberator) in Bulgarian culture and literature. The faith of the Bulgarian people in the liberating mission of Russia for centuries had a religious character, which is clearly visible both in folklore and in literature. The apogee of mythologization falls on the 19th century - the period of the Bulgarian national revival. Prominent artists of that era (Lyuben Karavelov, Georgi Sava Rakovski, Petko Slaveykov, Ivan Vazov) sacralized the Russian tsars, and wrote about Bulgaria’s ties with Russia using family and love metaphors. Only the war in Ukraine began to verify the centuries-old Bulgarian dream of Russia.
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This article is a continuation of research on the language of Vesti-Kuranty - relics of Russian literature within the genre of journalism. The investigation is aimed at indicating techniques of translating used in Posolski Prikaz and was carried out on nouns - common and proper names (toponyms and antroponyms). The sources are texts from the years 1671– 1672 translated into Russian from German and Dutch.
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Any natural language contains several lexical units that do not have equivalents in other language systems. In certain languages, we can observe linguistic units that have a cultural background, as they are associated with the history, customs, and experience of a given people and their linguistic imagery of the world. These units are especially noticeable when we compare any languages, compile bilingual and multilingual phraseological or explanatory dictionaries, teach foreign languages or do translation work. In our study, using Russian-language educational materials, language intuition, and corpus data, we collected, analyzed, and classified examples of lingua-specific words and expressions for which due to linguistic realities there are non-translational communicative correlates in German and Polish. Our observations could be of interest not only for researchers and teachers but also for foreign language learners.
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