МЕТОДОЛОШКИ ОКВИРИ ИСТРАЖИВАЊА СРПСКЕ КЊИЖЕВНОСТИ ПРЕДРАГА ПАЛАВЕСТРЕ

Author(s): Valentina Veljić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 8/2022

Предмет рада је истраживање методолошких оквира књижевноисторијског рада Предрага Палавестре са циљем указивања на његов књижевнонаучни допринос изучавању српске књижевности у светлу регионалних и европских књижевних оквира. Истраживање се заснива на дијахронијском прегледу развоја књижевноисторијске (књижевнонаучне) методологије Предрага Палавестре и синтези у погледу грађе и виђења српске књижевности са аспекта једног од најзначајнијих проучавалаца књижевности на нашим просторима. У завршном делу рада указујемо на значај истраживања Предрага Палавестре у контексту методологије науке о књижевности. Како бисмо сагледали приступ Предрага Палавестре књижевним појавама у својим књижевно-научним радовима (монографијама, студијама, огледима; књижевноисторијским прегледима), у обзир узимамао следеће књиге: Послератна српска књижевност 1945–1970, Историја модерне српске књижевности: златно доба 1892–1918, Књижевност Младе Босне (објављене у два тома) и Јеврејски писци у српској књижевности.

Recenzja książki: Świat naszych przodków. Tradycje letniego cyklu obrzędowego

Author(s): Dionizjusz Czubala / Language(s): Polish Issue: 7/2019

The text is a review of the fourth volume of the publishing series The world of our ancestors, subtitled: Traditions of the summer ritual cycle, developed by young researchers gathered in the Culture Researchers’ Circle at the Municipal Culture Centre in Czechowice-Dziedzice under the direction of its founder and supervisor – Dr. Agnieszka Przybyła-Dumin, a folklorist and cultural anthropologist with considerable scientific achievements. The book was developed based on field research carried out in 2017–2019 with 116 people aged 11 to 95 living in Bronów, Ligota, Zabrzeg and Czechowice-Dziedzice. Their purpose was to archive remembered and cultivated customs, rituals, magical beliefs and practices, as well as the transferred narratives. The volume in question is a collection of several articles, including two volumes prepared by the editor of the volume: introducing the theoretical issues Regional idea – regional education – Regional Culture Archive and the second one being an editorial commentary to the entire publication and the project. The remaining texts were written by young people well prepared in terms of content and methodology. They have been devoted to the consecutive annual holidays of the summer ritual cycle and developed according to a set pattern – holiday history or life of a saint, results of field research in the municipality of Czechowice-Dziedzice, examples from other times and regions. The collection is supplemented by: narrator index, research questionnaire, tables and bibliography, as well as short notes presenting the authors of the articles and other members of the Culture Researchers’ Circle. The work of the whole team is located in the cultural trend called regionalism and has been highly rated as valuable in the context of strengthening the intergenerational message transfer, preservation of intangible cultural heritage and as a source text for further research on the regional culture.

OUR DEATH IS OUR STRONGEST SURVIVING TRADITION: A Guest Essay by the Artist of Our Cover Image

Author(s): Ukjese van Kampen / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

In Canada, Yukon First Nations are politically powerful and, when viewed by an outsider, everything appears to be progressing well. But the adoption of the Western political model has a downside. We have generally sacrificed our culture for that political power. The loss of our culture has resulted in many social problems and this essay discusses what has resulted from those problems, specifically our high death rate. Ironically, our death ritual, the Potlatch, is one of the strongest surviving cultural traditions we still exercise, while our languages, laws, art, lifestyle, and spirituality are almost all forgotten.

REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN AND OF THEIR ROLES IN THE WORLD OF THE ROMANIAN VILLAGE. PICTURE POSTCARDS FROM THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY AND THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Author(s): Oana Ramona Ilovan,Ioana Alexandra Ciupe,Adrian Muntean / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

This study aims to explore the visual discourse about women and their roles in the Romanian village, a discourse created by the picture postcards from the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th. century. To reach this aim, we considered the following objectives: to realise a typology of the used research material, to identify the main representations of women, to analyse the relationship between the representations of women and the other represented elements (men, children, rural landscapes, households, tools, etc.), to discuss the main features of the visual discourse about the women from the rural area, for the respective period, based on the previous identification of the elements that became iconic through repeated representation. We used a critical visual methodology and discourse analysis to explore the picture postcards that represented women from the Romanian village, underlining the connection between their meanings and the cultural reality. Our findings are useful for similar research on gender and its visual construction from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.

Pohľad na historický kontext a legislatívne zázemie inkluzívneho vzdelávania

Author(s): Paula Maliňáková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 3/2023

Daily, in our practical pedagogical work, we meet pupils who require an approach of acceptance or acceptance and a large degree of individual approach on the part of the educator. The legislative direction is progressing very rapidly, but the environment of educational reality, also based on exploratory and research research, shows the unpreparedness of cultural acceptance and acceptance of the difference of all pupils without distinction.

Кръгла маса „Българистиката днес в Гърция – академични центрове, изследователски полета, образователни програми“ по националнта научна програма „Развитие и утвърждаване на Българистиката в чужбина“

Author(s): Trayana Lateva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2023

STUDENTS’ SATISFACTION WITH ONLINE LEARNING AND THE CHALLENGES OF HYBRID LEARNING

Author(s): Nadya Velinova Sokolova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

COVID-19 crisis offers a unique chance to imagine more equitable societies and education systems. Several factors contribute to the growth of online learning: enhancement of technology, perceived value or improved reputation, and increased accessibility. In addition, changes in financial aid policy have also affected growth. The paper explained how Hybrid perspectives can be out transformed in higher education. The main goal of hybrid courses in some institutions is to enrich the students’ learning experience by combining the best features of onsite and online classes. The model’s effectiveness is measured by student success in the course and their satisfaction with the delivery system. The purpose of this article is to present the impact of technology on higher financial education, the challenges facing students and teachers in this process and to analyses the level of students’ satisfaction.

Интегрирана система за наблюдение на морския компонент на Република България

Author(s): Niko Kukov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2023

The report examines the need for a maritime control and surveillance system adequate to modern conditions, guaranteeing a high degree of security, as well as for appropriate training of the forces to perform the tasks related to this control. Under the conditions formed in recent years, the relevance is further strengthened by the specific geostrategic situation of the Black Sea, as well as by the growing potential danger of illegal arms trafficking, drug trafficking, illegal migration, trafficking of cultural and historical heritage and the risk of terrorist acts. At the same time, the current situation in the region, a result of the ongoing military conflict between the Black Sea states, requires the states to take timely actions in order to minimize the negative consequences and prevent future, similar processes and phenomena.

Българите в Румъния – културно наследство от фонда на Националния етнографски музей

Author(s): Elena Vodinchar / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

Heiner Fangerau, Anke Dreier-Horning, Volker Hess, Karsten Laudien, Maike Rotzoll (Hrsg). Leid und Unrecht. Kinder und Jugendliche in Behindertenhilfe und Psychiatrie der BRD und DDR 1949 bis 1990. Köln, 2021

Author(s): Georgi Todorov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

Съвременни теренни изследвания на културноисторическото наследство. Съст. Й. Еролова, П. Кръстев, Ю. Попчева, София, 2021

Author(s): Mila Maeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

Luleva, A., I. Petrova, P. Petrov, S. Kazalarska, Y. Yancheva, Zl. Bogdanova (Eds.). Everyday Socialism: Promises, Realities, and Strategies. Sofia, 2022

Author(s): Ekaterina Anastasova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

Спомен за Ганка Михайлова (1936 – 2022)

Author(s): Valentina Sharlanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

International Women's Day as a platform of gender performativity in socialist Czechoslovakia

Author(s): Štěpánka Konečná Kopřiva / Language(s): English Issue: 49/2023

For the study of gender relations and the role of women in the Czechoslovak socialist society, it is very beneficial to pay attention to the forms of celebrations of International Women's Day (IWD). The national holiday dedicated to women as a social group was the best plafform for articulating the regime's strategies concerning women and revealing the contradictions in which Czechoslovak state socialism perceived women. Moreover, on the occassion of IWD, not only the prototype of the female ideal set by the Communist Party came to the surface. Direct or incautious hints, the problems of ordinary women, the shortcomings of socialist society, the true nature of the declared "equality", gender stereotypes and the whole complex of contemporary discourse about women were revealed inside the partiarchal system. The primary sources for this article are periodicals (especially the Rudé právo newspaper and Vlasta magazine), which are understood as means of "authoritative discourse". This authoritative discourse mediated, among other things, through the regime media is a central factor in the stabilization and legalization of the system. Such a discourse is also a set of statements and phenomena maintaining a consensus between the rules and the ruled. Other items of value for the study are the archival materials stored in the Nation Archive, period sociological surveys and stenographic records from the proceedings of the National Assembly.

Do czego literaturze regionalnej potrzebne jest imaginarium grozy? O gotycyzowaniu Dolnego Śląska

Author(s): Elżbieta Rybicka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 55/2023

The article focuses on the relationship between gothicism and regionalism in the literature of Lower Silesia. The author poses a question about the role of the imaginarium of horror in shaping the psychotopography of the region, in which real, spectral and affective topographies converge. An important context is the peripheralization of the region after the political transformation, which resulted in economic regression of Lower Silesia. Gothic regionalism is therefore interpreted as a reaction to social, economic and political processes taking place on a local and global scale, but perceived from a peripheral point of view. As a descriptive term, however, it allows to recognize several aspects: the key role of center-periphery relations, local-global interactions, the influence of late capitalism, the return of repressed events as the uncanny, the horror of everyday life and the exclusion of what exceeds the internal normativity of regional communities. Works of selected authors were analysed, e.g. Joanna Bator, Olga Tokarczuk, Henryk Waniek, Jakub Bielawski, Maciej Bobula.

Region w przekładzie

Author(s): Katarzyna Sawicka-Mierzyńska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 55/2023

The article consists of two parts. The first contains a summary and an interpretation of the project “New regionalism in literary studies,” initiated in 2012 by Małgorzata Mikołajczak and Elżbieta Rybicka, joined by researchers from, among others, Białystok, Olsztyn, Katowice and Wrocław. The author looks at both external reception, analyzing reviews of the publications that are the aftermath of the New Regionalist conferences, and internal one, i.e. self-diagnoses formulated by its participants. One of the conclusions is the postulate to strengthen interregional comparative studies, which can be helped by the use of tools developed in the field of translation studies, especially in its cultural variety. The second part is devoted to the Belarusian writer from Podlasie, Sokrat Janowicz, who treated translation as a way to overcome the particular determinants of his own work and Belarusian culture.

Węglopolis – metropolitalne związki miast i „pod-powierzchni”

Author(s): Marta Tomczok / Language(s): Polish Issue: 55/2023

The article proposes the use of a new concept of coal city, which allows describing regions of hard coal mining and post-mining regions by taking into account both their geology as well as their mining and economic culture. Węglopolis (Coal City) is a perspective on literature and art, particularly useful in attempts to assess the past of coal regions and design their future. The author shows the correlation of coalpolises both with the available naming tradition (Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolia, polis, megalopolis), as well as with research on the Carbocene, a specified variant of the Anthropocene, in which the role of hard coal in creating and destroying societies, the natural environment and culture is taken into account.

Wizerunek Żydów w dowcipach rysunkowych na łamach „Muchy” (1935–1939)

Author(s): Aleksandra Guja / Language(s): Polish Issue: 51/2023

The Image of Jews in Cartoons from the “Mucha” Magazine (1935–1939) The article discusses the visual images of Jews presented in cartoons from the satirical journal Mucha between 1935 and 1939. Mucha was a major satirical magazine in Poland and the only one published during the whole interwar period. The aim of the study is to analyze the visual discourse about Jews emerging from cartoons using digital tools (MAXQDA). Both quantitative and qualitative methods were applied to check which elements of the picture create a specific type of stereotype. The findings suggest that the overall image of Jews is contradictory, albeit dominated by categories related to money and trade. There are also images that do not fit into the dominant antisemitic discourse.

Konstruktionen av militär manlighet i Snoilskys Svenska bilder

Author(s): Dominik Dziedzic / Language(s): Swedish Issue: 1/2023

The paper presents an analysis of the construction of military masculinity in Carl Snoilsky’s Svenska bilder (Swedish Pictures). The construction of military masculinity is discussed as an important element of the cultural memory formulated in this Swedish canonical cycle of historical poetry. Taking Jan and Aleida Assman’s theory of cultural memory as a theoretical starting point, the article juxtaposes it with literary studies of masculinity to reflect on the meaning of military masculinity. War poetry and military poetry is identified as the dominant type of the poetic form of the cycle, and gendered patterns of cultural memory are discussed as reproducing the patriarchal principles of the nineteenth-century historiography. The dominant model of masculinity in Svenska bilder is presented as marked by militaristic values combined with the ethos of bourgeois masculinity. As the cycle assigns different military roles to the different stages of a man’s life, the dynamics of the meanings of masculinity is shown through the category of age. Chivalrous boyhood is presented as a stage preceding youth subordinated to the norm of homosocial military socialisation. The image of the adult man fighting at war is discussed as an amalgam of heroising and deheroising strategies. The presence of war veterans and the concept of the citizen-soldier in Svenska bilder is seen in the article as the confirmation of the hegemonic military model in the cycle.

Snoilskys Svenska bilder i skolan och kulturminnets förändringar

Author(s): Erik Zillén / Language(s): Swedish Issue: 1/2023

The article investigates the reception of Carl Snoilsky’s Svenska bilder (Swedish Pictures) in Swedish schools, from the 1890s until today, in the light of the concept of cultural memory. For more than half a century, Snoilsky’s cycle of poems, depicting important events and figures in Sweden’s early modern history, belonged to the literary school canon; three special school editions were published in 1894, 1931, and 1939 respectively, and frequently reprinted. In the 1960s, however, due to radical educational reforms, and the ensuing abandoning the idea of patriotic upbringing, the collection of historical poems lost its strong standing as a set reading, and it has since been more or less absent from the teaching of literature at school. It is concluded that the reception of Svenska bilder in the educational context reflects in several respects pronounced changes of Swedish cultural memory during the 20th century.