Най-старата история на славяните в ранните трудове на Павел Йозеф Шафарик

Author(s): Peter Podolan / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5-6/2015

The article presents the historical elements in the early works of the Slovak Paul Joseph Šafarik, well known for his Slavic studies. It starts with the educational background of the scientist, based on classical philology and literature and the influences he experienced in his youth, and then evaluates his first poetical attempts. The main analysis is centred on the first scientific work of Šafarik on Slavic literature, published in 1826 with special emphasis on its historical part.

Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Cultural Developments

Author(s): Felix Nicolau / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Romulus Bucur is a renowned writer and literary critic. He is also faculty member at Transylvania University of Braşov, institution well-known for its courses of creative writing and translation studies. “Glosses” is a nimbly written theoretical book wherein many topics are analyzed. One of the most important is the work of Alexandru Muşina, editor, writer, professor, and mentor of the Group of Braşov (a fertile contingent of writers still holding sway in Romanian literature).The second part of the volume is dedicated to the Romanian translations from the classical and contemporary Chinese culture. Mention must be made about the semiotic approach to all literary works glossed about.

The Translation of the New Testament into Hebrew in the Eyes of Franz Delitzsch: Philology, Mission, Theology

Author(s): Eran Shuali / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

In this article, I examine the way in which Franz Delitzsch envisioned his masterpiece translation of the New Testament into Hebrew, first published in 1877. I focus on the aims Delitzsch attributed to his translation and on the way in which the translation project was embedded in the wider views held by Delitzsch as a Hebraist and a theologian. Furthermore, I show how Delitzsch’s conception of his endeavor structured the translation work itself.

Confesiunile literaților bărbați: Liana Cozea, Patru critici literari. Jurnale și memorii

Author(s): Florica Bodistean / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2019

O nouă viziune: Iosif Cheie-Pantea, Cioran și spiritul romantic

Author(s): Adela Drăucean / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2019

The “Slave of God” from Southern India. Origin, Development and Decay of Devadasi System

Author(s): Alexandra-Iulia Nuc / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

In this paper, I tried to make a presentation about the origin, growth and decline of the institution of temple girls. Devadasis were women who were dedicated to the particular temple deity or any specific symbol. A devadasi was considered nitya sumangali, a woman eternally free from the adversity of widowhood as she was married to God and married forever. She was married to a deity or god, but that did not mean that she had to live her life without the normal pleasures of sex and childbearing. In medieval times, she was a respected member of the society. These devadasis were performed ritualistic and non-ritualistic performances until 17th century, when devadasis were moving away from the temples into the secular spaces. Now they were no longer confined to the temples and by 18th century, the distinction between the devadasi and the prostitute becomes blurred. The bibliography to which I had access clearly shows a transformation of the role of the system in Hindu society, a role that I tried to capture in the following pages.

Julius Fučík – Egon Erwin Kisch – Franz Carl Weiskopf – Jiří Weil

Author(s): / Language(s): Czech Issue: 3+4/2020

The edition brings a commented selection of texts from reportage publications and travelogues of four Czechoslovak writers, which reflect their experiences gathered during their trips to and stays in “exotic” non-European regions of the Soviet Union between the two world wars. They are: Julius Fučík (1903–1943), a journalist, literary critic and columnist, Egon Erwin Kisch (1885–1948), a Czech-German journalist, reporter and writer from Prague, the Czech-German writer and diplomat Franz Carl Weiskopf (1900–1955), also born in Prague, and the Czech-Jewish writer, newsman and translator Jiří Weil (1900–1959). All of them were organized Communists (Weil was expelled from the Communist Party in 1935), travelling at an invitation of Soviet authorities, and their texts, which were published in Czechoslovakia and Germany between 1927 and 1937, presented a more or less idealized picture of the Soviet reality with a propagandistic air. The selected texts capture the authors’ impressions mainly from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, but also from other regions of Soviet Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Altai Mountains. Julius Fučík and Jiří Weil were specifically interested in the Czechoslovak cooperative of emigrant workers and farmers, Interhelpo, established in 1925 and operating until the late 1930s off the town of Frunze (now Bishkek).

Закъснелият Кафка

Author(s): Maya Razboynikova-Frateva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2021

In "Kafka's Reception in Bulgaria until 1989" Mladen Vlashki combines the modern theory of cultural transfer with the sociological theories of the field and with the system theory. The monograph presents the most essential characteristic of the writer's work, against the background of which the hypothesis of future difficulties in front of Kafka's reception in view of the literary field in Bulgaria acquires density. A solid reconstruction of the trajectories of Kafka's reception in France, England and the United States has been made, which imposes it as a classic of modernity. Compared to the reception in other socialist countries and in the context of the Cold War, additional factors determining the Bulgarian reactions are revealed. Emphasis is placed on the "cases" Minko Nikolov and Dimitar Stoevski.

UNE OEUVRE SINGULIERE

Author(s): Alain Vuillemin / Language(s): French Issue: 2/2021

Lubomir Guentchev’s work holds a special place in Bulgarian literature and in 20th century French-speaking European literature. This author was born on November 26, 1907 in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria. He died on August 28, 1981 in Plovdiv. He has always lived in Bulgaria. He has never been to France. Yet he left a work written in a remarkable French language. He also wrote in Bulgarian. In total, in several stages, a collection of seventy-six manuscripts, left in French and Bulgarian by Lubomir Guentchev, was found between 1999 and 2005, whose proofing was completed in 2020. Ten volumes of his Écrits inédits (“Unpublished Writings”) have been published in France since 2003. How does this unique work appear? How were these manuscripts analyzed? What finds have been made? What about the translations, poetic creations and lyrical dramas those constitute the material?

The Role Of Kate In Goldsmith’s She Stoops To Conquer: An Analytical Approach

Author(s): Hassan Mariwan N. / Language(s): English Issue: 14/2020

This research is about Kate’s role in play She Stoops to Conquer, which was written by Oliver Goldsmith in 1773 in England. It is a comedy play which consists of some ethical themes. In this play, women’s role and rights are focused on, in the eighteenth century in a patriarchal society and also it talks about the relation between women and their reflection in English Literature.The purpose of this research is to analyze Kate's role, whether she has a good role or not and how does she play her part. Kate generally has a good role in this play, considering all the abnormalities, eventually she could resolve, helping others, and achieves her own ambitions. Thenthe role women played in the eighteenth century will be explored. An Analytical Approach has been used to analyse the play.

Curricular integration and education for the future - a possible solution

Author(s): Daniela Jeder / Language(s): English Issue: 14/2020

How can the school ensure the success of its students, how does it prepare them for a world that is constantly changing? What values, attitudes, what knowledge, skills do they form to really support them in facing these challenges? Teachers acknowledge that it is also a challenge for them. This paper supports the idea that curriculum integration is a potential solution, because it supports a quality education, which focuses on training student’s skills for the 21st century - flexible, creative thinking, critical thinking, cooperation and communication, but also character formation, of the civic spirit.

LEV NIKOLAYEVICH TOLSTOY - THE PEDAGOGY OF FREEDOM

Author(s): Aura Hapenciuc / Language(s): English Issue: 15/2021

The paper highlights a different side of the concerns of the writer Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), his contribution at the level of pedagogy. One of the world's leading novelists, playwright and essayist, L.N. Tolstoy is also an important reformer of education, with a revolutionary pedagogical theoretical and practical work at the level of the '60s and '70s.The epistemological maturation of the Russian pedagogy occurs through the pedagogical activity and works of the authors K.D. Ushinsky and L.N Tolstoy. The two important Russian pedagogues, with universal impact, mark the moment of transition from the pre-modern pedagogy to the modern pedagogy. K. D. Ushinsky bequeathed the idea of the organic synthesis in pedagogy, and L.N. Tolstoy launched the pedagogical and social theme of freedom, in education and through education.In summary, the epistemological construction of the pedagogy of freedom can be demonstrated by the object of study, normativity and research methodology. The specific study object of L.N. Tolstoy's pedagogy is the free education / instruction as a model of formation through higher culture (Bildung), but it also involves other concepts that define: education (forced through instruction / teaching), general purpose, education contents and free school.The pedagogy of freedom anticipates the current New education (affirmed in Europe during the late nineteenth century – the second half of the twentieth century). The normativity specific to Tolstoy's pedagogy refers to the principle of complete freedom in education / instruction, the principle of organizing education / instruction in free schools, the principle of optimizing the relationship between the “two active factors of instruction: the educator and the educated”.The historical and comparative research highlights the difference between education (constraining through training / teaching) and instruction (free education through higher culture – Bildung).

Софийският международен литературен фестивал – декември 2021

Author(s): Daria Karapetkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2022

The text offers a review of the 9th edition of the Sofia International Literary Festival which took place in December 2021, trying to discover the conceptual threads that determine its structure and contents. It describes the meetings and the conversations with the participants at the festival, as well as the subjects of the discussions which were aimed to analyse some significant phenomena from the present days and also the perspectives they develop for all of us.

Vision ou manipulation ? Les problèmes éditoriaux d’une anthologie slovaque des troubadours

Author(s): Ján Živčák / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2022

Socialist Slovakia did not pay much attention to medieval Occitan poetry, of which only one translation was accessible in book format – the anthology Danteho trubadúri (The troubadours of Dante), published in 1972 by Jozef Felix and Viliam Turčány. This article seeks to reconstruct its ethical background, drawing mainly (but not exclusively) on contemporary approaches to the anthology as a concept. It responds to such questions as: Do the translators fall prey to cultural isolationism and plagiarize concrete foreign-language (especially French) sources? Does their selection of poems encourage ethnocentrism rather than a true exchange of literary values? Why is Dante’s name included in the title? To what extent are the accompanying paratexts marked by ideological manipulation? Perhaps not surprisingly, the editorial gesture is not discredited by the ordeal, proving that aesthetic elitism can be a powerful antidote to totalitarian practices.

Narratives of Hegemony and Marginalization: Deconstructing the History Legends of India

Author(s): Sabina Zacharias / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2022

Myths and legends as local sources of history reveal their implicit assumptions and demonstrate the way in which events are filtered through the interpretations of their authors. By examining a variety of these interpretations, we might piece together a refracted image of the past which will ultimately present a history of “what actually happened”. There is also an attempt to create a single narrative supported by various sources that claim to reveal the truth in political and social terms about what may have happened there. I have substantiated my arguments by drawing examples from the compilation of legends, Aithihyamala (Garland of Legends), a pioneering and exhaustive collection of 126 legends of Kerala (India), compiled and published between 1909 and 1934 by the Sanskrit-Malayalam scholar Kottarathil Sankunni. My contention in this paper is that there is a politics behind the subversion of “other histories” (local or subaltern) to establish a hegemonic history. One finds a "politics" behind the legend-making, a deliberate attempt at compiling an elitist record of legends and through it the homogenizing of the cultural past of a region.

Elena MARUSHIAKOVA, Vesselin POPOV (eds.), Roma Voices in History. A Sourcebook

Author(s): Manuela Marin / Language(s): English Issue: 61/2022

Review of: Elena Marushiakova, Vesselin Popov (eds.), Roma Voices in History. A Sourcebook, BRILL, Ferdinand Schoningh, 2021,

Нощ, сняг, смърт: скандинавската криминална литература през погледа на феминизма

Author(s): Atanas Dobrev / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2024

This article aims to present the relationship between Scandinavian Crime Fiction and feminism, as well as the significant role of women writers in the development of the Nordic Noir genre. It focuses on the Norwegian Noir and the novel Fear not by the Norwegian writer Anne Holt. The article also highlights certain themes, motifs and distinctive features common to feminist literary works of the Scandinavian Crime genre and their particularities. Finally, it proposes a hypothesis as to why this kind of literature continues to be so loved and sought after by readers all over the world.

THE USE OF TRUTH AS A TOOL OF PROPAGANDA: BERTOLT BRECHT'S RELATION TO MARXISM

Author(s): Ingrid Nistor-Sopon / Language(s): English Issue: 38/2024

The propagandistic nature of artistic works, reflected in the phenomenon of agitprop, had significant consequences on the relationship between art and politics. In this context, Bertolt Brecht's writings provide an insightful exploration of the effects of this vigorous promulgation of ideas in the literary field and its implications in the social field.

THE RECEPTION OF WILLIAM BLAKE’S WORK BY THE EYES OF A ROMANIAN POST-1989 LITERARY CRITIC

Author(s): Paul-Cristian Albu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 38/2024

Through this short article, we are interested in observing how Romanian literary critic plans to interpret William Blake's work in a Romanian context. This writer manages to express his objectivity when speaking of the reception of William Blake’s work in the current Romanian context. We are astonished to see this writer's analytical thinking, mathematical precision, and how this writer compounds his structural work. By reading his book, we can observe the differences in interpretation in a heteroclite literary context, Romanian vs English.

Fostering Solidarity, Hybridity, and Transnationalism: Elizabeth Dickerson Rice Bianciardi’s Italy

Author(s): Elisabetta Marino / Language(s): English,Italian Issue: 29/2024

Information about Elizabeth Dickerson Rice Bianciardi is scant andlimited, despite her reputation as an accomplished journalist, whocontributed to popular magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly and TheHarper’s Monthly. Apparently, she moved to Italy to further her education, at acrucial time in the history of both her country, grappling with the aftermathof the Civil War, and her host country, striving for unification.This essay will focus on the two narrative pieces she penned during herstay in the peninsula: a biographical sketch of Giuseppe Garibaldi (“ThePersonal History of Garibaldi,” 1882), and a travel account published in 1884,At Home in Italy. As will be shown, Rice Bianciardi succeeded in fostering amore sympathetic and positive image of Italy and the Italians, thuschallenging inveterate stereotypes and misconceptions. In her works, Italyalso became a symbolic space where the redefinition of her identity, both as aprofessional writer and a liberated woman, could take place.