Стихът като пътешественик: представянето на съвременна българска поезия в чужбина. Аспекти и проблеми

Author(s): Ivan Landžev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2015

The essay’s main intention is to battle the most common stereotypes associated with the contemporary literary scene in Bulgaria (defined as “a family life”). The author focuses on the problems that contemporary Bulgarian poetry faces when presented abroad. Other key issues include translation, popular myths about our language used as an excuse for the lack of international success and the different types of conformism which are being encouraged in the small “family circles”.

Storytelling Mechanism 2.0: Another Perspective on Digital Literature

Author(s): Yan Zheng / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2018

This paper offers a discussion on how narrative texts work mechanically, based on the storytelling mechanism theory constructed by Yan Zheng (2016) and cybertext theory introduced by Espen Aarseth (1997). It agrees with Zheng’s findings that there are no intrinsic differences between digital literature and literature presented on other platforms in terms of their mechanical textual behaviours. However, this paper also points out the limitations of Zheng’s theory in its previous stage. To fix the problem, this paper differentiates the storytelling mechanism theory from its theoretical origin, cybertext theory, avoids the problems found in both theories, and further develops Zheng’s typology of narrative texts to include 35 logical questions that can provide more meticulous views to enquire about a narrative text. Moreover, this paper constructs a map that can be used to demonstrate visually how a narrative text is produced with collaborative efforts from the three elements in the storytelling mechanism.

Analiza prijevoda romana Il Gattopardo u svjetlu kontrastivne lingvistike

Author(s): Ana Lalić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 11/2018

In this paper we analyzed the translation of the novel Il gattopardo by the Italian author Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. We used the Feltrinelli editor's 2013 Italian edition and Mate Maras's translation from the year 1982, published by „Sveučilišna naklada Liber“. We chose this novel because of its specific syntax and lexics which pose a significant challenge for translators and based on the original text it is obvious that it is suitable for contrastive analysis. We did an analytical corpus analysis and we reached the conclusion that we can clearly see differences in the translation between the mechanisms of the two languages. The biggest differences were shown in verb tenses, syntax, the translation (or lack thereof) of foreign words and expressions, and on the semantical and phraseological level. This paper shows that the translator accurately translates the Italian text and adapts it to the language system of the Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian language finding the phraseological and functional equivalents and adapting the text where needed, but that we can also see the influence of the foreign language in the translation and certain mistakes and imprecisions.

Гражданският дефицит в социокултурната норма на литературното образование

Author(s): Ognyana Georgieva-Teneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2015

The article analyzes the socio-cultural competencies determined by the state educational requirements for learning literature in high school. The text emphasizes their inconformity with the standards for civic education as well as with the needs of the civil society for personalities who can think critically and are able to take active and responsible position. This work also insists on reformulating the regulations for socio-cultural competence with regard to adoption of the social role of the citizen

Съботното обучение по български език, литература и странознание в град Кьолн, ФРГ

Author(s): Veronika Kampf,Lubomir Lubomirov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2015

Прагматични аспекти на обучението по български език при работа с текст

Author(s): Fani E. Boykova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2015

The article depicts the pragmatic characteristics of the text and itsrole both as a communication tool and object of study of strategies and mechanisms for communication in Bulgarian language education. The implementation of thepragmatic approach in the classes of Bulgarian language is realized through the implementation of different tasks with specific communicative goals, which reflect the characteristics of the communication situation: subject of the communication, specifi cities of the speech acts, participants etc.

Концептът литературна компетентност в литературнообразователния процес в средното училище

Author(s): Lyudmila Berkovska / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2015

The formal documents that regulate learning and teaching, as well as the Exam Formats for the examinations in 7th and 12th grade use the term “literary competence”. The analysis of the documents – including the Bulgarian National Standards for Language and Literary Education, Literature Curriculums and Exam Programs – reveal that the “literary competence” has not yet been conceptualised adequately. The aim of this article is to propose a conceptualisation of literary competence based on a flexible, holistic model of competence presented by the author

Събитието на деконструкцията и мястото на литературата

Author(s): Daniela Strakova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2015

In the last “postmodern” years, the literature is characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator. Postmodernism as a whole tends to resist definition or classification as a “movement”. The article’s focus is the literary theory and philosophy of language derived principally from Jacques Derrida’s 1967 work Of Grammatology and his speech in 1966 in conference in Baltimore. Although he avoided defining the term deconstruction directly, Derrida sought to apply Martin Heidegger’s concept of destruction or, to textual reading. Heidegger’s term referred to a process of exploring the categories and concepts that tradition has imposed on a word, and the history behind them. Derrida opted for deconstruction over the literal translation destruction to suggest precision rather than violence. Deconstruction denotes the pursuing of the meaning of a text to the point of exposing the supposed contradictions and internal oppositions upon which it is founded - supposedly showing that those foundations are irreducibly complex, unstable, or impossible. We purpose to show in the article that the discourse project of Derrida “happens” always different and unexpectedly in the process of reading, in the space of the literary text. Jacques Derrida defined the place of literature аs laying between the institution law and the idiom.

O trzech edycjach Księgi Tobiasza z pierwszej połowy XVI wieku

Author(s): Anna Lenartowicz-Zagrodna / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2018

Despite numerous studies concerning ancient translations of the whole Bible or its individual books, we still do not have full knowledge of the relationships between them. One of the Biblical books which until now has not been elaborated is an anonymous translation of the Book of Tobit published three times in the first half of the 16th century (1539, 1540, 1545). The aim of this research is to show what can be learnt about the history of this monument with the help of a linguistic analysis. The collected linguistic facts serve as a basis for establishing the relationship between the three prints of Tobit, as well as for putting forward a few hypotheses regarding the editor of the second edition, the real order and number of prints and their manuscript base.

A Touristic Approach of a Literary and Geographical Space: Transylvania

Author(s): Cosmin-Gabriel Porumb-Ghiurco / Language(s): English Issue: 9/2018

StudyingTransylvania as a literary and geographical space or as a geo-literary space also involves an approach from the field of cultural tourism studies. As a geographical and historical region of Romania, Transylvania is one of the most notorious tourist destinations in the world. Its literary notoriety plays an important role in attracting tourists and building th eregion’s touristic image(ry) often considered as a social and cultural construct due to its West-East antithesis. In this paper, we study the interconnectivity between works of fiction as created cultural forms and their impact on tourism industry and consumer society. The tourist is thus perceived both as a consumer and homo ludens in the postmodern contemporary context. Therefore, the focus is on the acknowledgement that fictional is employed in the non-fictional framework so as to produce anthropic tourist attractions. In the present study, we took into account the fictional profile of Transylvania as a framework for the phenomenon of escapism, which involves the traveller-reader binomial. Thus, studying the ways and means through which the illusion of the fictional is nowadays perpetuated into these places and used to attract avid readers and cinephiles is one of the main research targets.

Spațiul de graniță și comportamentul magic în basmul popular românesc cu zmei răpitori de fecioare

Author(s): Petru Adrian Danciu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 9/2018

This study examines the comprising aspects of the proximity state situated at the boundary between the sacred and the profane in the folktale worlds, per se as many laws structured on either side of a line that defines the concept of otherness. The proximity of these worlds is in itself a tale with well-defined rules to be gradually revealed, from one folktale to another, but having in common the motif of the transcendence from the sacred to the profane or that of the transcendence from the profane to the sacred according to the folktale actants’ courses of action.

Alice’s Adventures andProxemics – a PossibleApproach

Author(s): Gabriela Rodica Chira / Language(s): English Issue: 9/2018

In E. T. Hall’s theory on proxemics, space is perceived in light of the way in which human beings use it as a specific cultural product. We intend to analyze the way in which Lewis Carroll’s Alice engages herself in the discovery of new worlds from this perspective.Two important directions are opened: the different levels of proximity between characters, alluding to different social relationships and categories such as children and parents, children and adults in general, hierarchy; communication on different levels: who addresses to whom and in which context; the objectives of the message – transmitting something or creating connections; differences in our ways of organizing ideas/ arguments and the way in which we communicate them (inductively or deductively); which are, according to cultures, the codes of non verbal communication – paralanguage, gestures, silence… (Sauquet&Vielajus 2014: 355-368). Since in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” these two directions are exploited through sophisticated logic and pure fantasy intermingled with social satire the results of an analysis could be an invitation to re-readings of these most instructive and interesting texts.

Графические особенности рукописей Достоевского: материалы для информационной базы данных

Author(s): Tatyana Viktorovna Panyukova,Marina Vladimirovna Zavarkina,Natalia Aleksandrovna Tarasova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2018

The article is dedicated to the analysis of graphical peculiarities of Dostoevsky’s handwritten texts based on the materials of his notebooks and workbooks. A special emphasis is placed on the study of the peculiarities of hand writing and graphological analysis of the materials of the notebook dated back to 1854–1860 and of that one of 1860–1862. A preliminary version of the mark alphabet has been compiled that will be enriched while studying further the manuscripts. Each mark is provided with a necessary textual commentary both in regard to a particular letter and to the whole of observations resulted from the contextual analysis of author’s writings. The materials of this article represent the first attempt to elaborate the “ABC Book of Dostoevsky”, with eventual practical application of the received results in future. A detailed characteristic of the writer’s hand writing makes it possible to read the texts more precisely and to carry on a substantiated work with the so called “complicated reading”, that is the scribbles in Dostoevsky’s manuscripts. A chronological coherent acquisition of information about the hand writing and the correlation of marks with their contextual analysis will allow create a resupplied Information database for textual critics and researchers of the writer’s works. The materials of the database could be useful in research and publishing activity.

Италия в биографии Ф. М. Достоевского: Несколько вводных заметок по поводу архивных находок Валентины Супино

Author(s): Stefano Aloe / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2019

The role of Italy in the work and biography of Fedor Dostoevsky is indisputably great, independently of the not so long time that he passed in this country. The writer visited Italy three times (in 1862, 1863 and 1868–69) and each journey took on a specific importance and peculiar meaning in his work and biography. Moreover, since his youth Dostoevsky cultivated ties with Italy: he loved Renaissance painting and the Italian opera, he read about the main figures of the Italian history, the country’s political situation and its relation to the religious stances connected with the “holy city” of Rome and the Catholicism. Nonetheless, the links between Dostoevsky and Italy have not yet become a subject of research for a monographic work and therefore his three sojourns in the country hide lots of undetermined aspects. First of all, the present annotations open up a series of questions about the situation of the biographical researches that pertain the Italian period of the writer’s life. Secondly, they are an introduction to the subsequent article by Valentina Supino who has discovered new interesting facts about the last writer’s stay in Florence.

Мельнiцкi ўраджэнец Мiкалай Крэйдзiч – беларускi праваслаўны святар i паэт

Author(s): Łarysa Szczawinskaja / Language(s): Belarusian Issue: 10/2018

The article explores an artistic heritage of Nikolay Platonovich Kreydzich (1873–1938) – Belarusian priest and writer, born in the town of Myelnik. His name is practically unknown to a modern mass reader, but undoubtedly he and his literary works deserve special attention and study.

Гутарковыя сiнтаксiчныя канструкцыi ў паэтычнай спадчыне Максiма Танка i Вiктара Шведа

Author(s): Alena Michalewicz / Language(s): Belarusian Issue: 10/2018

The article discusses modifications in structures with omission and repetition of language components, common in the poetic works of the national poet of Belarus Maxim Tank and honored worker of culture in Poland Victor Shved. Incomplete simple sentences and compound parts of complex sentences with contextual omission of syntactic positions of subject and predicate, as well as constructions with repetition of a single word expressed by nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs are analyzed.

Polemika o De Amicisovem Srcu ob koncu 19. stoletja (primer iz kulturnega boja)

Author(s): Ivan Vogrič / Language(s): Slovenian Issue: 1/2009

The author of the following article analyses the controversies which took place in the end of the 1880s and in the beginning of 1890s, especially in 1892 and 1893 after the Slovenian translation of the work of youth literature Cuore (Heart) by the Italian writer Edmondo De Amicis. The book (whose translation was distinctively adapted to the Austrian sociopolitical circumstances) was fought over by the established theologian and editor of the Rimski katolik publication Anton Mahnič, who was very critical of this work, and the advocates of the book, whose most intense representative was a young teacher from Trieste, Marica Nadlišek, mother of Vladimir Bartol. The debate did not simply concern the contents of the book, but had also to do with artistic freedom and women's issues. After all, it also contained elements of an ideological conflict between two typical representatives of the Slovenian cultural struggle: a liberal (female) teacher and a Catholic priest.

Cronici literare, cronica filmului, cronica teoriei

Author(s): Alex Goldiş,Mihnea Bâlici,Rita Chirian,Anamaria Mihăilă,Senida Poenariu,Mihaela Vancea,Amalia Cotoi,Florina Daniela Moldovan Lircă,Denisa Bud,Nina Corcinschi,Andreea Pop,Andrei Gorzo,Alex Cistelecan,Cornel Ban,Dan Marian Ungureanu,Claudiu Gaiu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 01-02/2018

This section contains a large number of different reviews, applied to either contemporary literature, cinema or latest appearances in the field of political theory.

Un prozator par excellence - Petru Cimpoeșu

Author(s): Cristina Timar,Petru Cimpoeșu,Ioan Groşan,Dan Perșu,Victor MUNTEANU,Vasile Dan,Adrian Jicu,Iulian Boldea,Claudiu Turcuş,Andrei Moldovan,Cătălin Sturza,Dan Bogdan Hanu,Nicoleta Cliveţ,Francisko Kocsis,Vasile Spiridon,Georgeta Moarcăş,Marian Ilea,Melinda Crăciun / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 01-02/2018

This section of the publication focuses on creating a profile of the Romanian contemporary writer, Petru Cimpoeșu, thru the interview he offered, the original fragments from works in progress and the commentaries on his books, written by various literary critics.

За понятието, полето и дисциплината Западноевропейска литература – 10 години по-късно.

Author(s): Ognyan Kovachev / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

In this article, I continue my observation and discussion of West European Literature within the context of Comparative Literature taken up in an earlier paper. The focus is on the subject matter’s two general aspects: as a research field, and as an academic discipline. When reviewed as a research field, attention has been given to the crises and rethinking of Comparativism, to national and international projects and works in the yet new century, to their juxtaposition and conceptual common places. In discussing it as an academic discipline, I have dealt with practical issues of the syllabus distribution and teaching, and the studying of literary phenomena in translation and discontinuity with an emphasis on their reception and transformation in the host environment.