Символика на женските коси в поезията на П. Яворов

Author(s): Boryana Vladimirova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

The article examines the unexplored image of the women’s hair in Bulgarian literature. It is highlighted in about ten poems by Peyo Yavorov. The aim of the study is to reveal the rich range of symbolism that this image has. The focus is on “Come”, “Curse”, “Song of my song” and “Mask”. The article also touches the features of Yavorov’s poetry as the image of the night, the women’s eyes and age. The text also draws a parallel between the function of seductive hair in the “Mask” and how the image of women’s hair which it introduces into temptation in Bulgarian prose. In the article is given an example of some stories from the iconic cycles with stories “Below the monastery vine” by Elin Pelin and “Stara planina legends” by Yordan Yovkov.

Джуха ал-Хариси. Пет истории: Таймина; Препускащите коне; Момче на покрива; Сватбата; Възхвала на любовта

Author(s): / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 40/2020

Five stories by the Oman writer and Man Booker International prize winner Jokha al-Harthi full of vigor and color, subdued emotions, subtle social and gender insights. SLEDVA is proud to host this first appearance of the author in Bulgarian. The stories are selected and translated from the Arabic by Dr. Nedelya Kitaeva, who is teaching Arabic language and Culture at the New Bulgarian University.

Narrative Strategies of the Representation of Consciousness in the Modern Georgian Novel: Post-Soviet Experience (Based on Obole by Aka Morchiladze)

Author(s): Irakli Khvedelidze / Language(s): English Issue: 9/2019

The paper presents the outcomes of the research on the following topic: the formation of the national identity in the Post-Soviet/Post-Communist Georgian literary discourse. The material is taken from Obole – a novel by a famous representative of post-modern Georgian literature Aka Morchiladze. The research methodology consists of cognitive narratology, namely, the narratological knowledge aimed at the study of the character’s consciousness (Palmer 2004, Zunshine 2006). In order to identify the peculiarities of the act of remembering, the research uses various approaches to the research of memory (Neumann 2005, Birke 2008). The aim of the research is to define the role of values, aspirations and opinions (regarding the reality beyond “the iron curtain”), obligations, traumatic experience, action programs (stereotypes) (Antonio Damasio) formed in the Georgian society (on the individual and collective levels) during the Soviet regime in the functioning of the autobiographic self/identity of characters living in the Post-Soviet reality. The research attempts to study how the old model of identity meets human homeostatic and homeodynamic (Antonio Damasio) needs in the new reality of the Post-Communist period. The research also attempts to find out whether the act of remembering (Soviet experience) supports or hampers the formation of the new national identity. Based on the novel under analysis, the research identified the peculiarities of individual and social consciousness in the Post-Soviet reality. Implementation of the above-mentioned objectives clarified the cultural representation of Communism in the Post-Soviet States.

Editorial

Author(s): / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

We are presenting you another issue of our journal which contains a selection of articles presented in the Synergies in Communication Conference 2019.

INTIMATE EYES: A HISTORIOGRAPHY OF EUROPEAN WOMEN TRAVELERS’ IMPACT ON ORIENTALISM

Author(s): Ali Abdullah / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

This essay explores the historiography of pre-Victorian and Victorian women travelers in the Islamic Orient and their impact on Orientalism. The major focus will be on how scholars on the subject express the ways in which the intimate gaze aided in developing the eroticism and exoticism of not only the female space but also the Islamic Orient in general. The essay is divided into two parts: the first examines authors who consider women’s travel writing pivotal in shaping the Victorian preconceived notions of the Islamic Orient; and the second explores scholars who contextualize European women’s travel writings as vital agents of both the Imperialist and the Orientalist agendas.

Vivre ses langues

Author(s): Olena Berezovska Picciocchi / Language(s): English,French Issue: 1/2020

In this study, reflection on bilingualism and bilingual writers leads to the didactics of language learning.The question of the imaginations of languages is at the heart of this research, which first gives voice to literature and then to pedagogical experience in order to reach a general conclusion on the cohabitation between language sand peoples.

На какви езици говорят и пишат просветителите? Периодични издания в многоезична среда: Случаят „Шутош“ (1873-1874)

Author(s): Nikolay Aretov / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

Residing within the confines of the multi-cultural and multi-lingual Ottoman Empire Bulgarians spoke and wrote in different languages, depending on the type of communication and the audience. This paper presents several examples of Bulgarian enlighteners from the 19th century who used a language other than their own native Bulgarian. Shutosh was a comic newspaper, published in Istanbul in the 1870s. It was the Bulgarian version of a periodical owned by the Greek Teodor Kasap. Almost all publications in the newspaper were either anonymous, or signed with pen names. Large parts of them were translations, but neither the names of the authors, nor the translators were mentioned. One such translation was in fact an adaptation of Voltaire’s Zadig ou la Destinée. This article traces the history of that newspaper and presents some of its publications that have to do with literature.The observations lead to the conclusion that there was considerable multilingualism among Bulgarians in the mid-19th century. There were some multilingual periodicals, and there were texts published in languages other than Bulgarian and Greek. After the establishing of the new Bulgarian state (not so much in Eastern Rumelia), the trend changed and the Bulgarian language gained its high status and almost monopoly position, as well as the status of a lieu de mémoirе.

Езиците на театъра – за няколко двуезични български представления от началото на ХХ век

Author(s): Nikoleta Patova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

Verbal language is one of many theatrical languages, and it accounts for the spectators’ unhindered reception when one of the roles is performed in a foreign language. Andrea Fian and Maria Strozzi were two Croatian actors who acted upon on the stage of Slavyanska Beseda Theatre (1904, 1905). Sofia Zvonareva was another guest actress from Croatia, and she was invited to stay for a couple of seasons as part of a Bulgarian troupe. Joseph Shmaha, a Czech actor and producer who was offered a position as artistic director at the Bulgarian National Theatre, also had two acting appearances on the Bulgarian stage. All guest actors, with the exception of Zvonareva, performed their roles in their native language even though the plays were staged in bulgarian. This text shows the theatre critics’ attitude to the bilingual performances on the Bulgarian stage during the first decade of the 20th century, when Bulgarian professional theatre was making its first steps to develop purposefully as a national cultural institution.

За книгата: Милош Църнянски, славянството и славяно-славянският диалог. За книгата: Валентина Седефчева. Славянската тема в творчеството на Милош Църнянски.

Author(s): Ina Hristova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

Book review: Miloš Crnjanski, the Slavic Cultural Community and the Dialogue among Slavic Nations. Book review: Valentina Sedefceva. The Slavic theme in the novels by Miloš Crnjanski / Milos Tsernianski.

Сomptes rendus : Olena Berezovska Picciocchi. Mazzeru corse et Molfar des Carpates - Antiques personnages des légendes européennes. Préface de Karin Ueltschi-Courchinoux. Riveneuve, 2019.

Author(s): Roumiana L. Stantcheva / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2020

Book review: Olena Berezovska Picciocchi. The Corsican Mazzeru and the Carpathian Molfar: Ancient Characters of European Legends. Preface by Karin Ueltschi-Courchinoux. Riveneuve, 2019.

За книгата: Маргарита Серафимова. Пространството в литературата. Ролята на местата в конструирането на смисъла. Велико Търново, Фабер, 2018.

Author(s): Anguélina Vatcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

Book review: Margarita Serafimova. L’Espace dans la littérature. Le rôle des lieux et la construction des sens. Veliko Tarnovo, Faber, 2018.

W perspektywie Innego. Czytanie opowiadań Irit Amiel w kontekście psychologii międzykulturowej

Author(s): Adam Regiewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 10/2019

Intercultural psychlogy is a discipline within cultural studies. It is of an interdisciplinary character, combining the philosophy of meeting, imagology, and discourse and becomes the part of the metadiscourse practiced by cultural comparative studies. The article attempts to test the tool in reading Irit Amiel’s stories. The author is an Israeli writer who, in The Seared, deals with the topic of the Holocaust. Her biography – Jewish in origin, with her childhood in Poland, and wandering around Germany and Italy, finally stopping in a Palestinian haven – testifies to her intercultural pedigree. Amiel takes up the subject of the Holocaust after almost fifty years of silence, and she does so by showing different cultural points of view. Intercultural psychology discovers the framework of social behavior in which the characters move. This tool allows us to show that today “being seared” is one of the constitutive features of the Jewish culture.

Медикализацията на живота, медикализацията на училището

Author(s): Nataliya Hristova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 02/2019

This article problematizes the contemporary processes of medicalization and medicamentalization of life. Specifically, it focuses on medicalization and medicamentalization of education, on the epidemic of diagnosed dysfunctions such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and the increase in prescriptions for methylphenidate-based drugs for school-aged children.

Creating a Space of Their Own: Diasporic Women in Ravinder Randhawa’s 'A Wicked Old Woman'

Author(s): Mária Palla / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

A Wicked Old Woman is the first novel published, in 1987, by Ravinder Randhawa, a first-generation immigrant writer of South Asian descent, residing in Britain. In it, she recounts the wanderings of the female protagonist called Kulwant among her friends and family members in London. This fragmented account of her past and present focuses on her desire for identification and struggle in a life lived in between cultures, that of the metropolis and that of her ancestral land on the Indian subcontinent. As the life-stories of Randhawa’s characters unfold, London itself is seen being transformed into a multiracial and multicultural location, becoming the site where fictional hybridization takes place. Hybridity and liminality are experienced in multiple ways in the diasporic space where new identities are formed. While raising the issues of authenticity and colonial stereotypes, Randhawa represents identity as an unfolding process rather than a static given. Her topics also include arranged marriages, mixed marriages, abusive relationships, as well as healing as a communal activity, and the possibilities of accommodation of a diasporic community by the mainstream society.

„Настана светлият празник ...“ (40 години Катедра по кирилометодиевистика в Софийския университет „Св. Климент Охридски“)

Author(s): Margaret Dimitrova,Andrej Boyadzhiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 40/2020

Sapere Aude: Сборник в чест на проф. дфн Искра Христова-Шомова

Author(s): Ekaterina Todorova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 40/2020

Ингеборг Братоева-Даракчиева и др. Българският XX век в изкуствата и културата

Author(s): Radoslava Lesnevska / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 40/2020

Pozostać z tyłu. Parę uwag o mistycyzmie Simone Weil na marginesie Świadomości nadprzyrodzonej

Author(s): Mirosław Dzień / Language(s): Polish Issue: 33/2019

The article focuses on some of the issues present in the selection of Simone Weil’s writings – Supernatural Consiousness. Issues such as existentialist motives in the context of The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, the issue of humility and necessity and the issue of self-reduction of God.

Reminiscing the past, pointing to the future: immigrant memoirs from the early- twentieth-century United States

Author(s): Anita Jarczok / Language(s): English Issue: 34/2020

The aim of this article is to demonstrate that memoirs, which are usually examined in terms of their connection to the past, are often oriented towards the future. Using immigrant memoirs from the early twentieth century United States, this essay shows that immigrant authors wrote their memoirs with a specific audience in mind, an audience they believed they can instruct. One the one hand, immigrants addressed American citizens, and wanting to gain their sympathy, they described the difficulties of the immigrant life. On the other hand, they wrote for their fellow immigrants to show them that determination pays off and one can have a comfortable, or even successful, life in a new country. Their aim was to envision and promote a better future for the American society, a future based on tolerance and equality.

"Женитьба" Н. В. Гоголя на болгарской сцене

Author(s): Tatiana Fed / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2020

The article traces a range of performances staging Gogol’s play Marriage in Bulgaria with a special emphasis on the respective translations into Bulgarian. The theory features translation and adaptation mechanisms specifically applied to cultural realia. The staging in the Sofia Theatre is highlighted. The methodology applied belongs to the framework of cross-cultural communication studies and employs cultural-historic and reception approaches.