Универсальные смыслы в русских романах ХХІ века

Author(s): Alexey Manchev,Dmitriy Pol / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2021

Universals as a continuation of the traditions of Russian novels of the 19th – 20th centuries. Universal meanings are clearly expressed in Russian novels of the 21st century and are conditioned by modern problems of society. Universal meanings are viewed through the prism of universal images and motives. The image of the wanderer as a universal image in the novels “Laurus”, “Aviator”, “Nenastye”, “Winter Road”, “Gods of the Steppe”.

Book review

Author(s): Dorota Brzozowska / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021

Веда Словена. Адаптирано издание. Адаптация и поетически превод Росен Р. Малчев. Съставители: Миглена Христозова, Константин Рангочев. Художник Марко Марков. София: Издателство „Ракета“, 2019

Author(s): Miglena Hristozova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2020

Book Review

ПРОБЛЕМАТИКА МАЈЧИНСТВА У РОМАНУ „ВОЉЕНА“ ТОНИ МОРИСОН

Author(s): Jelena M. Abula / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 74/2021

This paper will examine the concept of motherhood in the light of black feminism in Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved. Morrison, one of the most prominent writers of the 20th century, is trying to present the development of the African- American community and the institution of motherhood in a society characterized by meaningless divisions between race, class and gender. Slavery problematizes the concept of motherhood which represents a connection of conflicting views shaped by different attitudes towards race, gender and class. Therefore, Morrison uses the suppressed voices of African-American mothers to address the problematic concept of motherhood in slavery. The paper explores the complexity of slavery and its influence on motherhood, the powerful ideology through which the Afro-American tradition is transferred, and it also outlines motherhood as a dominant motif that connects the female characters in Beloved.

TOWARDS THE SOURCES OF THE LEGEND OF THE DRAGON OF RHODES

Author(s): / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

The present article is an attempt to search for the sources of the legend of the fight of Deodat de Gozon (Dieudonne de Gozon), the future 27th Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller of Saint John at Rhodes (1346 – 1353) with the monstrous dragon of Rhodes in the period during which the island was ruled by the Order of the Knights Hospitaller and also for its possible primary literary sources in the mediaeval tradition of the Alexander Romance, resp. of its version Historia di preliis;

НАИМЕНОВАНИЯТА НА ПРАЗНИЦИТЕ И ПРЕДПРАЗНИЧНИТЕ ПЕРИОДИ ОТ ЦЪРКОВНАТА ГОДИНА В ЛИТЕРАТУРНИТЕ ПАМЕТНИЦИ НА SLAVIA ORTHODOXA

Author(s): Tatyana Ilieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 20/2021

The object of study in this paper is the heortological nomenclature established in the Old Bulgarian and Church Slavonic texts. This investigation sets out to extract the calendar names of the feasts and of the run-up to them from records, which appeared in different years and belong to different genres. After that they are subjected to a linguistic analysis, which includes observations on the nomination techniques in Christian heortology, the phenomena synonymy, doublets and polysemy in the names of the Christian calendar and their syntagmatics and epidigmatics.

Культурная информация в романе А. С. Пушкина «Евгений Онегин»: стратегии и способы ретрансляции в португальских переводах

Author(s): Vasilisa Danilova,Irina Tivyaeva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2022

The paper focuses on identifying and methodizing key strategies and ways of rendering culture specific information in Portuguese translations of Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin and aims at assessing their adequacy. Culture differences between Russia, Portugal, and Brazil provide grounds for cross-cultural barriers, the negative effect of which could be minimized if translation bridges the gap between the source and target cultural worlds. This research relies on culture specific lexical items known as ‘realia’ to examine how culture code is transferred in Russian-to-Portuguese translation of fiction. The study resulted in a new translation model providing an algorithm for rendering culture specific words. The model uses a complex of criteria that allow assessing equivalence and adequacy of items in the target language to those in the source language. Applying the model in the course of Russian-to-Portuguese translation will advance theoretically motivated decisions and contribute to the methodology of pre-translation fiction text analysis.

Гостоприемството в полската и българската култура. Gościnność w kulturze polskiej i bułgarskiej. Полско-български сборник

Author(s): Margreta Grigorova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022

Черният монах на Емилиян Станев и неговите готически събратя

Author(s): Ognyan Kovachev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2022

Emiliyan Stanev’s unfinished short novel The Black Monk still remains on the margins of his oeuvre, and also of research interest on the part of Bulgarian literary studies. On the other hand, the plot and the eponymous character fit it into a wide network of works by English, German, French, Russian and other authors, in the traditions of Gothic, Romanticism, Realism and their varieties, where the ‘Black Monk’ motif is a locus communis. I call the potential of such loci communes to form sets of works partially connected by separate, often contextually undetermined threads, polyvalent intertextuality. Comparing through it works by different authors, from different genres and nationalities, I come to the conclusion that their interaction can be described, in terms such as de- and reterritorialization (Deleuze and Guattari), as rhizomatic and gothic. This paper does not range over historical-philosophical, ethical, socio-political, etc. aspects of Stanev's work.

Malini Bhattacharya and Abhijit Sen (Eds.), Talking of Power. Early Writings of Bengali Women, New Delhi, Sage Publications India, 2021.

Author(s): Marian Suciu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Review of: Malini Bhattacharya and Abhijit Sen (Eds.), Talking of Power. Early Writings of Bengali Women, New Delhi, Sage Publications India, 2021, 181 pp., ISBN: 978-93-81345-81-8.

«[Слово] надгробное... Kипріану...» by Gregory Tsamblak: Linguistic and Stylistic Features of the Work

Author(s): Inna Tsaralunga,Inna Pryjmak / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

The article analyzes the linguistic and stylistic features of the work entitled «[Слово] надгробное... Кипріану...» by Gregory Tsamblak, proclaimed by the metropolitan in Kyiv around 1409. The text is characterized by a high level of verbal and artistic skill. The author uses traditional means of depiction, acts as an innovator, applying a whole system of linguistic means: units of the lexical level, artistic tropes (figures of speech): linguistic repetitions, antonyms, epithets, metaphors, comparisons. Through the use of structurally similar words and typical syntactic constructions, the artist achieves the creation of a certain architectonics of the sacred text and its rhythmization. They help to emphasize the closeness of Gregory Tsamblak to his spiritual father Cyprian, to exalt his activities, and to express the depth of the loss of his mentor. The distinctive signs of the ‘word-weaving’ style, revealed in the work, testify not only to its affiliation to the high style of religious writing, but also increased attention to the inner world of man, which corresponds to the ideas of hesychasm of that time.

Гравьорът в литературата

Author(s): Sava Slavchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2022

The article examines the life and work of Italo Calvino, a writer with a huge contribution to Italian literature. His life path, political and moral views are examined. The text analyses Calvino’s work and how his life experiences influenced him.

ФИКЦИОНАЛНА ДЕЛА О ГОЛОМ ОТОКУ У СРПСКОЈ КЊИЖЕВНОСТИ КОЈУ ПИШУ ЖЕНЕ / ЖЕНЕ КАО ГЛАВНЕ, ФИКЦИОНАЛИЗОВАНЕ ЈУНАКИЊЕ У РОМАНИМА О ГОЛОМ ОТОКУ

Author(s): Slavica O. Garonja Radovanac / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 78/2022

In this paper, we consider the phenomenon of fictionalization of the theme of the Goli otok in novels (mostly written by women), as a kind of collective and ideological trauma, which has been a taboo topic in socialist Yugoslavia for more than 40th years. Biljana Jovanović (Duša, jedinica moja, 1984) and Boba Blagojević (Skerletna luda, 1991) started the topic of Goli otok in a women’s ideological novel and after that the topic of IB Resolution continued through different genres: publicist- memoir work (Ženi Lebl), autobiographical novel (Vera Cenić), or a real postmodern novel by Milka Žicina (Sve, sve, sve, 2002), all the way to a modern novel, with a fictional protagonist, which combines all the experiences of the Goli Otok`s victims (G. Zalad, Plava tišina, D. Grossman, Život se sa mnom mnogo poigrao). We divide the origin of these novels into the works of women writers who personally experienced torture of Goli otok (Ž. Lebl, V. Cenić, M. Žicina, Eva Panić), and those who were born much later, dealt with this topic completely through the fiction (G. Zalad, D. Ilić, D. Grosman). V. Cenić and M. Žicine also created several impressive literary heroines, whose degree of fictionalization we have specifically analyzed here as literary heroines (Brana Marković, Dragica Srzentić, Slavka Pogačarević, Eva Panić Nahir), as well as the type of antiheroine in the character of Marija Zelić, the warden of the camp on Goli Otok. These are works whose literary qualities should be much more present on our literary scene, and with a good film adaptation they should enter a much wider, public reception, especially since film as a medium is the main subtext of two modern novels about Goli Otok (G. Zalad, D. Grosman).

КOЛОНИЈАЛНА ПРОПАГАНДА У НЕМАЧКОМ КЊИЖЕВНОМ ДИСКУРСУ ПРВЕ ПОЛОВИНЕ 20. ВЕКА

Author(s): Nataša P. Rakić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 78/2022

Die Idee, dass die Kolonisation notwendig ist, um die deutsche Identität zu festigen, wurde im deutschen literarischen Diskurs Seite an Seite mit der Eroberung Afrikas und der Umsetzung der gewalttätigen Kolonialpolitik des Deutschen Reiches umgesetzt. Obwohl das Deutsche Reich mit der Unterzeichnung des Versailles Vertrags im 1919. seine Kolonien verlor, blieb noch weiter die Hoffnung, dass die Macht in ehemaligen Kolonien wiederhergestellt wird. Kolonialfantasien und und die Gedanken über die Eroberung eines neuen Raumes für das deutsche Volk wurden durch zahlreiche Flugschriften, Zeitungsartikel, sowie populäre Werke der Kolonialliteratur populär gemacht. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der deutschen Kolonialliteratur mit dem Ziel, das Fortbestehen der Idee der Kolonisierung und Rassenungleichheit aufzuzeigen, die trotz historisch- sozialer Turbulenzen den deutschen literarischen Diskurs in der ersten Hälfte des20. Jahrhunderts maßgeblich prägte.

Od projektu polonistycznego do proekologicznego w klasie integracyjnej SP (opis projektu)

Author(s): Helena Balcerek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2022

The main purpose of Helena Barbara Balcerek’s article is to present an original project aimed at the amplification of both the language potential (communication competences) and the literary-cultural potential of sixth-grade primary-school students. The project’s method consists in problem-based learning which integrates literary-cultural content-oriented teaching and language education (including rhetoric) with educational and prosocial processes. Reflections yielded by an in-depth analysis and interpretation of texts used in the project as well as discussions concerning the problem of human values and needs lead, as it turned out during the project’s execution, to ecological issues and climate challenges facing the contemporary world. A large group of students have come up with practical ideas as to the use of available resources as means to resolve the climate crisis and to undertake pro-ecological actions.

Zanim na Syberii nastąpi odwilż, jeszcze spadnie śnieg. Przed czy po imperium? Jędrzej Morawiecki: „Szuga. Krajobraz po imperium”. Czytelnik, Warszawa 2022, 280 s.

Author(s): Paweł Rogalski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

Through a critical analysis of J. Morawiecki’s Szuga. Krajobraz po imperium [Szuga. Landscape after the Empire], Paweł Rogalski ponders a number of questions: Does Russia still exist in the 21st century in the imperial discourse? Has the superpower paradigm, as a certain manifestation of anarchy and a fallen myth, not already been ruined or exhausted? Is the empire an episode necessary historically to balance forces in a global crisis? Is the war in Ukraine (2014 and 2022) perhaps the “new-old” founding murder of the Eastern civilization, incorporating the model of the Russian empire? Does ideology as a glue, instead of positively constructing the subjectivity of the community, contribute to building a new, dangerous phantasm of the empire? In this context, the travel narrative authenticates the message by reaching abandoned and blurry places, where the encountered human subject generates not only events and adventures, but is a record of ideological traces left on the body and the psyche. As Czesław Niedzielski wrote: “In all varieties of reportage prose, the identity of the speaking subject and the author (regardless of the form of the reporting) is one of the basic premises determining the documentary and, most of all, the authentic qualities of the genre”.

Странстващи идеи по пътищата на хуманитаристиката

Author(s): Albena Georgieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 46/2023

La serbocroatistica nei primi settant'anni di attività di "Ricerche slavistiche"

Author(s): Luca Vaglio / Language(s): Italian Issue: 65/2022

Serbocroatistic contributions have been published on the pages of “Ricerche slavistiche” since 1952, when this academic journal of Slavic Studies was founded by Giovanni Maver at the University of Rome (now Sapienza University). Articles and reviews on various Serbocroatistic topics (that is concerning linguistics, literary history, literary criticism, culture) have been appearing in this journal with such a continuity that they can be included among the most frequent ones.

Научни форуми 2024

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 48/2024

Data about scientific events in the field of the humanities in Bulgaria in the first half of 2024.

ПЕСЕН НА ПЕСНИТЕ В СРЕДНОВЕКОВНИ СЛАВЯНСКИ КИРИЛСКИ РЪКОПИСИ: ПРЕВОДНИ СЪОТВЕТСТВИЯ НА ГРЪЦКИЯ ТЕКСТ В СЕПТУАГИНТА

Author(s): Margaret Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 16/2019

The author compares the lexical choices in three translations of Solomon’s Song made from Greek disseminated in medieval Slavonic Cyrillic manuscripts: an early translation of the late 9th or early 10th century and two later ones imbedded in catenae.