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Издател. Научно списание / Publisher. Scientific Journal ISSN: 1310-4624 (Print). ISSN: 2367-9158 (Online), 2024

Списание „Деца. Изкуство. Книги“ започва да излиза през 1965 г. като отраслово (предимно за учите... more Списание „Деца. Изкуство. Книги“ започва да излиза през 1965 г. като отраслово (предимно за учители и библиотекари) и конюнктурно списание, чиято цел е да регламентира пътищата, по които следва да се развиват българското изкуство и литература за деца и юноши. В хода на неговата 25-годишна история обаче се вижда как постепенно част от публикациите показват променящата се концептуална и жанрова кар-тина на художествените произведения, както и отклоненията от зададената идеологическа норма. Основен обект на статията е литературно-критическият отдел на списанието, който има заслуга за привличането на авторитетни български учени и за развитието на все по-специализирания – като избор на текстове, като тезиси и език – литературоведски прочит на българската литература за деца и юноши.

сб. "Хоризонти на словото", 2023

The object of this article is Yordan Radichkov’s short story ‘Kucheto zad karutsata’ (‘The Dog be... more The object of this article is Yordan Radichkov’s short story ‘Kucheto zad karutsata’ (‘The Dog behind the Wagon’), which was first published as a satire in 1963 and was then included in the author’s book ‘Svirepo nastroenie’ (‘Fierce Mood’) in 1965. The method of ‘close reading’ in the study reveals various parodic and selfparodic techniques of the work as well as its high metafictional potential. The work is interpreted as an allegory of the conflict between the ‘author’ and the ‘literary critic’.

сп. "Страница", 2022

Статията е посветена на похватите за конструирането на лирическите светове в първата стихосбирка ... more Статията е посветена на похватите за конструирането на лирическите светове в първата стихосбирка за деца на Биньо Иванов "Над полето, сред небето".

Литературата като съдба. Сборник в чест на 80-годишнината на професор Симеон Янев, 2022

This article focuses on Simeon Yanev’s major research and compilation project Atlas of Bulgarian ... more This article focuses on Simeon Yanev’s major research and compilation
project Atlas of Bulgarian Literature (2003–2012). This is studied with reference to its attempt for discursive reconstruction of the authenticity of the work. The project presupposes a different perspective on the figure of the literary historian, to the function of literary facts and to the use of critical texts that present literary history not as a completed process but as a procedure of ontologisation of national literature that
never goes out of currency.

POLEMICS AND CHOICES Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Slavic Studies Conference 16th–18th June 2022, Sofia, 2024

SILENCE AS AN ATTEMPT TO STAY FREE. ATANAS DALCHEV’S “NOTES” FROM 1945–1946 The article is focuse... more SILENCE AS AN ATTEMPT TO STAY FREE. ATANAS DALCHEV’S “NOTES” FROM 1945–1946
The article is focused on some of Atanas Dalchev’s “fragments” (short prosaic pieces – aphorisms, thoughts and impressions) which he published in time of ideological control – 1945–1946. The main point of the study is to present the “fragments” not as general philosophical reflections on life and literature but as publications that are tightly connected with their cultural-historical time, as polemical texts that eventually present silence as the only choice of freedom in times of censorship and ideological manipulation.

Паисиеви четения. Научни трудове. Том 60, кн. 1, сб. Б, 2022

After the so called “Thaw” began (1956) Atanas Dalchev published many works in the satiric newspa... more After the so called “Thaw” began (1956) Atanas Dalchev published many works in the satiric newspaper Starshel. Later some of them were included in his book Fragments (1967), one of them in his poetry book from 1965, others appeared later in the two-volume book from 1984. However, there are a few that have not been republished at all by now and therefore remain not well known or unknown. The paper focuses on the reasons of the author to leave some of the works outside his books, as well as on the change in the context of the works and on the transformation of their conceptual code after being republished in the books. At the end of the article the ironical aspect of Dalchev’s works is studied and its funcion in time of ideological control.

Годишник на Софийския университет „Св. Климент Охридски“, Факултет по славянски филологии, 2014

The review is focused on the newly published book by Anton Aškerc "Rhapsodies of the Bulgari... more The review is focused on the newly published book by Anton Aškerc "Rhapsodies of the Bulgarian Gusler" (2016) translated in Bulgarian by Lyudmil Dimitrov and Ivan Dimitrov. The book contains the poetic cycle "Rhapsodies of the Bulgarian Gusler", other poems, travel notes, reviews and letters by the Slovenian poet, the majority of these works are unknown to the Bulgarian audience. The appearance of Aškerc's book is seen as an event for the Bulgarian literature and Bulgarian literary history that is late for more than 100 year. Keywords: Anton Aškerc, "Rhapsody of the Bulgarian Gusler", Bulgarian literary history, Hristo Botev, Ivan Vazov, "Epic of the Forgotten" Надежда Стоянова (България, Софийски университет "Св. Климент Охридски") Българско и образцово Лирическият цикъл "Рапсодии на българския гуслар" на словенския поет Антон Ашкерц излиза през 1902 г., но за пръв път всички произведения от него са преведени на българ...

Labyrinth, 2022

Thе aim of the paper is to present the problem of boredom in Bogomil Raynov’s fourth book Travell... more Thе aim of the paper is to present the problem of boredom in Bogomil Raynov’s fourth book Travelling in Everyday Life (1945). The interpretation of boredom in the novel is seen as based on the idea of a mismatch between expectation and experience. The expectation of the individual turns out to be modeled by the mass commercialization of the 20th century. The "cultural industry" replaces the sublime ideas of the romantic poetics with superfluous clichés, which deny the world its unpredictability, its unexpectedness. It is these kinds of clichés that are subject of irony in Bogomil Raynov's novel – false expectations create a false feeling of boredom. Boredom as a problem has been rarely discussed either by Bulgarian authors, or by Bulgarian literary historians, therefore this paper tries not only to focus scholars’ attention on it, but also to interprete it.

Bulgarski Ezik i Literatura-Bulgarian Language and Literature

The object of this article are the books from the series Children's Life which Geo Milev publ... more The object of this article are the books from the series Children's Life which Geo Milev published in 1913 and 1914. In literary studies the series has usually been mentioned in order to illustrate the early literary interests and publishing ambitions of its author and only single poems from the books have been interpreted by the scholars when presenting his Children’s works. The aim of this article is to prove that as an integral initiative the poems from Children’s Life can be placed in the broader context of Geo Milev’s modernist project. In the first part of the article the history of the series is presented and an unknown poem by the poet is published. In the second part it is emphasized on the author’s desire to show his readers the modernist parameters of what he called “aesthetic emotion”.

LITERARY PROCESS: methodology, names, trends, 2020

The article aims to present and analyse the cultural-historical and media contexts of the column ... more The article aims to present and analyse the cultural-historical and media contexts of the column “An Hour at...” from the Bulgarian newspaper of the 1930s — Literary Voice. The methods of cul-tural and literary-historical study are used. It is concluded that, by integrating the genres of interview and (auto)biography, this column has rehabilitated the role of the European intellectual after the crisis of the 1920s. The article is a part of a larger study.

The article is focused on the figure of “the great unknown” in Bulgarian culture of the 1930s and... more The article is focused on the figure of “the great unknown” in Bulgarian culture of the 1930s and 1940s. The cultural analyst Kiril Krastev defined him as those “great reader, great spectator, great listener and student” that was the aim of the genius’work. The presence of this figure in Bulgarian culture is studied in opposition to the collective ideologies of the historical time. “The great unknown” is a new subject of Bulgarian cultural history that presents its attempt of ethical and aesthetic reading of the human in its discreet singleness, silent resilience and empathy towards the Other.

Литературен вестник, 2018

Рецензия за книгата на Лъчезар Станчев "Капка" (ИК "Жанет - 45", Пловдив, 2018), съст. Светлозар ... more Рецензия за книгата на Лъчезар Станчев "Капка" (ИК "Жанет - 45", Пловдив, 2018), съст. Светлозар Игов.

The article is focused on the inventor as a literary character of Bulgarian interwar literature. ... more The article is focused on the inventor as a literary character of Bulgarian interwar literature. In the first part of the research an attempt for a typology of the character is made. In the second part is studied the image of the Moon in the short story by Svetoslav Minkov “Lunatin!... Lunatin!... Lunatin!...” (1932). This image turns out to be a reason to study the literary and ideological shaping of the inventor as a literary character set in the context of the mass discourse about the scientific progress of the 1930s.

В статията се разглеждат две пародии на „Небето“ на Гео Милев, публикувани в сп. „Българан“ и тех... more В статията се разглеждат две пародии на „Небето“ на Гео Милев, публикувани в сп. „Българан“ и техният контекст в изданието – „Квинтесенция на Експресионо-футуризма (философична амалгама)“ от Alkali и „Небето (Естето-критична фантазия по Гео Милев)“, подписана от Глан (Димитър Гимиджийски). Тези два текста, както и много от литературните пародии в „Българан“, в голяма степен представят българския модернизъм по-скоро като мечта/„фантазия“ на българските автори, отколкото като художествена реализация. Но ние ще попитаме дали в опита за пародийно възпроизвеждане на манифестната страст на Гео Милев, дали в осмиващата фрагментаризация на текстовете и парадоксалност на тезите не може да се разпознае авангардният импулс към зануляване на смисъла, експерименталният жест, с който се прави опит за отхвърляне на поредната естетическа утопия.

The article focuses on some of the most popular Bulgarian fashion magazines of the 1930s. The mai... more The article focuses on some of the most popular Bulgarian fashion magazines of the 1930s. The main point is that they objectify in images (and things) the elite cultural ideas of their time. Not only do they present the openness and rapid reflectiveness of popular culture but they have the potential to illustrate the vitality of Bulgarian modernism in the context of the new understanding of art in the 1930s; they give wholeness and completeness of modern Bulgarian culture. The specific thematic highlights of the article are: the care for the body, the native and the carnival.

Литературен вестник, 2019

В статията се разглежда есето „Тайната. Окултни съждения на един непосветен в окултизма“ (1922) –... more В статията се разглежда есето „Тайната. Окултни съждения на един непосветен в окултизма“ (1922) – слабо позната и неизследвана до този момент публикация на Гео Милев, която се появява за пръв път в редактирания от Николай Райнов вестник „Анхира“. Целта е да се подскаже значимостта този текст за българската литературна история не само защото с него се представя по-различно лице на българския класик, но и защото позволява да поставят в по-широка перспектива окултните основания на българския авангард от началото на 20-те години на ХХ век. „Тайната“ се разглежда в контекста на характерни публикации от „Анхира“, както и в контекста на някои преводни текстове от списанието на Гео Милев „Везни“.

Литературата: удоволствия и предизвикателства. Юбилеен сборник в чест на професор дфн Милена Кирова, 2018

Обект на статията са три различни интерпретации на куклата в българската литература от 1920-те го... more Обект на статията са три различни интерпретации на куклата в българската литература от 1920-те години. Те са представени в разказите: "Комедия на куклите" на Владимир Полянов, "Пантомима" на Светослав Минков и "Балерина" на Владимир Полянов. Куклата е видяна като проекция на човешкото тяло - в неговата виталност и трагична фрагментаризация, но и човешкото тяло като маска, която разкрива различни аспекти на социалната модификация на субекта.

Свят и смисъл. Сборник в чест на проф. дфн Валери Стефанов, 2018

Денди е значим персонаж за европейската литература от XIX и XX век, но българските художествени ... more Денди е значим персонаж за европейската литература от XIX и XX век, но българските художествени интерпретации на този образ са твърде малко, макар неговата поява да поставя важни въпроси като тези за модерната идентичност и за естетизацията на всекидневието. Статията се фокусира върху три персонажа от българската литература, чието поведение наподобява това на денди. Те са: декадентът от книгата на Андрей Протич "Ева", контето от повестта на Димитър Шишманов "Хайлайф" и дилетантът от романа на Чавдар Мутафов "Дилетант".

сп. "Страница", 2018

Статията се фокусира върху кабарето като характерен топос за европейската (и българската) култура... more Статията се фокусира върху кабарето като характерен топос за европейската (и българската) култура от първата половина на ХХ век. Кабаретната култура се разглежда като специфична жестовост, представяща вакханическата освободеност, социалната ангажираност и спонтанната художествена рефлексивност на човека от периода между двете световни войни. В първата част на изследването фокусът пада върху статията "Кабаретен стил" на Николай Райнов, а във втората - върху някои популярни кабаретни песенни текстове от анонимни автори или от известни имена като куплетистите Стоян Миленков и Джиб.

Издател. Научно списание / Publisher. Scientific Journal ISSN: 1310-4624 (Print). ISSN: 2367-9158 (Online), 2024

сб. "Хоризонти на словото", 2023

сп. "Страница", 2022

Литературата като съдба. Сборник в чест на 80-годишнината на професор Симеон Янев, 2022

POLEMICS AND CHOICES Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Slavic Studies Conference 16th–18th June 2022, Sofia, 2024

Паисиеви четения. Научни трудове. Том 60, кн. 1, сб. Б, 2022

Годишник на Софийския университет „Св. Климент Охридски“, Факултет по славянски филологии, 2014

Labyrinth, 2022

Bulgarski Ezik i Literatura-Bulgarian Language and Literature

LITERARY PROCESS: methodology, names, trends, 2020

Литературен вестник, 2018

Литературен вестник, 2019

Литературата: удоволствия и предизвикателства. Юбилеен сборник в чест на професор дфн Милена Кирова, 2018

Свят и смисъл. Сборник в чест на проф. дфн Валери Стефанов, 2018

сп. "Страница", 2018

сп. "Литературата", 2020

Рецензия за мемоарната книга на Милена Цанева "Броеница. Из гънките на паметта" (2020).

Литературен вестник, 2018

Рецензия за книгата на Лъчезар Станчев "Капка" - ИК "Жанет-45", Пловдив 2018. Съст. Светлозар Игов

Рецензия за книгата на Кирил Кръстев "Манифести, статии, есета (1922-1939)", София, 2014. Ред. Ел... more Рецензия за книгата на Кирил Кръстев "Манифести, статии, есета (1922-1939)", София, 2014. Ред. Елка Димитрова

Украси и гримаси : Мода и модерност в българската литература от 20-те и 30-те години на XX век / ADORNMENTS AND GRIMACES. Fashion and Modernity in Bulgarian literature of the 1920s and 1930s, 2022

From the perspective of Bulgarian culture of the 1920s and 1930s, fashion constituted a problem w... more From the perspective of Bulgarian culture of the 1920s and 1930s, fashion constituted a problem with a high interpretive potential. It was not merely an evaluation of the ephemeral or the new, but mainly presented the perception of the human as heroic (see Baudelaire) in its ecstatic-traumatic and pleasurable-neurotic strive for the future despite death. In the post-war years of radical collapse of humanistic ideas and painful questioning of the Self, fashion came to serve as an opportunity to reconstruct and improve oneself, an opportunity for the Self to be more than it had been. A number of Bulgarian authors from the interwar years did not construe fashion only with reference to its objectification; it was not seen in the fashionable item itself. For these writers, fashion was most of all in the very anticipation of the pleasure of being fashionable, of being ahead of one’s time, ahead of others, ahead of life and death. Therefore, this monograph does not focus on the history of clothing in literature or on the anthropology or semiotics of fashionable clothing (often perceived as a metonymic image of fashion itself), but rather on the possibility of seeing various fashion images and gestures as a manifestation of modern Self-consciousness. At the same time, the study deals with (thinking critically about) the failure of these images and gestures to gain a different self-image – they often turn into an elementary, non-reflexive manifestation of imitative impulses that stereotype the subject and their worldview. Insofar as fashion is often seen in its difficult and ambiguous correlation to the modern in cultural history, it can be said that in Bulgarian literature and culture of the 1920s and 1930s fashion was not conceived as an equivalent to the modern, but instead the modern is conceived as a horizon for the fashionable person.
The book is divided into two parts. The first one emphasizes the cultural-historical parameters according to which fashion is often studied and the elite and popular attempts at critical reflection on the phenomenon.
The first chapter is called “Baudelaire’s Costume” of Bulgarian Interwar Literature and, after presenting theoretical and cultural-historical perspectives regarding the concept of fashion, offers an outline of the more elaborate understanding of the ephemeral in Bulgarian culture of the 1920s and 1930s. In the second chapter, popular culture is discussed. The object are fashion magazines of the interwar years and the desire of their editors and authors not only to describe fashion silhouettes and to design fashionable clothes, but above all to reflect – with the confidence of modern subjects – on the functions and meaning of these silhouettes.
The second part of the book outlines some of the literary reflections on fashion in Bulgarian interwar literature. It begins with the third chapter, which focuses on the “capital of the world” and fashion, Paris. For Bulgarian authors, Paris was an environment that made the new understanding of the fleeting possible, an environment that gave rise to a new subject, namely “the painter of modern life”. This chapter introduces the problem of the random changes in identity that fashion implies (see Lotman). In the next chapter, which focuses on the cabaret and carnival as heterotopias and heterochronies, this topic receives further discussion. The urban environment is presented as a space of play, and people as marionettes that have fallen into the hands of an unknown “grown child”. Driven by a metaphysical impulse (see Baudelaire’s “The Philosophy of Toys”), this child tears the puppets apart but, through the eyes of a skeptical old man, sees only emptiness in them.
The object of the fifth chapter is the fashionable and / or modern character who wants to recognize in fashionable clothing or gestures the coming true of their dream of perfection and stability, but sees stagnation and/or discovers death. This drives characters’ extraordinary desire to dynamize their existence, to expand the horizons of the future. In the first part of the chapter, the paradoxical nature of the anti-fashion dandy is studied; in the second – that of the dancing person, and in the third – that of the bored one.
The last two chapters focus on literary interpretations that present fashion as a cliché. The sixth chapter focuses on the function of laughter as a tool to unmask fashion, to present fashion in everyday life as a possible failure of the modern and modernist project. The seventh chapter focuses on the notions of “novelty” in fashion that popular literature (manipulatively) imposes, but also – often in a parodic and ironic manner – tries to push away, albeit with rare success. The object are some parodies from the Balgaran magazine and some works published in popular songbooks.
The primary literature used for this study is wide-ranging. Critical and literary works by well-known authors (including Geo Milev, Chavdar Mutafov, Nikolay Raynov, Atanas Dalchev, Fani Popova-Mutafova, Svetoslav Minkov, Vladimir Polyanov, etc.) receive commentary, as well as works by a number of authors that have rarely been an object of Bulgarian cultural and literary historians’ attention. Some pieces are studied for the first time.

„Възходът на слънчогледите. Българската литература от 20-те и 30-те години на ХХ век: опити с вре... more „Възходът на слънчогледите. Българската литература от 20-те и 30-те години на ХХ век: опити с времето“ е книга за образите и употребите на времето в българската литература от междувоенния период. Човекът от 20-те и 30-те години на ХХ век е видян в опитите си да „овладява“ времето посредством различни фигуративни стратегии, да търси посоки за засвидетелстване на собственото си присъствие в света във и през художествената творба, но не като „място“ на яснота и сигурност, а като пролука към непознаваемото. Изследването включва и Речник на образите на времето в българската литература от изследвания период.

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to an academic conference “Along the Periphery of... more Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to an academic conference “Along the Periphery of Literature: Memory and Uses”. It will be held from 4 to 5 November 2019 in the New conference room and Hall q of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski.
The main thematic areas are:
Theoretical and historical aspects of the marginal literature: authors, genres, works, interpretative directions.
Uses and misuses of literary memory. Literary and critical discourses. Ideological contexts.
Literature and Culture in the Periphery: national dialogues and global politics.

The languages of the conference are: Bulgarian, English and Russian.
We are looking forward to your applications until October 15, 2019. Please, send them to: liter_conf@slav.uni-sofia.bg
The papers will be published in 2020.
There is no conference fee. Participants attending the conference are expected to cover their travel, food and accommodation expenses.
Organizing Committee: Assoc. Prof. Noemi Stoichkova, PhD
Senior Asst. Prof. Nadezhda Stoyanova, PhD
Vladimir Ignatov, PhD

The Faculty of Slavic Studies is pleased to invite you to the Third International Philological Fo... more The Faculty of Slavic Studies is pleased to invite you to the Third International Philological Forum for Young Scholars, this edition being under the title Fields of Cooperation. The Forum is to be held between 15th and 17th of November, 2018 at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski.

Main areas
Please offer your contributions to one of the following thematic areas:
A Focus on Philology: reflecting on it and its avenues for development;
Literature: history and theory;
Language: history and theory;
Cultural Anthropology, Folkloristics, Ethnology: history and modern realities;
Medieval Studies: the word, the image, the melody;
New Media, Theatre and Cinema. Ambiguity in Art, Virtual Reality;
The Methodology of Teaching Language and Literature: Challenges and Perspectives;
Translation: theory and practice.

Within the Forum
As part of the Forum, we are going to hold a Discussion on Criticism, which has been conceived and organized by Senior Assist. Prof. Noemi Stoichkova, PhD.

On 18th of November, 2018, we have a planned tour entitled Sofia in Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Attention
Upon submitting your application for participation, we will be glad if we receive a recommendation by an expert in your respective field (who has a PhD, as a minimum requirement) using the following e-mail address: su.forum.students@gmail.com.

The working languages of our Forum shall be all Slavic languages and English.
Your presentation should be no longer than 15 minutes.
There is no participation fee.

Papers shall receive commentary and assessment from groups of expert academics with the framework of each panel.
All those selected to participate shall receive a certificate of participation.
The one-night accommodation fee for participants from abroad who wish to avail themselves of our student housing facilities shall be about €10.

Deadline for the submission of your participation form: 20/10/2018.