Verba iuvenium

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    “THE BEAUTIFULL CASSANDRA” FROM JANE AUSTEN – A PARODY OF THE PARODY IN NOVEL FOR ENTERTAINMENT
    (Plovdiv University Press, 2025-05-16) Dimitrova, Kristin; Димитрова, Кристин
    This article investigates one of Jane Austen's early children's works – “The Beautiful Cassandra”. The purpose of this paper is to study the influence that the novel “Sentimental Travels in France and Italy” by English writer Laurence Sterne had on the young Jane Austen. Utilising a comparative approach, parallels and discrepancies between the two novels become evident. This paper also highlights both these similarities and differences, with a focus on identifying “The Beautiful Cassandra”’s unique elements. This article outlines the relationship between both books, highlighting that “The Beautiful Cassandra” could also be seen as a parody of Laurence Stern’s novel. The remarkable approach and style of the young writer and her use of different genre spectrums in a novel of 4 pages are also briefly analysed. The report also dives into the suspected purpose of Austen’s book – it is personally dedicated to the writer's sister in order to entertain and humour her.
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    THE SPECIFICS OF SOME PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES
    (Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17) Dimitrova, Kristin
    The paper explores three prepositional phrases selected according to the pattern preposition + noun + preposition. Such a structure is widely used in Bulgarian. The purpose of this paper is to trace the levels of abstraction of the noun in such prepositional constructions, using examples from two corpora – the Bulgarian National Corpus and the Bulgarian National Reference Corpus. Through the examined data, the study aims to demonstrate that the prepositions in the prepositional construction have a grammatical function while the meaning of the prepositional phrase mostly depends on the noun and its semantics. All three prepositional phrases are examined in detail, with each of them falling into a specific abstract domain depending on its usage, context and meaning.