Научни трудове на Пловдивския университет „Паисий Хилендарски“ – Филология
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Item THE REVOLUTION EPIC IN DUMAS’ NOVELS “SAN FELICE” AND “EMMA LYONNA”(Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski", 2023) Shkodrova, AnnaIn this article we will focus on two lesser-known Dumas' novels – “San Felice” and its second part, “Emma Lyonna”, written in the years 1863-1865. With these works Dumas creates a true epic of the Neapolitan revolution of the late 18th century and includes many historical figures as main characters in his narrative. We will trace the relations between the historical events in Europe in the last years of the Age of Enlightenment and we will make a brief review of the historical prototypes used by the author in the novels.Item ALLEGORICAL MARRIAGES IN SELECT WORKS OF SYDNEY OWENSON AND CHARLES MATURIN(Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski", 2023) Petkova, TsvetelinaThe paper looks at the allegorical use of intercultural marriage in Irish literature following the 1801 Act of Union, with a specific focus on Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl and Maturin’s The Milesian Chief. It examines how these national tale novels mirror the Anglo-Irish relationship, employing marriage as an allegory of political and cultural amalgamation. Navigating through historical context, literary techniques, and the depiction of Irish identity, the analysis attempts to illustrate how these works express the intricacies of Irish society in the early nineteenth century.Item IVANHOE BY WALTER SCOTT: INTRODUCTION TO THE BULGARIAN RECEPTION OF THE NOVEL(Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski", 2023) Stoencheva, MariaThis paper aims to provide an introduction to the reception of Walter Scott in Bulgaria, and more specifically, to the reception of his historical novel Ivanhoe. For that purpose, the paper is divided into two sections. The first section offers an overview of the publication facts in terms of reception, while the second part presents a comparative analysis of three different Bulgarian translations of the novel, supported by concrete examples. The main goal of the paper is to use this case study as a roadmap for further research of Walter Scott’s reception in Bulgaria.Item THE DIARY OF BENJAMEN CONSTANT AND THE FRONTIERS OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE(Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski", 2023) Nenova, IvankaAt the beginning of the 19th century, the diary played a central role in the development of subjective sensitivity and in the founding of identity. The diary is a tool for introspection and self-knowledge. Writing for yourself allows you to grasp certain well-anchored psychological mechanisms and to learn about yourself and others. During this period Benjamin Constant sought to identify – authenticate – the interior indications of his own destiny. His diary reveals the frontiers of self-knowledge.Item PARALLELS BETWEEN THE FEMALE CHARACTERS IN THE NOVELS PERSIAN LETTERS AND LETTERS FROM A PERUVIAN WOMAN – SOCIAL ATTITUDES, ADAPTATION, CULTURAL MIXTURE, AND THE ASPECT OF EMANCIPATION OF WOMAN(Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski", 2023) Trifonova, YuliyaIn this article our purpose is to analyze and compare the female characters in Montesquieu’s Persian Letters and Mme de Graffigny’s Letters from a Peruvian Woman. Montesquieu and Francoise de Graffigny present revolutionary female characters in search of freedom. The women from Usbek’s seraglio – Zachi, Zephis, Zelis, Fatme and the most tragic and rebellious one, Roxane, also the heroine of Mme de Graffigny Zilia, criticize the hypocrisy and cruelty of the societies where they live. Their revolts demonstrate their courageous nature and their determination to be free. The desire to evolve freely, to flourish fully define the essence of being a Human.Item BETWEEN FACT AND MYTH: POCAHONTAS IN THE DISNEY FILMS(Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski", 2023) Stamenković, SavaIn 1995 Walt Disney Animation Studios produced an animated film that remains the most popular artistic creation about Pocahontas. The creators of the film tried to strike a balance between historical truth, political correctness and profit, but as is often the case in the industry, profit won out. Much of what we know about Pocahontas’ life has been omitted or “creatively altered,” such as her age. The 1998 sequel, “Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World,” was a failed attempt to correct some of these mistakes. We analyse the elements of these films in which Disney drew on the facts of the life of Matoaka, the daughter of the Powhatan paramount chief, on the myth about her, and on Native American mythology. We also look at the songs, the eco-critical awareness of the screenwriters and the didactic side of the films, all of which have been praised by the critics.Item DIMENSIONS OF THE BODY IN 20TH AND 21ST-CENTURY ITALIAN LITERATURE(Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski", 2023) Gesheva, Radeya20th and 21st-century Italian literature examines the concept of body from different perspectives. Its projections take place in literature, influenced by a number of other factors – social environment, habitus, interaction with the political, economic and cultural field. The present study aims to delineate the boundaries of body. After tracing the main ideas on this concept, its development will be examined in an attempt to outline its image. The body can be interpreted in terms of its interconnection with geography, identity, power, humanity. The observations will be supported with examples from works by Primo Levi, Carlo Levi, Gianrico Carofiglio, and Michela Murgia.Item NARRATIVE COMPANIES INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE NOVELLA(Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski", 2023) Petkova-Staleva, PetyaWith The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio sets a pattern for arranging the novellas in a narrative framework with a narrative company that remains outside the narrated novellas. Both the narrating companies and the author-narrator's place in the text and in relation to them change over time. Some collections do not follow this pattern, and the image of the author-narrator is the main unifying factor: he is often an actor or witness in the short stories themselves, and the narrating company becomes part of the narrative. Regardless of the chosen structure, the works are based on the dynamic relationship between oral and written narration.Item DESIRE, FULFILMENT AND RACE IN JESSIE FAUSET’S PLUM BUN: A NOVEL WITHOUT A MORAL(Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski", 2023) Boneva-Kamenova, BozhidaraJessie Fauset’s most famous novel, Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral, has engaged critics and readers for over a century now. The book’s conventionality and focus on propriety have led to a number of negative critical treatments and its almost complete obscurity in the American literary canon. The current examination is an attempt to re-visit the novel and trace the manifestation of desire. This may open alternative avenues of understanding the effect of storytelling on the way black women formulate their desires and pursuits. Additionally, it may counter critical opinions which find the novel unremarkable and too traditional.Item DIFFERENCE AS TRAGEDY IN THE MILL ON THE FLOSS BY GEORGE ELIOT(Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski", 2023) Yasenova, KristinaThe following text aims to discuss George Eliot’s analysis of human relationships and her mindfulness of the pernicious effect caused by paradigms that condemn differences as mere weaknesses. Through “pragmatization of the imaginary” (Iser) in Eliot’s novel, as well as with some help from representatives of the natural sciences, we may be able to gain a closer understanding of how people’s stages of development and biological traits are often translated into tragic “prisons” of sociality.Item ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING’S DENIALS(Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski", 2023) Rowland, YanaBased on a selection of poetical works written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the period 1838 – 1856, this paper defends the ontologically productive role of denial. A diversity of expressions of negation reveals the poet’s dialectical frame of mind which fermented between The Seraphim (1838) and Aurora Leigh (1856). Additionally, denial, perceived as self-doubt, invites a specific recognition of Barrett Browning’s poetical dedications in terms of the human experience that her writing exhibits through narrative.Item OMNIINTEGRATIVITY IN THE WORKS OF OLGA TOKARCZUK(Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski", 2023) Hamze, DimitrinaThe existing studies on the creative works of O. Tokarczuk either focus on a specific problem or on a particular aspect of a specific work, without seeking the unifying tendency in a global perspective. The aim of the research is, based on several thematic dominants, to discover the integration routes of existentialities, both in the individual fragments of the same existentiality, and to demonstrate that all trajectories intersect, accumulate common energy, and become an illustration of comprehensive integrativity (omni-integrativity) as a hyperonymic category. The methods employed in this study are comparative, analytical, and psychoprognostic.Item THE FLORAL IMAGE IN K. J. ERBEN’S BALLAD “LILY”: A WOMAN OF THE NIGHT OR THE FLOWER OF LIFE(Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski", 2023) Yankova, TanyaThe semantic aspects of the floral image of the lily in K.J. Erben’s eponymous ballad are the product of mythemes interpreted by the literary imagination. The folk-mythological motifs of the woman-lily are to be found in pagan beliefs and in Christian religious constructions of the world. In Erben’s text there are two modifications of motherhood. The instinct for creating and preserving life is countered by a mother’s cruelty and vengefulness; if the lily stands for the dynamic unity of floral and personifying characteristics, it is juxtaposed to hatred, which discredits womanhood in its core self-expression.Item PASTORAL ZOOMORPHIC IMAGES IN MODERNISTS AND IN RUSSIAN EARLY AVANT-GARDE ARTISTS(Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski", 2023) Nikolova, DiyanaThe article outlines some important trends related to the use of the bucolic zoomorphic code by Russian artists in painting and literature from the second half of the 19th century to the 1920s. The main focus is on the presence and the ways in which the images of the cow and the pig, which were uncharacteristic of the works of Western European modernists and representatives of the early avant-garde, were exploited in Russian art.Item THE BLESSING AND THE BURDEN OF MEMORY: ALI SMITHʼS AUTUMN AND GEORGI GOSPODINOV’S TIME SHELTER(Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski", 2023) Pipeva, MariaThe paper discusses some thematic, narrative and stylistic parallels between Ali Smith’s Autumn (2016) and Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter (2020) – two notable recent novels engaged in apprehending the personal and political crises of the present through the problematization of our involvement with memory and the past. The central analytical tools are those of “restorative vs. reflective nostalgia” (Svetlana Boym, 2001) and “cruel nostalgia” (Robert Eaglestone, 2018). These concepts contribute to a deeper understanding of the highly ambivalent attitudes to memory and the past shared by the two novels.Item UNEASILY BULGARIAN: LINES OF INQUIRY ABOUT THE RECEPTION OF FRANKENSTEIN(Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski", 2023) Kostadinova, VitanaThis essay outlines the reception of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein in terms of translations of the text and accompanying paratexts for the Bulgarian editions in 1986 and 2012. With two translations into Bulgarian, Zhechka Georgieva’s (1981, reprinted in 1986) and Zhana Toteva’s (2012) there is room to compare and contrast lexical and grammatical choices. In addition, the rendering of the title, the presence or absence of an epigraph, the explanatory notes, and Georgi Tsankov’s critical introduction to the 1986 publication add to the overall package of text and paratexts.Item RETRANSLATION AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES BY CHODERLOS DE LACLOS INTO GREEK IN THE 21ST CENTURY(Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski", 2023) Bairaktari, MariaThe challenge of retranslating fundamental texts of French literature holds is of particular interest in the intercultural dialogue which develops through the transition from the source text to the target text at different periods. The notion of retranslation will be our common thread in our analysis of the translation process followed by the Greek translator Kostas Katsoularis in the case of the epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Why a new translation? Based on theoretical approaches of Translation Studies, we will focus on the translator’s strategy adapted to the needs of the Greek language through a style consistent with the language needs of the 21st century, which involves the major question of updating the target text in our time.Item DIMENSIONS OF OLD AGE IN THE TEXTS OF ATANAS DALCHEV(Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski", 2023) Ichevska, TatyanaIn this paper, by way of comparing Atanas Dalchev's “Fragmentsˮ with some of his individual poems, written in the period 1920s – 1960s, we will try to trace how old age gets (re)interpreted, including the causes of aging. Another aim is to bring out the author's preferred images through which he visualizes and concretizes his ideas about old age and about life in general.Item BETWEEN THE BIG AND THE SMALL IN LITERATURE: THE PATH OF ANDREY GERMANOV(Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski", 2023) Dimitrova, ElkaThe paper explores Andrey Germanovʼs (1932 – 1981) poetry from the collection of poems “Sprouts” [“Kalnove”] (1959) to the memoir book “Russet Boys” [“Shayachni Momcheta”] (1981). The study is developed with a view to the context of the changing political and sociocultural situation in Bulgaria in the period from 1944 to the beginning of the 1980s. Germanov’s writings are interpreted within the thematic frame of the path from the ideologically orthodox texts to the criticism of the political system. A thesis is proposed that Germanov’s eventual place between the “big” and the “small” Bulgarian writers of the period is predisposed by his ideological “transgression”.Item AN INTERCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE AUTHORS AND THEIR SELF-PRESENTATION IN INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S AND YOUTH LITERATURE(Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski", 2023) Kuzminykh, KseniaThe intended contribution focuses on the complex process of author construction in children’s and young adult literature. The focus is on both the concise excerpts from the texts of internationally active authors as well as their interviews on social media and comments in the peritext. The following questions play a guiding role: How can authorial intentions be recognized in authors’ literary and non-literary texts? Is there a discrepancy between the statements in the peritext, interviews and in the literary texts? Can cultural specifics be identified? The choice of authors can be determined by their auratic media presence.