“THE GRAY PROFESSOR”, OR ON BULGARIAN CRITICISM AS A LIFELONG PURSUIT (DR. KRASTYO KRASTEV IN MILENA KIROVA’S LITERARY-HISTORICAL PORTRAITURE)
| dc.contributor.author | Velkova-Gaydarzhieva, Antonia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-08-05T06:26:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-08-05T06:26:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The text critically examines one of the defining strokes in the post-independence literary history of Milena Kirova – the one dedicated to Dr. Krastyo Krastev, whose devotion to literary criticism became a lifelong pursuit. The focus is on one of the first extensive literary-historical attempts that constructed a complex, internally contradictory, multifaceted – both in characterological and socio-stylistic terms – portrait of the Critic, known as “the man in gray.” For the first time, a silhouette of a modern arbiter of esthetic taste has been outlined so closely and in such detail from a psychographic, esthetic-literary, historical-contextual, and creative-biographical perspective within the framework of the literary-historical narrative. To shift the perspective on him–from the familiar, conventional literary-historical image of a rigorous but dull and doctrinaire scholar, he emerges as one of the most perceptive and conceptual connoisseurs of esthetics, a zealous builder of modern Bulgarian culture; the “General” of literary criticism in our country. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 3033-0181 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.uni-plovdiv.bg/handle/store/703 | |
| dc.publisher | Plovdiv University Press | |
| dc.subject | “the gray professor” | |
| dc.subject | Dr. Krastyo Krastev | |
| dc.subject | literary criticism | |
| dc.subject | post-independence literary history | |
| dc.subject | Milena Kirova | |
| dc.title | “THE GRAY PROFESSOR”, OR ON BULGARIAN CRITICISM AS A LIFELONG PURSUIT (DR. KRASTYO KRASTEV IN MILENA KIROVA’S LITERARY-HISTORICAL PORTRAITURE) | |
| dc.type | Article |