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FALTERING SENTENCES, FALTERING SELVES: ON WILFRED OWEN’S POETRY – DULCE ET DECORUM EST AND FURTHER
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2014)Wilfred Owen’s poetry suggests – through dramatic propositional interchange between speech, breath, eye-contact and touch – the impossibility of an ultimate and complete achievement of sense in threshold situations where ... -
THE FAMILY AND THE PROBLEM OF IDENTITY IN CHARLES DICKENS’ BLEAK HOUSE
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2019)The problem of selfhood in the context of family, especially as regards self-identification according to one’s unique position in a family, seems to be present in almost everything that Dickens wrote – either as a central ... -
FANNY AND SUWELO: SHADES OF LOVE IN ALICE WALKER’S “THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR”
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)In the 1980s, African American literature and culture reached new heights. Many women authors composed masterpieces and received a lot of critical attention and acclaim. Alice Walker had already unsettled and divided the ... -
FEATURES OF THE IMAGE OF SAINT VENERABLE PAISII HILENDARSKI BASED ON LITURGICAL AND HAGIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2012)The proposed theme „Some outlines from the image of St. rev. Paisii Hilendarski on the basis of Liturgical and hagiographical sources“, accept on the harmony between the sanctity and teacher’s spirit on the personality on ... -
FEMALE AND MALE SPEECH: A STUDY OF VOWEL FORMANTS AND CONSONANT NOISE IN PARISIAN FRENCH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH SPEAKERS
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2015)The present study is an acoustic analysis of vowels and consonants in disyllabic words produced by 10 Northeastern American English speakers (5 females, 5 males) and 10 Parisian French speakers (5 females, 5 males). Vowel ... -
THE FEMALE SUBJECT IN THE POETRY OF JIŘÍ KARÁSEK ZE LVOVIC, IVAN KRÁSKO AND JOVAN DUČIĆ
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2019)The text seeks to survey the female subject in the poetry of three modernists in a number of its manifestations – the woman as subject of love, the woman-mother and the woman as sinner. The notion that the identity of the ... -
FEMALE WRITING AND SENTIMENTALITY (DEATH IN THE SHORT STORIES OF EVGENIYA MARS AND ANA KARIMA)
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2013)The present text discusses the short stories of the female writers of Bulgarian origin Evgeniya Mars and Ana Karima. There is an apparent public conflict between the two women which can also be observed in the difference ... -
A FEMINIST PORTRAIT OF JANE EYRE
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2017)In the present paper the feminist ideas in the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë are traced. The feminist viewpoint is formed as we trace the struggles and misfortunes of Jane Eyre in a largely male-dominated 19th century ... -
A FEW CHALLENGES TO NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS PRESENTED BY THE FUNCTIONAL-SEMANTIC FIELD OF PERSONALITY IN CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)While learning Bulgarian as a Foreign Language, students meet diverse challenges. In the present article, we examine a few of the main challenges offered by the functional-semantic field of Personality. To do so we rely ... -
A FEW COMMENTS ON MORPHOLOGICAL ANALOGY IN SLAVONIC LINGUISTICS (IN THE CONTEXT OF THE LATEST POLISH AND BULGARIAN NON-AFFIXAL COMPOUNDS)
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2014)The purpose of this article is to introduce a manner of understanding the role of analogy in word formation – particularly with reference to a definite group of vocabulary which is being assigned by me as I have been guided ... -
A FEW PECULIARITIES REGARDING CONSONANTS IN THE MEXICAN VARIANT
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2014)A few of the main consonant particularities of the Mexican variant of Spanish language are presently examined. Cultural group conservation and intervocalic and end-of-word pronunciation of -d are pointed out. In view of ... -
FICTION AND/OR REALITY. CRITICAL READINGS OF THE SINISTRA ZONE BY ÁDÁM BODOR
(Plovdiv University Press, 2022-05-20)This paper tries to summarize a significant part of the researches on the prose of the Hungarian novelist Adam Bodor, focusing on the critical reception of his only one known novel by the Bulgarian readership – The ... -
FICTION IN INTERACTIVE ENGLISH CLASSES AS A MEANS OF EDUCATIONAL SPACE UMANIZATION
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)The article is devoted to the issue of humanizing the process of teaching English by means of fiction. The author points out that over the past three decades, the use of fiction in teaching English as a foreign language ... -
THE FILM GENRE SITUATION COMEDY – GENRE CHARACTERISTICS AND CHALLENGES FOR THE TRANSLATOR
(Plovdiv University Press, 2022-05-20)This article aims to consider situational comedy as a specific genre and the challenges that its specifics pose to the translator. The study aims to demonstrate the difficulties that a seemingly so “simple“ and popular ... -
FIRST GERMAN LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS AND TEACHING AIDS IN BULGARIA
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2017)The paper takes under scrutiny three textbooks from the Seraphim and Vera Barutchiyski Series as representative of a 1930s German as a foreign language teaching course in Bulgaria. These pioneering German language textbooks ... -
THE FIRST LAGUAGE IN CROATIAN ORAL LITERATURE
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2015)Croatian oral literature speaks about the first language of the living and non-living world at a particular time of a day and a year perhaps in connection with the languages of the population that lives on today's Croatian ... -
FIRST TWO BULGARIAN TRANSLATION OF EDGAR POE AND THEIR CONTEXT
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2019)The study is focused on the short story “Magnetism and dushebortsi” (1856), its source, “Some Words with a Mummy” (1974) and some other “fearful” narratives from that time. These short stories were connected with attempts ... -
FLIPPED CLASSROOM: AN OVERVIEW OF (DIS)ADVANTAGES – COMPARING MODERN TEACHING METHODS TO TRADITIONAL ONES
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2018)In this paper we will present the basic principles behind the flipped classroom method, focusing on the advantages and disadvantages that this method brings in an era where the use of computer is prominent. The theoretic ... -
THE FLIPPED LEARNING MODEL APPLIED TO TEACHING SPANISH AS A FOREING LANGUAGE AT THE UNIVERSITY – A CASE STUDY
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2016)Flipped Learning is a pedagogical approach in which direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space, and the resulting group space is transformed into a dynamic, interactive learning ... -
FOCUS PROJECTION IN BULGARIAN ENGLISH FROM AN EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVE: COMPARISON WITH BRITISH ENGLISH
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)This paper investigates focus projection in Bulgarian English from an empirical perspective. The term Bulgarian English is used to refer to a variety of English spoken by English teachers who were born and have lived in ...