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 ...

In this paper we carry out an analysis of the narrative voice in the novel by Marie Redonnet Rose, Mélie, Rose. We tackle this issue from three perspectives: the non-identity of the character Melie, the symbolism of the ...

The paper focuses on Bakhtin’s perception of the function of “death” in the creative attitude of Author to Hero. It reveals the range of death’s validity, as well as (hypothetically) the consequences of this regarding ...

The work researches „Slavonic-Bulgarian History“ in Bulgarian literary history and in the national literary canon. It compares the concepts of Paisii and his „History“ that have been introduced into academic and high-school ...

Making an abstract of Nicholas Carr’s book „The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains“, this text suggests policies (in language and literature education) for resistance to „dis-education of homo sapiens“ which ...

The paper analyses the results from a questionnaire for pupils dedicated to Paisii Hilendarski and carried out in a range of Bulgarian schools. The outcomes of the inquiry are looked into in view of the crisis of national ...

The paper examines the anthropological dimensions of the circumstance as such in Thomas Hardy’s Satires of Circumstance in Fifteen Glimpses (1911). Designed as a series of snapshots of reality, this cycle reveals the ...

With the publication of Prometheus Bound, with Other Poems in 1833 Elizabeth Barrett Barrett’s by then confirmed interest in the theme of building meaning in communal and historical terms acquires prominence. In the present ...

The research examines Dora Gabe’s memoirs, dedicated to various renown Bulgarian writers. The text follows the publishing chronology of the memoirs and that enables us to highlight the periods, during which Dora Gabe created ...

The topic of this paper are the memories of colleagues and contemporaries of Marina Tsvetaeva, who outline the main points and aspects of her character as an artist. I also briefly point out the influence of the family ...