This essay discusses the Bulgarian translations of free indirect discourse in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Emma. The author’s use of hybrid FID, with quotation marks but in the third person, seems to be often ...

The text discusses Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park in view of two screen adaptations of the novel, Patricia Rozema’s of 1999 and Iain MacDonald’s of 2007, treating them as interpretations of the original but also creations ...

This paper looks into the culture inscribed in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and discusses the explications provided in Silviya Nenkova’s and Nadezhda Karadzhova’s footnotes and endnotes for the Bulgarian translations ...

This paper discusses the binary opposition of persuasion and conviction as central to the understanding of Jane Austen’s Persuasion. The terms emerged in eighteenth-century rhetoric and reflected the gender stereotypes of ...

The text traces several definitions of “translatability” as a concept, drawing upon Walter Benjamin, Wolfgang Iser, Jacques Derrida, and Mary SnellHornby, in order to focus on the intersemiotic translation Jane Austen’s ...

This paper focuses on the reception of Frankenstein in order to trace the transition from its reading as a Gothic story in the early nineteenth century to our contemporary awareness that this is a myth about the human ...

This paper discusses Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (the 1831 edition) in view of its interpretations along the lines of monstrosity and demonisation, and how these relate to the language of the first Bulgarian translation ...

After the publication of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein in 1818, the story took on a life of its own. People started comparing every-day occurrences in their lives to the fictional character. Initially it was about ...