Browsing Verba iuvenium, Issue 5 (2023) by Issue Date
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“TOBACCO” DIMITAR DIMOV AND “THE TREMBLING OF A LEAF: LITTLE STORIES OF THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS” SOMERSET MAUGHAM – A TRIAL FOR A DIALOGUE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2023-05-19)The purpose of this paper is to examine the dialogue between Dimitar Dimov's novel “Tobacco” (1951) and Somerset Maugham's collection of short stories “The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands” (1921). ... -
HOW TO BECOME A WRITER? GEORGI RAKOVSKI AND PETKO SLAVEYKOV. THE DIFFERENT STRATEGIES OF AUTOREPRESENTATION
(Plovdiv University Press, 2023-05-19)The aim of this paper is to throw a new light over the oeuvres of Georgi Rakovski and Petko Slaveykov who are among the first during the Bulgarian Renaissance, and who begin to bring diversity into their writing. It is ... -
THE ROLE OF TWO SYMBOLS IN VAPTSAROV’S POETRY
(Plovdiv University Press, 2023-05-19)The current paper seeks to study the various uses of nature-related images and symbols in the poetry of Nikola Vaptsarov. The Sun and the sky are engaged in some of the paramount juxtapositions in Vaptsarov’s texts – ... -
THE MONSTROUS DOUBLE. THE TAILORS’ DUMMIES OF BRUNO SCHULZ
(Plovdiv University Press, 2023-05-19)The present paper examines Bruno Schulz’s short story “Treatise on Tailors’ Dummies or The Second Book of Genesis” by mapping out the broader tradition of writings concerning automata with initial focus being on ... -
ANIMAL REFERENCES IN BLAGA DIMITROVA’S NOVEL “LITSE”
(Plovdiv University Press, 2023-05-19)The current paper analyses the animal references in the novel “Litse”. Up until now those animal references have not been noticed by the literary critics who have commented this novel. Animal references are used at two ... -
“PARADISE ISN'T FOR THE LIKES OF ME”1 OR THE AERIAL TOLL-HOUSES OF THE FOREIGNER IN THE EXISTANCE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2023-05-19)This paper aims to make an intertextual analysis of three short stories by three Bulgarian authors: “Bae Mitar the Prophet” by Mihalaki Georgiev, “In the Next World” by Elin Pelin and “Adventure in Paradise” by Svetoslav ... -
BOREDOM CREATES DIABOLICAL DREAMS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2023-05-19)The everyday life during the Modern period becomes a particularly researched and discussed topic. With all of its subtopics it provokes a new thinking about the ordinary person's life. As a result of the military period ... -
IN THE PARADOXICAL WORLD OF SHADOWS (SHADOWS BY YAVOROV – MOTIFS AND PROBLEMS)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2023-05-19)This paper aims to outline the main motifs and problems of the famous poem by Yavorov – “Senki” (“Shadows”). This is done through analyzing the poem as if it is a visual art work rather than a literary one and through ... -
DARIO FO ON THE BULGARIAN SCENE – RESEARCH TRAJECTORIES AND ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVES
(Plovdiv University Press, 2023-05-19)The text presents the research trajectories that the topic “Dario Fo on the Bulgarian stage” sets in the process of its research. Three analytical perspectives have been adopted – biographical, artistic and receptive. ... -
MAJOR AND MAYOR – ON TWO ‘TRUTHS’ IN HARDY’S NOVELS (BASED ON A READING OF HIS OWN PREFACES)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2023-05-19)The present paper offers a reading of the prefaces to Thomas Hardy’s The Trumpet Major (1880) and The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886). We focus mainly on the former novel and use the latter as a point of reference. In this ...