Browsing Verba iuvenium, Issue 6 (2024) by Title
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MIMETIC DESIRE AND THE PROCESS OF CRYSTALLIZATION IN THE LETTER OF MADAME DE RENAL
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)René Girard offers his own interpretation of love in fiction, building on familiar mimetic theories but adding his own element. Love becomes an object of study because the romantic myth of two lovers is decrystallized. ... -
THE MONOMANIA OF A MOON FOR FREEDOM. ALBERT CAMUS, “CALIGULA” [4.14]
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The text focuses on the last scene of the fourth act of the play “Caligula” (1944) by Albert Camus, whose aim is to function as an example through which to introduce the discourse of absurdism insisted upon by Camus, and ... -
NEGATIVE FORMS OF THE DUBITATIVE FOR FUTURE SIMPLE AND FUTURE IN THE PAST
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)This paper discusses three hypotheses based on the choice between the four forms to express a negative dubitative semantics in Bulgarian. The first hypothesis examines the competition between two of these forms: nyamalo ... -
THE NOVEL „BLOOD“ – BETWEEN THE IDEOLOGICAL ROTTENNESS AND HUMANISM
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The main aim of the current study is to follow the critical reviews of Konstantin Konstantinov’s novel “Blood” during the 1930s. Due to the dramatic political events taking place throughout the decade in Bulgaria the ... -
ON THE PARADIGM OF DIRECT EVIDENCE FORMS IN MODERN BULGARIAN LANGUAGE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The paper presents the full paradigm of direct evidence forms in the Modern Bulgarian language. The thesis being defended is that grammaticalized direct evidentiality is an example of a higher linguistic abstraction. It ... -
ON THE QUESTION OF THE MEANING OF RELATIVE ANTERIORITY IN THE SPANISH INDICATIVE IN COMPARISON WITH BULGARIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The object of the present study is the Spanish grammeme cantara1 which functions with its etymological indicative meaning of relative anteriority in the Spanish verb paradigm. Тhe perception of cantara1 as a biparticiple ... -
ON THE SILVER BULLET IN THE BULGARIAN FOLK SONGS WITH A MOTIF “A VIRGIN RESCUES MALTA”
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The report examines the silver bullet as a common ground between Bulgarian folk songs with the motif “A Virgin rescues Malta” and those from the cycle about Stoyan Indzhe voivode, and traces its appearance and usage in ... -
ONE ALMOST CONTEMPORARY ALMOST “VITA”. ALEXEI KARAMAZOV AS A HAGIOGRAPHER
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The purpose of the paper is to examine the vita of Zosima from the novel “The Brothers Karamazov” as a non-canonical or modernized version of this medieval genre, and for this purpose it was “extracted/torn off” from the ... -
PRONUNCIATION VARIANTS IN THE STANDARD BULGARIAN LANGUAGE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The main goal of this text is to present a general overview of the development of the norm in the Bulgarian language and the tendency of pronunciation variants in oral speech to move from the sphere of standard to ... -
SEMANTIC VARIABILITY IN THE TERMINOLOGY OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL LAW
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)This paper examines the manifestation of semantic variability in the terminology of criminal procedural law. For this purpose, we use a method defined as experiential-axiological. It presents the legal term as a linguistic ... -
THE SPEAKER'S ASSESSMENT OF HIMSELF AND THE OTHERS (OBSERVATION ON FIRST-PERSON IN ONE TRANSPOSITION OF TENSE FORMS)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The object of the current study is to present the Bulgarian future firstperson verb forms in the state of transposition of Future Tense instead of Present or Past Tense. Transposition finds a place in several research ... -
SPECIALISED TERMS IN THE LAW ON TOURISM OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)Our report is devoted to tourism terms – their definitions and characteristics presented in the Law on Tourism of the Russian Federation (Federal Law “On the Basis of Tourism Activities in the Russian Federation” of ... -
THE SPECIFICS OF SOME PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The paper explores three prepositional phrases selected according to the pattern preposition + noun + preposition. Such a structure is widely used in Bulgarian. The purpose of this paper is to trace the levels of abstraction ... -
TESTING THE LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE OF MODERN SPEAKERS OF THE BULGARIAN LANGUAGE REGARDING THE PLURAL AND NUMERAL FORMS (QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The paper deals with the issue of the plural and the numeral form, more precisely with the extent to which modern speakers of Bulgarian handle these two forms correctly. It is divided into 2 parts – the first one gives ... -
THE THREE WITCHES AND MACBETH – THE GENESIS OF A SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The paper explores the tragedy Macbeth through the concept of selffulfilling prophecy introduced by sociologist Robert Merton. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate that the entire plot of the play is initiated and ... -
THE TRAGEDY IN THE NOVEL. A READING OF “FRANKENSTEIN” THROUGH ARISTOTLE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The paper aims to explore how Aristotle's concepts of tragedy can be transferred to the study of epic narrative to discover new fields of interpretation of the novel "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus". The protagonist ... -
“THE WONDERS OF EUROPEAN CULTURE” – A SALVATION FOR “THE NAIVE CHILDREN”: MOTIF IN GERMAN COLONIAL LITERATURE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)This paper gives an overview of the most common motives in German colonial literature. Colonial literature is often understood to mean all literature from the colonial period. In this analysis, however, a distinction is ... -
THE WORD IN THE NOVEL „HITAR PETAR“ BY GEORGI MARKOVSKI: CHRISTIAN SUPPORTS AND PAGAN FEARS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The present paper explores the power of words in Georgi Markovski’s novel “Hitar Petar”. The report analyzes the biblical codes in the text, the intertextual connections with other texts and it corresponds with different ...