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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. ... -
DEATH AND EROTISM IN THE SHORT STORY “THE CRIMSON CURTAIN” BY D'AUREVILLY
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The current paper aims to make an analysis of the death-erotism line in the short story “The Crimson Curtain” by Barbey d'Aurevilly, which is situated in two perspectives. Firstly, in the figure of the main character, ... -
THE DEMONIC PRESENCE IN KONSTANTIN KONSTANTINOV'S “SEVEN O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING”
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)This paper focuses on Konstantin Konstantinov’s short story – “Seven o’clock in the morning”, published for the first time in the homonymous collection from 1940. The paper’s subjects are the demonic outlook of the ... -
DESCRIPTION OF THE -M/-EM DEVERBATIVES IN THE BULGARIAN GRAMMATICAL STUDIES AFTER THE BULGARIAN ORTOGRAPHY REFORM IN 1945 UNTIL NOWADAYS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2023-05-19)The paper continues a previous study on the same topic which marked the main periods in the research of the present passive participles in the Bulgarian grammatical tradition from the middle of 19th to the middle of 20th ... -
DESIGN AND STRUCTURE OF THE BULGARIAN RENAISSANCE PHRASEBOOKS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)This article addresses a current and unexplored topic in Bulgarian linguistics, related to bilingual colloquialists in the 19th century. The article deals with 11 phrasebooks from the Bulgarian Renaissance era. An attempt ... -
DISTRIBUTION OF THE DIRECT EVIDENCE FORMS FROM THE TYPE SHTE PISHEH, SHTESHE DA PISHA, SHTE BYAH PISAL, SHTESHE DA SAM PISAL
(Plovdiv University Press, 2023-05-19)The paper deals with the problem of the distribution of the positive relative direct evidence future forms from the type ще пишех, щеше да пиша, ще бях писал, щеше да съм писал in Modern Bulgarian. The use of the ... -
DO ALL MERMAIDS HAVE TAILS? (“INFORMATION DISTORTION” OF CULTURE-SPECIFIC MYTHONYMS)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)This work explores the twists in the meaning of the culture-specific mythonyms jiaoren, meirenyu, fenghuang and rusalka in the Chinese and Russian worldview. The work compares the representation of mythonyms in modern ... -
DOES GRAMMATICAL GENDER HAVE SEMANTICS? (OBSERVATIONS ON THE GENDER CATEGORY OF NOUNS IN BULGARIAN)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)The present paper deals with the semantics of the lexical-grammatical category of gender in contemporary Bulgarian: the only issue related to that category, which scientists have certain disagreements about. We ... -
THE DYNAMICS IN CHILDREN’S VERBAL ASSOCIATIONS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The paper focuses on the dynamics in children’s word associations. For the purposes of the study, data from association experiments conducted in the 1990s and in 2022 are compared. On the basis of the analyses, an attempt ... -
ELECTIVE AFFINITIES: CONCEPTUALIZATIONS ON TIME IN THE DIALOGUE BOTEV – RAKOVSKI
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)The paper explores the poetic relationship between Georgi Rakovski and Hristo Botev through a comparative analysis of the time constructions in some of their works. It focuses on the reception of constructive elements from ... -
THE EXCESSIVE INGENUITY OF CHATSKI. THE ABSENCE OF THE CHARACTER FROM “HERE“ AND “NOW”
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)The present paper addresses the topic of social typification and the nature of the so-called Griboedov’s characters. The main conflict in Alexander Sergeevich Griboedov’s comedy Woe from Wit consists in the clash ... -
FALSE ANGLICISMS IN BULGARIAN YOUTH SLANG
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The aim of this paper is to analyze the formal and semantic aspects of false anglicisms used among Bulgarian youth employing Cristiano Furiassi's approach to pseudo-borrowings. The examination of the acquired data leads ... -
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 ... -
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 NOTES ON THE GENRE MODELS WITHIN THE CONFINES OF “THE GREAT TESTAMENT” BY FRANÇOIS VILLON
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)François Villon is a well-known poet from the Late Middle Ages and is often labeled as a forerunner of The Cursed Poets. His life is filled with wandering, crimes, stays in dungeons but also with residence in aristocratic ... -
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 FIGURE OF THE HOMUNCULUS IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT LABORATORY: FAILED EXPERIMENT OR EMBODIMENT OF THE ETERNAL STRIVE TO BE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The present paper examines the figure of the Homunculus and its literal and allegorical perceptions in the famous Goethe's tragedy “Faust”. In general, it focuses on two of the most important interpretations of the figure: ... -
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 ... -
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 ...