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XX CENTURY IN RETROSPECTION – GÜNTER GRASS AND PATRIK OUŘEDNÍK AS CHRONICLERS OF THE LAST CENTURY
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)
The article offers a comparison between Patrick Ouředník's Europeana
and Günter Grass’s My Century. The main focus is on the two books as
chronicles of the XXth century with its destructive wars, regimes and ideologies
and ...
THE MILITARY STORIES OF YORDAN YOVKOV AND YORDAN VALCHEV
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)
The present study aims to briefly outline the continuity between the
military stories of Yordan Yovkov and Yordan Valchev. It points out the
similarities, differences and developments in certain aspects of the military
stories ...
POLITENESS IN BULGARIAN SPEECH COMMUNICATION
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)
The study makes an attempt to provide a short definition of politeness. To
confirm or reject the definition provided by the author, we subject the
definition to verification by the expert evaluation method. Afterwards, ...
PUNNING AS A WORD-FORMING METHOD IN BULGARIAN AND GREEK YOUTH SLANG
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)
Among the most characteristic features of young people's speech is that of
word play, called punning or paronomasia in the English linguistic literature. The
effect of this phenomenon is achieved on the basis of different ...
LITERATURE AS A MEANS OF SOCIAL CHANGE IN IRAN BEFORE THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)
The Iranian society under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1941-1979) is a
society in crisis, struggling to give birth to the man of modern times. A key
factor in this process are the Iranian writers and intellectuals, who ...
THE MODERN PSYCHOLOGICAL NOVEL AND THE ISSUE OF SELF-IDENTIFICATION (IZOBRETATELYAT BY BORIS SHIVACHEV)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)
In the article, we rely on certain psychoanalytical terms (unconscious mind,
homosexuality, bisexuality, self-reflection, negation) to examine how their usage
in fiction adds to the understanding of the complexity of the ...
THE APPLICATION OF DOMESTICATION AND FOREIGNIZATION TRANSLATION STRATEGIES IN BULGARIAN–ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF IVAN VAZOV’S EPIC OF THE FORGOTTEN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)
The study offers an opportunity to examine and reflect on the problem of
translating culture-specific items (CSIs) in the translation of poetry from a
Slavic language (Bulgarian) into a Germanic language (English). ...
THREE LEAD AMULETS FROM THE PERIOD OF THE FIRST BULGARIAN EMPIRE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)
This article discusses three lead amulets from the period of the First
Bulgarian Empire (9th – 11th c. AD), inscribed in Cyrillic. The texts of the
inscriptions are followed by a translation and brief information about ...
THE GRAMMATICAL MORPHEME -H-/-SHIN BULGARIAN (HISTORICAL NOTES)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)
The article presents different undrstandings of distinguished linguists of
the grammatical meaning of the morpheme -h-/sh- in Modern Bulgarian, Old
Bulgarian and Proto-Slavic. The functional use of the verb forms that ...
THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONS: ON A MAURICE BLANCHOT AND PAUL AUSTER CONNECTION
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)
This paper is an attempt to explore the literary connections between Paul
Auster’s work and the French writer and thinker Maurice Blanchot through
the analysis of one of Auster’s novels – The Book of Illusions. The themes ...