KIRIL HRISTOV. CONSTRUCTIONS OF IMAGINED OTHERNESS: SLAVS, SLAVIC-NESS

For the Bulgarian poet Kiril Hristov, the coordinate system of foreignness encompasses three fundamental ethnocultural dimensions: Italian-ness, Slavicness and German-ness. The present essay aims to discuss the two basic stages of the utopian modelling of Slav...

NEAR THE WELL OF THE SAINT, UNDER THE MONASTERY VINE

This essay outlines the possibilities for chartering parallels between two collections of prose – “Under the Monastery Vine” by Elin Pelin and “The Well of Saint Clare” by Anatole France. The analogies and juxtapositions presented here stem from the categorica...

THE EDUCATIONAL AIDS OF LITERARY CLASSICS – A STRATEGIC CHOICE OF THE PUBLISHER

The article is reviewing the educational aids of classical literature in the context of publishing and education politics based on already published products that are in circulation on the market in the period 1990-2014. The analysis consists of a comparison o...

THE OWN – FOREING PROBLEM АND THE MODEL OF THE BULGARIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE DURING THE REVIVAL

The article focuses on the relationship between the model in which the Bulgarian literary language is formed during the Revival period and the own - foreign opposition. It analyzes those cultural and historical prerequisites, which determine the specifics of t...

ONE POSSIBLE MODEL FOR WORKING WITH MEDIA TEXT IN THE BULGARIAN LANGUAGE LEARNING

The Bulgarian Language Curriculum focuses on the development of students‘ text-based skills to different levels of communication - reading, listening, speaking. The article suddests a model for working with media texts in Bulgarian language learninig. The arti...

TO TUG AT (SOMEONE’S) HEARTSTRINGS

Idioms are ethno-specific markers, which are frequently used in colloquial speech. Introducing the foreign students with the cultural and axiological knowledge, accumulated in the idiomatic meaning, is а main component of the teaching process. The aim of this...

BULGARIAN STUDIES AT THE SAINT PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY: PAST AND PRESENT

This article briefly surveys the history and current status of Bulgarian studies at the Saint Petersburg State University, with a special focus on the Bulgarists and Slavists. We discuss the sequence of native Bulgarian lecturers in Bulgarian language, literat...

THE UNIQUE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF THE EUROPEAN SCHOOLS BUILDS UP MULTILINGUAL YOUNG PEOPLE WITH EUROPEAN IDENTITY