A SURVEY OF EXTANT COPIES OF PETAR BOGDAN’S (PETRUS DEODATUS) WRITINGS (PUBLISHED OR PREPARED FOR PUBLICATION)

The paper presents the extant copies of the four books, prepared by Petar Bogdan for publishing: 1. The book in so-called Illyrian under the titel [in translation: Meditationes S. Bonaventurae, id est theophilic meditations on the mystery of the redemption of...

„DRAGON'S WEDDING“ BY PETKO J. TODOROV AND „FOREST SONG“ BY LESSIA UKRAINKA (SECESSION/NEORMANTIC TOPOGRAPHY)

The article takes a view over the typological similarity of the play „Dragon's wedding“ (a work with highlighted decorative and secession elements) by the Bulgarian writer Petko J. Todorov and the dramatic fairy-tale „Forest Song“ (attributed to the works of n...

ROUND TABLE ON THE PROBLEMS OF BULGARIAN LANGUAGE TEACHING ABROAD, ENTITLED „LECTURESHIPS – BETWEEN ‘THE STATE OF SPIRIT AND GEOPOLITICAL RESTRICTIONS“

The article is dedicated to the fourth edition of the ‘Days of Bulgarian Language and Culture’ Forum at the Forli campus of the University of Bologna. The program has two components – academic and cultural. All participating students were also introduced, as t...

BULGARIA AND THE BULGARIANS IN CONTEMPORARY SERBIAN IMAGERY (OBSERVATIONS ON THE STUDENT RECEPTION OF BULGARIAN LITERATURE, OVER STUDENT TEXTS IN BULGARIAN LANGUAGE)

The problem of the reception of one literature within another is complex – it is linguistic, traditional-cultural, situational-cultural, political, aesthetic. Foreign literature is seldom reciprocated solely for aesthetic reasons, it is seldom reciprocated als...

THE INTENDED MESSAGE (A MISSION AMONG THEIR OWN)

The text describes a peculiar situation in teaching: one teaches one's fellow countrymen their native literature abroad - an instruction that is in principle intended for foreigners. What is the result? What accents are set in the image of classical Bulgarian...

“CRESCENDO” MAGAZINE: A TINY PIECE IN THE PUZZLE OF EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE CULTURE

This article uncovers the elements of the avant-garde that are present in “Crescendo” magazine (1922) by synthesizing some of the most common aspects of avant-garde magazines and literature that emerge in Europe in the beginning of the 20th century. The aim of...

DOBRUDZHA IN THE STUDIES OF GYÖRFI ISTVÁN

The report examines poorly known testimonies of Dobrudzha and its ethnic characteristics, collected by the Hungarian ethnographer Györfi István (1916). They correspond to the trend in the then Hungarian science of exploring „related Turan peoples“. Today they...

BULGARISTICS IN UKRAINE: CENTER FOR BULGARIAN STUDIES IN MELITOPOL

Melitopol is a university town, a scientific, educational and methodical center for Bulgarian studies in the North Azov Sea region, where the Tavrian Bulgarians live compactly. The Bogdan Khmelnitski university Center for Bulgarian Studies was created 12 years...

ON TEMPORALITY

The present study is concerned with what a unified account of temporality could be based on. The proposal is that a theory that accounts for temporality should be based on some universal expression of this semantic phenomenon. The paper opens with the discussi...

UNDERSTANDING TEXT IN UNLEARNED LANGUAGE BY STUDENTS IN BULGARIAN SECONDARY SCHOOL

This article examines some tendencies in foreign language teaching and learning. Emphasis is placed on understanding oral and written text (listening and reading as basic receptive speech activities). Reading and related cognitive processes are seen as an elem...

ON THE FEMININE COMMON NAMES IN BULGARIAN

LINGUISTIC TERMINOLOGY IN THREE SLAVONIC LANGUAGES