ON THE REVIVAL PHRASEBOOKS: RECEPTION AND SPONSORS

The object of research in this article is the phenomenon of sponsorship in Bulgarian book printing during the Revival, and more specifically in the bilingual phrasebooks. An overview of the printed phrasebooks during the Renaissance is presented, with a focus...

THE STATUS OF PROPER NAMES FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF ETHNOPHRASEOLOGY

In the introductory part of the article the author analyzes phraseological units with toponymic and ethnonymic components, explicitly connected with a specific historical event, which is part of consciousness of a certain society established as a negative expe...

RUSSIAN PROVERBS ABOUT LOVE AND THEIR PAREMIOLOGICAL REFLECTION IN BULGARIAN AND POLISH CULTURES

This tri-lingual Russian-Bulgarian-Polish research, based on the Russian paremiological minimum, is looking into paremiological units in relation to Love and the ways people of different but yet similar cultures express their feelings through proverbs. The sou...

ACCENTUATION OF COMPLEX NOUNS IN BULGARIAN LANGUAGE

The paper offers an analysis of the accentuation of complex nouns in the Bulgarian language, based on The Optimality theory and the interaction between morphology and phonology. The aim is to outline the tendency for realization of the accent characteristic of...

ATTITUDES FOR READING (А SURVEY AMONG BULGARIAN HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS)

A study of the attitudes of Bulgarian high-school students regarding reading is presented in this article. Over five hundred subjects have taken part in the study, 337 girls and 180 boys of age 13 to 18, from the capital Sofia and other schools in country. The...

IN SEARCH OF NEW BULGARIAN CULTURAL HEROES ABROAD

The paper discusses several major challenges for delivering messages, symbols and cultural heroes representing an attractive image of Bulgaria and Bulgarians abroad. It takes into consideration a divergence between current national promotion strategies and the...

MANIFESTATIONS OF SCARINESS IN CZECH AND BULGARIAN FOLKLORE TALES

This article aims to explore the manifestations of horror in Czech and Bulgarian folk tales. Various demonic characters, which are typical of Czech and Bulgarian folklore, are compared аnd the focus being placed on man’s encounter with the supernatural being a...

HRISTO SMIRNENSKI’S PROSE POETRY

The article examines Hristo Smirrnenski’s prose poetry. It aims to discuss and remind us about some of his half-forgotten works, to outline their main themes and ideas, the characteristics of the poet’s poetics, but also to discuss the genre specificities, the...

EROTIC SYMBOLISM OF WOMEN’S HAIR IN THE POETIC CYCLE “QUEENS OF THE NIGHT” BY YAVOROV

The article examines the image of women's hair in Yavorov's poetic cycle “Queens of the Night”. The focus is on the poems “Cleopatra” and “Sappho”. They analyze the erotic symbolism that hair has. The text also outlines the dialogue between the Yavorov’s cycle...

BULGARIAN LITERATURE: VOICES OF TRANSLATION AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS