Bulgarian Studies in the Field of Contemporary Humanities
Georgi Gospodinov
Institute for Literature
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Sofia, Bulgaria
https://doi.org/10.53656/bel2025-1.1-G
The Figure of the Old Bachelor in Bulgarian Literature
Tatiana Ichevska
University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”
https://doi.org/10.53656/bel2025-1-1T
Abstract. This text tries to answer the question whether the figure of the old bachelor manages to provoke the interest of Bulgarian literature...
Life Story and Literary Interpretation. Atanas Dalchev’s Work in Literature Textbooks for Secondary Education
Nadezhda Stoyanova
Sofia University
https://doi.org/10.53656/bel2025-1-2S
Abstract. The paper focuses on the complicated inclusion of Atanas Dalchev’s work in the list of studied authors in Bulgarian secondary education after 1944. Although he had the reputation of one of the most significant Bulgarian poets, his influence on the younger generations was defined as negative by the socialist realists...
Svetoslav Minkov’s Place in Literature Curriculа
Mariya Ruseva
Sofia University
https://doi.org/10.53656/bel2025-1-3R
Abstract. The paper is focused on the presence of the writer Svetoslav Minkov in Bulgarian literature curricula before and after 1989 until his exclusion according to the latest Ordinance № 5 from 2015 of the National Education Standards of Bulgaria. In People’s Republic of Bulgaria, the appearance of Minkov’s works is sporadic and ideologically oriented, while during the years after 1989, the inclusion of the author with his stories with fantastical elements written in the 1930s corresponds with the emerging tendency towards universalization and focus on common human values while studying literature in school...
Hristo Botev as a “Great Dead” according to “Misal” Literary Circle
Anna Alexieva
Institute for Literature - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
https://doi.org/10.53656/bel2025-1-4A
Abstract. The paper is focused on how the image of the poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev was shaped according to the figures, belonging to the “Misal” (“Thought”) Literary Circle...
Developing Intercultural Sensitivity through Literature Education
Adriana Damyanova
Sofia University
https://doi.org/10.53656/bel2025-1-5D
Abstract. The text uses Milton Bennett's Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS) to problematize some educational stereotypes and reveal some of the possibilities of reading interpretation, or of understanding reading literature at school to contribute to the development of intercultural sensitivity of students...
The Category of Case in the First Grammar Books of the Bulgarian Language
Encho Tilev
University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”
https://doi.org/10.53656/bel2025-1-6T
Abstract. The subject of research in this article are three grammars of the Bulgarian language from the Bulgarian revival – “Bolgarska grammatika” by Neofit Rilski, “Slavenobolgarskoe detovodstvo” by Neofit Bozveli and Emanuil Vaskidovich and “Grammatika slaveno-bolgarska” by Hristaki Pavlovich...
Pragmatic Strategies in Text. Alienation
Mihaela Moskova
Institute for Bulgarian Language
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Sofia, Bulgaria
https://doi.org/10.53656/bel2025-1-7M
Abstract. It is well known that Bulgarian lacks coordination of tenses in complex sentences...
Bulgarian Studies as One of the Slavic Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava
Miglena Mihaylova-Palanska
Comenius University in Bratislava
Institute for Bulgarian Language “Prof. L. Andreychin” - BAS
Natália Šťastná
Comenius University in Bratislava
https://doi.org/10.53656/bel2025-1-8MN
Abstract. The authors of the paper present the establishment and development of Slavic Studies and in particular Bulgarian Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava...
Literary Bulgaria. Third Traveling Conference “Picturesque Bulgaria – Interdisciplinary Dialogues at Home” (September 16 – 22, 2024, Sofia, Tryavna, Gabrovo, Pomorie, Plovdiv)
Anton Nikolov
Sofia University
https://doi.org/10.53656/bel2025-1-9AN
