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The article is devoted to the idea of own work from the perspective of peasant’s spiritual values. Its reasons, importance and place in life of a farmer are defined. Labor appears to be one of the most important factors in creating and developing a proper peasant personality and is a cognitive method to explore the world, by him- or herself, as well as a way of self-affirmation and self-education...
The author takes a stance on the studies by contemporary Belarusian and Polish scholars, devoted to the history and culture of the territories of Western Belarus and Eastern Lithuania, which were part of Poland in 1921–1939. The article acknowledges positive changes in research methodology, and points to the expansion of the subject and introduction of new sources into scholarly circulation. The author...
In the functional and stylistic differentiation of modern Belarusian language the researchers assign a bigger position to religious texts. Church and religious literature is internally dissimilar, the translations of the Bible make up its core. Books of the Holly Scripture have been source of numerous collocations and expressions and proverbs in different languages. Despite the growing interesting...
The article explores the strategies implemented by Belarusian literary critics to overcome the reputation crisis, common decline of reading and reduction of Belarusian language usage. The risk strategy employs the means of cultural provocation, shock and scandal to cause public discussion. Becoming popular with young or amateur critics in the 2000s, the risk strategy enriches the literary process...
The article presents the works of young Belarusian dramatists who write in Belarusian: Viktar Zhybul, Volga Gapeyeva, or Hanna Tsikhanava. It compares their works with the dramas authored by their peers, Belarusian Russian-speaking dramatists: Pavel Pryazhko, Andrei Kureichik, Diana Balyko, and others. The author maintains that most plays in Belarusian were written in the aesthetics of the theater...
The article is devoted to the problem of the new loan-words adaptation process in modern Belarusian and Polish. Main difficulties and specific features of phonetic-orthographic, grammatical and derivational adaptation are pointed out. The specificity of basic tendencies is detected and some characteristics of these processes are outlined.
At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries in Belarusian literature we can find the presence of some traditional trends, which evolved under the new conditions. The traditional literary trends were exhausted at the beginning of the 21st century, which was caused not only by aesthetic reasons, but also by historical and cultural.This article discussed the main themes of the Belarusian literature in...
The author takes the view that a full description of toponymic derivatives in West-Polesian dialects requires that all toponymic derivational series and the variance phenomenon be taken into consideration.Toponymic derivational series are groups of derivative lexemes that form specific formal-semantic relations. The basic unit of such a derivational series is the toponym which determines the semantics...
The article is devoted to the problem of updating of borrowings from the Polish language in the modern Belarusian language which is caused by purifying the tendency towards nationalization. The examples of Polonisms in artistic prose by current Belarusian writers are provided in the article. It is concluded that lexemes of the Polish origin are becoming more common and tend to be permanently fixed...
Belarusian dialects are in the neighborhood of Baltic dialects – West- and east-Slavonic, thereby creating zones of mixed or transitional dialects in the borderland and entering new mutual contacts every day at different social and language levels. Because of different situations in the central area and in borderland zones, new tendencies in Belarusian dialects are shown in the following order: 1...
The paper discusses the evolution of philosophical aesthetic views of the eminent mid-20th century Belarusian writer Uladzimir Karatkievich. Special emphasis has been placed on the impact of the 1960s ideology and the Khrushchev Thaw, and on the importance of the Kiev period in the life of the young writer when he was a student at the Taras Shevchenko University in Kiev. The author concludes that...
In this article we discuss interdisciplinary interactions of the verbal and visual principles in works of the Belarusian-Polish photographer Yan Bulgak (1876–1950) and the Belarusian artist Yazep Drazdovich (1888–1954) who combined two points of view on reality – the vision of artist and understanding of writer. In the center of attention there is an urgent problem. On the basis of the typology offered...
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