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The fantastic short story in Macedonian literature has developed along lines typical for fantastic literature in general; through the folklore collections made by Marko Cepenkov, it leads to modern artistic literature, thus accomplishing a synthesis of tradition and innovation of its own. There are numerous authors in Macedonian literature who are admirers of the fantastic short story as a form of...
Foltin is a musical community, and I say community and not group, because the word group is associated with the crowd. This is my attempt totry to explain the process of reading the important characteristics of purposeful meaning in the poetry of Branko Nikolov (Foltin). This kind of reading is qualitatively different from ordinary reading. Namely, we will dare to read from an ethnographic ...
The subject of this paper is the theoretical fiction genre as a manifestation of interdiscursive relations between fiction and theory/criticism. Firstly, this paper offers a brief overview of the constitutive features of the theoretical fiction genre; and secondly, these features are interpretatively confirmed through the novel Papokot na svetot (Navel of the World) by the Macedonian writer,...
The aim of this article is to present how oral biography and photo-interviews are intertwined. In this sense, it is very important to illustrate the various methods of photo fieldwork, and also to highlight theoretical concepts (such as those of Panofsky, Collier and Barthes) in order to discover photo-analysis, the relation between oral and visual memory, and the phenomenological play...
In the text Intermediality in Macedonian theatre, which uses the play Macedonian bloody wedding by Vojdan Chernodrinski, directed by Ljupco Gorgievski, as an example, an attempt is made at representing intermediality in theatrical performance. It is achieved through a ready-made technique in which a significant role is played by the music group Foltin and their...
Folk healers and their ability to heal can be connected with death or the being owned by death. This deeply archaic structure is evident in how knowledge is acquired, namely that it is passed on from mother to daughter or granddaughter/grandson in a place that suggests a connection to the other world (water, bridge). It is also evident in the fact that the women performing charms must...
All of the elements present within the contemporaryphenomenon known as ‘circus’ can be found in the symbolic traditions of ancient and archaic cultures, most often manifested as mythical pictures, ritual and magical acts, mythical stories and cult objects. In several previous studies we have tried to find the visual, mythical and symbolic ancient models of some classical circus acts,...
Curses are spoken formulas that express a desire to happen something bad in the future to someone or something, with the assurance that it will capture. This conviction or belief is based on faith in the magical power of the word. In the folk life curses are being made when the most important values in the community are injured. Therefore, curses are discussed in relation to the values that are maintained...
This article reveals theoretic aspects on literary translation through the analyses of the translation of the novel Farewell to the autumn by Polish writer Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz. It concerns the competences and skills a translator of literature should have. Among other topics which have been analyzed, there is the creativeness, knowledge of cultural differences, writing skills in...
The paper aims to explore the harmonious relations between man and nature, in terms of ecopsychology, representing a solutionfor pointless/deviant discussions in the field of post- and transhumanism, especially in the abnormal period of the pandemic. According to the author, the establishment of harmony is primarily contained in the “moderation” of the senses and the ratio through intuitive knowledge...
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