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Dimitar Topolin i respirytualizacja formy sonetuSonet szekspirowski zajmuje znaczące miejsce w ogromnym dorobku poetyckim bułgarskiego księdza prawosławnego Dimitra Topolina (1886–1962). Artykuł jest próbą ustalenia miejsca poezji Topolina w odniesieniu do siedmiusetletniej europejskiej tradycji tego uznanego i niezwykle cenionego gatunku liryki. Autor jest zdania, że liczne wariacje sonetowe w twórczości...
Slavic equivalents to the English term sustainabilityThe paper examines the issue of how the term sustainable development (sustainability), coined exactly 30 years ago by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development, has been reproduced in the Slavic languages. The history of the primary English term’s first use as well as its source have been discussed, with special consideration...
Semantic dictionary of kinship denominations in the Bulgarian languageThe article is a presentation of Semantic dictionary of kinship denominations in the Bulgarian language, which is integral part of my monograph Kinship and kinship denominations in the Bulgarian language (semantics and lexicographic presentation). The dictionary is organized according to digital codes (ideal terms), then a metalanguage...
Expression of possessiveness in derivative substantive vocabulary of the Bulgarian and Czech languagesThe article is dedicated to researching the manifestations of possessiveness in some nouns of the Bulgarian and Czech languages. We start from the definition of possessiveness as a relation between the objects of extralinguistic reality, whereby one is the possessed object (possessum), the other one...
Biology vs. sociology and the progress of the national body (a theoretical debate in Bulgarian society in the inter-war period)This text discusses the debate pro and contra the possibilities of biological sociology, the new scientific trend, with respect to its possible benefit for the progress of the nation – a priority issue in the inter-war period. The author presents the arguments of Bulgarian...
Mathieu Laensberg’s Prophecys in a nineteenth-century Bulgarian fragment (a sketch on fortune-telling books and prophetic literature in the Balkans)The article presents comments on and text edition of two folios of the so-called Bulgarian fragment of Mathieu Laensberg’s prophecy, written in the Bulgarian language of the first thirty years of the nineteenth century. The article does not focus on the...
“In the name of Cyril and Methodius”: The Cyrillo-Methodian idea and the socialist propagandaThe paper aims to describe and analyze the dynamics of transformation undergone by the symbolism of the Cyrillo-Methodian oeuvre in the socialist propaganda in Bulgaria. The work and lives of the two saints represent the different national paradigms and state priorities before and after 1944. In the years...
Bulgarian Reformation? On hybridization of ideas in the process of modernization of cultureThe paper raises the question of the Bulgarian notion of Reformation both as a particular historical event and its local reinterpretations and adaptations. The focus is on the history of the concepts of “Reformation” and “Protestant propaganda” in Bulgarian culture as well as on the cultural influences of the...
W artykule omówione zostały językowe właściwości stylu pisarskiego Mateusza Gramatyka, czołowego przedstawiciela sofijskiej szkoły piśmienniczej z XVI wieku na bazie utworu „Żywot św. Mikołaja Nowego Sofijskiego”. Jest to jego jedyny tekst o pewnym autorstwie. Autor dokonuje leksykalno-semantyczej klasyfikacji materiału językowego, w którym widoczny jest wpływ żywego XVI-wiecznej odmiany mówionej...
The paper discusses some of the initial points, mainly in Bulgaria, of the scholarly interest in the achievements of the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius. Firstly, the term kirilometodievistika (‘Cyrillo-Methodian Studies’) is discussed along with its scope and development in Bulgaria. Secondly, special attention is given to the usage of the terms kirilometodievistika, kirilometodievist(i) (‘specialist(s)...
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