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Inspirations And Days
Kleo Protohristova

Inspirations And Days

The studies presented in this book are comparative in nature. By examining the connections and interactions between literature and music, cinema, and the visual arts, as well as various cultural conventions and ideological constructs, 
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Words on Language 
Ilya Zlatanov

Words on Language 

Are we, the Bulgarians, Slavic? Why is a "gymnasium" a "school" here and a "gym" in America?
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Bulgarian Dramaturgy
Frank Wollman

Bulgarian Dramaturgy

"Bulgarian Dramaturgy" is the first history of our drama, which is only now becoming available to our reading public in translation into Bulgarian. The text comprehensively covers the main periods of the development of stage discourse in our count
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Writing Degree Zero. Mythologies
Roland Barthes

Writing Degree Zero. Mythologies

Mythologies is the title of a collection of essays examining the tendency of contemporary social value systems to create modern myths. Barthes also looks at the semiology of the process of myth creation, updating Ferdinand de Saussure's system of
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Bulgarian Literature in the 21st Century (2000 - 2022). Vol. 2
Milena Kirova

Bulgarian Literature in the 21st Century (2000 - 2022). Vol. 2

After five years of work and hundreds of books read, I can say for sure only one thing: during the last quarter of a century, Bulgarian literature has become more diverse than ever before. To what extent this is the result of its internal developmen
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Comparative Theories of Literature. The Femme Fatale and Five European Patterns of Novel
Rumyana L. Stancheva

Comparative Theories of Literature. The Femme Fatale and Five European Patterns of Novel

This edition introduces the reader to European comparative literature. In the five chapters of the book, we read about mytho-criticism, literary history, the theory of narration in the text of the novel, the commonality between literature and m
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In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
Elena Ferrante

In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF 2022 (Air Mail) Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist
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Bulgarian Literature in the 21st Century (2000 – 2022), Vol. I
Milena Kirova

Bulgarian Literature in the 21st Century (2000 – 2022), Vol. I

One of the first things I realized was the need to look critically at the critical practice of recent decades. I say this as the author of more than seven hundred reviews of newly published books, written in the period 1995-2020 and publishe
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Marcel Proust on Art and Literature
Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust on Art and Literature

Essays foreshadowing the great themes of Remembrance of Things Past Beginning with the remarkable essay "Contre Sainte-Beuve", this surprising and stimulating critical collection includes Proust on the contemporary writing of his era, on painting
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Theory of Literature. The New Century
E. Pancheva, A. Licheva, M. Yanakieva

Theory of Literature. The New Century

Surrounded by discussions of metamodernism, cosmodernism, transhumanism and other "isms", we realize how imperceptibly literary studies have conquered territories that give them the right to be called current and modern science. And in
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Half a Century of Bulgaria 1878-1928. Illustrated anniversary album. Phototype edition

Half a Century of Bulgaria 1878-1928. Illustrated anniversary album. Phototype edition

"And precisely in these conditions, when everyone seeks salvation for himself and as he sees it possible, a woman, already in adulthood, performs a work with the spirit of Vazov's presence, evoking the memory of the great patriotic gestures
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To Say Almost the Same Thing. Experiments on Translation
Umberto Eco
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To Say Almost the Same Thing. Experiments on Translation

The brilliant Italian philosopher, semiotician and cultural critic Umberto Eco reflects on the compromise nature of translation After giving a series of lectures on translation, Umberto Eco further developed his notes in a monograph respectable
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Bulgarian Literature from Liberation to the First World War, vol. 3
Milena Kirova

Bulgarian Literature from Liberation to the First World War, vol. 3

"Bulgarian Literature from the Liberation to the First World War" is a book that grew out of the lectures of Prof. Milena Kirova at Sofia University. Its content follows the program of students in Bulgarian philology and is tailored to their ne
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Is the Nobel Prize a World Award?
Amelia Licheva

Is the Nobel Prize a World Award?

What is behind the concept of "world literature"? Is there a second plan and backstage in the literary processes of our globalized modernity? Is the road from the sensation to the canon obvious? These questions emerge from the book "Is the Nobel Pri
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Bulgarian Literature from Liberation to the World War I, vol. 2
Milena Kirova

Bulgarian Literature from Liberation to the World War I, vol. 2

"Bulgarian Literature from the Liberation to the World War I" is a book that grew out of lectures of prof. Milena Kirova at Sofia University. Its content is based on the program of Bulgarian Philology students and is tailored to their needs and
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Emperors of Ice Cream. Literary Essays
Collective

Emperors of Ice Cream. Literary Essays

This book contains fifteen essays by different authors and in different languages. What connects them is not literature in the strict sense of the word, but writing - writing as different styles, authors' approaches, genres and usage: how to
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The Art of the Novel
Milan Kundera

The Art of the Novel

Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels. (Milan Kundera) Kundera brilliantly examines the w
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De la Littérature à la Vie
Stoyan Atanassov
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De la Littérature à la Vie

Medieval times, Modern times Literature is the art of telling the real or translating a human experience according to the poetic imagination. As such, literature belongs to some historical context. This implies social facts and phenomena,
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Bulgarian Literature from Liberation to the World War I
Milena Kirova

Bulgarian Literature from Liberation to the World War I

"Bulgarian Literature from the Liberation to the World War I" is a book that grew out of lectures of prof. Milena Kirova at Sofia University. Its content is based on the program of Bulgarian Philology students and is tailored to their needs and
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On Translation
Daria Karapetkova

On Translation

"On Translation" is not a standard book on the theory of translation. It doesn't discuss its philosophical aspects and doesn't put the question whether it is possible. It aims at shedding light on specific and topical areas of interest in the
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Selected Essays
Virginia Woolf

Selected Essays

"A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out." According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure... It should lay us under a spell with its first wor
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The Uses of the British Mentor: The Reception of Charles Dickens in Bulgaria
Vladimir Trendafilov

The Uses of the British Mentor: The Reception of Charles Dickens in Bulgaria

Are we clear to what extent Charles Dickens's works are built in our own literature? This book answers a series of questions related to the varied presence of the great English novelist in Bulgarian literary field. It uncrowns myths a
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Spiritual Enlightener
Nikolay Donchev

Spiritual Enlightener

I think there is something disturbing in the fact of publication of that part of the literary heritage, which had not been published during the author's lifetime. Before turning into a literary archive, an author's laboratory is his inviolab
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The Love for Words. About the Theory of Language Origin
Maria Kitova-Vassileva

The Love for Words. About the Theory of Language Origin

If the experts could be trusted, it is the first time when here, in Bulgaria, and probably throughout the world, is founded a work as ambitious as this – it retraces, step by step, the manifestations of interest towards the language
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The Love for Words. About the Theory of Language Origin (hardback)
Maria Kitova-Vassileva

The Love for Words. About the Theory of Language Origin (hardback)

If the experts could be trusted, it is the first time when here, in Bulgaria, and probably throughout the world, is founded a work as ambitious as this – it retraces, step by step, the manifestations of interest towards the language
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino

Six Memos for the Next Millennium

"American Lectures" ("Six Memos for the Next Millennium") is a book based on a series of lectures written by Italo Calvino for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in Harvard, but never delivered as Calvino died before leaving Italy. The lectures
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Theory of Literature
E. Pancheva, A. Licheva, M. Yanakieva

Theory of Literature

The evolvment of theoretical ideas on literature from Plato to our days has been followed up for the first time in Bulgaria literature. The publication is aimed at humanities students.
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Beyond the Limits of Translation
Marie Vrinat-Nikolov

Beyond the Limits of Translation

The book traces the development of the translation practice from Antiquity to the early twentieth century. It is addressed mainly to professionals but can be interesting and for everyone who is curious about the sources of the translation tradi
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The translater: A Model Reader?
Marie Vrinat-Nikolov

The translater: A Model Reader?

A collection of articles by a long-time translator from the Bulgarian into French.

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