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ILLUSIONS

24/ 2024

Konstantin Preslavsky Publishing House 

ISSN 1314-6033

CONTENTS

ILLUSIONS AND THE CULTURAL PARADIGM

Julia Shpinitskaya, Riitta Rainio | Talking Rocks, Illusory Sounds, and Projections of the Otherworld. Acoustics of sacred sites as a magic media in shamanic cultures (trans. from English by Aglika Dobreva)

CLASSICAL HERITAGE

Albert A. Hopkins | Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions Including Trick Photography (trans. from English by Svetlana Nedelcheva)

ILLUSORY WORLDS IN CONTEXT

Biserka Stoimenova | The Illusions of Love in Pierre Marivaux’s Plays: Social Contexts

Rebecca Gigli | The Theme of Lost Illusions in the Autobiographical Prose of Prince I. M. Dolgorukov (1764 – 1823)

Iliyana Chalakova | The Illusion for an Easy Beginning: The Political and Social Depth of an African Novel

Bryan Muller | The “Red Tricontinental”, the Gaullist illusory of an international conspiracy (1968-1974)

ILLUSIONS, UTOPIAS, FICTIONS

Magdalena Zarkova | Illusions in the Dystopia “We” or the Critique of
Pure Reason

Raluca-Andreea Donici | Constructing Identity between Illusion and Reality in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior

Catalina Puiu | The Illusional Surface of Water in the Lyrics of Atanas Dalchev

Hüseyin Mevsim | Istanbul in the Memories of Efrem Karanov: Illusions, Disappointments and Charms

ILLUSIONS AND EDUCATION

Edward Donaghue | Illusory Perceptions in Academic Writing in English

Lina Yanbastieva-Petrova | Inspiring Imagination: Digital Projects As a Post-Reading Activity in Foreign Language Lessons

Vladimir Dilovski | Illusion as Methodology in Teaching Literature

Bill Templer | Teaching Bulgarian Folktales in The EFL Classroom: Exploring “Storytelling in Education”, Textual Realms of Aesthetic Illusion and Your Own Local Folkloric Culture

Aylya Iliyazova | The Illusory World of the Film in the Foreign Language Teaching of German

DOCUMENTS AND MEMORY

Stefan Minkov | The Illusion about Union: A Document on Bulgarian-Greek Relations on the Eve of the Inter-Allied War

Rumiana Parashkevova | The Illusion of Life in the Poems by Aleksey Tsvetkov

ACADEMIC REVIEW

Antony Hoyte-West | On Illusions: A Multidisciplinary Cultural History

Temenuga Teneva | The Constructive Illusions of the Game in Vladimir Dilovski’s Monograph “The Game in the Literary and Educational Discourse”

Aziz Shakir | Is There Any Ground for the Illusions of the Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi and His “Depths of Imagination”

INVITATION

LYUBOSLOVIE

23 / 2023

INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

Konstantin Preslavsky Publishing House 

ISSN 1314-6033

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Interdisciplinary studies and education

Natalia I. Vitanova | Interdisciplinarity in the educational process

Gergana Gerova | Irina Ivanova, University students and instructors’ perceptions of challenges in academic writing

Daniela Tancheva | Electronic resourses in teaching Bulgarian language as a fоreign language to medical professionals

Classical heritage

Adam Smith | The principles which lead and direct philosophical enquiries; as illustrated by the History of Astronomy (trans. from English by Svetlana Nedelcheva)

Literature and Social history

Denka Krysteva | Dead Souls by N. Gogol, “the seasons” and the myths of Russian monarchy

Alina Cosma | Entangled Memories: representations of Crimea in literature, poetry and art

Symbiosis of fields: the verbal and the visual

Margarita Serafimova | Flower power. Botanical imagination in art

Nadezhda Tsocheva | The image of the orchid in the context of Bulgarian modernism and postmodernism

Interdisciplinary studies in historical research

Konstantin Konstantinov, Bozhidar Stoyanov, Emanuil Stoyanov | Non-destructive archaeological research in the area of Dolnata Chatma near the village of Velino, Shumen region

Bryan Muller | Charles de Gaulle and Ancient History

Dimo Georgiev | Anti-fascist and occidentalist motifes in the memoirs of Bulgarian volunteers in the international brigades from the 1960s: interdisciplinary view

Media, communication, politics

Boutheina Ben Ghozlen | Crisis construction in the contemporary communication environment: a dynamic, complex, and mis/disinformation-rich process

Language, advertising, society

Zuzana Slobodová | Methode des Geschichtenerzählens – Storytelling – als Werbemittel für touristische Reiseziele

Nevrie Chufadar | Ethnolinguistic elements of Turkish culture in tourism discourse

Documents and memory

Hüseyin Mevsim | The musical and pedagogical activities of the teacher Dimo Boychev in Istanbul (1923–1935)

Galina Petkova | Administrative “Reports” by P. Bicilli: the boundaries of genre

Academic review

Bill Templer | Review of J. T. Klein, Beyond interdisciplinarity. OUP. and supplementary critical-pedagogical reflections on inter- and crossdisciplinarity in our crisis-ridden times

Meglena Zlatkova | Old age and ageing – a possible interdisciplinary approach

Nikolay Nikolov | Bulgarian Revival epistolary culture: pragmatics, didactics, language doctrine

Biserka Stoimenova | Interculture, intertextuality, interdisciplinarity

Stefka Aleksandrova | Bulgarian dialectology in the context of modern digital linguistics

INVITATION

LYUBOSLOVIE

22 / 2022

EMOTIONS

Konstantin Preslavsky Publishing House 

ISSN 1314-6033

CONTENTS

EMOTIONS AND IDENTITY

• Nikolay Aretov | Emotions, identities and images of the other
  Piotr Szarota | Deconstructing American smilе

CLASSICAL HERITAGE

• William James | The Principles of Psychology (1890) Chapter XXV. The Emotions (trans. from English by S. Nedelcheva)
• Wilhelm Wundt | Grundriss der Psychologie (1896) Kapitel 13. Die Affecte (trans. from German by S. Boycheva)

CONCEPTUAL PARADIGMS

• Kristján Kristjánsson | Envy and jealousy (trans. from English by D. Cheshmedzhieva-Stoycheva)

THE LANGUAGE OF EMOTIONS

• Aylya Iliyazova | The logic of emotions in a contrastive plan: lexemes in German and Bulgarian illustrating intuitive thinking
• Aglika Dobreva | Lexemes in the semantic field of the concept of anger in English and Bulgarian
• Andrej Démuth, Slavka Démuthova, Yasin Keçeli | A semantic analysis of the concept of anger and its connotations in the Turkish language
• Hristina Vihrogonova | Figurative aspect of the concept of joy in the vocabu- lary of German and Bulgarian

THE EMOTIONAL WORLDS OF LITERATURE

• Nikoleta Patova | An emotional reflection on the first Bulgarian theatre performances: the Revival criticism towards theatre and drama
• Nikolay Dimitrov | Functions of emotionally encoded meanings in two books of the „Misal” circle – Dream of happiness and Idyllic romances
• Grażyna Szwat-Gyłybowa | Socialibility as a sphere of emotions. Mail – jazz by Olga Shurbanova and Krastyu Pastuhov
• Yana Dimova | “Those who do not remember do not exist. They are not hurt and do not feel any remorse”. The mysterious discourse of Garcia De Resende in the historical novel The broken emerald by Fernando Campos
• Rebecca Gigli | The emotional world of the family in the Story of birth, descent and all my life by I. M. Dolgorukov (1764-1823)

DOCUMENTS AND MEMORY

• Nadka Nikolova, Kina Vachkova | Letters about emotions
• Stefan Minkov | Bulgarian soldiers‘ survey (1917)
• Veneta Yankova | On the legendary heritage of the Muslims in north- eastern Bulgaria (field materials from the village of Struyno, Shumen district)

ACADEMIC REVIEW

• Hristo Boev | The emotional self and the visual experience
• Bill Templer | Introducing three poetic ebooks about and for our trying toxic times
• Evdokia Borisova | About Harms… (Critical notes on translations and emotions)
• Yasin Keçeli | Emotionality and aesthetic experience

INVITATION

LYUBOSLOVIE

21 / 2021

TRANSFORMATIONS

Konstantin Preslavsky Publishing House

ISSN 1314-6033

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EAST – WEST ROUTES

• Klara Sharafadina | “Selam“-code in international projections and transformations

CLASSICAL HERITAGE

• Arnold J. Toynbee | The industrial revolution (trans. from English S. Nedelcheva)

DYNAMIC SOCIETIES

• Тatyana Lefterova-Stoycheva | “The climbing boys” and the English society in the Industrial age: public pressure and legislative changes
• Maria Dimitrova | “For the look of the thing”: middle-class consumerism in the Mayhew Brothers’ Living for Appearances and the Greatest Plague of Life
• Stefan Minkov | From confederation to federation: transformation of the USA state structure between 1777 – 1789
• Petya Pavlova | 1974 – The transformation of “Cyprus dispute”

STEREOTYPES AND IDENTITY

• Magdalena Vassileva | Collectivism and industriousness in Japanese national character – dynamics and tranformations

IRONY, IDEOLOGY, RECEPTION

• Dechka Chavdarova | The transfomation of the novel Crime and punishment in the V. Pietzuch’s remake The new Moskow philosophy (axiologisation of Russian classics)
• Hristo Boev | Transformative dystopia in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
• Svetla Cherpokova | Transformations and transmutations. Notes on the critical reception of Romanticism in Bulgaria (mid- 1940s – early 1970s)
• Sava Sivriev | The dream of Pencho Slaveykov and the metamor- phosis of poet’s idea

LINGUISTIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN RETROSPECTIVITY

• Hans Sauer | Transforming Latin into Old English: Binomials in the Theodulf Capitula and their Old English versions
• Tatyana Ilieva | Predicativization and predicatives – a level of transformation and problems with their lexicographic reflection in paleoslavic lexicographic works

TRANSFORMATIONS AND SEMANTICS

• Aylya Iliyazova | Unity in thinking: transformations of the concept of cooperation in the German cognitive-linguistic continuum
• Desislava Cheshmedzhieva-Stoycheva | Getting down with Covid, being crowned, under quarantine, or language transformations during a pandemic
• Teodora G. Ilieva | Semantic modification and lexical neologization – a means of enriching the Bulgarian lexicon

DOCUMENTS AND MEMORY

• Hristo Trendafilov | Marius

ACADEMIC REVIEW

• Olga Timanova | Floropoetics in the nineteenth century Russian literature
• Yuriy Prodanov | From the grandson of the Sun King to the chorbadzhia from Debar (The transformation of the Europeanizer Prince Ferdinand Saxe-Coburg-Gotha from a European aristocrat into a Bulgarian ruler)
• Dechka Chavdarova | A new look at the twentieth century literature in synchronous cuts and diachronous projections: „relationships by selection“, thematic connections, transformations
• Evdokiya Borisova | A brief attempt at transformation in times of silence
• Bill Templer | How to change everything

INVITATION

LYUBOSLOVIE

20 / 2020

COMPARATIVE STUDIES

Konstantin Preslavsky Publishing House 

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THEORETICAL PARADIGM

• Andrzej Hejmej | Comparative literature studies and (an alternative) history of literature (trans. from Polish R. Chavdarov)
• Galin Tihanov | Resistence to theory: notes from the underground
• Roumiana L. Stantcheva | Comparative literature in the time of interdisciplinarity. Balkan examples and global opportunities

CLASSICAL HERITAGE

• Aleksandr Veselovsky | А new journal of comparative history of literature (trans. from Russian S. Kaleva)
• Leonard Bloomfield | The comparative method (trans. from English S. Nedelcheva)

COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS

• Peter Gärdenfors | Comparing force prepositions with spatial prepositions

LITERATURA COMPARATIVA

• Cleo Protohristova | Prometheus in the poetry of Hristo Smirnenski – a comparative study and its methodological implications
• Dechka Chavdarova | The theme of the city in the poetry of Hristo Smirnenski and Aleksander Blok
• Angel Igov | The quoting modernist and his infernal city: the cases of T. S. Eliot and Geo Milev
• Anatoliy Kulagin | Okudzhava and Exupery’s tale The Little Prince (trans. from Russian D. Krysteva)
• Danuta Szymonik | Destruction of the ancestral space in Bulgarian and Russian literature in the second decade of the 20th century
• Ildiko Regeczi | Chekhov’s protagonists in contemporary Hungarian poetry (trans. from Russian N. Nyagolova)

WORDS AND VISUALIZATION – COMPARATIVE ASPECTS

• Margarita Serafimova | The writer as an artist. Pictures from Bulgarian literature
• Nadezhda Tsocheva | Women’s archetypal characters in Bulgarian modernism and the iconography of secession – the character of Salome

IDEAS, IDEOLOGIES, INFLUENCES

• Nevrie Chufadar | Elements of the alchemical symbolism in the Kyoroglu saga destans
• Antoaneta Dimitrova | PRB, GDR and the USSR: the non-existence of the anthems in the existence of the Remembrances

DOCUMENTS AND MEMORY

• Stanislava Tsaneva | Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans
• Katya Zografova | The first Bulgarian women travellers

ACADEMIC REVIEW

• Angel Igov | The Crises and Cravings of Comparative Literature
• Dechka Chavdarova | The „new“ comparative studies through the eyes of a Polish literary critic
• Evdokia Borisova | „My name is Red” and other colors
• Alesia Shevtsova | Viewpoints and perspectives in linguistics and translation