Reading and Understanding
Elizabeth Freund – The Return of the Reader (transl. by Ruzha Muskurova) /9
George Steiner – The End of Bookishness? (transl. by Ruzha Muskurova) / 35
Giorgio Agamben – K. (transl. by Daria Karapetkova) / 41
Hugh Crago – Healing Texts. Bibliotherapy and Psychology (transl. by Ruzha Muskurova) /60
Glenda Norquay – Vagabond Reader (transl. by Elena Shtereva) / 79
The Strength of Books. Conversation with Daniel Penak (transl. by Zornitsa Stoyanova-Lecheva) / 91
Thomas Till – Are you Still Going Deep While You Are Reading or You Are Just „Scanning”? (transl. by Daniela Stoeva) / 101
Is Our Brain in Danger, Mrs Wolf? A Conversation with Marianne Wolf (transl. by Daniela Stoeva) / 106
Reading in Contemporary Spain (transl. by Radoslava Velkova) / 114
Tom Peters – The Future of Reading (transl. by Dilyana Gesheva) / 121
Markus Bekedal – Digital Future of the Book (transl. by Daniela Stoeva) / 135
Naito Masafumi – Theory of “Reading as a Game”. About Michel Picard’s Methods (transl. by Vesela Kumanichlieva) / 139
Book titles, if they were written today (transl. by Ruzha Muskuroba) / 171
Dobromir Grigorov – Emancipation of Literary History / 186
Zoya Marincheva – Reading, Readers and the Last Bastion of Analogic Techniques / 208
Moni Almalech – Different Kinds of Linen in the Old Testament / 229
Tsvetan Rakyovski – One Possible Reading of the Plot “The Beginning of Bulgarian Symbolism”. Sirak Skitnik and the Magazine “Hudozhnik” / 252
Tatyana Angelova – What does the International Study – PIRLS’2006 say about reading and reading culture of 4th grade students? / 285
Rumelina Vasileva – Reading as Knowledge and Contemporary Competences / 308
80th Year Jubilee: Milena Tsaneva
Milena Tsaneva – Life and Death in Vaptsarov’s Poetry / 316
Milena Kirova – Happy anniversary! / 328
Mirela Ivanova – Jubilee Essay about Professor Milena Tsaneva / 331
Inna Peleva – About Teachers, Literary History and Textology – with Respect / 333
Galin Tihanov – Revisiting ‘Minor Literatures’ / 355
Ivan Ruskov – Anointed in the Net, Touches from the Existence of Book / 376
Tatyana Ichevska – Three Variations on Things Remained Concealed in Bulgarian Literature / 405
Debuts
Vladimir Ignatov – Mechanisms of Creating Meaning in Dobri Nemirov’s Short Novel “The Poor Luka” / 416
David Nakov – The Contemporary Apocrypha – “Between the Desert and Life” and “The Last Temptation of Christ” – Attractions and Repulsions (a brief
analyzing attempt) / 432
Reviews
Maria Kalinova – Modeling Alternative Spaces in the Canon / 448
Galina Ivanova – About the Spirit that We Ourselves Are / 454
Yanitsa Radeva – Alchemic Depths of German Romanticism / 460
Bozhana Filipova – “Paraliterature” – One More Possibility / 464
Bibliography / 469
Anout the authors / 493
Annotations / 503