Literature and Theatre
Contents
Anne Ubersfeld. Text-Performance
(Transl. from English by Ruzha Muskurova) / 15
Alexander Panov. The Birth of the Theater / 49
Kamelia Spassova. The Actor’s Techniques: Mimesis and Mimicry in Sophocles’ Philoctetes / 74
Maria Kalinova. “So You Must Call the Witch Then, After All” (The Dramaturgy of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the Birth of Metapsychology) / 95
Petya Yosifova-Hunkins. Text, Fragmen, Synthesis, or the Text in the Theatre Today / 113
Blagoy Boychev. Is Documentary Theatre a New Theatre Genre? / 121
Kalina Stefanova. The Life-Changing Theatre of Eastern Europe / 142
Violeta Detcheva. A Transgression / 165
Kamelia Nikolova. About the Theatrical Readings of Dramatic Poem “Peer Gynt” in Bulgaria / 182
Sylvia Borissova. “Dandelion Wine” in Senses and Summers / 190
Lora Nenkovska. Romanian Dramaturgy after 1990 – a Change of Paradigm and a Search for a New Identity / 212
Iliana Chekova-Dimitrova. The Folkloric Puppet Shows on the Street: Petrushka and His European Counterparts / 228
Liudmila Mindova. L’Homme revolte and Freedom in Kiril Topalov’s, Drago Jančar’s and Miro Gavran’s / 254
Nikoleta Patova. The Playwright Ivan Vasov – Development of the Revival Tradition / 265
Elizaria Ruskova. “Second Degree Dialogue.” The Dramatic Discourse in “Strahil Fearful Outlaw” by Petko Todorov / 294
Lyudmil Dimitrov. “The Antichrist”: Attributes of Light and Darkness / 317
Rumen Troev. The Resurrection of the Archangel Michael (From Idea to Premiere – a Story by an Actor, Playwright and Dreamer) / 340
Vladimir Davchev. The Book and the Stage. Essay on “Literature and Theatre” / 365
Literature and Theater: Born for Each Other? (Survey with Theatre Professionals Conducted and with Comments by Ludmil Dimitrov) / 368
Retrospectives
Evdokiya Borisova. An Attempt at a History of Ideas in Bulgarian Literary Poetic Studies in the Last Half Centuary / 420
Debuts
Yoanna Yaneva. An Attempt at Self-reflection in Hell. “No exit” by Jean-Paul Sartre / 518
Zlatina Damyanova. The Look into the Past as a Look into the Present Hermeneutical Analysis of “Under the Monastery Vine” by Elin Pelin / 528
Ivona Vartelkova. The Diary as a Narrative of Spiritual Growth in “Zara Pages from a Diary” by Evgenia Dimitrova / 542
Kristin Dimitrova. Vera Balabanova – the Forgotten Spiritual Patron of Bulgarian Writers / 560
Gergana Hristova. Specific Characteristics of Gender Stereotypes and Prejudices. Discrimination on Grounds of Sex / 577
Reviews
Lyudmil Dimitrov. Crossing the Rubеkon, or the (A)E(s)th(et)ics of Awakening / 602
Orieta Antova. Romeo Popiliev’s Book “The World as a Will to Song or Modernism of Petko Yu. Todorov” / 613
Polina Tsoncheva. Lao She and the Way of “Drum Singers” to the Bulgarian Readers / 625
Lora Nenkovska. About Comparative Literature Today / 631
Emiliya Makedonska. The Czech Undergraund / 637
Ekaterina Kaleva. The Missing “Bulgaria” and/or the American Trace / 641
Noemi Stoichkova. Contemporary Literary Historical Potentials of a Personalistic Monograph / 649
Martin Kolev. Why Do We Have Bulgarian Maritime Literature: “Introduction to Bulgarian Maritime Fiction from the First Half of the 20th century” by Andrey Tashev / 655