Contents
Rupayan Mukherjee. Popular Literature. Texts, Contexts, Contestations
Introduction (Transl. from English by Iva Anastasova) / 11
Louise Nilsson, David Damrosch, Theo D’haen. Crime Fiction as World
Literature. Introduction (Transl. from English by Milena Popova) / 43
Karl Berglund. With a Global Market in Mind: Agents, Authors, and the
Dissemination of Contemporary Swedish Crime Fiction (Transl. from
English by Milena Popova) / 59
Plamen Shulikov. Photography and Literature. From the Literary
Peripheries / 79
Husein Mevsim. About a Popular Book by an Unpopular Author / 118
Albert Benbassat. Journalism and the Novel – Peter Zavoev,
“The Crooked Pear” / 136
Juliana Stoyanova. Epistemic Relativism from the Perspective
of a Fiction Writer аnd a Physicist / 154
Evdokiya Borisova. About а Public Hit оf Mirei Bashio аnd about the
Ironies оf Miryana Basheva / 192
Maya Gorcheva. Quotations from Mass Literature and Culture and from
Modern Classics in the Experimental Writing of Boris Aprilov / 216
Yanitsa Radeva. Games with the Popular / 240
Inna Peleva. Bestselling Novels: Titling Strategies, Cartographies
of Desire, Visions of Sociality / 255
Polina Penkova. Praise of Masculinity: Images of Manhood in Popular
Genre Literature / 328
Preslava Peneva. The Modern Literary Witch: Observations on Medial,
Pop-Cultural, and Literary Reincarnations of the Witch Image
in the 21st Century / 349
Orieta Antova. The Novels “Clay”, “Heart“, “Thread“ – Generator of
Postmodern and Post-feminist Ideas in Contemporary Bulgarian
Popular Literature / 376
Albena Vacheva. Post-feminism with a Tabloid Twist / 388
Alexandra Antonova. Georgi Canev Bulgarian Childrens’ Literature.
Popularity and Mass Production / 405
Retrospectives
Liudmila Mindova. Gypsies in Dubravka Ugrešić’s Prose and Essays / 426
Debuts
Steven Genchev. A Look at Popular Science Literature and Its Influence
on Bulgarian Culture / 442
Rumena Mladenova. The Forgotten Dobri Nemirov. Sin and Passions
in the Novel “Brothers” / 450
Maria Karakoleva. The Metamorphosis of Phryne in Petar Slavinski’s
Eponymous Play / 467
Reviews
Amelia Licheva. Between Medicine and Linguistics / 483
Emiliya Makedonska. The Jois and Sorrows of Bulgarian Bohemianism.
Portraits of Translators / 487
Vladislav Tikov. Is “Hagabula” Global? / 494
Journal “The Literature” / 504
Requirements Regarding Materials for Publication in
The Literature Journal / 506
Publication Ethics / 510
