https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1346209
https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.34.277-296
The „ECO – Ecological World“ Series: With Love and Awareness for Nature
Kalina Zahova, Andrey Tashev
The text offers a general review of the series by Zemizdat publishing house “ECO – Ecological World” (1986–1990) from an ecocritical point of view. The authors compare the series with the classical periodicals and show that the series could be examined as an ecocritical journal. Another accent in the paper is Nikolay Haytov’s book “The Thorny Rose”, which is seen as a reduction of the whole series. At the end of the article, an appendix is included, containing the bibliographical data of all the publications in “ECO – Ecological World” in chronological order.
Keywords: “ECO – Ecological World”; “Zemizdat”; publication series; commitment to nature
About the authors
Kalina Zahova holds an MA in Bulgarian Philology and a PhD in Literary Theory. She is the author of the books “The Pieces That We Listen То. Functioning of the Song Text in Contemporary Culure” (2018), “Why is the Laughing Cow Laughing? Relations between Humans and Other Animals” (2020) and “Pathways to Moral Perfection. The Experience of Bulgarian Tolstoyans in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century” (2023). She has specialised in Austria (University of Vienna) and Slovakia (Slovak Academy of Sciences), has lectured at the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, the Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Bratislava, the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, and has worked as a researcher at the Institute for Literature. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include critical animal studies, ecocriticism; interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary culture; popular music studies.
Andrey Tashev holds a BA in Bulgarian Philology, an MA in Literary Studies and a PhD in Literary Theory. He is the author of the books “Pragmatism and Ivan Sarailiev: Toward the Roots of Semiotic Thought in Bulgaria” (2013), “The Unknown Matvey Valev: On This Side and Beyond” (2020), and “Introduction to Bulgarian Marinist Literature from the First Half of the 20th Century” (2023). He has worked as a researcher at the Institute for Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include semiotics, theory and history of literature.
