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Literature and Visual Art   Contents Katerina Gadjeva. The Monster with Many Faces. A Look at the Fairy Tale “Beauty and the Beast” and Its Illustrations  / 11 Marina Petrova. The Other Alice. Illustrations as a Model for Interpreting “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll  / 37 Nikolay Aretov. The Illustrations of the First Bulgarian Bertoldo  / 60 Bilyana Borisova. Gustave Doré and The Bible  / 73 Margarita Ivailova Staneva. Aesthetics of Violence: Ideology and Women’s Destiny in “Nevesta Nena” and “Unequal Marriage”  / 106 Katya Zografova. Unknown Pages of the Avant-Gardist Max Metzger  / 127 Genadi Gatev. From Ritual […]

Ecocrytics   Contents   Aleksandra Ubertowska. ‘Speaking in the Name of the Biotic Community’: Anatomies and Theories of the Environmental/Ecological Text (Transl. from Polish by Margreta Grigorova)  / 11 Serenella Iovino. Posthumanism in Literature and Ecocriticism. Introduction (Transl. from English by Iva Anastasova)  / 43 Zofia Jakubowicz-Prokop. To Be a Woman or to Be a Plant? Forms of Subjectivity in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian (Transl. from Polish by Stanka Bonova)  / 59 Olga Spachil. A. P. Chekhov’s Ecological Hypertext: Origin and Formation (Transl. from Russian by Lyudmil Dimitrov)  / 80 Bozhana Filipova. On Imagination and Reflexivity in Nature: Perspectives for

Popular Literature 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

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

Literature and Cinema   Contents Lawrence Venuti. Adaptation, Translation, Critique (Transl. from English by Ognyan Kovachev) / 15 Robert Stam. The Cinema and the World Literature Canon (Transl. from English by Ruzha Muskurova) / 48 Ognyan Kovachev. “Decameron”: A Film Adaptation and Strategies for  Interpretation / 59 Orieta Antova. The Topos of Time in the Novels “Super Heroes” and “The First Day of My Life” and Their Film Adaptations / 97 Dimitar Radev. Mourning and Melancholy in Irish in Martin McDonough’s  “The Banshees of Inisherin” / 103 Galina Georgieva. “The Director Needs, We Write” (on Tarkovsky’s Stalker and Strugatsky Brothers’

Slavic Studies in the Third Millenium   Contents Antoaneta Granberg. Slavic Studies in Scandinavia, and Medieval Slavic Studies at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden / 11 Blagovest Zlatanov. There Is no Need to Study the Defeated States (Notes on the Developments in German Slavic Studies since the Fall of the Berlin Wall) / 29 Bisera Dakova. The Predetermined Choice / 48 Maya Padeshka. Contemporary Bulgarian Art in the Lectureships on Bulgarian Language, Literature and Culture / 57 Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova. The Slavic Studies at the University of Kansas / 77 Dinglei Liu. Bulgarian Language and Literature Education in China / 94 Ivana Davitkov, Valentina

Slavic Studies in the Third Millennium   Contents Mikhail Epstein. The Dialectics of Hyper. From Modernism to Postmodernism (Transl. from English by Milena Popova)  / 11 Guido Snel. Garbage Heap, Storehouse, Encyclopedia: Metaphors for a Post-Yugoslav Cultural Memory. Smoking, and Drawing on Little Boxes (Transl. from English by Ruzha Muskurova)  / 45 Lyudmil Dimitrov. Slavic Literatures in Bulgaria: A (Non)User’s Guide  / 70 Fotiny Christakoudy-Konstantinidou. Bulgarian Studies at Democritus University and the Reception of Bulgarian Literature in Greece  / 84 Liudmila Mindova. Women Contribution to Croatian Studies in Bulgaria / 99 Vladimir Kolev. Pragmatics of Four Aeneids  / 119 Igor

Dystopias in 21st Century   Contents Koichi Tonuma. Whither 21st  Century Urban  Civilization: Dystopia or Utopia? (Transl. from English by Ruzha Muskurova)  / 11 Dorothy E. Roberts. Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies: A New Reproductive Dystopia? (Transl. from English by Milena Popova)  / 26 Rowland Hughes and Pat Wheeler. Introduction. Eco-Dystopias: Nature and the Dystopian Imagination (Transl. from English by Ruzha Muskurova)  / 60 Annika Gonnermann. The Concept of Post-Pessimism in 21st Century Dystopian Fiction (Transl. from English by Milena Popova)  / 68 Daria Karapetkova. Elements of Anti-Utopia in Leonardo Sciascia’s Novel The Knight and Death  / 92 Martin Kolev. “Genesis” of the Dystopian Line

Literature and Pandemic   Contents Gerard Delanty. Six Political Philosophies in Search of a Virus: Critical Perspectives on the Coronavirus Pandemic (Transl. from English by Milena Popova) / 11 Manfred Gerstenfeld. Post-Pandemic Culture Shock (Transl. from English by Ruzha Muskurova) / 32 Jean-Luc Nancy. “The Pandemic Reproduces the Social Aberrations and Divisions”: A Conversation Between Jean Luc-Nancy and Nicolas Dutent for “Marianne” (Transl. from French by Galabina Zaharieva) / 37 Eric Laurent. Biopolitics of Pandemic and Body, Material of Anxiety (Transl. from French by Anguelina Daskalova, Theodora Pavlova-Cullard) / 44 Ed Simon. On Pandemics and Literature (Transl. from English by Ruzha Muskurova) / 62 Abhik Roy. Literature

Literary History Today. Part II   Contents Marko Juvan. National and Comparative Literary Histories in Slovenia: Their Histories, Current Status and Prospects  / 11   Gun‑Britt Kohler, Pavel I. Navumenka. Literary History, Field-Formation and Transnational Spaces of Possibles. Literature in the Space of Belarus in the 1920s / 33   Laurent Mignon. Notes on the History of Turkish Literature from the Tanzimat (1839) to the “revolution of the letters” (1928)  / 82   Tamara Svanidzé. Rethinking the Georgian Literary Field in the Second Half of the 19th Century: The Role of European Cultural Transfers  / 107   Mary Vrinat-Nikolov. Re-Thinking