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https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2024.33.405-425 https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1306332   Georgi Canev Bulgarian Childrens’ Literature Popularity and Mass Production Alexandra Antonova Institute for Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria aantonova@ilit.bas.bg   The subject of the present study is Georgi Canev’s article “Literature for Chil- dren”, published “Art and Criticism” magazine in 1939, which interprets chil- dren’s literature in its role and function as popular literature, with all the nega- tives of popularity that threatens to turn creativity into production. The article poses the important literary-sociological (literary-economic) problem of the in- creased market incentive in Bulgarian children’s book publishing at the end of the 1930s, resulting […]

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1306297   Crime Fiction as World Literature Introduction Louise Nilsson, David Damrosch, Theo D’haen   The introduction to “Crime Fiction as World Literature” explores the genre’s significant role in global literary discourse, emphasizing its widespread appeal and economic impact. The authors argue that crime fiction transcends national boundaries, reflecting a rich tapestry of local cultures while engaging with universal themes like morality and societal critique. This collection aims to shed light on the globalization of crime narratives, revealing how they adapt to and resonate within diverse contexts. By examining the interplay of local and global influences, the contributors analyze how

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1306296   Popular Literature Texts, Contexts, Contestations Introduction Rupayan Mukherjee   The present text distinguishes two conceptions of literature: the study attempts to explain the perception of popular literature as inextricably linked to the cat- egory of the “Other”, the “enemy” – the so-called elit literature (or just Litera- ture in the text). The relation to the Other is established through “identity in difference”. In the argumentative part, the author refers to Derrida‘s and Terry Eagleton’s views on what literature is in general and which factors determine it. We are given examples of the permeability of “elit literature,” the so-called

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1306300   With a Global Market in Mind: Agents, Authors, and the Dissemination of Contemporary Swedish Crime Fiction Karl Berglund   The author uses the example of Swedish crime fiction in the 2000s to point out how peripheral and local attributes of popular fiction are used as global sell- ing arguments, and how such trends, in turn, always depend on book market structure. One of the essay’s main points is that the book trade and the fiction it distributes are always closely intertwined. First, the author sketches the Swedish background to the rise of crime fiction and literary agents. Then,

https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2024.33.79-117 https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1306303   Photography and Literature From the Literary Peripheries Plamen Shulikov Shumen University “Bishop Konstantin Preslavski”, Bulgaria pshulikov@abv.bg   The functional unity of the media environment at the beginning of the twentieth century gives rise to adjustments in the institutional fields of culture, which otherwise live in real cooperation. The picture of the vast territories of mass culture is particularly fluid. The present text examines boundary “violations” between literature and photography, which manifest themselves through the exchange of value and style ideas, precipitated in commonly used clichés. How do literary and photographic notions of image realism interact? Are they

https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2024.33.118-135 https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1306305   About a Popular Book by an Unpopular Author Husein Mevsim Ankara University, Turkey hmevsim@gmail.com   At the beginning of the second decade of the last century, a modest book with an intriguing title was published in Sofia. The following year it was repub- lished with very minor changes in Varna. In it, the author D. Todorov (D. Bogdanov), about whom we do not have any information today, tells a very brief and popular story about the cities and countries he visited during his six-year travel odyssey between 1907–1912. From Serbia through Italy, Greece and Egypt, he ended