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https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2024.33.240-254 https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1306319   Games with the Popular Yanitsa Radeva The National Library of Bulgaria “St. St. Cyril and Methodius”, Bulgaria yanitsa.radeva@gmail.com   The article will examine how the mechanisms used by popular literature are applied by novels that only superficially resemble popular literature. The subject of analysis will be Vladimir Poleganov and Alexander Chobanov’s novel “Past Unfinished,” which uses the crime genre, and A. Sekulov’s novel “The Sirens Ship”, which plays with parody and pornography in cinema. Keywords: crime novel, police novel, mass literature, popular literature, psychological novel, parody, pornography, series For citation: Radeva, Y. Games with the Popular. // […]

https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2024.33.255-327 https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1306322   Bestselling Novels: Titling Strategies, Cartographies of Desire, Visions of Sociality Inna Peleva Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria peleva@uni-plovdiv.bg   The study discusses over a hundred Bulgarian translations of contemporary “chick lit” titles. The vocabulary range of these titles serves as a basis for the identification of key concepts used as building blocks for plotlines and fictional chronotopes. One of the researcher’s concerns is how present-day narratives, focused on a love story, represent property-related issues, and how by opting for the bookshop (a widely used space in contemporary popular fiction as a locus that conflates commerce and

https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2024.33.328-348 https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1306324   Praise of Masculinity: Images of Manhood in Popular Genre Literature Polina Penkova Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria pmpenkova@gmail.com   The study deals with the representations of masculinity in Bulgarian popu- lar genre literature. Masculinity is examined as a convention that undergoes changes in different cultural, ideological and social contexts. The attention falls on two plots of masculinity, responsible for different periods of the Bulgarian cultural and historical situation: the eras of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria and the Transition. The communist idea of the man as a symbol of the regime is explored through the works

https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2024.33.349-375 https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1306326   The Modern Literary Witch: Observations on Medial, Pop-Cultural, and Literary Reincarnations of the Witch Image in the 21st Century Preslava Peneva Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria preslava_p10@abv.bg   The study aims to trace the development and transformation of the image of the witch in 21st-century Bulgarian literature. By analyzing contemporary representations of the “witch” archetype, the research draws comparisons between modern interpretations of witch-like women in Bulgarian literature and their counterparts from the classical literary canon. The study highlights key similarities and differences, focusing on characters from Yordan Yovkov’s “The Reaper” (1920), Dimitar Talev’s “The Bells

https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2024.33.376-387 https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1306328   The Novels “Clay”, “Heart“, “Thread“ – Generator of Postmodern and Post-feminist Ideas in Contemporary Bulgarian Popular Literature Orieta Antova CHPSIM “Acatamus – Sofia”, Bulgaria etiantova@abv.bg   The object of the present study will be the novels of Victoria Beshliyska – “Clay”, “Heart”, “Thread”. An attempt is made to find in them the elements of female identity that generate postmodern and post-feminist ideas in contempo- rary Bulgarian popular novelist. At the same time, the possibility of integrating popular literature with so-called “high” literature is illustrated. Keywords: novel, post-feminism, postmodernism, female identity For citation: Antova, O. The Novels “Clay”,

https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2024.33.388-404 https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1306330   Post-feminism with a Tabloid Twist Albena Vacheva South West University “Neofit Rilski”, Bulgaria bnv@abv.bg   The article analyses four Bulgarian novels written by women – “The triumph of the bitches” (2016), “The triumph of the bitches. The Continuation” (2021) by Veneta Raykova, “For one night” (2017) by Lusi Eleazar and “Yoga, Love and Other Myths” (2024) by Victoria Penkova. The genre of the novels is popular as a chick-lit, but the genre itself and this type of literature has not been exam- ined in Bulgarian literary studies. That is the reason why on the first place the

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://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2024.33.426-441 https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1306334   Gypsies in Dubravka Ugrešić’s Prose and Essays Liudmila Mindova Institute for Balkan Studies & Centre of Tracology – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria lmindova@yahoo.co.uk   The article explores the minority metaphors in Dubravka Ugrešić’s prose and essay, with a particular focus on the appearance and enrichment of the image of Gypsy ethnic group during the émigré period of her work. From American Fic- tionary (1993) to her most recent essay collections, the Gypsy image is directly connected to her self-representations as a writer in exile, whose true homeland has no geographic or ethnic boundaries, but solely aesthetic

https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2024.33.442-449 https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1306335   A Look at Popular Science Literature and Its Influence on Bulgarian Culture Steven Genchev Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria stivun.genchev@abv.bg   In the next few pages this text aims to reflect on the state of the genre of popu- lar science literature in Bulgaria, how its being received and on what fields it focuses on. Through the lens of a few popular books, the text looks through the history of the field of this type of literature, its development and what qualities people aim to satisfy with it. Keywords: popular science literature, self-help, genre, pulmology, fasting,