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https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1389158 https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.35.284–309   Polina Penkova The exhibition “Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe”, held at the end of 2009. at the Vienna Museum of Contemporary Art, shows the development of the notion of gender in the visual arts of the countries of the former Eastern Bloc. Bringing together works created over a period of sixty years, the exhibition examines the period of socialist realism to the present day to show how concepts of gender change along with the cultural and historical situation. The study uses the narrative about gender created by the exhibition and compares […]

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1389159 https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.35.310–325   Vesela Kucheva-Petrova Graphic novels could be defined as a type of picture book with sequential structure in regards to of the series of illustrations from which it is constructed. The visual syntax of this structure consists of the graphic elements characteristic of the genre, such as the comic panel, frame, gutter, transition between panels, closure, etc. Sequential images in graphic novels can be placed directly next to one another, merged into one whole, or spaced apart in the lay-out of the book edition in order to create picture books that represent full-fledged works of contemporary visual art.

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1389161 https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.35.326–353   Snezhana Doncheva The article analyzes Virginia Woolf’s novel “Mrs. Dalloway”, drawing on Roland Barthes’s concepts of the “reality effect” and “déréalité”. It also traces a small part of the history of aesthetic debates about realistic writing and seeks to answer the question of whether modernist literature can be realistic and when this very perspective is hindered. Keywords: reality effect, déréalité, Virginia Woolf, realism, modernism, the Real About the author: Snezhana Doncheva is a fourth-year student majoring in Bulgarian Philology at the Faculty of Slavic Studies of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. Her interests lie primarily in the

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1389164 https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.35.354–383   Margarita Burmova This study explores the figure of the jester as a cultural-aesthetic phenomenon, tracing its evolution as a palimpsest of the tragic and the comic, of excess and wisdom. Within this framework, particular emphasis is placed on the dramaturgical interpretation of the jester in the work of Boyan Danovski, and specifically in his dramatic vision “The Heart of the Jester” (1926). The analysis situates Danovski within the broader transhistorical and transcultural narrative of the jester, examining how he reconfigures this archetype in light of the cultural tensions of interwar Bulgaria. Keywords: jester, interwar theatre, Bulgarian drama,

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1389167 https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.35.384–406   Aleksandra Koleva The article examines the influence of floral imagery on the portrayal of female characters in Konstantin Konstantinov’s novella ‘Love’. Through the use of the symbolic language of flowers, the female characters express themselves, communicate, and reveal their type of femininity, defined through the typology of German psychoanalyst Erich Neumann. The images of the mother, the virgin, and the seductress are ambiguous and intertwine into a multicolored palette, mirrored in the language of flowers. Keywords: floriography, flowers, femininity, Erich Neumann, “Love”, Konstantin Konstantinov About the author: Alexandra Koleva is a student majoring in Slavic Philology. Her

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1389169 https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.35.407–434   Stanislav Mladenov   The following article constitutes a Foucauldian reading of the dynamics of power in Viktor Paskov’s novel “Germany, a Dirty Tale”. This interpretation is grounded in “Discipline and Punish”, Michel Foucault’s work that traces the long and gradual transformation undergone by the mechanisms of power in Europe since the classical age. Contemporary disciplinary techniques – such as the examination and the normalizing sanction – have managed to take root in virtually every aspect of modern human life. This pervasive penetration of power and surveillance, which Foucault likens to the geometry of Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, becomes

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1389171 https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.35.435–446   Iva Anastasova The present text is an analytical observation on Emilia Dvoryanova’s novel – “Passion or the Death of Alice”. It emphasizes the role of mirrors (and windows) in it, specifically their dysfunction. The strangeness of the surfaces is seen as a blurred boundary between reality and the imaginary. Keywords: mirror, window, dysfunction, reality, imaginary About the author: Iva Anastasova is a PhD student in Western European Literature at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, the theme of her dissertation is “Transformations of the Window and the Mirror in Emily Bronte and Guy de Maupassant”. Her interests include:

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1389174 https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.35.447–453   Orieta Antova This valuable publication on Bulgarian literature is distinguished by its perfect printing and collector’s value. Keywords: art, modernism, postmodernism, the book as an object of study. About the author: Orieta Antova graduated in Bulgarian Philology in 1989 from Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. In 2019, she completed a master’s degree in Literature, Cinema, and Visual Culture at Sofia University. She has a postgraduate qualification in Theater Studies from the National Academy of Theater and Film Arts. She has published articles in periodicals and specialized publications in the field of culture (theater, literature, cinema). She has

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1389177 https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.35.454–461   Plamen Antov The review presents an anthological selection of Bulgarian modernist dramas from the first three decades of the 20th century. The publication is the third volume of an ongoing project of the Institute of Literature – BAS entitled “Bulgarian Drama Outside the Canon”. The compilation, scientific commentary and reference material are the work of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Marieta Ivanova-Girginova (Institute of Literature) and Dr. Elizaria Ruskova (Sofia University). The volume includes the following works: the tragic poem “Tomiris” by Lyudmil Stoyanov (1924), the tragedy “Omurtag Khan” by Konstantin Mutafov (1925), the tale “Once upon a time…”

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1389181 https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.35.462–469   Lora Nenkovska The review presents Cătălina Puiu’s book “The Motif of Water in Bulgarian Literature”, which explores the symbolism of water in Bulgarian literary tradition. The analysis covers authors from the National Revival to contemporary times – from Petko R. Slaveykov, Vazov, Pencho Slaveykov, and Yavorov to Bagryana, Dalchev, Emil Andreev, and Ivan Stankov. Water is examined in three main aspects – life, purification, and renewal – functioning as a key to the interpretation of literary texts. The book makes a valuable contribution to the reception of Bulgarian literature in Romania and offers new perspectives for its