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https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1346203 https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.34.186-217   Ecofeminist Perspectives and Themes in Selected Works of Olga Tokarczuk Cristina Godun Olga Tokarczuk, a Nobel laureate and one of Poland’s most acclaimed contemporary authors, is renowned for her humanist, feminist, and ecological stances. Her works, including “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead”, “The Empusium”, and select stories from “Bizarre Tales” (specifically “Green Children”, and “The Calendar of Human Holidays”), explore themes of interconnectedness between women, nature, and animals. Through an ecofeminist interpretation grid, this paper examines how Tokarczuk criticizes patriarchal structures and celebrates ecological harmony, revealing the profound social and environmental implications of […]

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1346204 https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.34.218-238   Ecocriticism and Hope in Picturebooks: The Giving Tree and The Lost Soul Albena Varsano This article examines the ecocritical potential of picturebooks as intermodal works capable of fostering ecological awareness and hope. The analysis focuses on two emblematic works – “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein and “The Lost Soul” by Olga Tokarczuk and Joanna Concejo – interpreted through an interdisciplinary approach combining ecocriticism, Jungian psychology, and visual perception theory. The study reveals how the interaction between text and illustrations creates a field for multiple readings, guiding the reader from crisis to wholeness, from dissociation to unity.

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1346206 https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.34.239-251   The Animal World of Maria Doneva – a Nonsensical Saga Rossitza Chernokozheva The text analyses Maria Doneva’s book “The Animals” (2019), which contains short stories and poetry. To a great extent the book refutes the common characteristics, clichés, and idioms often used for animals. Maria Doneva presents a new viewpoint toward the animal world, as an amalgam of human and animal characteristics. This is the enriching child’s view of the animal world – nontraditional and nonsensical. Keywords: animals; innovation; nonsensical About the author: Rossitza Chernokozheva is born in 1952, in Popovo, grows up in Lovech and Sevlievo.

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1346207 https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.34.252-276   The Seasons – Briefly on a Never-Ending Topic Margarita Serafimova Seasons define every form of existence. With their physical and cultural characteristics, they shape our lives and emotional climates. Associated with cold and warm, dark and light, colours and tastes – the seasons influence every person and are able to permeate every work – creating a certain tonality, a discreet message, an atmosphere that influences the senses and adds to the meaning. Keywords: seasons; literature; atmosphere; weather; climate memory About the author: Margarita Serafimova (Associate Professor, ScD at the Insitute for Literature at the Bulgarian Academy if

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

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1346212 https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.34.313-349   Why Is a Man More Terrifying Than a Bear: Ecocritical, Feminist and Literary Reflections on Nature as a “Preferred Beast” Preslava Peneva This article explores the literary motif of nature as a “preferred beast” through the prism of ecocritical and feminist theories, putting into dialogue the novels “Howl” (2023) by Alexander Skald and “Weyward” (2023) by Emilia Hart. At the center of the analysis is the opposition between nature’s cruelty – inevitable, cyclical and arising from the laws of survival – and human violence, which is conscious, sadistic and aimed at implementing submission and domination. Examining the

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1346240 https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.34.493-499   Ilia Volen – between Love and Literature Marchela Mironova The text is a review of the book “Between love and literature. Letters to N.”, which contains letters from Ilia Volen to his lover and wife Tsonka Hristova Volen. It briefly presents the book’s content and structure, followed by an interpretation of the book through the perspective of the epistolary genre and its function in creating a wider view of historical reality. Keywords: Ilia Volen; Tsonka Hristova Volen; love letters; literature About the author: Marchela Mironova is а PhD candidate at the Department of Bulgarian Literature at Sofia

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1346222 https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.34.364-393   Odysseus’ Eyebrows: The Sirens’ Song and Temptations in Law Stoyan Stavru The article examines the significance of the mythological plots related to Odysseus, Orpheus and the Sirens and their possible significance in the field of philosophy of law. The importance of music in establishing and maintaining order is explored, including ways of distinguishing noise from song. Through the comparison between the “tied” aesthete Odysseus (of Homer) and the “untied” ethicist Ahab (of Melville), an attempt is made to present the possible generative potential of literature in the world of lawyers and especially in its epicenter, which is