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A Political Turn in Russian Contemporary Literature or „Left Front of the Arts" by Zakhar Prilepin

The paper concerns Russian contemporary politically engaged literature and takes into consideration the writings of an acclaimed Russian prose-writer, radical anti-Kremlin opposition activist - Zakhar Prilepin. A politi…

Transformations of the Dissident Behaviour. Politics in Post-1989 Bulgarian Literature

The essay follows the changes in the literary works of the Bulgarian dissidents immediately after 1989. It tries to take into account the disillusionment and the distorted perceptions, but also the satisfaction of freed…

Muzej nepokornosti

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Contestation à rebours. On Writing and Non-Writing of Karel Michal

The problem of transfer from the official to the unofficial culture is one of the most significant phenomena in the post-war Czech literature history. Resistance against the limitations on creative autonomy set by the g…

Comrade Tito, All of Us Are - You

The article describes different ways of depicting Josip Broz Tito in poems which embody socialistic values. The notion of the Government relies on the idea of the abscence, and the exact abscence requires the image in o…

Twilight of the Gods in Dubrovnik

The Croatian film Occupation in 26 pictures (1978), directed by Lordan Zafranović is considered as one of the most controversial vision of the Second World War in Yugoslav cinema. The director uses the ornamental style,…

Authority and Lineage. On the Image of Sovereign in the Old Serbian Literature

The article refers to a problem of relationship between authority and genealogy, and to their specific functioning in the Old Serbian literature, that is in other words, in the hagiographical, historiographical, and hym…

Parascheva of Tirnovo in the Russian Variant of Service - „Monarchical" Image of Holiness

The article discusses the specific of sanctity of Parascheva of Tirnovo in the Russian Orthodox Church, an anchoress the most venerated by the Eastern Church. The pattern of holiness formed in the late nineteenth centur…

The Russian Myth of Power versus Personality Cult

The considerations in this paper focus upon the Russian idea of which consequence and extension is mythology of the Soviet times. We refer to the myths of tsarist Russia and to a specific relation to the authorities in…

The Power of the Weak: on Worthiness of Elders in Folk Culture

The folk culture from the turn of the 20th century was founded on the mythical paradigm. Its specific feature was an opposition between the self and the other. It had ambivalent influence on those people and places whic…

St. Vitus' Day Among Slovenes

National holidays play an important role in the formation of common memories of the past, as they are the very sign that marks historical events and figures that must be known to all citizens, thereby establishing the s…

Angelina Branković: the Holy Ruler in Hymnography. Outline of the Problem

The aim of this article is to present the idea of divinity of power on an example of the medieval service, dedicated to the Serbian despotess Angelina Branković. The image of a ruler and a concept of power presented in…

Kulturna animalistika u obzoru hrvatske humanistike

Politics and Theater: Oliver Frljić's Play Zoran Đinđić and Milan Marković's and Maja Pelević's Performance They Live

In this paper, I am dealing with the political theater and performance. Both performances question the borders between artistic and non-artistic fields, and work with concept of documentary drama. Frljić's play is reali…

Similarities and Differences in Wittgenstein and Derrida's Notion of Language as Action

This research paper offers a comparison of the concepts of language as action presented by J. Derrida and L.Wittgenstein, including the concept of „performative" by J.L. Austin. The conclusion is that they maintain a no…

Profil wydawnictwa ciągłego „Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich"

Farewell to the Magic in the Translation of Witkacy

This article reveals theoretic aspects on literary translation through the analyses of the translation of the novel Farewell to the autumn by Polish writer Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz. It concerns the competences and sk…

„I am the Absolute Will". On Divinity of Power in the Ladislav Klíma's Philosophy

The article concerns philosophical concepts created by the Czech prose writer Ladislav Klíma. This author is nowadays counted among the most interesting Czech philosophers of the 20th century. His concepts inspired crea…

W Chilandarze. Nacjonalizm jako religia

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How to Become God?

Sanctity is the very essence of political power, which needs its own rituals, myths, and symbols. This sacred nimbus confirms the authority of the ruler, making it unusual, mysterious and - as a result - untouchable. Re…

Women, Yugoslavia, Anti-communist Anesthesia, Neocolonialism: Maps, Ways, Exits

In the paper the author tries to map out critically the situation within gender studies and their academic production in the region: the uncomfortable dealing with „Yugoslavia", the overall situation of humanities and s…

The Topos of Clandestine Charity in Medieval Serbian Literature

Charity and almsgiving, as the religious and social act of philanthropy and concern for the salvation of the soul, were one of the obligatory and permanent duties of rulers in the Middle Ages. Serbian medieval rulers we…

The Role of the Serbian Church in Maintaining National Identity of the Serbian Nation under Turkish Rule

The re-establishment of the autocephality of the Serbian Church in 1557 instigated a considerable degree of activity in the field of cultural restoration. The see of the Patriarchate was revived in its former location -…

Sanctity of Power by Clergyman Paisius

The symbolic beginning of the Bulgarian National Rebirth dates back to 1762 when Paisii Hilendarski wrote History of the Slavobulgarian, which was the first historgraphic work in the Bulgarian literature. Among others,…

The Importance of Contrastive Approach in Teaching a Foreign Language - an Example of the Acquisition of Croatian by Polish Speakers

This paper describes the experience of working with a homogeneous group of students, ages 18-25 years old, who studied Croatian as a first or a second foreign Slavic language. A few, isolated examples showcase analysis…