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Anton Tomaž Linhart Between the German and the Slovenian Language

Anton Tomaž Linhart (1756-1795), is a critical intellectual and scholar of the age of Slovenian Enlightenment, who introduced causal interpretation of history into Slovenian historiography and started its scientifical p…

O bułgarskiej polityce językowej w kontekście postępującej integracji europejskiej i w obliczu globalizacji

Boskość władzy, czyli Moniki Milewskiej Bogowie u władzy

Między wysoką i niską kulturą, czyli batalia o trywialność

Od socjalizmu do transformacji, czyli o chorwackiej kulturze i literaturze popularnej ostatnich pięciu dekad

Putnička tekstualnost u postdisciplinarnom ozračju

„Je to hra, v níž každý váš pohyb je v centru silového pole...". The Capillarity of Power in the Novel Lehni, bestie! of J. Kratochvil

This article is a critical analysis of the discourse of power represented in the postmodern narrative. In this perspective, the Czech writer's book creates a special study of the 'genealogy of power' (in relation to the…

Resistance of Material: Theoretical Mastery over the Literary Text

After a brief account of Derrida's notion of singularity as an irreducible, quasi-material layer of (literary) texts, this article attempts to delineate its effects on theoretical or scientific mastery over literature.…

„Titophany". Forms of Symbolic Presence of Josip Broz Tito in the Socialist Yugoslavia

Text is an analysis of symbolic strategies, serving creation of Josip Broz Tito's authority as the leader of the socialist Yugoslavia; it also reveals their cultural and political motivations. Author indicates three dom…

Princess Milica - the Sacralisation of Queenship, Official Sanctity and National Myth

This article is devoted to the one of the best known female rulers of medieval Serbia - princess Milica, wife of the prince Lazar Hrebeljanović, who had lost his live during the famous Battle of Kosovo Field in 1389. Af…

The Divinity of Director's Power. Karel Hugo Hilar - the First Modern Czech Theatre Director

The aim of this research was to characterize changes in the perception of a function of theatre director at the begging of the 20th century. The Czech theatrical culture taking the pattern of great European theatre refo…

Figure of Žrec in Dežman's Ljutovid

This article analyses a construction of figure of žrec in the introductory canto of historical epic Ljutovid written by Croatian romantic writer Ivan Dežman. Žrec is a religious-magical figure which comprises functions…

Neoliberalism in Central Europe: Is It Magic, Religion or Science?

Expansion of capitalism to former communist countries was presented, especially by many intellectuals, as a scientific endeavor based on rational choice theory, management techniques and precisely measured market forces…

Pursuing the Magic of Words in the Twentieth-Century's Croatian and Serbian Literature

The essay titled „Pursuing the Magic of Words in the Twentieth-Century's Croatian and Serbian Literature" discusses transformations of the awareness of the avant-garde and postmodernism from the perspective of its relat…

The Curse and the Attempt to Protect from the Curse in the Short Story The Godfather's Curseby Janko Veselinović

In his rural themed short stories, Janko Veselinović gave snippets of life in the Serbian village of the XIX century that represent a valuable material for ethnological study. Folk meditations on sin, punishment, oath,…

Lexical Characteristics of Absolution of Sins in the Klimantović's Miscellany from 1512

This paper presents the lexical and linguistic characteristics of absolution of sins in the Croatian Church Slavonic Klimantović's Miscellany I, in which the patterns of release and absolution from sin are powerful oral…

The Performative Potential of Names in Miljenko Jergović's Collection of Stories Inšallah Madona, inšallah

The names play a main role in understanding of Miljenko Jergović's literary works and it is argued through analysis of collection of stories called Inšallah Madona, inšallah. The names have their history, they describe…

The Power of Women's Words in K.J. Erben's Ballads

The power of women's words in K.J. Erben's balladsdiscusses the author's literary texts (the collections Písně and Kytice), in which the woman is presented as a permanent character who is in the focus of significant con…

The Manuscript from Afterlife. Jakub Deml's The Castle of Death

In the story The Castle of Death(1912) Jakub Deml presents an esoteric text, which allows initiation, that is to say the revival and improvement of human spirit, because it points the way to the absolute hidden behind t…

Repetition, Parody or Disintegration of the Empty Plate of Magic Performatives in Croatian Contemporary Poetry

In the article, from different linguistic and literary theoretical perspectives, parodic function of anaphora is analyzed on samples of Croatian contemporary poetry. The aim is to present how a poem, especially one that…

Magical Word as an Action. A Few Thoughts about Bronisław Malinowski's Concepts

This article concerns Bronisław Malinowski's ethnographical theory of magical word. His theory was a revolutionary one for two reasons (1) he claimed that magical word is not an instrument of understanding of „primitive…

„The Text Was Considered Miraculous". Magic Words in Pasternak's „Doctor Zhivago"

In Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak brings scientific and political discourses into dialogue with magical ones. In an emblematic episode, two soldiers from opposing sides each wear a protective amulet containing the „miraculou…

The Elements of Verbal Magic in Russian Semi-Official Discourse

The article is dedicated to phenomena of verbal magic, which exploit in modern Russian semi-official discourse for the purpose of social consciousness' manipulation.

Teurgický element slova v estetickém systému Andreje Bělého

According to aesthetic theories of Russian symbolist A. Belyj every real art is in its deepest essence a symbolic one, it represents an organic connection of two orders - phenomena of the inner world and the living cons…

Word in Evolution. Lies, Sex, Gossips and... Friends on Facebook

The essay shows the main conceptions upon a biological power of a word: the macchiavellian theory/ theory of a lie, the mating mind theory, that means a theory of handicaps, and the social selection theory of S. Dunbar.…