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Beyond the Principle of Responsibility. The Schizophrenic Gospel by Bohumil Hrabal Interpreted by Józef Tischner

The article is devoted to the story The Schizophrenic Gospel by Bohumil Hrabal and a little-known interpretation of this prose bythe famous Polish philosopher and theologian Józef Tischner. Plato, Hegel, Berkeley, Heide…

Vita Constantini: Who, When, Where

This review is a short presentation and an analysis of the book Кой, кога, къде в простарнното житие на св. Константин-Кирил (Vita Constantini: who, when, where) by Maya Ivanova and Tsvetomira Danova, published in 2021…

The Double Life of a Packet of Sugar. The Noise(lessness) of Communication of the Items of Everyday Use

This review discusses the book by Aleksander W. Mikołajczak and Patryk Borowiak entitled Design saszetki zcukrem. O komunikowaniu się zrzeczami (On the Design of a Packet of Sugar. How WeCommunicate with Objects). The t…

Homocysteine a non-conventional risk factor for vasculopathic patients

Research is underway and many other factors are being identified, including homocysteine (Hcy). Since 1990, there has been an exponential increase in the number of publications on Hcy and coronary artery disease, sugges…

Animal Names in Children's Vocabulary. Frequency Studies

The article aims to present the children's vocabulary in terms of the presence of animal topics. The author characterizes given issues on the basis of linguistic statistics research (volumes: H. Zgółkowa, K. Bułczyńska,…

The Great Problems of Micro-language

The article contains a review of Marinela Mladenova's book Банатски български книжовен език в контекста на славянската микролингвистика. История, динамика на нормата и езикови политики, the author of which focuses on th…

Studia Animalia 2: the Image of Animals in Language, Literature and Culture

Animals and the World of the Supernatural

Phraseological stocks of all languages contain numerous phrasemes with zoonym components. Inthe paper the author deals with Slovak and Slovene zoonym phrasemes which demonstrate ancient ideas of ancestors about intercon…

Some Remarks on Anthropocentrism and Didacticism as Exponents of the Homo-Animal Relationship (Based on Polish and Russian Phraseological Units with the Names of Selected Farm Animals)].

The aim of the article is to show the relationship between the homo and animal spheres. The research material consists of Polish and Russian phraseological units in a broad sense (idioms, comparisons and proverbs) with…

"The First Swallow": Avian Metaphors in Nikita Khrushchev's Political Discourse

Birds are a rich source for metaphors in paremias that are known to be a significant rhetorical force in various modes of communication. This article deals with the repertoire of ornithological proverbial texts utilized…

Love Animal: Animal Motifs in Croatian Early Renaissance Love Poetry

Animal motifs were very popular in medieval bestiaries and love poetry, especially in Provençal and Petrarchan poetry. Afterwards they spread throughout European Renaissance love poetry and they are found in love poems…

Kak Taubeka Dva: on the Image of Amiable Love

This paper is aimed at scrutinizing emblematic and iconic functions of doves in love poetry. Despite the fact that love is a complex emotion both in literary and psychological sense, the main analytical emphasis will be…

The Affective Nature of Realism - on Non-Human Subjects in Wilhelm Mach's Prose

The article examines the problem of the special place occupied by the prose writer Wilhelm Mach in the Polish literary field in the 1960s, when it was suggested that the novel had mainly cognitive functions. Mach does n…

Animals in Serbian Poetry of the Second Half of the 20th Century

During the second half of the twentieth century, unlike some earlier periods, the dominant tendency was to present animals in Serbian poetry in the "mode of new literacy", i.e. to depict their real existence. This appro…

A Donkey and His Voice in the Poetry of Zvane Črnja

A donkey is an animal that can be found in linguistic, literary, and cultural-anthropological works. However, this work analyses the symbolism of the animals that appear in the Chakavian poetry by Zvane Črnja, Croatian…

The Interspecies Encounter Zones. Relations between dogs and humans [with "devil's saliva in hearts"

The subject of the literary study proposed in the title is the triptych by Josip Mlakić, which follows the convention of a futuristic anti-utopia. The work provides research material amenable to the application of diver…

The Emmanuel-Lion Parallel and its Importance in the Painting Scheme of Serbian Iconostases

One of the unique features in the schemes of painting of modern Serbian iconostasis is the icon of The Unsleeping Eye, illustrating the intellectual parallel of Emanuel-lion. The ideological source for this image is bib…

Representaton of Family Values in Polish Paremiological Units with Semantically Opposite Components

This paper presents the results of the research of the concept of family and basic family values in Polish paremiological proverbs with semantically opposite components. More than 60 paremiological units with semantical…

Atrocity at the Roots of Bulgarian Statehood? An Attempt of Interpretation Based on Bulgarian Historical Novels

The foundations of the medieval Bulgarian state are inseparably paired with the adoption of Christianity. At that time an event occurred which based on modern terminology ought to be described as coup d'état. As a conse…

Pavlović's Reading of Folk and Old Serbian Poetry

Using the analytical method, the paper points to the extents and implications of Pavlović's research of Serbian verbal folk and medieval literature. Along with this, the paper tries to present this segment of his essayi…

Animals through the Prism of Language and Culture

The paper is a review which examines the semantic analysis offered in Slobodan Novokmet's study entitled "Animal Names in Serbian language - Semantic and Linguo-Cultural analysis." The monograph was published in 2020 by…

Analytical Look at the Recent Past

The subject of the article is the review of the book Jubilee and modern. The Cyrillo-Methodian narrative during socialism in Bulgaria by the Polish-Bulgarian scholar Ewelina Drzewiecka (2020). Her monograph is an analys…

Profesor Ivan Dorovský (1935-2021)

Studia Animalia 2: an Image of Animals in Language, Literature and Culture

NILAI-NILAI BUDAYA KIKI NGI’I SEBAGAI BASIS PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER PADA MASYARAKAT SOA KABUPATEN NGADA, PROVINSI NUSA TENGGARA TIMUR

Nilai-Nilai Budaya Kiki Ngi’i Sebagai Basis Pendidikan Karakter Pada Masyarakat Soa Kabupaten Ngada, Provinsi Nusa Tenggara Timur. Indonesia adalah negara yang memiliki keanekaragaman budaya, salah satunya budaya upac…