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Panic buying research: A systematic review of systematic reviews

Panic buying is an emerging and ever-evolving phenomenon during emergencies covering several perspectives of life and academic domains. However, it hasn't got adequate attention reflected by a handfuls number of studies…

The Travelling of Slavs and Through the Slavic Worlds

Slavs on Steamships. Steamship Travels between Europe and Asia, 1869-1890

This article examines diverse travel narratives about steamship voyages to Asia in the first two decades after the opening of the Suez Canal, with special focus on journeys through the Suez Canal, Red Sea, and Indian Oc…

Easternisation and Enlightenment. Larry Wolff, Marquis de Ségur and the Younger Europe

The article describes two accounts of Poland and the culture of its people. The first of these dates from 1784 and was written by the Marquis de Ségur, a French diplomat travelling to St Petersburg. The second, from 184…

Polotsk, Vilnius, Moscow… Poetic and Biographical Wanderings of Oleg Minkin

In the context of the ideas of geopoetics, the article examines the images of three cities-Polotsk, Vilnius, Moscow-in the work of the famous Belarusian poet Oleg Minkin. Poems from two poetic cycles are analyzed: Гарад…

India in the Imagination of 20th and 21st Century Croatian Literature

The purpose of this paper is to study perceptions of India in three literary works, from the 20th and 21st century. The first part looks into the tenets of postcolonial theory and literary imagology as a possible method…

The Journey Towards the Trouts: Put na Plitvice by Adolf Veber Tkalčević. The Text-Formative Role of Culinary Motifs

Adolfo Veber Tkalčević (1825-1889) a Croatian philologist, writer, passionate traveler and a Catholic clergyman is the author of the first Croatian account of the travel to the Croatian "Lake District" Put na Plitvice (…

The Geography of Childhood and Affective Archetypes: A DiscursiveMythological Approach to the Representations of Serbia in British and American Interwar Travel Accounts

One of the key representations of Serbia between the two world wars in British and American travel accounts is the one about a child. Set in the context of Orientalism and postcolonial tradition this representation is u…

The Image of China in Milan Jovanović's Tamo amo po istoku

Serbian traveler Milan Jovanović arrived in China in the 19th century, and after his return, his travelogue Tamo amo po istoku (Here and There in the East) was published. This article aims to reveal Jovanović's percepti…

Ballads and Legends: Media Transformations of Canonical Narratives in Polish and Czech Culture

The paper presents a comparative interpretation of recent Czech and Polish transmediations of canonical literary texts and architexts: ballads by K. J. Erben and Polish legends and folk tales, which are generally regard…

The Slavonic Literary Studies at the Crossroads: Redefining, or Preserving?

The author of the present study tries to answer the question from the title about the contemporary state and the future of Slavonic literary studies in connection with other disciplines, e.g., comparative and genre stud…

, Spectres of Philology's Task, Beyond the Return to Philology

The paper follows the numerous debates on the importance of philology that have started to emerge in the 1980s, beginning from Paul de Man's essay Return to Philology. The assumption is that despite obvious devaluation…

The Character of Ukraine in the Serbian Novel of the Second Half of the 20th - the Beginning of the 21st Century

Traditionally, the basic qualities of imagology are associated with its key category-the literary ethnic character. A special field of imagological improvisations is the Serbian novel, which, according to well-known nat…

Intercomprehension-Interference-Integration. Teaching Polish as a Foreign Language to the Native Speakers of East Slavic Language

The paper is an introduction to teaching the Polish language and culture to native users of closely related languages. The presented synthesis is intended for teachers interested in improving their competence in teachin…

Some Remarks on Contemporary West-Slavic kynonymy

This article investigates kynonyms, which constitute one of the most prominent categories of zoonyms. The research material was obtained with the use of an 11-point survey and encompasses the West-Slavic languages: Poli…

Georgi Gospodinov's Struggle with the Category of Time During the Crisis Period

The article is devoted to a reflection on the category of time in Georgi Gospodinov's novel Vremeubežiŝte (2020), where the author undertakes a reflection on the processes of culpable and non-culpable self-destruction o…

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…