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A Few Remarks about the Dissident Movements and the Anti-Totalitarian Literature in Bulgaria

The aim of this article is to introduce a characteristic of the dissident movement and the anti-totalitarian literature in Bulgaria in the period 1944-1989. In the early‚ 90s a group of very important researchers began…

„Byl to život na sopce, život pod závalem, život v tekoucí lavině". „Dissident Ghetto" by Pavel Kohout

The main intention of the presented article was to find and indicate thoughts connected to the dissident tradition of Czech 20th century history. The generational experience regarding the „drunken festival" of Prague Sp…

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…

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Early 1970s and the Cinematic Case of Tomislav Radić

Although his early feature length works - Živa istina and Timon - created quite a stir and could be called provocative at its time (the first half of 1970s), as much as they can be considered stylistically interesting w…

Reaches and Limits of the Symbolic Resistance. „Jeans Prose" in the Context of Yugoslav Socialism

The main thesis of the paper implies the historically changeable characteristics of symbolical resistance in the texts of „jeans prose" (Flaker). Using jeans as a symbol of global popular culture, freedom, casualness, t…

Through the Eyes „of the Other" [Notes on E.G. Etkind's Prose]

In the article E.G. Etkind's prose is discussed from the point of view of its place and role in the dissident movement in the Soviet Russia. The particular attention is paid of Etkind's ideological differences with the…

Two Motives of Russian Dissident Movement: Background and Literature Antagonism Technologies

In the Russian social thinking, the notion „dissident movement" has appeared twice. For the first time, as a historical and theoretical term in the essay The Dissident (1866) by Nikolay Sokolov, and then, a century late…

„Writing the Truth Instead of History": Resistance to Ideology in some Croatian Plays in the Second Half of the 20th Century

In this paper the authoress refers to examples from the period between the 60s and the beginning of the 90s of the 20th century in Croatia which best illustrate not only the playwriting but also the lethalness of the ac…

„It's not on the Poet to Bow to the King". The Dissident's Position in Croatian Theatre Studies - the Ivšić Case

The paper discusses the position of Croatian playwright Radovan Ivšić in Croatian theatre historiography, before and after the independence of Croatia in the nineties. The research results point to three major phases in…

Poezie Pavla Zajíčka po jeho návratu z exilu

Pavel Zajíček was a leading personality of Czech rock and literary underground in the 1970s. His imprisonment in 1976 was an important impuls for creation of Charta 77. Communist establishment wanted to get rid of him a…

„The Emigrant Within": The Political Ideas of Milovan Djilas 1954-1989

The aim of this article is to examine the political ideas of Milovan Djilas (1911-1995) developed in his dissident period (1954-1989). Once a highly ranked communist and revolutionary of Tito's antifascist partisan army…

The Czech Lot: Illusions and Realities [Milan Kundera and Václav Havel Polemics]

The article is devoted to the analysis of the M. Kundera and V. Havel polemics over the fate and fortunes of the Czech ethnical identity, Czechoslovakian nationhood and ways of Czechoslovakian society development after…

Discourses of Feminism and Modernism in the Essays of Julka Chlapec Đorđević and Jela Spiridonović-Savić

I start from the definition of Serbian Yugoslav bourgeois culture as a semi-peripheral and having this in mind, I tend to analyze the essays by Julka Chlapec Đorđević and Jela Spiridonović-Savić, from the perspective of…

Resistance to the Totalitarian System as a Key Theme of the Memoir-Autobiographical Discourse of the Sixties

Some European nations and countries stayed in the area of totalitarianism for a long time. This fact and various ways of transforming and self-identity in a totalitarian society require careful studying in a broad scien…

In the „Whale's Womb" or the „Silent Outcry" of the Bulgarian Poets of the 1960s and 1970s

This article entitled unassumingly aims at reminding - just in a cursory way, but with a substantial degree of certainty, too, in their literary and historical justification - of a specific list of names of Bulgarian po…

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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…