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Verbal Magic in the Oral History from Lubelszczyzna Region - a Positive Aspect

The aim of this article is to give an anthropological description of verbal magic. The magical utterances are present in the following areas of traditional culture: folk medicine, family and annual rituals. They focus o…

Word's and Silence's Magic in Polish Folk Tale

The article's main subject refers to some magical aspects of the literary communication which might be observed in the selected examples of Polish fairy tale, composed in the nineteenth century and at the beginning of t…

Above Pekel med vodami toward Mohokos, Železna gora and Per(n)jak

I conducted my own ethnographic field research in 1998, 2004 and 2007. Further field research, from 2010 to 2012, under the title 'Folk Piety and the Transmission of Ethnoheritage in Upper Meñimurje', was part of Tomo V…

Mythological Characters of the Cultural Space in the Folklore of the Russian North and Norway [Typological Aspects]

Mythological characters of the cultural space in the folklore of the Russian North and Norway (typological aspects)is a comparative analysis of spirits of house that exist in the cultures of both countries. For comparis…

'Lesser Mythology' in the Carpathian Ukrainians' System of Worldview Notions

'Lesser mythology' played an important role in the worldview notions of the Carpathian Ukrainians (Hutsuls, Boykos and Lemkos) during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It combines notions about various demonic fig…

Tales from the Folklore Tradition of the PelješacPeninsula

The paper presents a research of Croatian folklore tradition of the central part of the Pelješac peninsula included various aspects of traditional culture: from legends, beliefs and customs to poems, stories, adverbs, e…

Zaklęcie, zamówienie, zażegnanie. Magiczna moc słów w folklorze słowiańskim

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Comparison of Slavonian forest by Josip Kozarac and Adolf Waldinger

In this article we shall compare the literary work Slavonian forest by Josip Kozarac with Adolf Waldinger's oil painting Slavonian forest, including his drawings and pictures of a Slavonian forest and forest details. Co…

"Artist's book" as intermedia discourse

The article is devoted to an analysis of various representations of the "Artist's book" genre in modern Russian and world art. These representationsfunction within the framework of the paradigm of art that refers to iss…

Crossing the narrow bridge - among the myth, the rite and the circus act

All of the elements present within the contemporary phenomenon known as 'circus' can be found in the symbolic traditions of ancient and archaic cultures, most often manifested as mythical pictures, ritual and magical ac…

Foltin and Claude "levi-skroz" [Poetry readings of the music of "Foltin"]

Foltin is a musical community, and I say community and not group, because the word group is associated with the crowd. This is my attempt totry to explain the process of reading the important characteristics of purposef…

Poetics of Ljubomir Micić and Branko Ve Poljanski's hybrid multigenre poetic texts

In the text I will focus on Zenitist poetry by Ljubomir Micić and Branko Ve Poljanski. I will construe a new discursive framework, which will make it possible for us to understand their multigenre texts as important ite…

Word - paradigmatical image - icon. About intersemiotics in Orthodox Slavonic culture of the Middle Ages

This work deals with the problem of intersemiotics in Orthodox Slavonic culture in the Middle Ages. Attention here is focused on the source, essence and ontology of correspondence of the arts. Despite the fact that in t…

Interdiscursive variations: the literature - theory relation

The subject of this paper is the theoretical fiction genre as a manifestation of interdiscursive relations between fiction and theory/criticism. Firstly, this paper offers a brief overview of the constitutive features o…

The comic book style of the poetical subject in the contemporary Croatian poetry of intermedial and postintermedial experience

This paper deals with poetic subjects in the comic book format as presented in the media. The subject of media entity dominates the corpus of texts in intermedial and post-intermedial poetry experience. These aspects of…

The Illyrian movement and the interpretation of dreams:Ivan Gundulićin the paintings of Vlaho Bukovac

Given the prominent position in the Croatian cultural imagination of Vlaho Bukovac's 1895 painting of the Illyrian Movement, this article argues that the later accounts of early to mid- 19th century Illyrian politics an…

The Birch Tree - Ante Babaja's film Gesamtkunstwerk

The Birch Tree (1967), directed by Ante Babaja, is one of the most outstanding achievements of Croatian film modernism. It touches on the problem of rural life, which is unusual for film modernism. The work is inspired…

Proximity/distance at the meeting on "the other side"

Folk healers and their ability to heal can be connected with death or the being owned by death. This deeply archaic structure is evident in how knowledge is acquired, namely that it is passed on from mother to daughter…

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Ghosts, ghouls, doubles..."Romantic" transgressions in the novel Podobojí by Daniela Hodrová

This article concentrates on the problem of transgression in the novel Podobojí by Daniela Hodrová. This problem is tracked from the perspective of romantic and post-romantic references to the literary and historical tr…

Romantic codes in the novels written by Miodrag Bulatović

The paper identifies the romantic codes that are activated in the organization of the novels of Miodrag Bulatovic, relying on the theoretical assumptions of Aleksandar Flaker about the stylistic formation of romanticism…

Kontury máchovského mýtu

In 2010, Czech culture celebrates the 200-year anniversary of the birth of Karel Hynek Mácha, the Czech romantic poet. The early reactions to Mácha´s works were for the most part rejections: national culture did not wan…

Mácha in the avant-garde theatre of E. F. Burian

This essay is devoted to the Czech avant-garde stage-adapter from the 1930's and 1940's, Emil František Burian and his theatre D34 (also called "Dečko"). Burian adapted the output of the romantic poet, Karel Hynek Mácha…

The modern romantic in the world of ghosts. Gothic traditions in Jan Bittner's novel Deník kastelána

Romanticism, one of the most important philosophical and artistic periods in modern European culture, was never the mainstream tradition in Czech literature. Nor did the Gothic novel influence this literature in a signi…