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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.…

Magic of Words in Momčilo Nastasijević's Narrative An Account of the Gifts of My Cousin Marija

Interpretation of Momčilo Nastasijević's narrative „An Account of the Gifts of my Cousin Marija" indicated the significance of the storyteller's belief in the magic of words and in calamitous effect of words on destiny…

Conjuring Life: Magic in the Poetics of Marina Tsvetaeva

This article discusses the notion of magic in the poetics of Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) against the backdrop of romanticism and Russian modernism. Magic is related to the poet's explorations of folklore, and also to R…

Magical Power of Masks in Ivo Vojnović's Drama. Maškarate ispod kuplja as Paradigm of the Illusion of Reality

The present paper analyses Ivo Vojnović's drama Maškarate ispod kuplja by intending to emphasize the importance of carnival masks considered as instruments of liberation of individuals from social conformism. The protag…

In Search of a Perfect Form and Style: Turgenev andConrad's Emphasis on Visual Impression

The human face as a mask that can both hide and emphasise the main traits of human personality and thoughts was used by Turgenev and Conrad. In the society depicted in such novels as Under Western Eyes, Virgin Soil and…

Intermarriages - Crossing Political and Social Borders

This paper analyses Macedonian - Albanian intermarriages in Macedonia in the last fifteen years i.e. their frequency, routes and patterns set in correlation with the social and traditional relationship that existed and…

Putnička tekstualnost u postdisciplinarnom ozračju

Chorwacki dramat wojenny

Kulturna animalistika u obzoru hrvatske humanistike

Farewell to the Magic in the Translation of Witkacy

This article reveals theoretic aspects on literary translation through the analyses of the translation of the novel Farewell to the autumn by Polish writer Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz. It concerns the competences and sk…

Profil wydawnictwa ciągłego „Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich"

„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…

Politics and Theater: Oliver Frljić's Play Zoran Đinđić and Milan Marković's and Maja Pelević's Performance They Live

In this paper, I am dealing with the political theater and performance. Both performances question the borders between artistic and non-artistic fields, and work with concept of documentary drama. Frljić's play is reali…

Angelina Branković: the Holy Ruler in Hymnography. Outline of the Problem

The aim of this article is to present the idea of divinity of power on an example of the medieval service, dedicated to the Serbian despotess Angelina Branković. The image of a ruler and a concept of power presented in…

St. Vitus' Day Among Slovenes

National holidays play an important role in the formation of common memories of the past, as they are the very sign that marks historical events and figures that must be known to all citizens, thereby establishing the s…

The Power of the Weak: on Worthiness of Elders in Folk Culture

The folk culture from the turn of the 20th century was founded on the mythical paradigm. Its specific feature was an opposition between the self and the other. It had ambivalent influence on those people and places whic…

The Russian Myth of Power versus Personality Cult

The considerations in this paper focus upon the Russian idea of which consequence and extension is mythology of the Soviet times. We refer to the myths of tsarist Russia and to a specific relation to the authorities in…

Parascheva of Tirnovo in the Russian Variant of Service - „Monarchical" Image of Holiness

The article discusses the specific of sanctity of Parascheva of Tirnovo in the Russian Orthodox Church, an anchoress the most venerated by the Eastern Church. The pattern of holiness formed in the late nineteenth centur…

Authority and Lineage. On the Image of Sovereign in the Old Serbian Literature

The article refers to a problem of relationship between authority and genealogy, and to their specific functioning in the Old Serbian literature, that is in other words, in the hagiographical, historiographical, and hym…