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Twilight of the Gods in Dubrovnik

The Croatian film Occupation in 26 pictures (1978), directed by Lordan Zafranović is considered as one of the most controversial vision of the Second World War in Yugoslav cinema. The director uses the ornamental style,…

Comrade Tito, All of Us Are - You

The article describes different ways of depicting Josip Broz Tito in poems which embody socialistic values. The notion of the Government relies on the idea of the abscence, and the exact abscence requires the image in o…

„I am the Absolute Will". On Divinity of Power in the Ladislav Klíma's Philosophy

The article concerns philosophical concepts created by the Czech prose writer Ladislav Klíma. This author is nowadays counted among the most interesting Czech philosophers of the 20th century. His concepts inspired crea…

W Chilandarze. Nacjonalizm jako religia

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How to Become God?

Sanctity is the very essence of political power, which needs its own rituals, myths, and symbols. This sacred nimbus confirms the authority of the ruler, making it unusual, mysterious and - as a result - untouchable. Re…

Women, Yugoslavia, Anti-communist Anesthesia, Neocolonialism: Maps, Ways, Exits

In the paper the author tries to map out critically the situation within gender studies and their academic production in the region: the uncomfortable dealing with „Yugoslavia", the overall situation of humanities and s…

The Topos of Clandestine Charity in Medieval Serbian Literature

Charity and almsgiving, as the religious and social act of philanthropy and concern for the salvation of the soul, were one of the obligatory and permanent duties of rulers in the Middle Ages. Serbian medieval rulers we…

The Role of the Serbian Church in Maintaining National Identity of the Serbian Nation under Turkish Rule

The re-establishment of the autocephality of the Serbian Church in 1557 instigated a considerable degree of activity in the field of cultural restoration. The see of the Patriarchate was revived in its former location -…

Sanctity of Power by Clergyman Paisius

The symbolic beginning of the Bulgarian National Rebirth dates back to 1762 when Paisii Hilendarski wrote History of the Slavobulgarian, which was the first historgraphic work in the Bulgarian literature. Among others,…

The Importance of Contrastive Approach in Teaching a Foreign Language - an Example of the Acquisition of Croatian by Polish Speakers

This paper describes the experience of working with a homogeneous group of students, ages 18-25 years old, who studied Croatian as a first or a second foreign Slavic language. A few, isolated examples showcase analysis…

Anton Tomaž Linhart Between the German and the Slovenian Language

Anton Tomaž Linhart (1756-1795), is a critical intellectual and scholar of the age of Slovenian Enlightenment, who introduced causal interpretation of history into Slovenian historiography and started its scientifical p…

O bułgarskiej polityce językowej w kontekście postępującej integracji europejskiej i w obliczu globalizacji

Boskość władzy, czyli Moniki Milewskiej Bogowie u władzy

Między wysoką i niską kulturą, czyli batalia o trywialność

Od socjalizmu do transformacji, czyli o chorwackiej kulturze i literaturze popularnej ostatnich pięciu dekad

Similarities and Differences in Wittgenstein and Derrida's Notion of Language as Action

This research paper offers a comparison of the concepts of language as action presented by J. Derrida and L.Wittgenstein, including the concept of „performative" by J.L. Austin. The conclusion is that they maintain a no…

Intermediality in Macedonian theatre

In the text Intermediality in Macedonian theatre, which uses the play Macedonian bloody wedding by Vojdan Chernodrinski, directed by Ljupco Gorgievski, as an example, an attempt is made at representing intermediality in…

Image and text in the service of the Absolute. Medieval manuscript and the idea of total work of art

The article takes up the problem of the medieval manuscript as an example of a total work of art. Miniature painting is an example of diffusional transmittance of the various semiotic orders, which define each other and…

Visual folklore: relation between oral and visualmemory

The aim of this article is to present how oral biography and photo-interviews are intertwined. In this sense, it is very important to illustrate the various methods of photo fieldwork, and also to highlight theoretical…

The smell and colour of words. Attempts at intersemiotic translation and synaesthesia in Damir Miloš's works Smetlar and Bijeli klaun

The aim of the intersemiotic and conceptual prose of Damir Miloš is to overcome the limitations of language and literary description, especially when presenting reality through the prism of sensual experience, both visu…

The human as a subject of discussion: Wissarion Belinsky and Nikolay Gogol. About two models of literary encoding of reality

The aim of this paper is to conduct a comparative analysis of two culture codes, semantic and asemantico-asyntactic, as tools for ordering reality and discovering the meaning of events. Belinsky and Gogol's lives and th…

Polish and Czech "literary reciprocity" in the second half of the 19th century: Eliza Orzeszkowa's reception by the Czechs and Karolina Světlá's reception by the Poles

The aim of the article is to describe the extraordinarily animated and extensive relationships between Polish and Czech literature in the second half of the 19th century. Literary correspondence is extremely clearly rev…

Dubravko Mataković's Underland [or, to be continued...]

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Mariola Jakubowicz, Drogi słów na przestrzeni wieków. Zarys słownika motywacji semantycznych na materiale przymiotników słowiańskich odziedziczonych z prasłowiańszczyzny, Slawistyczny Ośrodek Wydawniczy, Warszawa 2010, ss. 375

Lech Miodyński, Symbole miejsca w kulturze i literaturze macedońskiej, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2011, ss. 376