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The Theme of the Black Sea in the Literary Interpretations of Yevhen Malanyuk

The article interprets artistic images on the theme of the Black Sea in the work of the iconic Ukrainian poet and thinker of the interwar period - Yevhen Malanyuk. Emphasis is placed on the expressiveness of the artisti…

"A View of Ineffable Charm…" The Black Sea in the Ukrainian Prose of the Late 19th Century

The article analyses the image of the Black Sea in the prose works of Ukrainian writers of the last two decades of the 19th century. The sea is an important component of their creative biographies and a source of inspir…

Black Sea Visions in the Lyric of Hristo Fotev

The purpose of this article is to interpret the semantic dominants in the lyrics of the Bulgarian writer Hristo Fotev, which deal with the diverse visions of the Black Sea coast, Burgas, the port, the inhabitants, the n…

Bulgarian and Georgian Fictional Geographies and Coastscapes as Bridges for a Comparative Black Sea Literature

The article drafts the notions of a spiritual-material landscape and of a coastscape amidst correlative notions like spiritualized material landscape, seascape, geography and cosmography. Against this theoretical contex…

The Black Sea is Green: What Does Ivan Vazov See Beyond the Outlines of Varna and Burgas?

The paper analyzes motives and messages neglected by literary historians in two short travelogues by Bulgarian national poet Ivan Vazov: One of Our Black Sea Pearls (1891) and On the Waves of the Black Sea (1921). The a…

Poetics of Space in the Novel of Yurii Yanovskyi Master of the Ship

The article is the analysis of the spatial organization of Yurii Yanovskyi's novel Master of the Ship. Using the hermeneutic and comparative-typological method, the author concludes that space dominates in this literary…

The Black Sea in Secondary Use - About Transonymization of Hydronyms

The article is related to my scientific research in the previous stages of studies, i.e. master's studies in Slavic studies in the field of Croatian studies and bachelor's studies in Slavic studies in the field of Bulga…

The Seven-Sieve Technique in the Face of the Latin Script Range Boundary: An Intercomprehension Analysis on Ukrainian-Polish Materia

This article builds upon a previous publication that served as an introduction to the intercomprehension of The Seven Sieves Technique within the Slavic linguistic domain (Hofmański 2020). The present study, as a second…

What is the Black Sea for Bulgarians? An Attempt at a Cognitive Definition,

The object of study is the concept of the Black Sea and its aim to explain the mental image Bulgarians have of it. The concept is explored as a cultural concept, which has features not only of a cognitive, but also of a…

The Picture of the Black Sea in Polish and in Polish Parliamentary Discourse. A Corpus Analysis

In this article I present the results of corpus and lexicographic analyses of the bigram black sea. I conduct frequency, semantic, emotional and pragmalinguistic analyses of this proper name - Black Sea. I extracted the…

The Image of the Black Sea in Train Names

The article is devoted to the names of passenger trains referring to the Black Sea in Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, the USSR, Ukraine, Georgia and Russia. The author presents an onomastic and cultural analysis of the colle…

The Image of the Black Sea in Crimean Marketing Chrematonyms. Introduction to Research

This article is devoted to the names of commercial and service points on the Crimean Peninsula. Onomastic research focuses on answering the question of how the creators of names reflect the Black Sea and the entire coas…

Middle Ages or Renaissance? Rapacka on Marulić

The famous Polish Slavist Joanna Rapacka published three studies on Marko Marulić. After they came out as separate publications, she collected them under the title Fragmenti o Maruliću (Fragments on Marulić). Rapacka re…

Travels in Bosnia by Ivan Lovrenović

In this article, I describe interactions between space and literature trough the example of texts by the writer and intellectual from Sarajevo, Ivan Lovrenović. It is important for this analysis that the journey was und…

Tatiana Goricheva's Ecotheology and Zootheology in the Formation of Affirmative Attitudes

The purpose of the research was to identify the possibility of forming pro-animal and pro-ecological attitudes in Christians through the zootheological and ecotheological works of Tatiana Goricheva. The method of analys…

From Satire to Naturalism - Ante Babaja's Short Film

This article aims to analyze and interpret Ante Babaja's short films (both fiction and documentary). These works can be seen as a kind of laboratory of themes and means of expression representative of the Croatian direc…

The Archetypal Character of Eve: A Comparative Overview of Modern Czech, French and Canadian Literatures

There are very few archetypal characters being more important for European cultural tradition than the Biblical first woman - Eve. As evidenced by literary onomastic research, the very use of semantically loaded first n…

Smile of the Comparatist

The subject of the article is a review of Jelena Marićević Balać's book, Ka osmehu Evrope: Savremeno srpsko, poljsko i češko pesništvo u komparativnom ključu (Toward Europe's Smile: Contemporary Serbian, Polish, and Cze…

In the Wave of Changes... Baroque Influences and Serbian Literature in the 18th Century

This article is a review of Justyna Romanowska's study entitled The Polish-UkrainianRussian Contexts of Metaphysical Poetry of Serbian Baroque (published by Scriptum, Kraków, 2022). This book focuses on the influences o…

Continuators of the Tradition - the Written Works of Bulgarian Catholics in 19th Century

The author discusses the latest book by Magdalena Abadżiewa, published in 2024, Книжнината на българите католици от XIX век и банатската книжнина, referring to some threads from the history of Bulgarian Catholics and th…

Covid Language as a Post-Covid Syndrome - Language Users' Reactivity to the Reality of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

The article contains a review of a book Syndrom postcovidowy w języku. Polsko- -bułgarskie studium przypadku. Raport z badań eksperymentalnych (Postcovid Syndrome in the Language. Polish-Bulgarian Case Study (Experiment…

Exogenous hydrogen peroxide alleviates water stress-induced physiological and biochemical changes in durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.)

Water scarcity threatens crops, in particular, durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.), in the world's drought regions. As the water-stress wheat cultivars in the middle east of Algeria are poorly investigated, the present s…

The Landscape in Question…

Waffles "Artek" in Russian Cultural Texts

In this article, the function of the brand name "Artek waffles" in Russian-language texts such as poetry, prose, and songs will be presented. For many years, the product name has been associated with the "Artek myth," t…

Ecological traits of the Patagonian blenny, Eleginops maclovinus (pisces, eleginopidae), in the río Gallegos estuary (southwestern Atlantic)

Eleginops maclovinus is an important resource for artisanal fisheries in South America (ca. 20-200 tons per year) Therefore, biological and ecological studies are necessary for the conservation of this species for fishi…