“WHERE DOES LOVE COME FROM?” SLAVEYKOV’S PHILOSOPHICAL AND IRONIC GENERALIZATIONS ON MARRIAGE
This paper focuses on the reflections of the National Revival poet P. R. Slaveykov concerning falling in love and the nature of love. It traces the meta- morphoses of infatuation and the foundations that establish the new family unit from the perspective of three mutually exclusive worldviews, which compete 290with each other within the Bulgarian sociocultural space, neutralizing the traditional model as a regulator of family planning. Slaveykov’s insights reflect a civilizational curve entering the difficult to control zone of emotional charge and social coercion. He follows a reverse trajectory: from feelings of shame and awkwardness, through the unleashing of instincts, to the pragmatic logic of the marriage market, which transforms love into an economic transaction
“WHERE DOES LOVE COME FROM?” SLAVEYKOV’S PHILOSOPHICAL AND IRONIC GENERALIZATIONS ON MARRIAGE
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Nevena Mihova
- [email protected]
- Institute for Literature – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- Bulgaria
Nevena Mihova is an Assistant Professor in the Bulgarian National Revival Literature Department at the Institute for Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2023). She holds a PhD in Bulgarian Literature (2020) and a Master's degree in Slavic Philology (2003). She defended her doctoral dissertation titled "Functional Aspects of Genre and Style in the Journalism of P. R. Slaveykov". Her research interests center on Bulgarian Revival journalism and publicistics, with a focus on socio-economic concepts, literary connections, and cultural identities.
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Abstract:This paper focuses on the reflections of the National Revival poet P. R. Slaveykov concerning falling in love and the nature of love. It traces the meta- morphoses of infatuation and the foundations that establish the new family unit from the perspective of three mutually exclusive worldviews, which compete 290with each other within the Bulgarian sociocultural space, neutralizing the traditional model as a regulator of family planning. Slaveykov’s insights reflect a civilizational curve entering the difficult to control zone of emotional charge and social coercion. He follows a reverse trajectory: from feelings of shame and awkwardness, through the unleashing of instincts, to the pragmatic logic of the marriage market, which transforms love into an economic transaction
Subject: We for Others and for OurselvesKeywords: P. R. Slaveykov Bulgarian Revival period love sociocultural paradigms family planning -
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