Nikoleta Patova

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  • NAME: Nikoleta Patova
  • INVERSION
  • INSTITUTION
    Institute for Literature – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • COUNTRY
    Bulgaria
  • Nikoleta Patova is a literary scholar specializing in Bulgarian literature and dramaturgy from the Bulgarian National Revival period. She serves as an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her scholarly research focuses on socio-cultural dynamics and the construction of national and individual identity, 19th and early 20th-century Bulgarian drama and theatre, as well as theatre criticism. She is the author of the monograph "Dramaturgy of Bulgarian Identity: National Identity in National Revival Drama" (2012) alongside numerous academic publications. She led seminar courses in Bulgarian National Revival Literature at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" (1999–2015) and lectured at Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv (2012–2015). She is a member of the Academic Circle for Comparative Literature (ACCL) and the Bulgarian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.


We for Others and for Ourselves

08/06/2026

pp. 137-140
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We for Others and for Ourselves

In memory of Nedka Kapralova (1961–2024)

  • ABSTRACT

    Настоящият дял на „Studia Litteraria Serdicensia“ събира изследователските приноси от проведения през месец април 2025 година ХХIХ Колегиум по възрожденска литература на тема „Ние за другите и ние за нас“, посветен на светлата памет на доц. д-р Недка Капралова – ръководител на секция „Литература на Българското възраждане“ (2020–2024) и дългогодишен ревностен изследовател на възрожденските процеси. Недка Капралова беше основен организатор на този колегиум, който не успя да се състои в планираното време през 2024 г. поради нейната неочаквана кончина. Проведен със закъснение от една година, форумът се превърна в акт на научна приемственост и почит към паметта и изследователския труд на доц. Капралова.

    Subject: We for Others and for Ourselves
    Keywords: memory

08/06/2026

pp. 292-303
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THE ARTICLES OF EKATERINA VASILEVA, OR THE COURAGE OF “A BULGARIAN WOMAN FROM BRAILA, K. M. V.”

  • ABSTRACT

    The paper explores the origin and content of five articles sent by Ekaterina Vasileva, a revivalist intellectual with an interesting and unusual personal biography, to the newspapers Otechestvo and Turtsiya. Her publica- tions are among the rare public appearances of a female voice in the public sphere during the Bulgarian Revival period. This required courage, and Ekate- rina Vasileva demonstrated it. In several publications, she expressed her opini- on on public matters and joined in one of the heated theatrical debates that erupted around the performance in Braila of “Velisava, Bulgariann Princess” by Dobri Voynikov. Nedka Kapralova’s book Ekaterina Vasileva. Spomeni. Sti- hotvoreniya. Dopiski gives the reader a much more complete and comprehen- sive picture of the author, who transcends the limitations of her environment.

    Subject: We for Others and for Ourselves
    Keywords: Ekaterina Vasileva articles revivalist newspapers female voice Nedka Kapralova

04/11/2022

pp. 60-73
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The image of Ivanko – from literature to historiography

  • ABSTRACT

    The article notices the first critical assumptions about “Ivanko“ dramatic work by Vasil Drumev. It also directs towards the detailed comment by Yordan Trifonov about the historiography sources which the author used to construct the plot. After Drumev develops the character of Ivanko, it becomes attractive to other Bulgarian writers, too. The emphasis of the text is upon the fact that after the work of the playwright from Bulgarian National Revival, the image of Ivanko becomes recognizable and discussed historiographic character. Due to Drumev’s writer finding and the scientific interest of Trifonov, the historiographic plot about him develops right after its literature one.

    Keywords: Ivanko play reception historical character Bulgarian Revival period