THE LITERATURE OF THE BULGARIAN REVIVAL AS A BRIDGE BETWEEN GOD AND MAN
The paper examines the mediating role of Bulgarian Revival literature conserning the relationship between man and God and the function of its religious imagery, themes and motifs. Attention is paid to the broad biblical basis of genres, texts, paratexts; of morally instructive elements in works different in content and style. The active use of biblical models and motifs, visible throughout the whole period, is traced, as well as their restructuring that had began. Significant names that set the parameters of the National Revival and their spiritual mission to revive Bulgarian literature and culture and integrate them into the European one are also mentioned.
THE LITERATURE OF THE BULGARIAN REVIVAL AS A BRIDGE BETWEEN GOD AND MAN
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Maria Pileva, PhD
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- Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
- Bulgaria
Maria Pileva, born in 1972, completed her Master's degree in the "Translator-Editor" program at the Faculty of Slavic Studies, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" in 2012. She undertook a research specialization at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (2015), and in 2016 she defended her PhD dissertation titled "Religious Motifs in Bulgarian Translations of English-Language Fiction in the 19th Century" at the Department of Bulgarian Literature, Sofia University.
Her research interests encompass literary studies, religion, and translation theory. She works in editing and translation, and is the author of short stories, non-fiction essays, academic articles, and studies published in Literaturen Vestnik, Literaturna Misal, Literaturata, Littera et Lingua, the Sofia University Annual, among others. She has co-edited several academic conference volumes.
In 2018, she was awarded the Bulgarian Translators' Union Award for Outstanding Achievement in Translation Theory, History, and Criticism for her monograph "Rebellion, Hope, Redemption".
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Abstract:The paper examines the mediating role of Bulgarian Revival literature conserning the relationship between man and God and the function of its religious imagery, themes and motifs. Attention is paid to the broad biblical basis of genres, texts, paratexts; of morally instructive elements in works different in content and style. The active use of biblical models and motifs, visible throughout the whole period, is traced, as well as their restructuring that had began. Significant names that set the parameters of the National Revival and their spiritual mission to revive Bulgarian literature and culture and integrate them into the European one are also mentioned.
Subject: Literary Metamorphosis: Between Life and TextKeywords: Петър Протич сатирични стихотворения билингва творби българска възрожденска поезия национално-политическа доктрина
