The authors of this article offer a historical contextualization of the conceptualisation of aviation in the works of Bulgarian poet Elisaveta Bagriana; they devote special attention to its role in ...Bulgarian literature and culture of the 1930s to 1950s. Central to the interpretation of the theme of aviation in the works of Bagriana are: 1) the glorification of aviation in the service of political conjuncture (in the 1938 poem dedicated to the royal son-aviator, and in the 1953 Airplane to Moscow); and: 2) a conceptualisation of aviation in accordance with contemporary European philosophical and cultural ideas (opposing technical means of communication to the forces of nature; pleas for airplanes as a means of overcoming time, space and human boundaries to achieve freedom from gravity and all earthly connections).
The article describes the winter holidays calendar of the Bulgarians living in Transnistria. On the basis of interviews with villagers of Parkany the author makes a comparative analysis of the winter ...calendar holidays of the Bulgarians from Transnistria with the holidays from different places of residence of the Bulgarians (Bulgaria, Ukraine, Crimea). The problem is to find out how the traditional rites and holidays have been preserved, and to what degree certain attributes of calendar holidays have been lost, since some of them have disappeared from traditional use. The material has been illustrated with song-examples recorded in Parcany nowadays.
In traditional Bulgarian culture the similarity between the dragon, the giant and the king, as a ruler set by God, is based on the notions of origin, relationship and similar functions. All these ...circumstances are analyzed in details in the present paper: in the core is the logical change in the prevailing anthropomorphic forms.
The article attempts to reconstruct the patterns of perception documented in Bulgarian cultural texts which conceptualised the Bulgarian land as borderlands of civilization. The author presents the ...historical and cultural conditions for the deliberate purification of the image of the Bulgarian culture as resistant to Ottoman influences which took place in 19th and 20th century. Furthermore, the article demonstrates the ways in which Bulgarian artists and thinkers conceptualised the observations and intuitions inconsistent with this understanding of the national idea. The titular yamurluk of the sons of Hagar and the "Sultan's" velvet coat are metonyms reflecting the pattern of adaptation to the Osman culture which was based on the principle of mimicry. The semantics of the first one suggest stigmatisation of assimilation. The second one – the accepted (although at first unwanted) prosperity of Pax Osmana. The article contains also some reflection on the topic of contemporary strategies of Bulgarian researchers that aim to raise the status of folk survival philosophy, advantages of local everyday life and cultural diversity which constitutes the heritage of five centuries of Ottoman rule. Předložený článek se pokouší rekonstruovat způsoby vnímání přítomné v bulharských kulturních textech, které konceptualizují Bulharsko jako hranici civilizace. Autorka představuje historickou a kulturní situaci, která vedla během 19. a 20. století k cílené idealizaci obrazu bulharské kultury jako nedotčené osmanskými vlivy. Dále článek ukazuje, jak bulharští umělci a myslitelé konceptualizovali své pohledy a pocity, které nebyly v souladu s tímto pojetím národní myšlenky. Yamurluk, plstěná čapka „synů Hagar“, a „sultánký“ sametový plášt' jsou metonyma odrážející způsob adaptace na osmanskou kulturu na bázi mimetismu. Sémantika prvního z nich naznačuje stigmatizaci asimilace, druhé akceptovanou (byt' zpočátku nevítanou) prosperitu Pax Osmana. Článek také uvažuje nad současnými strategiemi bulharských badatelů, kteří se pokoušejí pozvednout status lidových přežitků v oblasti filozofie každodenního života a zdůraznit kulturní diverzitu, v jejich očích dědictví pěti století osmanské nadvlády.
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