LInC.

Contents

• LITERATURE AND CULTURE

• Mladen VLASHKI
  (Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv)

  PROVINCE, PROVINCIALISM – CULTURAL, HISTORICAL AND LITERARY NARRATIVES

  13

• Nikolay ARETOV
  (Institute for Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia)

  https://doi.org/10.69085/linc20261027

  MAINSTREAM AND COUNTERCULTURE

  27

• Dimitar MIHAYLOV
  (St. St. Cyril and Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo)

  https://doi.org/10.69085/linc20261045

  THE TALENTED AGAINST THE BLABBERMOUTHS OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD: FLOWERS FOR THE NEIGHBOURHOOD BY IVAN DINKOV

  45

• Francesco BRESSAN
  (University of Verona, Italy)

  https://doi.org/10.69085/linc20261056

  WESTERN MODELS, EASTERN FOLLOWERS: BULGARIAN CRIME FICTION FROM SOCIALISM TO POST-SOCIALISM

  56

• Inna PELEVA
  (Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv)

  https://doi.org/10.69085/linc20261079

  NATIONAL LITERATURE – WORLD AUDIENCE: PROJECTS, IMPOSSIBILITIES

  79

• Kristina YASENOVA
  (Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv)

  https://doi.org/10.69085/linc20261122

  RURAL SOUNDS – URBAN SOUNDS: THE ACOUSMATIC RANGE OF A YOUNG MAN’S BEING IN GREAT EXPECTATIONS

  122

• LINGUISTICS

• Krasimir SPASOV
  (American University in Bulgaria)

  https://doi.org/10.69085/linc20261141

  STRUCTURING INFORMATION: INSIGHTS FROM A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF PASSIVE VOICE

  141

• Nikoleta GEORGIEVA

  https://doi.org/10.69085/linc20261159

  ADJECTIVAL -ING PARTICIPLES: ROOTS AND MANIFESTATIONS OF ADJECTIVENESS

  159

• John MATHEWSON
  (Independent Scholar)

  https://doi.org/10.69085/linc20261187

  TOWARDS A FULLY CROSS-PLATFORM, UNICODE-COMPLIANT, SOFTWARE ENTRY SYSTEM FOR DIGITISATION OF OLD BULGARIAN TEXTS

  187

• Zoya KAPON
  (Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv)

  https://doi.org/10.69085/linc20261205

  THE USE OF THE PUPPET THEATRE AS A TOOL FOR TEACHING AND STIMULATING STUDENTS’ IMAGINATION

  205

• REVIEWS

• Zapryan KOZLUDZHOV
  (Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv)

  FUNCTIONS AND ROLE OF THE CONCEPTS OF MIMEISIS AND MIMETIC DESIRE IN THE CULTURAL AND LITERARY ANTHROPOLOGY OF RENÉ GIRARD

  216

  (Renе́ Girard. Mensonge romantique et vе́ritе́ romanesque / Romantic Lie and Novelistic Truth. Transl. N. Venova. Ed. S. Atanasov. Sofia: Iztok – Zapad, 2025. ISBN 978-619-01-1632-5.)

• Nadezhda STOYANOVA
  (St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia)

  CHEKHOV, TOLSTOY, GORKI: FIN-DE-SIÈCLE DIALOGUES

  221

  (Lyudmil Dimitrov. Dramaturgy of Leaving (Anton Chekhov – Leo Tolstoy – Maxim Gorki and the End of Nineteenth-Century Russian Drama). Sofia: Fakel, 2025. ISBN 978-954-411-350-6.)

• Vanya GEORGIEVA
  (Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv)

  OEDIPUS, NARCISSUS, HAMLET AND FAUST AS FIGURES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS: PSYCHOANALYTICAL PROJECTIONS AND MODELS OF INTERPRETATION

  226

  (Compiled by M. Kalinova, B. Paskaleva, S. Goncharov, E. Tsigoryna. Figures of the Unconscious. Collection of texts from the academic seminar Literature and Psychoanalysis (2016 – 2025). Sofia: University Publishing House St. Kliment Ohridski, 2025. ISBN 978-954-07-6173-2.)

• Velka POPOVA
  (Konstantin Preslavski University of Shumen)

  (RE)VISITING THE CATEGORY OF VERBAL ASPECT IN BULGARIAN: AN ORIGINAL AUTHOR'S INTERPRETATION THROUGH THE PRYSM OF FUNCTIONAL-SEMANTIC GRAMMAR

  234

  (Chakarova, Krasimira. The Category of Verbal Aspect in the Modern Bulgarian Language. Plovdiv: Plovdiv University Press “Paisii Hilendarski”, 2025. ISBN 978-619-281-013-9.)

• Rumyana TODOROVA
  (Konstantin Preslavski University of Shumen)

  CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR IMPLICATIONS FOR THE RHETORICAL STRUCTURE OF WRITTEN ACADEMIC DISCOURSE: THE ENGLISH ECONOMICS RESEARCH ARTICLE FROM A COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE

  239

  (Ivaylo Dagnev. Conceptual Metaphor Implications for the Rhetorical Structure of Written Academic Discourse: The English Economics Research Article From a Cognitive Perspective. Veliko Tarnovo: Institute of Knowledge, Science and Innovations, 2025. ISBN 978-619-7668-25-4.)

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