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Orphism and Late Communism in Bulgaria Анти-Одиссей: Орфизм И Поздний Комунизм В Болгарии ❦ Miglena Nikolchina

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Orphism and Late Communism in Bulgaria Анти-Одиссей: Орфизм И Поздний Комунизм В Болгарии ❦ Miglena Nikolchina SLAVICA TER 20 SLAVICA TERGESTINA European Slavic Studies Journal VOLUME 20 (2018/I) Literary Theory in Bulgaria SLAVICA TERGESTINA European Slavic Studies Journal ISSN 1592-0291 (print) & 2283-5482 (online) WEB www.slavica-ter.org EMAIL [email protected] PUBLISHED BY Università degli Studi di Trieste Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche, del Linguaggio, dell’Interpretazione e della Traduzione Universität Konstanz Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft Univerza v Ljubljani Filozofska fakulteta, Oddelek za slavistiko EDITORIAL BOARD Roman Bobryk (Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities) Margherita De Michiel (University of Trieste) Tomáš Glanc (University of Zurich) Vladimir Feshchenko (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences) Kornelija Ičin (University of Belgrade) Miha Javornik (University of Ljubljana) Jurij Murašov (University of Konstanz) Blaž Podlesnik (University of Ljubljana, technical editor) Ivan Verč (University of Trieste) EDITORIAL Antonella D’Amelia (University of Salerno) ADVISORY BOARD Patrizia Deotto (University of Trieste) Nikolaj Jež (University of Ljubljana) Alenka Koron (Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies) Đurđa Strsoglavec (University of Ljubljana) Tomo Virk (University of Ljubljana) DESIGN & LAYOUT Aljaž Vesel & Anja Delbello / AA Copyright by Authors Contents Literary theory in BuLgaria 10 What is it That is Being Threatened? Introductory Words Что находится под угрозой? Введение в тему ❦ Darin tenev 16 Poststructuralist Backgrounds: the Political Strategies of Resistance in the Literary-Theoretical Debates during the 1960–1970s in Bulgaria Постструктуралистские предпосылки: политические стратегии сопротивления в литературоведческих дебатах в 1960–1970-х годах в Болгарии ❦ enyo Stoyanov 46 Anti-Odysseus: Orphism and Late Communism in Bulgaria Анти-Одиссей: Орфизм и поздний комунизм в Болгарии ❦ MigLena nikoLchina 70 Authentic and Heterogeneous Mimesis: Reflection and Self-reflexivity in Todor Pavlov and Yuri Lotman Аутентичный и гетерогенный мимесис: отражение и авторефлексивность у Т. Павлова и Ю. Лотмана ❦ kaMeLia SpaSSova 98 Exotopy: Mikhail Bakhtin and Jacques Lacan on the Outside Context of Discourse Экзотопия: Михаил Бахтин и Жак Лакан о внешнем контексте дискурса ❦ Maria kaLinova 118 Tension Episodes (A Fragment of the History of Literary Theory in Bulgaria. The Case of the Bulgarian Guillaumist School) Эпизоды напряженность (Фрагмент истории литературной теории в Болгарии. Случай с болгарской школой гийомизма) ❦ Darin tenev SLAVICA TERGESTINA 20 (2018/I) ▶ Literary Theory in Bulgaria varia 152 Between the Sureness of Theory and the Folly of Literature. A commentary to the reception of Saussure’s theory of language (from Jakobson to Bagić) Между уверенностью теории и безумием литературы. Комментарий к восприятию теории языка де Соссюра (от Якобсона до Багича) ❦ anna SkuBaczewSka-pniewSka 174 Das slowenische Gesicht: Literarische Reportage über Auswandereridentitäten The Slovene Face: a Literary Reportage on Emigrant Identities ❦ LiDija rezoničnik 196 «Четыре жизни» Василия Ивановича Чапаева (об одном мифотворческом феномене Гражданской войны в России 1917–1923 гг.) The „Four Lives“ of Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev (about one Myth-making Phenomenon of the Russian Civil War 1917–1923) ❦ НеНад Благојевић 214 (Еще раз) о перспективах российской лингвокультурологии Russian Lingvokultorologija: Culturul Linguistics or Linguistic Culturology? ❦ Юрий викторович Филиппов 238 Tendenze recenti nella formazione delle parole del russo contemporaneo Recent Trends in Contemporary Russian Word-Formation ❦ Lorenzo penta reviewS 276 Ritorno alla filologia Return to Philology ❦ ivan verč 310 Monografija o pesnici Anni A. Ahmatovi Monograph about Poet Anna A. Akhmatova ❦ DeniS poniž 7 Literary Theory in Bulgaria What is it That is Being Threatened? Introductory Words Что находится под угрозой? Введение в тему ❦ Darin tenev ▶ [email protected] SLAVICA TERGESTINA 20 (2018/I) ▶ Literary Theory in Bulgaria What is it that is being threatened by the approaches to literature that developed during the sixties and that now, under a variety of designa- tions, make up the ill-defined and somewhat chaotic field of literary theory? Paul de Man, “The Resistance to Theory” By the end of the seventies Paul de Man defined in a famous article the resistance to theory as a resistance to reading. Almost forty years later it has become obvious that the resistance to theory is in the first place a resistance to reading theory, to reading what theory had and still has to say. The recent opening of the dossier of Julia Kristeva and the allegation about her collaboration with the Bulgarian Secret Services is a perfect case in point as it provided a welcomed excuse not to read “difficult” texts. At the same time, as de Man himself pointed out, the resistance is not something external to theory but “a built-in constitu- ent of its discourse”, it is triggered, as it were, by the inner tensions of the field, and it is this fact that most probably made possible theory’s own resistance to dominant ideologies and hierarchies. Theory was – and still can be – a form of resistance. Yet, the stakes of doing theory then and now are not obvious. The ongoing fetishization of the word “resistance” in the present day con- text facilitated by its exploitation in the cultural industry (think, among so many other instances, of the last Star Wars episodes) makes us ever more blind to what the mechanisms and the practices of resistance in the complicated context of yesterday were. In this sense, the history of theory is necessary for theory as it can reveal through the transversal movement and the transformative development of concepts the logic of its inner tensions as well as their relation to the political and social conjunctures. It can be said generally that the stakes of literary theory throughout the 20th Century were at least triple – epistemological, 11 DARIN TENEV ▶ What Is It That Is Being Threatened? Introductory Words political and social. And what this means is that literary theory was seen as posing at least a triple threat, a threat for the established sci- entific paradigms, a threat for the political order, a threat for the social status quo. This still too general account might be misleading and too dog- matic if one were not to look into concrete cases and investigate the overdetermined particular contexts. In the present issue of Slavica TerGestina the authors present episodes of the history of literary theory in Bulgaria from the 1960s to the end of the 1980s. The case of Bulgaria is interesting in more than one aspect. Even though Tzvetan Todorov and Julia Kristeva, both of whom played a crucial role for the development of literary theory in the West, came from Bulgaria, none of the literary scholars of their generation who remained in the country came to be as known or reached their world fame. What is more, unlike USSR, Czechoslovakia or Poland, for the most part the very context of literary studies in Bulgaria remained non-transparent to the outside world despite the fact that at least two other Bulgarians, Alexander Ludskanov and Miroslav Yanakiev had important posi- tions in the International Association for Semiotic Studies, and many others communicated intensively with renown colleagues from both the East and the West. As Todorov and Kristeva came to be associated with Bakhtin and structuralism, one should ask what was the role of Bakhtin and structuralism in their country of origin. What was the reason structuralism was so attractive? Why structuralism and not phenomenology, hermeneutics or something else? And what was the response to structuralism on the part of the Communist Party? Where did Bakhtin fit in all this? Were there other socially relevant theoretical paths at the time? How were the theoretical problems connected to the political conjuncture and to the Cold War ideologies? 12 SLAVICA TERGESTINA 20 (2018/I) ▶ Literary Theory in Bulgaria The authors in the present issue address these and other related questions with the believe that every good theory should be self-re- flexive and aware of its own history and its position. All the authors are members of the Literary Theory Department at the University of Sofia and the texts are to a large extent the result of their seminars and discussions in the framework of the Sofia Literary Theory Seminar. The history of literary theory proposed here is not history for history’s sake, but a proper moment of theoretization. The closer look, which the authors offer, shows that things were not as one would have expected, if one were to follow the widely accepted scholarly representations of the period. The dividing line between the East and the West, or the one between the official representatives of the Party and the literary scholars, etc., were never simple; these were lines traversing the very things they were delineating, multiplying lines betraying internal struggles and discordances but also unexpected resonances, unforeseeable chances, and unstable alliances. The theories of these times, theories imbued with tensions, unstable and mobile, transformative, were sometimes deliberately blind to their environ- ment and in this very blindness offering insight into the political and social stakes of the debates they were taking part in or refusing to be a part of; and sometimes were an involuntary and oblique offering to the system they were passionately opposing. Theoretical writing made difference in an unpredictable way with the
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