We are happy to announce the publication of the edited volume Recycling in Literature and Culture, edited by Teresa Dobrzyńska and Raya Kucheva. The book features contributions by scholars working at the Institute for Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Literary Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences.
CONTENTS
Foreword – Teresa Dobrzyńska
RECYCLING AND RELATED CONCEPTS IN CULTURE, ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Critical Review of the Literature on the Recycling – Grzegorz Grochowski
THE CONCEPT OF THE RECYCLING AND ITS SEMANTIC FIELD
Recycling and the Byzantine-Slavonic Medieval Culture – Regina Koycheva
Свежий взгляд на мир Виктор Шкловский и Дзига Вертов – Галина Георгиева
The Adoption and Use of Term “Operator” in Bulgarian Post-Totalitarian Theory as a Marker of the Peculiarities of Our Contemporary Conceptions of the Political – Georgi Iliev
LITERARY RECYCLING
Adaptations of Older Texts in 14th and 15th c. Burgundian Writings. Inspirations – Implementations – Functions – Maciej Abramowicz
Рециклирование архаических культурных моделей для достижения модерной цели – Христо Ботев и общий европейский процесс национального самоопределения – Александр Панов
The Indje Case – Battle of Plots – Valeria Stefanova
Autorecycling in Literature: Motives and Effects – Andrey Tashev
An Unromantic Journey of Stanisław Barańczak. Contrafactual Recycling of Müller-Scubert’s Winterreisе – Jerzy Kandziora
GARBAGE AND ITS CONNOTATIONS. MANUFACTURING THE WASTE MATERIAL
“The Heaps of Garbage […] Enveloped Every Living Thing in the Cotton Ball of Fetor” – Jacek Leociak
Books of Complains and Applications as Ready-Made Objects – Grzegorz Grochowski
Cultural Recycling: From the Secondary Raw Materials to the Recycle Bin – Kalina Zahova
“Materials Derived From Recovery, or Those Threads That Are Unpicked” – Magdalena Szczypiorska-Chrzanowska
RECYCLING AND THE CRITICAL THOUGHT
Recycling Abused: Tadeusz Różewicz’s Bitter Remarks on Contemporary Civilisation Practices in His Poem The Recycling – Teresa Dobrzyńska