Bulgarian literary modernism. The problem of time and identity

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Keywords:

modernism, concept of time, national identity, modernity, counter-modernity

Abstract

This article applies an inductive method to the phenomenon of Bulgarian literary modernism; this method aims not to check the validity of already-existing models, but to create a new theory of its own. The path it follows is from the bottom up, from the text to the generalization, from the margins to the center. A diachronic and synchronic cross section of Bulgarian literary modernism has been made, while many of the questions the article discusses have been raised for the first time and are examined in a new light.

 

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Author Biography

  • Ivan Hristov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

    Ivan Hristov is an Associate Professor, PhD at the Institute for Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; his work focuses on literary circles, publications and polemics in Bulgarian modernism within a European context.

Published

2025-09-18