Between Sacred and Secular. The Intertextual Potential of Bagryana - Foucault

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https://doi.org/10.60056/CCL.2026.12.118-127

Keywords:

Bulgarian modernism, Bagryana, Foucault, Christianity, Antiquity, postmodernism

Abstract

The article presents a literary comparative analysis of a poem from the poetry collection The Eternal and the Holy – The Novice, which will be analysed in light of the problematic opposition between abstinence and the constructed archetype of the abstainer, on the one hand, and the surrender of the traumatised modernist consciousness to the impulses of the flesh in contrast with the spiritual belonging to the Christian canon, on the other. The subject of our study will be the complex mental interaction between dwelling in the spiritual and physical parametres of Christianity, on the one hand, and the temptation of secular life, and the allure of the subjective romantic excitement, on the other.

Author Biography

  • Boris Borisov, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"

    Boris BORISOV is a PhD student in Bulgarian Literature at the Faculty of Slavic Philology at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. He graduated with a degree in Bulgarian Philology. His academic interests are related to Bulgarian modernism in parallel with European modernism, literary policies of identity, and avantgardism. He is the author of a Bachelor’s degree thesis and a Master's degree thesis related to the Bulgarian poets Elisaveta Bagryana and Binyo Ivanov.

    ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0918-447X

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Published

2026-06-24

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Vol. 12 (2026)

Section

II. Miscellanea

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Between Sacred and Secular. The Intertextual Potential of Bagryana - Foucault. (2026). Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum, 12, 118-127. https://doi.org/10.60056/CCL.2026.12.118-127