480092 SE BA Seminar on Literature (2020S)

Does the appearance of the city in the modern Bulgarian poetry of the 20th century mean a radical transformation of its theme? Did the poem by Nikolai Liliev "Gradăt" (The City) from 1911 have a manifest character? Had it not inspired the manifest essay by Ivan Radoslavov? Did the shape of the city serve only as a background for the representation or did it itself become an object of representation and reflection? How does the "cityscape" in the work of Javorov, Debeljanov, Liliev, Em. Popdimitrov, N. Rajnov, Iv. Mirchev, At. Dalchev, El. Bagryana, Chr. Smirnenski, G. Milev, N. Marangozov, Jana Jazova on the other lyrical figures in the respective texts? Would it be possible to talk about a concrete conception of the city in modern Bulgarian poetry from the beginning of the 20th century to the end of the 1920s, a conception that deepens, enriches, develops over time?
To summarize the individual stages of the development of modern Bulgarian poetry, to separate and analyze its distinctive features, to fix and deal with the significant changes in the cityscape of modern Bulgarian poetry through the conceptually thought-out or spontaneously emerging form of the city