Eminescu’s The Morning Star in Banat Bulgarian Literature – Between Margins and Centers

December 10, 2025

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Name: Svetlana KARADZHOVA
Affiliation: БАН-Институт за литература, Institute of Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Contact: Svetlana.karadzhova@gmail.com

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Citation Recommendation: Karadzhova, Svetlana. “Eminescu’s The Morning Star in Banat Bulgarian Literature – Between Margins and Centers”. Synthesis, 4 / 2025: 268-281.
Pages: 268-281
Language: English
URL:https://synthesis.ro/pdf/2025/4/11_Karadzhova.pdf

Abstract

The community of Bulgarian Catholics in Banat is an example of cultural synchronization through translations of works by Romanian and Bulgarian authors into the Banat version of the Bulgarian literary language. The study presents one of the translations of Mihai Eminescu’s most famous poem, „Luceafărul” (“The Morning Star”) in Banat, focusing on the role of translation in juxtaposing the marginal literature of the Banat Bulgarians with Romanian and Bulgarian literature. What is created in the periphery in relation to the centre becomes a centre in itself. Texts that construct their own cultural space through the interpenetration of different models of describing the world through speech create the conditions for the emergence of a new centre. The theoretical model that represents this process is the philosophy of pragmatism developed by Charles S. Peirce. His semiotic theory captures processes and their changes in motion, is flexible, and offers a valuable terminological apparatus.  

Key-words: Banat Bulgarians, Banat, Mihai Eminescu, Star Beshenov, Hyperion

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