... sect: self-centredness and self-sufficiency, conservatism, poor pragmatic-oriented education, patriarchal value system. The 1840s, however, were particularly important, literally formative, for the entire history of Bulgarian literature and culture. They marked the waning of the popular religious tract as a dominating presence on the meagre literary scene. They also marked the first appearance of works of fiction (mostly ... : i.e. facts were facts and sometimes took the shape of extreme circumstances verging on wonders. It does look like a paradox, but in the early history of contempora...

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... Cultures contains varied accounts on the debate of the politics of modern museums. Instead of merely displaying objects, ideally, museum exhibits today draw on recent and evolved scholarship in art, literature, and social history to offer broad interpretations about the origins, meaning and value of objects, as well as theories about the thoughts and behavior of the people who made them ... :30) For Alpers, the ways in which museums display objects is important, yet in general, she feels all museum displays fall short despite attempts at true representation of cultures. She notes that ma...

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