Six Theses on Two Contemporary Literary Histories

The article mainly examines two three-volume literary-historical works – “Bulgarian Literature from the Liberation to the First World War” by Milena Kirova and “Literacy and Literature in Bulgaria IX – XXI Century” by Valeri Stefanov et. al., including two more volumes “Bulgarian Literature in the XXI Century (2000 – 2022)” again by M. Kirova – as large-scale and presentable models for making national literary histories in this globalist century. The main goal of the study is to derive six theses – on overcoming easy and unilinear historicism, on the different heterogeneity of methodological paradigms, on the specificity in structure and languages, on the changing relation to the canon and the periphery, on new interpretations or divergent readings, on the “illustrative” plan as a supplementary text for reading, which clearly show the correlations between the tactical pushback from traditions and the partial gravitation towards the new taste of the times.