Hronského tvorba perom maďarskej literárnej kritiky

Author(s): Marta Zahradníková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1-2/2005

The paper studies the last novel of J. C. Hronský Svet na Trasovisku in the context of the Slovak literature and also in the context of the previous authors’ works to find out how the text of the novel differentiated from reality. Research of the text and other resources show that Hronský’s picture of the war events and the Slovak National Uprising was based on his personal life experience, his humiliation and his proffesional degradation. That is why his picture differentiates from those ones made by the authors who participated in preparation of the SNU and who were active participants of it. Hronský was a loyal citizen of the Slovak State but he was never active in politics. All his efforts as an author and in the Matica Slovenská aimed to flourishing the Slovak literature and culture and thus to enable them to participate in inter-literal European communication. The novel Svet na Trasovisku and previous Hronský’s works are based on symbolic principles. He surrounded events of the period, relationships and characters by symbols and thus he created the story of many meanings. The main idea of the novel is national idea connected with a christian one in the last picture of the novel which is a way from darkness of the war period to the light of hope and trust in Slovak nation also after the war period. He expressed the war period indirectly through reactions and actions of the characters. Their dual polarization was the result of their relationship to the state and of their confessional difference and nationality. The author wanted to emphasize moral values of the characters and his own struggle for national and ecumenical unification of the Slovaks.

ZAMBOR, Ján: STAVEBNOSŤ BÁSNE

Author(s): Ľubica Hroncová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2019

KRATKA PROZA

Author(s): Dušan Benka,Nikola Kitanović,Miroslav Demak / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 282-283/1982

Short prose: Dušan Benka - DIRIGENT; Nikola Kitanović - DIRIGENT; Miroslav Demak - ROĐENDAN.

Vićazoslav Hronjec - PONOVO O NAŠOJ PROZI; Nikola N. Guzijan - SKICE ZA PORAZ

Author(s): Vicazoslav Hronjec,Nikola N. Guzijan / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 282-283/1982

An essay written by Vićazoslav Hronjec - PONOVO O NAŠOJ PROZI (AGAIN ABOUT OUR PROSE); A poem written by Nikola N. Guzijan - SKICE ZA PORAZ (SKETCHES FOR DEFEAT).

The economies of interlingual intercultural transfer: Towards a complex picture of translators and interpreters in Slovakia

Author(s): Martin Djovčoš,Ivana Hostová,Emília Perez,Pavol Šveda / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The article focuses on agents facilitating translation and interpreting and provides a sociological probe into the particulars of interlingual intercultural transfer in Slovakia on the background of political and economic specifics of the region. The observed tendencies seem to point to the fact that in the past half century, despite the changes brought about by the Velvet Revolution, the social standing of translators and interpreters has been less determined by officially proclaimed ideologies than economic forces. From the legislative point of view, language policies have had a significant impact on the phenomena in question.

Funkcie a edukačné aspekty architektonického motívu chalupy v ilustráciách Vincenta Hložníka k zamagurským rozprávkam

Author(s): Slavomír Capek / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2016

The motif of architecture is a common element in illustrations for children. It is widely held that it serves only a decorative function in the illustration’s background. Related to particular texts, however, the motif of architecture may bear also other, additional functions. Such functions are examined in the illustrations to Fairy Tales of Zamagurie by Vincent Hložník. The close connection of architectural motif with the text of these fairy tales allows for more accurate identification of literary and non-literary sources of inspiration. In the introductory chapter of the study, a semantic overlapping of the illustration’s function with the function of real architecture reflected in some aspects in the illustrated architectural motifs is analysed. The Fairy Tales of Zamagurie belong to the genre of Slovak magic folk fairy tales, which specifically affects their artistic rendition. Their imaginative, symbolic and magic aspects influence overall rendering of the architectural motif. Their functions and educational implications are briefly defined in the final chapters.

Kalinčiak v Uhorsku – motív ako signál kontextu

Author(s): Anikó Dušíková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2020

Reconfiguration of Slovak Romanticism, its openness towards the model of literature and art as it was formulated by German philosopher Friedrich Schlegel (1772 – 1829) in the early 19th century, and the unambiguous position of the prose writer Ján Kalinčiak (1822 – 1871) as an author of Romanticism together form space which can be interrelated on the basis of common aesthetic principles to the characteristic features of the works writtern by authors of Hungarian literary Romanticism of the Schlegelian type. This provides space for research into the particularities of the (assumed) interliterary/interlinguistic dialogue. It shows that despite the isolationist form of the foreign-language public spaces of cultures and literatures in Hungary in the 1830s and 1840s the way Ján Kalinčiak and Mihály Vörösmarty handled two selected motifs (wilt and blood revenge) in their texts can be interpreted as a manifestation of the ongoing yet no longer visible process of exchanging information. Also, they can be seen as another proof of the fact that the particularities of the Schlegelian model of Romanticism had a noticeable influence on forming Slovak literature at that time.

Socioštylistická analýza románu Dominika Dána „Noc temných klamstiev“ – náčrt metódy

Author(s): Daniela Slančová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2020

The study analyzes the linguistic means representing social phenomena, structures and processes in Dominik Dán’ s criminal novel Noc temných klamstiev (2009; Night of Dark Deceptions). Methodologically, it is based on the concept of interactive stylistics, specifically its socio-stylistic subsystem. The main aim of the analyzed linguistic means in the structure of the novel is (i) to characterize the setting, characters, situations and relations; (ii) to indicate the more complex stylistic qualities, mainly the contrast with the often humorous solution between textual tension and detension; and (iii) to be a part of irony as the main author’s attitude towards reality.

Princíp komiky v komiksoch Juraja Martišku

Author(s): Peter Karpinský / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2019

The paper examines the intrinsic nature of humour in the comic book The Worries of King Michael by Juraj Martiška. The paper draws on the definitions of comic book by H. Bergson and V. Borecký and argues that hyperbole is a key compositional element on which Martiška’s comic books depends. By virtue of this, Martiška relays moral failures of his characters. Owing to the use of various forms of hyperbole (facial expressions, gesture, posture), Martiška’s comic book induces comic effects even in stories with non-humorous situation. Furthermore, the paper examines situational comedy as another compositional element that imparts humour to Martiška’s comic books. Situational comedy is based on a moment of surprise; on a disappointed expectation occasioned by challenging stereotypes; a break in continuity; and on the making of contrast between the expected and the “real”. Finally, the paper arrives at a conclusion that the analysed comic book by Juraj Martiška is thought-provoking due to both the compositional elements through which humour is conveyed and the value and/or a moral lesson that the story implies.

Tradičná aj invenčná monika kompaníková

Author(s): Viera Žemberová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2019

The article deals with an interpretation of current literary works of Monika Kompaníková, a Slovak author of literature for children. In particular, the article zooms in on the proses Piata loď, Hlbokomorské rozprávky, Koniec sveta a čo je za ním, and Kde je Ester N? In addition, the article includes a brief interpretation of an experimental book project called The Toddler Punk. Ťulinove hudobné príbehy, in which M. Kompaníková participated. This article also deals with the unconventional movement of M. Kompaníkova’s conveyed through literary types and genres, as well as her willingness to tackle topical issues of contemporary society. To this end, the author brings to the reader’s consciousness her personal concept of values, meaning and function of the literary text. Her literary work lends itself to a changing image of the young reader and fits the contemporary society.

Podoby spracovania jednej autorskej rozprávky

Author(s): Eva Vitézová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2020

This study deals with the comparison of a literary and theatrical version of the fairy tale The Four Elves and the Fairy written by Ján Uličiansky. Ján Uličiansky is a contemporary Slovak author who is not only writing texts for children and youth but he is also a playwright and a radio dramaturge. The interpretation of the author’s fairy tale offers two views on the same text that has various sign forms, since the text was also adapted for theatre. Such a view on the above mentioned two forms of one text offers the reader different parallels that are elaborated on in this study.

MARKOVIČ, P. (2020): Slovenský literárny klasicizmus a preromantizmus.

Author(s): Nina Kollárová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2020

Book review of: MARKOVIČ, P. (2020): Slovenský literárny klasicizmus a preromantizmus. Prešov: Vydavateľstvo Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove, 144 s. ISBN 978-80-555-2496-2.

NIEPOKOJĄCA ZMYSŁOWOŚĆ. KOBIETY W DZIENNIKACH PODRÓŻY GUSTAVA ZECHENTERA-LASKOMERSKIEGO I MARTINA KUKUČÍNA

Author(s): Aleksandra Hudymač / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

The Orient (as well as the Balkans) is one of the deepest rooted images of “the Other” in European culture. Contact with the Other open the possibility to set the limits of one’s own identity, but also create the opportunity to formulate a number of stereotypes about that otherness. One of the central stereotypes is the myth of eastern/southern femininity and sensuality. In other words, one of the central points of the phenomenon of “orientalism”, as described by Edward Said, is the figure of a woman dangerously sensual and dissolute or – on the other hand – deprived of her femininity. The attitude towards oriental and southern beauties anticipates, on the basis of pars pro toto, the attitude towards the Orient and the Balkans in general. In this relation, like in the lens, a series of colonizing aspirations of the West is focused. Both Slovak writers approach the East and South just as representatives of Western European civilization. The reports of their journeys in their journals confirm Said’s findings that the ideas of Western European intellectuals about the Orient and the Balkans had little to do with the reality of the East and South.

Jazyk ako básnická téma Bohuslava Tablica

Author(s): Lenka Rišková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 3/2020

The question of encouraging love for one´s own language as an essential identifying sign of a nation is one of the significant subjects in the poetry of Bohuslav Tablic (1769 – 1832), who did a lot to help stimulate the interest in the original language of the Slovak population as well as in its literary form. Although his literary language is usually superficially described as Czech, it is not accurate as he himself promoted the project of the common literary language for both Slovak and Czech language communities, where Czech and Slovak elements would be applied equally. The choice of his literary language was supported by the three-hundred-year-old tradition of Czech language (also in the Slovak environment), which he regarded as one of the proofs of its full develoment. The analyses of his poetry show that he considered it to be a suitable platform for reflecting on the problems in the society at that time including the issue of language. There are a number of poems in which he appealed to the Slovak society to realize the importance of the language for its life in the multilinguistic Habsburg monarchy. He often called for study of the national language, for its development and refinement mainly through its active use in literary production.

Pierwiastki folklorystyczne w słowackiej poezji miłosnej okresu baroku – wybrane zagadnienia

Author(s): Monika Sagało / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4-5/2019

The article focuses on selected folklore elements in Slavic Baroque poetry. It opens with an overview of the historical background, followed by a discussion and exemplification of folklore elements (among others: characteristic names, motifs of plants and animals, situations presented in texts, motifs of heart and brawl) which appear in anonymous Baroque works coming from two collected volumes.

Међукњижевне везе у прози словачког аутора Павела Виликовског из угла рецепције и превода

Author(s): Marina SIMAK SPEVAKOVA / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 169/2019

Two main research strains have been noted in the reception of Pavel Vilikovsky’s work. The first one is centered around the thematic-stylistic and narratological aspects of postmodernism. The second strain, which appeared in the mid-1990s, focuses on the function of language deconstruction, widely observed both in the structure and the semantics of Pavel Vilikovky’s works and observed especially in their reception in a foreign literary context. The reception of intertextuality in the Slovak literary context has contributed to viewing Vilikovsky’s prose as a special type of an “autobiographical memory“ (Peter Zajec). The translations of Vilikovsky’s works into various foreign languages play an important role in developing new intertextual relations. The Serbian translations of the intertext in the novella Koň na poschodí, slepec vo Vrábľoch, the novel Posledný kôň Pompejí and the collections of short stories entitled Krutý strojvodca and Čarovný papagáj a iné gýče reveal new metatextual processes in translation and illustrate how the new intertextuality redraws the boundaries of the metatextuality of translation. The intertexts in the Serbian translations of Vilikovsky’s works have contributed to establishing a new metatextual connection between the Slovak and Serbian works of literature, clearly exemplified by the lines from three Serbian poems about a Slovak smith, which appear in the translation of the novel Posledný kôň Pompejí.

Polsko-ruskie spory o historię i status „wiary greckiej” w rejonie Zakarpacia w piśmiennictwie historyczno-polemicznym w XVII-XVIII wieku

Author(s): Jan Stradomski / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 01/2020

This article pertains to the information about the religious situation and church unions in Transcarpathia area. The analysis of sources shows almost a overall lack of interest in these matters in historical and religious literature in the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita). An attempt to explain the reasons why the area of Transcarpathia did not interest Polish and Ruthenian polemical and historical writings in the 17th – 18th century.

Joannicius Georgius Basilovits (1742 – 1821) and his Picture of Monastic Life (An editorial Note)

Author(s): Ľubomíra Wilšinská / Language(s): English Issue: 04/2020

In this edition, we provide the first Slovak academic traslation of the Basilovits´s work Imago vitae monasticae (Cassoviae 1802) that is considered a masterpiece in the filed of his ascetical work. Critical translation from Latin into Slovak and original transliterated Latin text are preceded by an analysis of the ascetical work with an emphasis on the linguistic aspect. Philological research of a relatively extensive text and dealing with several specifics of the source and target language pointed to translation complexity in terms of theological concepts and facts in the ecclesiastical and religious context. In our study, we focused mainly on the language of the Neo-Latin text from the point of view of orthography, morphology, syntax, and lexis. An important part is also the apparatus of sources that inspired Basilovis when writing his work. Based on the research of the source, it is necessary to emphasize the fact that the work is a kind of culmination of the author´s ascetical literature about Basilian monastic tradition in our territory. It should be added that Basilovits was the first author paying such detailed attention to Eastern monasticism in Slovakia and the entire Subcarpathian region.

Timrava – dublul energetic al Boženei Slančíková

Author(s): Dagmar Maria Anoca / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2017

In this paper, the author tries to present the relationship between Božena Slančíková's two moods as reflected in her private hypostasis and the one as a writer, pointing at the way in which Timrava's energetic double manages to share her profound experience with others.

Sociolect și idiolect în nuvela „Hrdinovia” (Eroii) a scriitoarei Slovace Božena Slančíková Timrava

Author(s): Marilena Felicia Luță (Țiprigan) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2017

Based on the idea that the sociolect is a linguistic variety specific of a particular social class, which function aims at both self-identifying and identifying social entities, which means that language becomes an epiphenomenon, a symptom associated with society, ensuring the cohesion among members (Dolník), while the idiolect refers to the linguistic specificity of a writer, which represents the idealization and abstraction of specific language marks, by means of which language becomes a heterofenomen, a symptom of the subjective vision of the world, mediated by the writer and shared by the others, ensuring the connection between the members of society, we have analyzed Timrava's short story The Heroes from the linguistic perspective.