Spätosť jazyka východoslovenských katolíckych tlačí 18. Storočia s celoslovenskou písomnou tradíciou

Author(s): Konstantin V. Lifanov / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 01/2017

The article analyzes the language of three Catholic books of the 18th century, published in Kosice, in a confrontation with the language of Catholic texts created in other regions of Slovakia. The analysis shows that the language of Catholic East Slovakian literature developed in the all-Slovak written tradition, although it may have some features, which are indicating the region of creation, but not changing its general nature.

Libreto ako náčrt dejín – Štefan Drug a expozícia Literatúra medzi dvoma vojnami (1968)

Author(s): Ján Gavura / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 5/2017

In 1968 a literary critic Štefan Drug was commissioned to take a part in an exhibition covering Slovak literature since the beginning to contemporary times. He prepared a period of interwar literature which had been a matter of numerous deformations during 1950s and partly 1960s, however, he presented the period with respect to its variety and aesthetic achievements so, eventually, it became a precise and concise outline of literary history, probably the most precise one at that time. Drug used to his advantage the form of an exhibition so he can make the presentation not only vivid but also flexible with latest available sources of research. In the outline he was able to return some authors banned from official literature and correct the image of others that had been altered in favour of political engagement of the Communist establishment. Even nowadays, fifty years from the exhibition itself, Drug’s outline is an example of deep understanding of the Slovak literature written in the interwar period, with only minor corrections needed.

(Ne)tradièné, (ne)humorné a (ne)špecifické v Rozkošových Prozaických textoch

Author(s): Patrik Šenkár / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2017

The contribution analyzes the importance of tradition and humor as the basic foundations of nationality in the Lowland. It points to the thematic diversity of the different prototypes: from the erotically tuned novel to the tragicomically understood story of simple people. It echoes some experimental experimentation in the background of everyday protagonists' actions. Its interesting part is the texts relating to drivers and driving. The opposition of the village / city, man / woman, close / far is determined by the regional aspect and the principle due to various encounters. Effective descriptions are alternated with attractive dynamic thematic gradients. This is also the author's specificity in the development of Slovak literature in Romania. The basic reflection bridge of the contribution is the individual prose of a Slovak author from Romania – Pavel Rozkoš.

KRITICKÉ ČÍTANIE LITERÁRNEJ TVORBY VÍŤAZOSLAVA HRONCA Z ASPEKTU JEJ INTERTEXTUÁLNEHO CHARAKTERU

Author(s): Adam Svetlík / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2018

This article analyzes the monograph Intertextuality in Viťazoslav Hronec’s literary work (Podoby intertextuality v tvorbe Viťazoslava Hronca) by Marina Šimáková Spevákova, in which she interpreted Hronec’s literary work systematically from the perspective of intertextuality. The emphasis is on the theoretical and methodological problematics of intertextuality itself, i.e. her explicit and implicit nature and the theory of citation, which is effectively applied in Šimáková Speváková’s work. Parallel to these theoretical problematics, the article discusses Šimáková Speváková’s method for her thorough and nuanced analysis, which is based on Hronec’s literary tendencies in the context of a change in European literature, especially through the transition period from modern to postmodern literature in the second half of the twentieth century. Through an analysis of Hronec’s poetic, prose and autoreflexive work, Šimáková Speváková manages to prove to a large extent her initial thesis according to which intertextuality is the basic creative method, the semantic and ontological principle, and also the aesthetic norm in Hronec‘s literary work.

Na pograniczu pamięci współczesnych – (nie)pamięć o przeszłości słowackich Węgrów w słowackiej literaturze XXI wieku

Author(s): Anna Słowikowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 42/2018

The aim of this article is to analyse the portrayal of Hungarians in the context of the Second World War in twenty-first-century Slovak literature on the example of the novels Stalo sa prveho septembra (alebo inokedy) (It happened on the first of September (or whenever)) by Pavol Rankov (2008) and Nedeľne šachy s Tisom (Sunday chess with Tiso) by Silvester Lavrík (2016). The article argues that the two novels demonstrate two types of forgetting described by Paul Connerton: “repressive erasure” and “forgetting that is constitutive in the formation of a new identity”. I analyse how these types of forgetting functioned in Slovak society, and conclude that the question of the Hungarian minority is becoming less of a taboo in contemporary Slovak literature, even if it still remains at the peripheries of Slovak memory about the Second World War.

Koncepcije književne historije Dioniza Đurišina

Author(s): Nermina Delić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 2/2011

Dionyz Durišin, a Slovak literary theorist and the world famous comparitivist, developed his conception of a literary history in different historic and social circumstances from those we witness nowadays. Therefore, it represents a challenge for recognition and separation of its actual values –interliterary communities and interliterary centrism as a result of a mutual connection between more national literatures, with reference to a suitable literary – historic units. What can be found particularly interesting are open possibilities in researching mutual relationships between the Slavs, and people and communities from the Middle Europe which are in a large measure connected with historical, political and cultural heritage for ages.

HÁJKOVÁ, Dagmar – HORÁK, Pavel – KESSLER, Vojtěch – MICHELA, Miroslav (eds.): SLÁVA REPUBLICE! OFICIÁLNÍ SVÁTKY A OSLAVY V MEZIVÁLEČNÉM ČESKOSLOVENSKU

Author(s): Katarína Cupanová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2019

VOJTECH, Miloslav: SLOVENSKÁ KLASICISTICKÁ A PREROMANTICKÁ LITERATÚRA

Author(s): Libuša Bednáriková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2019

Modernizmus v slovenskej literatúre 1900 – 1948

Author(s): Katarína Badžgoňová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2019

Bilješke o narodnom životu u romanima Martina Kukučina

Author(s): Nevena Škrbić Alempijević / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 16/2004

This article discusses the way and the mode in which fiction can be used as a source of ethnographic data, using the novels of the Slovak writer Martin Kukučin (1860-1928) as a case study. Novels by Kukučin can be used as a source of ethnographic data to Croatian ethnologists because the author spent almost half of his life living among Croats. For thirteen years he lived in the village of Selca on the Island of Brač, while he spent the next fifteen year among the immigrants from the island of Brač in Chile. He based two of his novels on his experiences there: Kuća u strani, which is located in a patriarchal, somewhat idealized rural community on the Island of Brač, and Mati zove, in which he described the life of Croatian, mostly Dalmatian immigration community in the Chilean county of Magellanas. Both novels are filled with descriptions of different segments of traditional culture (notes on traditional economy, clothing, traditional architecture, customs, magical rites, etc.). The importance of folk heritage in the work of Kukučin is emphasized in such a way that his starting points can be compared with the principles which Antun Radić, his contemporary, has introduced into folk research. In creating a model for his literary, fictional societies, the author frequently employs traditional worldviews and concepts, and especially emphasizes the distinctive characteristics which one community carries in relation to Others, as well as the conflicts which exist inside the community itself, between different strata in society. Novels by Kukučin can be interesting for ethnologists for a number of reasons. For example, in Kuća u strani, he describes: cultural differences between different groups inside the village community, between Us and Them, everyday life of village people which Kukučin includes in his novel; the organization of village family, unwritten rules and moral principles followed by the community. In the novel Mati zove he tackles the following issues: integration of Dalmatian immigrants to the apparently homogenized Croatian community in Chile, assignment of collective character and mentality to all the members of a given community. He also includes memories of homeland in the form of ethnographic description, where he emphasizes the notion of the undiminished value of rural heritage; a conflict but also an inter-fusion of two different ways of life seen from the point of view of the immigrants: which elements of their own culture have they preserved in the immigration, which new elements have they adopted in the new country. However, in accepting Kukučin's novels as sources of ethnographic data, we have to bear in mind that they were written by a person whose cultural background was quite different; many paragraphs signify a certain intercession between the two cultures. In his works on Brač and the immigrant Dalmatians, sometimes consciously and sometimes not, he includes data from another traditional culture the one he originated from.

Staré i nové tematické aspekty jestvovania človeka v kvázitriptychu Pavla Rozkoša

Author(s): Patrik Šenkár / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2018

The contribution analyzes three broadly conceived prose works of Pavel Rozkoš, a representative of contemporary Slovak literature in Romania. Based on the basic biographical data, it points to the author's general creative method. It characterizes not only the themes, motifs or artistic practices of these prose, but also points to the specific features of prototypes. The objective-subjective interpretation method highlights the typical sujet moments that are significant in the aspect of the author's idiolect. Individual descriptions, human fates and the often inexorable history of the microregion give this prismatic form a certain specific color, right in the wider corpus. The home / foreign opposition is emphasized in parallel by the fate of the protagonists, which actually protect their real, but also dreamed Lowland. And they are actually timeless.

Osobnosť v službách literatúry – literatúra ako žriedlo tvorivého človeka (aj v premenách času)

Author(s): Patrik Šenkár / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2019

The contribution is dedicated to the jubilant literary scientist doc. PhDr. Rudolf Chmel, DrSc., on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. It analyzes his versatile literary-scientific (theoretical, historical, critical) publications on the pages of Slovak Literature, the magazine of the Institute of Slovak Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, where he has been employed since 1961 (also for a time as his director). By means of an interpretative and bibliographic method, it searches his metatexts, addressing contemporary, but always up-to-date literary “events” and theoretical questions from the aspect of integration-differentiation syntheses or interliterary contexts.

Ґендерний аспект сучасної словацької жіночої прози

Author(s): Irina Romanchuk / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 01/2018

The study discloses the main trends of contemporary female prose, including its gender aspect, ascertains the influence of Western feminist movements, isolates specific gender dominants and designates the postmodern writing style in the contemporary Slovak writers, such as Jana Bodnarova, Jana Yuranova, Svetlana Zhuhova and Monika Kompanikova.

Images of remote countries in the literatures of Central and Eastern Europe. On the theoretical starting points of intercultural comparative studies

Author(s): Miloš Zelenka,Anton Pokrivčák / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

In Central and Eastern Europe, the research into interliterary relations traditionally drew on national concerns emerging naturally from the proximity of a great number of neighbouring nation states with their distinct cultures, or national minorities living within a majority culture. Yet the contacts or relationships with structurally and typologically different cultures have remained outside of critical attention. Studying them requires not only some knowledge of the extraliterary context in which those cultures are situated, but a methodologically different approach as well, such as is used in postcolonial or decolonial theory, Orientalism, imagology, etc. The paper draws attention to the problems connected with comparisons using these approaches, especially imagology, as their main methodological tool. At the same time, it aims at finding out how such approaches contribute to the understanding of cultural, ethnic, biological or material “otherness” (especially through stereotyped imagotypical structures), and whether it is possible to transfer, for example, the imagological concepts historically created in a certain context to a cultural area of a different civilization, and use them to analyze the nature of the literary.

Regionalizmus ako „obsah žitia“ v slovenských časopisoch rumunského kráľovstva.

Author(s): Patrik Šenkár / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2019

The contribution points to the importance of regionalism in Slovak diasporas in Low-land, with special regard to the Romanian context. It is based on the theoretical ideas of both world and Slovak cultural thinkers (Compagnon, Wollman, Čepan, Miko, Šte-fanko, Timura) – and, of course, the aspect of the problem. It connects regionalism with the traditions and specifics of that identity. It emphasizes the importance of re-gionalism as a social phenomenon. First, it analyzes the issue from the position of historical context, later it focuses on specific interpretations of selected microproses. The cardinal center of the paper is an objective and subjective analysis of publicisti-cally tuned texts, first published in periodicals of the Slovaks in Romania during the inter-war period, later also in the book entitled Interviews with the Slaninka and Košťok fathers. These origins are still significant evidence of regionalism in the Lowland, too. The contribution also contains more detailed specifications of the aforementioned aspects.

Zaprášené pusty a hory, kde rastie drôt.

Author(s): Marta Fülöpová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2019

The paper focuses on the presentation of geographic regions connected to the na-tional heteroimages of the Slovaks and Hungarians in the 19th century texts of prose. It tries to describe the features which are associated with the image of the nation based on the geographical region. Stereotypical Slovak geographical regions in Hungarian literature can be considered to be hills and villages, the lowland and marginally, the city. The results (alongside with the geographical facts) confirm that the dominant way of creating national images was mutual exclusion.

Slovak Realia in the Czech Translation of the Novel The House of the Deaf Man by Peter Krištúfek in Contrast to its English Translation

Author(s): Viktoria Kniazkova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The article deals with two groups of realia in the Slovak novel by Peter Krištúfek (1973-2018). The first one are those concerning Slovak traditional culture, which are used in a form of theatrical scenery by the author. The second one are those connected with Slovak identity, as the writer understands it. The article offers the comparative analysis of the Slovak text with its translations into Czech and English. The conclusion is made about different translators’ strategies according to the translation purpose and extralinguistic circumstances and the necessity of the Czech translations of Slovak fiction despite the unique closeness of these two Slavic languages.

Doświadczenie migracji we współczesnej prozie słowackiej (na przykładzie tekstów Zuski Kepplovej)

Author(s): Rafał Majerek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

The article explores the problem of migration prose in Slovak literature and focuses on some aspects of Zuska Kepplová’s books: Buchty švabachom (Buns in the Schwabacher) and 57 km od Taškentu (57 km from Tashkent). Some characters of Kepplová’s debut prose, young immigrants from Central Europe living in their new countries, although realising their inferior status of “the Other”, attempt to take adaptive actions and get closer to local culture, while others, on the contrary, close up in the enclave of migrants, refusing to confront the new situation. The majority of the protagonists live in a state of limbo and indeterminacy, and their identity can be described as a hybrid identity.

Slovo o aktuálnych témach a otázkach výskumu literatúry pre deti a mládež

Author(s): / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2018

Obraz konfesií a kultúr v katolíckej kázňovej próze na Slovensku v 18. storočí

Author(s): Erika Brtáňová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 01/2019

The sermonic prose represents a significant part of the 18th century literary works. It was in this century when the Slovak Catholic preachers started publishing sermons in the native (Slovak) language. The excerpts of the occasional sermonic speeches of the contemporary prominent preachers were made accessible to the wider public by a priest and a literary historian Michal Rešetka in the two-volume anthology Kázňe prihodné (translates as Occasional Sermons) (I. 1831, II. 1834). The texts of the anthology do not clarify only the rhetorical strategy of the individual preachers, but also inform – though some of them rather fragmentarily – about their respective views on the current issues of the religious and cultural life. Several preachers stress the negative phenomena of the religious life: except the disruption of the religious unity, they thematize the mutual disagreements and differences of the Christian community. From the positive influences, the participation of Church in the upbringing and education of youth is highlighted the most (particularly in the sermons dedicated to Joseph Calasanz). In the sermons, the European cultures are not brought back as wholes, but through individual personalities and their morally good or bad deeds. The religious circumstances are reflected upon separately by the author of an occasional sermonic speech Duchovne kazaní (A Spiritual Sermon) (1746) who compares the Roman-Catholic Church to a boat sailing on a rough sea with both the Roman Catholics and the “worshippers of the Greek and Russian faith”, i.e. “Russniaks” on board.