PODOBY MESTSKÉHO A PRÍRODNÉHO PROSTREDIA V PRÓZACH MÁRIUSA KOPCSAYA, MONIKY KOMPANÍKOVEJ A PETRA KRIŠTÚFKA

• Authors: Badžgoňová Katarína

Title variants

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Forms of the urban and natural environments in the proses of Márius Kopcsay, Monika Kompaníková and Peter Krištúfek

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The paper deals with the relation between the urban and natural/rural environments in the contemporary Slovak prose with regard to Slovak literary tradition and reflecting on the current changes of a town as exemplified by texts of three authors M. Kopcsay, M. Kompaníká and P. Krištúfek. Slovak literature was dominated by the anti-urban solution to the antinomy of the urban and natural environments – the negative depiction of a town along with idealization of the natural environment, which are still in use. The texts reflect on the transformations of a contemporary town and show that the ideal of natural life is an urban construct to a certain extent, and they challenge the traditional motif of a journey from a town back to the country and thematise the disappearing boundaries between the urban and natural environments by using the motifs of the uncontrollably expanding urban environment, peri-urbanization as well as the motifs of urban wilderness. At the same time, by blending foreign elements the texts employ heterogeneity and ambiguity typical of the urban environment.

Keywords

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SLOVAK PROSE; URBAN TEXTS

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 67
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 139 – 156

Contributors

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Badžgoňová Katarína

• Ústav slovenskej literatúry SAV, Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 05 Bratislava, Slovak Republic