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The study suggests a view of the work by František Švantner, regarded as the most significant writer of Slovak Naturism, from the perspective of Modernism in its wide sense as defined by the contemporary discourse of literary science as well as the discourse of cultural studies. Such a point of view results in a question whether it is necessary to include this author in the narrower context of Naturism, which makes his work seem less rich and the transformations of the Modernist paradigm in his creative life less clear. Therefore the study attempts to penetrate various concepts of modernity reflected in Švantner´s novellas, it attempts to show how complicated their genealogy is, since an important role in them is played by popular and post-Gothic literature. The literary material being analysed is the period of the writer´s creative life concluded with Nevesta hôľ /The Bride Of The Ridge/. And this is the piece of writing that proved to be the best literary material to be analysed from the perspective of Post-Gothicism, which is more and more often recognized in Modernism in its wide sense.
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The article analyses vampirical motifs – elements of great importance within the Dark Romanticism trend – in texts by two representatives of Slovak literature of the interwar period: Muž s protézou (Man with prosthesis) by Ján Hrušovský and František Švantner´s Nevesta hôľ (The Bride of the Mountains). In both cases the vampirism involved is of erotic character, what differs, however, is the degree to which it is metaphorical. Hrušovský employs some elements of the vampire´s condition, thus enlarging the scope of the modernist textual manoeuvers, whereas the creation of the vampirical heroine in Švantner´s prose falls into the pattern of elements contributing to the structure of the gothic in the novel.
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In the present study the centre of attention is the lyric-didactic religious poem by Michal Miloslav Hodža Vieroslavín, which is regarded by literary critics as the author´s poetic testament. They interpreted this particular work of art in order to get to the heart of the idea of Messianism included in the poem. They show what the premises of Hodža´s historiosophy were, what his visions of the future of Europe were, the fact that Hodža did not associate Slavs´ mission with the leading role of Russia, rather, he saw the future union of Slavs within Austria. Hodža´s utopia in comparison to the other projects is dominated by the religious element. The future Europe can only be built as a result of the Evangelical spirit been embodied in interpersonal relationships within the social life. Christ´s Way of the Cross and the truths revealed by him are meant to become indicators for the Slavic nations. The cross becomes the symbol of revival, forgiveness, love and reconciliation, whereas faith is the only permanent foundation which real human community can be built on.
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The beginning of the end of the demons of consent. Coming to terms with ideologisation in Slovak cultureThe first part of the article focuses on demonstrating the process of ideologisation in Slovak culture after 1948, i.e. after the beginning of communist rule. This reveals the initial fascination with the idea of communism among the creative community and its gradual enslavement. Additionally, on the one hand it examines the results of repressive measures of power, and on the other it looks at conformist intellectual circles. The second half discusses how Dominik Tatarka, a leading Slovak intellectual, deals with the mechanisms of cultural ideologisation and writers’ attitudes, which concluded in his fictional-political-autobiographical novel Demon of Consent (Démon súhlasu). This work reveals the writer’s strategy to show how the experience of totalitarianism fits with the concept of biblical eschatology. The writer does not, however, ignore the different idealised communist conceptualisations of the era, and often incorporates and combines visions of the tragic, ironic and sometimes grotesque. Finally, the article also takes into account the wider context of the writer’s changes in attitude and their consequences. Początek końca demonów zgody. Słowackie rozrachunki z ideologizacją kulturyPierwsza część artykułu koncentruje się na pokazaniu przebiegu procesu ideologizacji kultury słowackiej po roku 1948, czyli po przejęciu władzy przez komunistów. Odsłania początkowe fascynacje środowiska twórczego ideą komunizmu i stopniowe jego zniewalanie, będące rezultatem z jednej strony represyjnych posunięć władzy, z drugiej zaś – konformizmu środowisk intelektualnych. Druga część pokazuje rozrachunek jednego z czołowych słowackich intelektualistów, Dominika Tatarki, z mechanizmami ideologizacji kultury oraz postawami pisarzy, zawarty w jego fantastyczno-polityczno-autobiograficznej noweli Demon zgody (Démon súhlasu). Odsłonięta zostaje strategia pisarza, który doświadczenie totalitaryzmu wpisuje w horyzont eschatologiczno-biblijny. Nie rezygnuje przy tym z różnych konceptualizacji zideologizowanej rzeczywistości okresu komunizmu, przeplatając wizję tragiczną z ujęciem ironicznym, miejscami groteskowym. Artykuł uwzględnia też szerszy kontekst przemian postaw pisarza i ich konsekwencji.
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The article focuses on two texts (Jozef Podhradský, The secret history of Pan-Slavism and Michal Miloslav Hodža Vieroslavín), that are located on the periphery of Slovak political thought, but they are a very significant testimony to the intersection of emancipation ideas in the period of dualistic monarchy. These important texts bring a proposal of various solutions to the arrangement of Slovak-Hungarian relations in the new situation after 1867. Unfortunately, one of them was not published at all (written by Hodža in 1867–1870), while the second one, published in Novi Sad in 1868, remained almost unnoticed.They show how close the idea of messianism was to Slovak thinkers at that time. (This particularly applies to M.M. Hodža). Under her influence, they present their visions of Europe and the monarchy. They also show the Slovaks as a chosen nation that will play a decisive role in the revive common Europe.
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Few interpretations of the work of Ladislav Klíma, by both Polish and Czech researchers, most often emphasize the philosophical aspect of his writing. They point to the connections of his work with the philosophy of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Berkeley. The article suggests taking a different lead related to connections with the Gothic Convention and the aesthetics of shock and disgust inscribed in it. The author used this convention, among others, to formulate his philosophy of Will. The article focuses on the mini-novel The Suffering of Prince Sternenhoch. The process of interpretation was facilitated by the use of findings of Jindřich Chalupecký, whereas the theories of Julia Kristeva proved useful in the methodological aspect.
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The interest in Black Romanticism has been experiencing a kind of renaissance in the last years. Black Romanticism is no longer seen as just one of the Romantic movements. Its connection to the particular historical moment is becoming looser and looser and the set of its distinctive features, which can be easily recognized, makes it possible to see it as the sui generis category. The increasing number of various scientific works confirms the fact that in the case of fascination by the mysterious, unchained and dark side of being we face a weightier phenomenon than just a fashion in culture. The Black Romanticism category enables to grasp and reveal a number of cultural, literary and linguistic phenomena which have been resistant to all the attempts to systematize Slovak artistic production stemming from the spiritual and aesthetical atmosphere of Romanticism. The material of the Slovak resources makes it possible to almost completely reconstruct the Imaginarium of Black Romanticism including the vampires, who inhabit it, the frenetic concept of man, the demonic face of nature and history, the Gothic scenery, the original evil principle, which has infected the world, the inexpressibility problem and the subsequent language experiment, the artistic outsidership or weird folkiness.
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