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Chorvathova M.

Slovak Review. A Review of World Literature Research

2004

vol. 13

issue 2

162-166

The study reviews the use of one of the terms introduced by the Slovak theoretician of comparative literature, Dionýz Durisin, and that is 'dual/multiple domicile' (or 'di/poly/oecism' in other translations, using the Greek root 'oikia' a house, dwelling). The term, understood in a wider context of the interliterary process, describes a situation, in which a writer transgresses the borders of his local literary system and 'functions' - that is affects writing in other literary systems as well. Z. Hegedüsová, who applied this term to American and British literatures, tried to re-define the rather broad meaning by adding an element of intentional promotion of the 'higher' unit of the interliterary process. She speaks about 'personal psychological preference for the community, often resulting in denial of the need to preserve the specific features of elements that constitute it' citing the example of Walter Scott. Such an understanding of dual/multiple domicile is then confronted with the contemporary literatures written in English, in which the ambition and the reality of dual/multiple domicile is often tied to intentional promotion of diversity and hybridity. Salman Rushdie, who in his works, both fictional and essayistic, questions the canonic status of clear-cut categories, serves as an example.

SAMUEL BECKETT AND THE BORDERLINES OF MODERNISM

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Chorvathova M.

Slovak Review. A Review of World Literature Research

2004

vol. 13

issue 1

36-46

The paper is focused on contact points of different paradigms in the works of Samuel Beckett (1906-989). Using the example of his early experimental prose (Murphy, 1938; Watt, 1944), the paper explores Beckett's problematic position in the context of the modernist project and the transition to postmodernism: the overlapping/fading of modernist optimism (the effort to erase the gap between the language and the objects denominates) and the rise of postmodern scepticism (the fundamental inadequacy of the language.

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SAMUEL BECKETT AND THE BORDERLINES OF MODERNISM