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MESA SELIMOVIC AS A LITERARY CRITIC

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Modelska-Kwasniowska A.
Pamiętnik Słowiański
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2007
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vol. 57
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issue 2
83-103
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Mesa Selimovic (1910 - 1982), the Serbian writer of Bosnian descent, is best known as an author of such excellent novels as 'Dervis i smrt' (1966) and 'Tvrdava' (1970). However, his writings developed into two separate directions: into the fictional and critically-essayistic direction, the latter being very much underestimated. Selimovic issued three essayistic books: 'Eseji i ogledi' (1966), 'Za i protiv Vuka' (1967) and 'Pisci, misljenja i razgovori' (1979). The essayistic work of this author may be divided into two thematic groups: texts concentrating on the discussion of the particular writers and phenomena in the contemporary literature and texts devoted to the subject of the so called, 'war for language and literature'. This article is concerned with the critical-literary works written in a traditional way, with the use of the historical-biographic and genetic methods. According to Mesa Selimovic, the main aim of the literary criticism is active participation in the contemporary literary life as well as setting lines of its development. He wrote, among others, about the creative art of Hamza Humo, Zvonimir Subic, Stevan Sremac, Milan Bogdanovic, Ivo Andric, Jovan Ducic, August Cesarec and others. Selimovic did not limit his interests only to Serbian literature - he also wrote about Bosnian, Slovenian and Croatian authors, which correlated with his opinion on the necessity to bring the cultures of the inhabitants of Yugoslavia together. What is characteristic of Selimovic, he did not promote new authors, but rather tried to reinterpret both the old and contemporary literary works by putting them in the wide cultural context. Right after the Second World War, Selimovic propagated socialistic realism; however, later he gradually became more concerned with the aesthetic values of the discussed work. Although he changed the criteria of evaluation of the literary work, he still remained the supporter of the literature of engagement ( following J. P. Sartre's theory). Referring to the works of the particular authors, Selimovic in his critical-literary essays indirectly presented his views on the function and possibilities of literature.
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SÚČASNÁ LITERATÚRA A MŔTVA POSTMODERNA

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Špoták R.
Motus in verbo: časopis mladej vedeckej generácie
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2014
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vol. 3
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issue 1
64 – 72
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The study focuses on the issues of the end of postmodernism in relation to changes and trends in contemporary art and theory. The author tries to approach what comes after postmodernism using several various contemporary theoretical concepts by Alan Kirby, Jeffrey T. Nealon and Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker. The author then relates these concepts to novels of contemporary French writer Michel Houellebecq. Finding the connections to the concepts of intensification and comodification, as well as New Romanticism, author confirms that Houellebecq is a writer, who cannot be reliably classified as postmodern author, but rather the author of era of transition.
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A FEW COMMENTS ON TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY NORWEGIAN FICTION AND ITS PRESENCE IN THE POLISH BOOK MARKET IN THE YEARS 1995-2010 (Polish title below)

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Tunkiel K.
Studia Humanistyczne AGH
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2011
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vol. 10
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issue 1
87-102
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(Polish title: Kilka uwag o tendencjach w najnowszej norweskiej literaturze pieknej i jej obecnosci na polskim rynku wydawniczym w latach 1995-2010). After 1995, and especially since 2004, there has been an increase in the number of Norwegian fiction books published in Poland. The first part of the paper presents detailed statistical data for this trend and analyses it shortly. The second part is an attempt to introduce the most important trends in contemporary Norwegian literature and indicate how these are reflected in the offer in the Polish book market. The increased popularity of Norwegian fiction in Poland may be a result of the readers' preferences, but on the other hand also of the general interest in Norway and, not less importantly, the availability of subsidies for literary translations. The books published in Poland in 1995-2010 reflect very well the most characteristic trends in contemporary Norwegian literature. One can find among them examples of both minimalism (including naivism) and encyclopaedism, while the most typical subject areas include family relations, existential problems and religion. Biographies and autobiographies that recently have been a crucial and much-discussed group of literary production in Norway are less represented. The phenomenon of popular literature - the new heyday of the romantic novel series as well as the fashion for Scandinavian crime fiction - is also noteworthy. In addition, some valuable Norwegian books for children and youth were translated into Polish and published in the period. On the whole, it should be emphasised that the situation of Norwegian fiction in Poland is very good; it is undoubtedly one of the best represented minor European literatures in the Polish market.
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PÍSANIE O SEBE V SÚČASNEJ QUEBECKEJ PRÓZE

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Malinovská Z.
World Literature Studies
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2011
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vol. 3 (20)
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issue 2
28 – 45
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The paper deals with the “auto-fiction” as one of the means of the self-writing in the contemporary Québec fiction. The “auto-fiction” is considered in both Québec and French socio-political and literary contexts. While being frequently used, especially in francophone environment, the notion stays vague, referring to the common practice of transgressing the boundaries between the real and literary worlds, resulting in a fictional account of one´s own life and the blending of fiction and faction. The genre, having also cognitive and therapeutic functions, enables authors to reflect upon and to render the questions of being and writing. The means by which contemporary authors explore the realm of the “auto-fiction”, as well as its manifestations in the novel are analysed on the example of novels written by Régine Robin and Nelly Arcan.
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Тело, телесность и авторский стиль Валерии Нарбиковой

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Maeda S.
Slavica Wratislaviensia
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2011
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vol. 153
399-405
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Contemporary Russian writer Valerija Narbikova, who published her first novel in 1988, is regarded as one of the best representatives of the so-called “another prose,” which became a new trend in Russian literature of the eighties. The destruction of literature norm became a characteristic of “another prose”: the writers were not interested in heroes anymore but rather in the ordinary people with their daily routine and everyday problems. Many Soviet people tried to escape from their absurd lives going to the theater and cinema, and reading books. The writers of the eighties who were deconstructing the Soviet “reality” became a kind of revelation for many of those people. Narbikova thought that Soviet actuality was absurd, and constantly criticized the Soviet inhuman system. Her style reflected her thought. Thus, she often uses inversion to describe the contradictions of the Soviet system; she often gives a detailed description of ugly human bodies, filthy streets with lots of garbage, sexual intercourse with the help of pun, euphemisms and metaphors.
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