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HISTORY OF A CERTAIN BORDERLAND

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Krakowiak M.
Przegląd Humanistyczny
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2005
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vol. 49
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issue 4(391)
61-70
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The article deals with the formation of a literary program by one of the most important Polish literary critics, namely, Kazimierz Wyka, in the forties of 20th century. Wyka's daring vision of non-fiction (about 1942), which was supposed to dominate post-war literature is presented here, as well as a gradual shift from it towards contemporary dominant concept of realistic novel (1946-1948). There is also an attempt to answer the question about the reason for the critic's reversal in his views.
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IN BETWEEN GENRES OF TRACT AND NOVEL

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Brtanova E.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2007
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vol. 54
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issue 5
338-346
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The important poetic work of the Slovak classicist literature 'Memorial Tragedy for the Entire World' (1791) has been in the literary historical interpretations typically connected with a genre of 'debat' tract. The aim of the study is to show that this generic determination does not correspond with the former purpose of the author to write a novel. He expressed that intention also in the foreword to the book. It neither corresponds with the all intention of the work. The authoress' polemics with the other interpreters of the generic character of 'Tragoedie' (Memorial Tragedy…) methodically comes from an analysis of its content taking into consideration interpretation of substantial features of tract as a genre and also reflection of contemporary conceptions and comprehension of genres. The character of 'Tragoedie' (Memorial Tragedy…) fits much more with genre of novel mainly because of signs such as fictive character, concentration on cultivating a reader to get common overview and stressing amusing function of the text. It is possible to find connections with the contemporary 'Bildungsroman' of the 'debat' form. As for stressing persuasiveness that is quite significant in some parts of the book it also speaks about literary application of 'tractandi' form using different kinds of arguments (not only of non-fictional character). The authoress prefers the interpretation of 'Tragoedie' (Memorable Tragedy…) as a 'debat Bildungsroman' to assumptive canonisation of the previous objectively inadequate literary historical interpretations.
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ABOUT NOVEL TRANSFORMATION - MACIEJ ZUROWSKI'S REFLECTIONS

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Zurowska J.
Przegląd Humanistyczny
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2005
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vol. 49
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issue 3(390)
1-6
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Maciej Zurowski studies evolution of the novel from 18th until 20th century and novel techniques, based on great novels of the 18th and 19th century, like 'Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie' (The Script Found in Saragossa) by Jan Potocki, 'Le rouge et le noir' (Red and Black) and 'La Chartreuse de Parme' (Charter House of Parma) by Stendhal as well as 'Madame Bovary' (Mrs. Bovary) and 'L'education sentimentale: histoire d'un jeune homme' (Sentimental Education) by Flaubert. In the authoress' opinion these works foreshadow the 20th century novel esthetics. Maciej Zurowski also focuses on connections of the novel with other arts.
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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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METAPHOR IN THEORY AND RESEARCH

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Kuzmíková J.
World Literature Studies
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2018
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vol. 10
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issue 3
30 – 46
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The aim of the study is to describe the metaphor in literature as a blend, mixture, and a new mental space created on the basis of the domains of a source and a target. Creating such blends in the individual reader’s mind has a significant effect on the construction of textual meanings and overall reception of the literary text. In the introduction, I mention several significant metaphor theories from classical, rhetoric substitution theory to current inter-disciplinary cognitive modelling of metaphoric processes. Theoretical models (especially by Fauconnier and Gentner – Smith) can be fittingly illustrated on the basis of modernist texts by the Slovak writers Ivan Horváth and František Švantner. Illustrative examples and also data from my research propose a hypothesis about creative inter linking among the metaphorical processes, the reader’s personality, and the reception of a text. From the point of view of cognitive psychology, in similarity space (of a metaphor) relational similarity and object-attribute similarity create a continuum, not a categorical dichotomy. In other words, the analysis of formal structure between a metaphorical source and a target is not enough to understand metaphorical processes. My research indicates that the domains of a source and target and their mutual relations are decisive there, thanks to their suitability to situational updates, occasional insights and possible functioning in specific discourses (individual, cultural, historical, social, political, moral, etc.).
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JACK LONDON AND KOREA

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Kim W.-D.
World Literature Studies
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2016
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vol. 8
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issue 1
112 – 126
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Broadly historical in its approach, this article explores the extent to which Jack London obtained material for his writing from the experiences he had while serving as a correspondent covering the Russo-Japanese War in Korea. It argues that from this material London wrote such literary works as the short story “A Nose for the King” (1906), the historical essay “The Yellow Peril” (1904), and some portion of his memorable fantasy novel, The Star Rover (1915). This article claims further that in these works London not only revealed his racist prejudices towards Korea and its people, but also that information on Korea is sometimes inaccurate and unreliable.
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SONNET: LITERARY GENRE OR STANZA? CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS IN THE CONTEXT OF RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE LITERATURE

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Batko P.
Barok. Historia - Literatura - Sztuka (Baroque. History - Literature - Art)
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2007
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vol. 14
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issue 2(28)
65-74
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The source of the present essay is the discussion of genologic and versification character, addressing the problem of functional assessment of sonnet as a literary unit. The analysis encompassed the lyrics by Jan Kochanowski, Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski and Jan Andrzej Morsztyn. The author remarks that the sonnets of Kochanowski in literary history are derived not from the subject matter but from versification that is their only distinctive feature. Also the analysed sonnet by Morsztyn is received through the category of stanza and rhyme pattern. Szarzynski, on the other hand, directly calls his poems by the name of sonnet, thus indicating their genre distinction. This invites the question whether the lack of genre designation in Kochanowski's sonnets could provide a basis for challenging their status. An affiliation to a specific category undoubtedly offers a convention helping with the reception of a poem. According to Maria Grzedzielska, in the case of the sonnet a versification pattern could be the base of the genre. The symmetry presented in the text between the genre and stanza allows us to accept this standpoint. An unconventional association of the sonnet with the situation of the novel as literary genre, illustrated by a chart, proves that the less is the number of distinctive features of a given literary category, the more it belongs to the genre. The author also refers to the conventions of the sonnet and its numerous transformations over the centuries.
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THE PAST IN THE PRESENT

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Vietorova N.
Slovak Review. A Review of World Literature Research
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2005
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vol. 14
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issue 2
105-114
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The past in the present as it is displayed in the postmodern interpretation of two important authors, David Lodge and Colm Tóibin, manifests values that remain identical in different historical situations. 'A memoir' starts to be in vogue, its transformation in form of a novel is to be found in case of two recently published books - David Lodge's 'Author, Author' and Colm Tóibin's 'The Master'. The relation between reality and fiction is always ambivalent and often controversial. Lodge's novel 'Author, Author' and Tóibin's novel 'The Master' manifest the fantasy of their creators but also their respect for the fact and the tendency to preserve the truth. The application of authenticity and fabulousness (fact and fiction) is a significant element of postmodern prose in general and both analyzed novels prove the importance of this combination in a very efficient and artistically creative form. Both novels are despite the fictive format in fact the works of non-fiction. Nearly everything that happens in the stories is based on factual sources. Real people appear and act. Quotations from their but mainly James's books, interviews, articles, letters, journals are their - his own words. Metanarrative commentary of Lodge and Tóibin is the immanent component of their narration. Henry James is interpreted by both writers through their own register of experiences. James's life is for them a kind of palimpsest, a part of the past that has penetrated into the present and helps to support the 'moral ecology' of art in the current era. 'Author, Author' and 'The Master' display a brilliant manipulation of James's text and metatext on the lexical, syntactic and stylistic level. Lodge and Tóibin prove one of important postmodern principles namely that absolute truth is more a kind of fata morgana and facts are available always in some form of interpretation. We get a version of a fact as seen and interpreted by somebody who brings the message. In case of Lodge's and Tóibin's novels the message is artistically exciting, morally motivating, enriching readers' intellect and enhancing interest in valuable art.
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Antyk w literaturze anglo-normandzkiej w XII wieku

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Abramowicz M.
Studia Europaea Gnesnensia
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2012
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issue 6
333-343
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In  the second half of the 12th century, the circle of Anglo-Norman culture saw the emergence of anew literary genre utilising Old French – the novel. The first examples of such works are translations of antique narratives which made up a trilogy: “The Tale of Thebes”, “The Tale of Troy” and “The Tale of Aeneas”. The appearance of these works and their popularity derives from the social need. On the one hand they contribute to prestige building of the young monarchy of the House of Plantagenet, who are apparently descended from Trojans.   On the other, the very use of the national language, as well as the specific construction of the plot (substantial broadening of the battle-related threads, introduction of amorous motifs, as well as the characteristic construction of the characters and the novel’s decorum) is indicative of the fact that this literature becomes a tool serving to introduce new, lay social elites to the circulation of the higher culture. 
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SYMBOLIZATION OF THE FRAGMENTED PLOT STRUCTURE IN LUDMILA ULITSKAYA’S NOVELS

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Szabó T.
World Literature Studies
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2023
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vol. 15
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issue 1
36 – 46
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Ludmila Ulitskaya is considered by many to be a master of the short fiction, and her novels are seen sometimes as an unsuccessful attempt to transcend the principles of the short forms. This article argues that Daniel Stein, Interpreter (2006; Eng. trans. 2011), The Big Green Tent (2010; Eng. trans. 2015) and Jacob’s Ladder (2015; Eng. trans. 2019) are a special type of the novel based on a duality that Yuri Lotman identified as the basic principle of the functioning of the semiosphere. The plot structure of Ulitskaya’s novels is, on the one hand, discrete, that is, manifestly and strongly fragmented in space and time. On the other hand, however, it is continuous, that is, clearly unified through trans-symbolization of the structure, which is less perceptible on the surface. These non-explicit structural connections gain symbolic attributes and play a fundamental role in ensuring the unity of the plot in three of Ulitskaya’s works.
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HISTORICKÉ PODHĽADY, SEDMOHRADSKÉ ROMÁNY (NARATÍVNE ŠTRUKTÚRY A BIOGRAFICKÉ PRAMENE V PRÓZACH GYÖRGYA DRAGOMÁNA A SÁNDORA ZSIGMONDA PAPPA)

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Boka L.
World Literature Studies
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2014
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vol. 6 (23)
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issue 2
78 – 90
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This paper investigates the so-called Transylvania novels within the historic branch of contemporary Hungarian prose poetics, with particular regard to the frameworks evoking, or even constructed upon, historical moments, by a generation of authors who have, in recent years, presented the situation in pre-1989 Transylvania and Romania from the plural bottom-view perspective of children or common people. These authors, especially György Dragomán and Sándor Zsigmond Papp, have first-hand experiences of the historic time and space of their works, so they ground fictitious elements in historic fact, while belonging to a larger group of prose writers. Besides the near past of Transylvania as a background, this aforementioned group also often stages earlier periods of Transylvania as an independent Princedom or part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Most importantly, however, this paper proposes to survey the compositional processes and motifs based on shared sources and authorial precursors, and the generational presence of analogous modes of evocation and recollection.
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JASNEJŠÍ OBRAZ SI UTVORÍTE Z VÄČŠEJ VZDIALENOSTI: DVE ZÁPLETKY Z DIŠTANČNÉHO ČÍTANIA UKRAJINSKEJ LITERATÚRY

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Yesypenko D.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2020
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vol. 67
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issue 6
552 – 567
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The paper focuses on two examples introducing a distant reading approach for research Ukrainian literary works. The studies considered are rather different in terms of breadth of their aims and intentions, the number of performers, the pace and nature of implementation, and consequently, results. The first one concerns famous Ukrainian writer, Taras Shevchenko, and the network of contacts, as reflected in his diary. Distant reading helps to both question and elaborates on established theses and hypotheses of predecessors, as well as to reveal important details of Shevchenko’s portrait as an author, artist, and person. By contrast, the article also informs about the research by a team of scholars who analysed the titles of European novels of the 1840s–1910s. As the one responsible for the Ukrainian and Polish parts, I outline (un)confirmed expectations and surprising findings, and demonstrate how one can build a bridge between the results of distant reading and subsequent studies of a narrower scope.
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KEĎ POETIKA GLOSUJE POLITIKU (PROLEGOMENA K POETIKE SLOVENSKÉHO POVOJNOVÉHO ROMÁNU: ŽÁNER, NARATÍV, METÓDA)

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Prušková Z.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2017
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vol. 64
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issue 3
250 – 258
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The paper is the first part of an intended essay on transformations (configurations and reconfigurations) of Slovak novel after year 1945. The centre of attention is genre and narrative reconfigurations in the system of poetics of artistic work in the given period of time. The paper is a part of a comprehensive team monograph project Poetika slovenskej literatúry po roku 1945 /The Poetics of Slovak Literature after 1945/. What is defining here is the optics focusing on the changed proportions in understanding of the events as a semiotic source as well as the purpose of artistic work. In the key sense, it is an extension and development of the concept of „text poetics“ (event) from its normative paradigm meaning to an ontological existentially defined syntagm of plot, motion and sharing (reading) of a text not only in the historical time and horizon but also at the level of singular poetic (narrative, genre) event of the interpretation. In the first part basic mechanisms of artistic work are defined, then wider contexts of secondary reflection are to be dealt with, and finally an exemplary interpretation of selected works of prose production written after year 1945 is planned. The vanishing point of the present paper is seeking new connections and rules in the area of poetics preliminarily defined by the ´existential´ attribute, i.e. mainly open to dynamic and ontological research into basic co-shared emotions, frenzies and trauma which, transferred into aesthetic representations, contributed to the complex one-way form of literature and art after 1945.
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CERVANTES, THE HELLENISTIC NOVEL AND THE BYZANTINE NOVEL: THEODORE PRODROMOS AND THE LIBERAL LOVER

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Morfakidis-Filactós M.
Konštantínove listy
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2021
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vol. 14
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issue 2
98 - 108
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Traditionally it was considered that Cervantes was inspired by the Ethiopics or Theagenes and Chariclea by Heliodorus and Leukippe and Kleitophon by Achilles Tatius when writing his novel, The Liberal Lover, and for this reason this novel was included in the genre which has erroneously been called the “Spanish Byzantine Novel”. It is true that this novel by Cervantes largely follows the structure and various characteristics of the novels by both authors from the Hellenistic period. However, it is observed that in both its theme and structure, it is even more similar to the novel Rodanthe and Dosicles by the 12th-century Byzantine philologist and writer, Theodore Prodromos. The question which arises is whether Cervantes could have known about this novel in its original Greek, or in a Latin or Spanish translation now lost. In this case, the life of Cervantes is related to the Renaissance movement in Seville.
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Telo kao globalizovano odelo: konstrukt telesnosti i tekstualnosti u romanu Mango Ljubice Arsić

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Dojčinović B.
Slavica Wratislaviensia
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2011
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vol. 153
145-150
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The most recent novel by Serbian author Ljubica Arsić, Mango (2008), thematizes corporeality from the angle of urban life, femaleness and femininity, as well as consumerism, in the postmodern parodic key. Mango is the novel whose intertextual links go all the way to Virginia Woolf and John Updike, via Erica Jong and Margaret Atwood, including Almodovar’s movies and mass-media culture. Those links have been created by appropriation of the motifs and discourses, and are embedded in a multi-level textual construction. The result is a story that depicts the circumstances in which all the choices seem to be globalized merchandise, and emotions feel like cheap, ready-made “thoughts.” The main characters, three self-sufficient, emotional and intelligent women, have their own creative ways of dealing with the everyday life, while the story about them, by the palimpsest of the intertexts, additionally subverts the globalized consciousness of both readers and other characters.
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PRÍBEHY VŠEDNÉHO ŽIVOTA THOMASINY GYLLEMBOURGOVEJ A JEJ ROMÁN DVE DOBY: KIERKEGAARDOVO HODNOTENIE

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Nun Stewart K.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2016
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vol. 71
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issue 4
328 – 337
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In the history of Kierkegaard studies, A Literary Review has often been hailed as the Danish philosopher’s main contribution to the field of social-political philosophy. Although this aspect of the work has been explored in some detail, only few commentators have taken the time to study the background of it, i.e., the book which Kierkegaard purports to analyse in the review, namely Two Ages by Thomasine Gyllembourg. The present article explores the relation between Gyllembourg’s novel and A Literary Review with an eye to determining what influence Gyllembourg’s work might have had on Kierkegaard. It is argued that Gyllembourg’s novel served primarily as an occasion for Kierkegaard to further develop ideas that he was already concerned with previously in connection with his authorship.
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BÜRGERSTADT UND STADTFIKTION IN SÁNDOR MÁRAIS ROMANZYKLUS „A GARRENEK MŰVE“

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Kulcsár-Szabó Z.
World Literature Studies
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2016
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vol. 8
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issue 4
19 – 34
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The paper discusses Sándor Márai’s cultural concept of the bourgeois from a specific angle. Represented by the author’s native town of Košice and carrying an inherent tendency toward fictionalization, Márai’s idealized concept of the bourgeois city appears as a central issue of his novel series A Garrenek műve (The Garrens’ Work), often considered as a kind of epopee of the Hungarian bourgeoisie. The paper concentrates on the first volume, Zendülők (The Rebels), written in 1930, and focuses on the work’s fictional topology, which is governed by the conceptual metaphor city as body, and the concept of theatricality underlying the strategies of narrative representation. In conclusion, it raises the question of whether a culture, in Márai’s view, can possess any efficient means to interpret itself in a way that is not given over to parodist tendencies.
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EMANCIPACE V „MUŽSKÝCH“ DENÍCÍCH CHORVATSKÝCH SPISOVATELEK OBDOBÍ MODERN

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Zoufalá M.
Motus in verbo: časopis mladej vedeckej generácie
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2013
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vol. 2
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issue 2
86 – 93
EN
The article deals with the phenomenon of emancipation that can be found in two novels by Croatian authors, namely Plein air by Jagoda Truhelka and Ispovijest by Milka Pogačić. Both novels were composed during the Croatian modernist period and are unique in their form as they are male diaries, though written by women. The authors attempted to deal with women’s emancipation, an issue that saw a rise in importance in Croatian society at the beginning of the 20th century. Each of the authors deals with the theme in a different way. The main characters of Truhelka’s novel are confronted with women’s emancipation directly and accept it as right in the end. The main characters of the second novel are firmly anchored in contemporary conventions, absurdity of which is shown in escalated situations they find themselves in.
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MIRCEA ELIADE AND THE WAY FROM THE MYTH TO THE NOVEL (Mircea Eliade a cesta od mytu k romanu)

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Palenikova J.
World Literature Studies
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2010
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vol. 2 (19)
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issue 3
49-62
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The study introduces the myth and its function in Eliade's literary method in the context of his religionist conception of the function of the myth. The study is therefore conceptualized within a wider context to emphasize the mutual relationship between Eliade's scholarly and creative work. In studying traditional archaic societies and cultures Eliade came to define archaic ontology as a process of historical repetition of mythical archetypes, which reflects the relationship between the sacred and the profane. After researching the archaic society, Eliade concentrates on the modern society, characterized by relativism and general desacralization. Eliade's solution is a return to the sources, the myth, which contains the universal code that can be applied to the modern man. In his literary work, Eliade shows this especially in his novel La foret interdite and in the short stories written after World War II, which are constructed on the basis of well-known, partly modified myths to with they add a signifying dimension. Eliade thus shows that written literature does not destroy myths, but, on the contrary, can creatively prolong their life.
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HARD-BOILED SCHOOL: THE BIRTH OF LITERATURE COMING FROM THE PULP MAGAZINES AND A BACKWARD (Drsna skola: Zrod literatury z ducha pulp magazinov a cesta spat)

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Horvath T.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2010
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vol. 57
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issue 3
226-258
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The paper maps the process of constitution of the literary stream of so called 'hard-boiled school' from the simple illustrations in the form of literary extracts published in the pulp magazine Black Mask to the most representative novels by the main representatives and to the epigones. Dashiell Hammett internally transformed literary grammar of the detective genre through the change of a chronotop (mega city, gangland) and also by determining realistic motivation for murders. He took the element of rebus and a mystery scheme - logical solution from a formula of a classical detective story. In the novels he uses also methods of other genres (western in The Red Harvest, gothic novel in The Dain Curse). In interpretation we stress an open character of the heroes - sleuths (a detective from the Continental, Sam Spade and Ned Beaumont) with their 'misty' motivation, for which a film technique of narration seems to be helpful. In interpretation of the work of Raymond Chandler we are interested in depicted process of 'cannibalism' - using motifs from his older short stories in his later novels. We also follow gradation of disillusionment in the ends (a novel Long Goodbye versus his short story The Curtain, a novel Farewell, my Lovely versus his short story Try the Girl). The term 'hard-boiled school' overlaps the genre boarders of a detective story and covers wider genre field (e.g. gangster novel and criminal story of a murder in case of James Caine a Jim Thompson). In the novels of the epigone of the 'hard-boiled school' Mickey Spillane we can follow also a semantic line of schizophrenia in the main hero's plan- the detective (mixing thematic outer and narrator's inner perspective).
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