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Revolucionáři k sežrání: Proces s Rudolfem Slánským a spol. jako romance

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Steiner P.

Česká literatura (Czech Literature)

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2011

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vol. 59

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issue 3

349-374

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This article analyzes the show trial of Rudolf Slánský (General Secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party) and his thirteen co‑defendants in late 1952. The author begins with an observation by Karl Marx that historical irony is a product of generic catachresis: a tragic event turns comic when it reoccurs. This obviously raises the question of which genre does a show trial full of confessions belong to? The confessions of Slánský and his alleged co‑conspirators, argues the author, embody the romance genre. They are records of a heroic struggle with false consciousness that the accused had previously yielded to, and culminate in the rediscovery of true class consciousness, bringing to an end their awkward alienation from the history of mankind, as stated in Marx’s master narrative.

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Dlaczego tęsknimy do opowieści mitycznych? Literatura fantasy - próba określenia źródeł

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Walczak J.

Literatura i Kultura Popularna

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2010

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vol. 16

5-21

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Article is an attempt of answer for the question about reasons of today’s longing, in day of following scientific and technological revolutions, for mythical stories. As the author judges, Professor Tolkien is right when he stresses, that at least one kind of mythical stories – fairy tale – grants two or three important functions for its recipient. Firstly, it is about justice – evil is punished, good is indemnified. Secondly, it is about consolation (eucatastrophe) in the completion of story: that means that it is Good, not only in moral or ethical meaning, but also on physical plan. Thirdly, it is about order in the Universe; in the Universe there is somebody (or something), e.g. law, who takes care of harmonious (i.e. ethically and also morally regularized) course of all events. The return for such a vision of world exactly today can be strange, and cause impression of complete anachronism. However, it is about finding something that can be called – because of the lack of a better term – Harmonia Mundi. Our place in it is definited very well. Conviction that it is real was popular in our world more or less 1200–700 years ago. Clive Staples Lewis, who described it, called it Medieval Model. Such a model assigned all pople to the Universe order and it explained all other problems: scientific, theological, philosophical, and practically-vital. The article shows too, that this task in literature was realized by epos; nowadays its functions has been taken over by fantasy, but more widely – literature, which roots can be found in tradition of romance.

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TRANSFORMACE BALADICKÉHO ŽÁNRU V BÁSNICKÉ TVORBĚ JANA NERUDY

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Mocná D.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2012

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vol. 59

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issue 4

312 – 323

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The goal of the article is to examine the transformation of the ballad as a genre in Jan Neruda´s poetry, especially in his mature collection of poems called Balady a romance (Ballads and romances) - year 1883. The study builds on the existing, quite extensive scientific literature dealing with the making of the book, the models and the sources of inspiration for individual poems and Neruda´s distinction between the ballad and the romance, and then first critical feedback on the collection. The ballad was one of the favourite genres of the May School members, who filled it with new, especially social-critical contents. This is the way young Jan Neruda went, too, nevertheless, in his mature production, he seems to have come back to the traditional form of the genre. In fact, it was only a partial comeback as despite all the admiration for his powerful poetry, he transformed it so as to able to express a modern man´s experience. First of all, he extended the scope of the genre by overlapping it with the legend, the genre in the atmosphere of which he had spent his childhood. His stories of saints´ lives are of humorously mocking nature (in this respect he cannot conceal his inclination for Heinesque provocations) however, they are also just as serious. This particularly applies to the subjects related to Jesus, who became the central character of the collection. He appears there in many forms: as a baby in a crib, as a political revolutionary, as a crucified son of God and as a kind humanist as based on the modern concept of Renan´s. The list of the forms makes it clear that the ballad was considerably politicized by Neruda. Besides the biblical subjects he used for that purpose the motifs related to national history as well as the contemporary political events. While the political aspect in the romances is very often obvious (including explicit revolutionary appeals), the ballads call for deeper contemplation about the social processes and the fate of the nation. Despite the fact that there is available evidence Neruda was inspired by folklore, his ballads and romances are only seemingly simple; the presented folksiness is the result of sophisticated artistic pretence. The writer did not abandon the old forms, he filled them with modern contents expressing how complicated the contemporary world is.

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BIBLICAL ANIMALS IN THE 16TH-CENTURY POLISH CHIVALRY ROMANCES (O zwierzetach rodem z Biblii w polskich XVI-wiecznych romansach rycerskich)

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Wierzbicka B.

Rocznik Teologii Katolickiej

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2011

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vol. 10

187-200

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The author focuses on biblical animals as heroes of the Polish chivalry romances of the 16th century. They play an important role in the lives of the protagonists and symbolize the main qualities of an ideal knight: courage, bravery and piety. The 16th-century Polish writers paid attention not only to the animals' appearance, but especially to their attitudes towards humans. Hence they can fall into two categories: the creatures associated with God and those representing evil. Such differentiation has its origins in the Bible. The animal heroes appearing in the texts under discussion include brave horses, terrifying dragons, a lion and hind who look after people, a boar that drags heroes into the gutter, a self-centred monkey, dogs saving human life or the so-called monstra biformia consisting of different members of other creatures' bodies.

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CHUDÁ HOLKA. SERIALIZOVANÝ ROMÁN PRO ŽENY A DÍVKY V POČÁTCÍCH ČESKÉ POPULÁRNÍ ŽURNALISTIKY

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Hemelíková B.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2016

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vol. 63

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issue 2

104 – 113

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The present paper deals with the specific poetics of literary critical writings which were the novels published in popular periodicals and they are completely forgotten. We attempt to make the production of early Czech popular journalism clearer by looking into the first Czech popular daily Pražský ilustrovaný kurýr and by analysing the women´s novel Chudá holka (The Poor Girl by Václav Čech, Pražský ilustrovaný kurýr 1895). The editors did not mean to produce a special women´s readership, but they wanted also to include men. The novel had a social dimension, it used the issue of a „foundling“ to criticize social prejudice towards illegitimate children. However, it eventually results in confirming the social system. The opposition between the „popular“ and „elite“ production, yet not clearly defined, can be typically seen in Václav Čech´s relations to „high“ literature.

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CLASSICAL ARAB POETIC CONVENTION BY THE UMAYYAD PERIOD: PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF IMAGINATION

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Mahmud H. A.-S.

Asian and African Studies

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2012

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vol. 21

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issue 1

35 – 69

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This study is concerned with a set of questions to illustrate the main aspects of images of thoughts, which emanate from the depths of the mind, and the underlying forces and their symbolic functions: particularly, the archetypal images of the ‘hero-heroine’, ‘nature’ and ‘animal’, and their symbols in the “Classical Arabic Lyrical Traditional Ode Convention” elaborated by Umayyad poets. What are the aspects of their archetypes and the plans of reality according to which the imaginary experience of each of them is constructed? What are the forces that stand against the hero from the very beginning of the traditional amatory prelude and along the movement of the Arabic poem till the end, where the poet receives the prize from his praised patron or from his beloved woman? These questions are essential in exploring and revising ethics and profound values; they could be answered differently from various standpoints. Notably, the transmutation of sentiment is one of the more vital constituents that offer a clue to understanding the meaning of the whole poem.

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