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K VÝSKUMU KAZATEĽSKEJ LITERATÚRY

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Brtáňová E.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2022
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vol. 69
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issue 6
551 – 555
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The sermon literature, as documented by manuscripts and prints archived in Slovak memory preservation institutions, played an important role in Slovak literature of older periods since as early as the Middle Ages. Texts of sermons testify to the key developmental processes in the history of Slovak literature, document the changes in languages used (leading to the use of the native language – Slovak), and reflect the values and topical issues of individual periods. Other fields of research – besides theology – started focusing on Slovak homiletic literature after the Velvet Revolution when religious genres started enjoying greater scholarly interest. The widening of research focus so that it would encompass new themes and research viewpoints can most readily be observed in monographs from the fields of philology, history, and literary history. Religious writing is also the focus of three research projects concentrating on Slovak and Central European texts. A common feature of these is a mutual cooperation between specialists and intensified academic communication and exchange of experience on the international level.
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ETICKÝ ROZMER REFLEXIE VEĽKOMORAVSKÉHO OBDOBIA V SLOVENSKEJ LITERATÚRE NA KONCI 18. STOROČIA

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Mihalková G.
Konštantínove listy
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2017
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vol. 10
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issue 2
165 - 177
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In the Slovak literature of National Revival, the authors writing in this period search for the historical, cultural, literary and linguistic roots of the Slovaks. The period of the Great Moravia is therefore reflected as a constituent period of Slovak history, Svätopluk being „the Slovak king“, Constantine and Methodius being the „Slovak apostles“, as can be seen mainly in the works written by Juraj Fándly (especially in his homily and in Compendiata historia gentis Slavae). During the period of National Revival, authors highlighted the national moment, but also the ethical dimension of history in identifying the exemplary characteristics and behavior of the Great Moravian personalities. The purpose of writing about the past is to influence the present, the actualizing dimension being manifested in a national and ethical interpretation of historical events.
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NÁČRT PREMIEN SLOVENSKEJ LITERÁRNEJ KRITIKY OD POLOVICE 60. DO ZAČIATKU 70. ROKOV (DOKONČENIE)

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Barborík V.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2015
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vol. 62
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issue 4
306 – 318
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This literary history paper is concerned with the changes of the Slovak literary criticism over a certain period of time. It reconstructs the process of the criticism becoming temporarily emancipated, i.e. the autonomous field of literary criticism was established in the mid-1960s, and, subsequently, it ceased to exist during the social and cultural „normalization“ in the early years of the following decade. The paper consists of three chapters; the first one presents two polemic articles by critic Milana Hamada (the argument with Vladimír Mináč and a polemic over Miroslav Válek´s collection of poems Milovanie v husej koži /Lovemaking with Goose Pimples on/), which made a significant contribution to forming the autonomous field of literary criticism in the mid-1960s. It defined its territory against the contemporary power structures as well as the literary field: criticism stopped serving and became, for the first time after 1948, an autonomous factor of the social context in those times. The second half of the 1960s was thus a short period of time when the relative emancipation of domestic literary criticism influenced by the external limits of the Socialist regime was finalized. The contemporary structure of the literary field, i.e. the genres and other forms of critical discourse, is discussed in the second chapter of the paper. The changes in the social situation after the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 had a dramatic impact on culture and the humanities. A number of decisions made in the name of power severely affected the domestic literary criticism. Several of the significant critics were ousted from public life. Some of the cultural and literary magazines providing space for reflection on literature were banned while other ones went through significant transformations. It was a gradual process, the outline of which is reconstructed in the final part of the paper. As a result of the interventions, literary criticism lost its autonomy and again came under control of political power just like in the 1940s and 1950s, although the new conditions were different.
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PROLEGOMÉNA K VÝSKUMU EXISTENCIÁLNEJ LITERATÚRY

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Domorák D.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2016
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vol. 63
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issue 3
215 – 221
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The goal of the paper is to outline and comment on the basic features of the semantic field of the existential discourse, especially its key concepts, i.e. existential literature on the one hand and Existentialism on the other hand. The paper offers the text that presents the overview research into existential phenomena focused on the world and Czech contexts, however, not only in the area of literary science, but also in the wider area, mostly the philosophical one. The research into the theoretical practice of existential thinking has in the long term run been showing inconsistency, even vagueness in the use of the terminology of the existential discourse as the same terms often have had various meanings. With regard to the standard frameworks applied to thinking about Existentialism, the outcome of the paper lies in showing the varied approach to the term Existentialism, or a complete abandonment to favour the term as the key term of the existential discourse. The same applies to literary science as well as philosophy, while the theory and history of philosophy have been trying to grasp the existential phenomena in a more appropriate way independent of the traditional understanding preferring Existentialism as defined mainly by J.-P. Sartre. In the context of literary science the outcomes of the paper can only prove useful after the new existential discourses seen in a wider sense have been applied to particular literary practice, e.g. Slovak literature of the 20th century.
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POLITICAL INPUT IN MAKING POETS CULTURAL ICONS

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Gavura J.
World Literature Studies
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2016
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vol. 8
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issue 4
47 – 63
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This study analyses the role and degree of political involvement in the process of constructing poets as cultural icons in Polish and Slovak literature in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The main focus is on the Polish poets Zbigniew Herbert and Czesław Miłosz and the Slovak poet Laco Novomeský, but research also takes into consideration other Polish and Slovak poets (Wisława Szymborska, Ján Ondruš, and Ivan Štrpka). This examination reveals an important political input behind constructing these poets as cultural icons using the symbolic potential that the poets accrued over the years and were able to represent. The dynamic character of icons (accelerated by great geopolitical and social changes in East-Central Europe), however, causes a constant re-semantization and partially diminishes their iconic status, especially for upcoming generations. Despite a rearrangement of the hierarchy of layers in their iconic status, the poets are always associated with their poetic work, and the notable quality of this work keeps their potential for remaining or becoming cultural icons regardless of political circumstances.
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MAGICKÝ REALIZMUS V SLOVENSKEJ LITERATÚRE: SLOVO, POJEM, SMER... APROPRIÁCIA TERMÍNU RECEPČNOU PRAXOU, REFLEXIOU A TVORBOU DO ZAČIATKU 90. ROKOV 20. STOROČIA

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Barborík V.
World Literature Studies
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2016
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vol. 8
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issue 2
3 – 17
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The paper is a reconstruction of how the meaning of the concept “magic realism” transformed in Slovak literary practice and reflection from the end of the World War II to the early 1990s. The meaning of magic realism as defined in contemporary literary theory is not quite identical to every use of the expression in domestic reflection on literature. It was flexibly used by Jozef Felix as early as 1946 when discussing contemporary prose as a counterpart of the lyric tendencies, which he criticized. Magic realism returned to Slovak literature as denomination of one of the components of complex modern Latin American prose, i.e. the corpus of works of Latin American provenance which became popular in Europe during the 1960s. The comeback of the term was preceded by the reception of the most significant works by Latin American prose writers (Carpentier, Asturias, Cortázar, Fuentes, García Márquez...), which were becoming more accessible in Czech and Slovak translations at the turn of the 1960s. In the early 1980s the term was partly used by literary criticism in the context of Peter Jaroš’s novel Tisícročná včela (A Thousand-year-old Bee) and its relations to the work of Gabriel García Márquez. Until 1989 wider use of the term was limited by the ideology of the period, according to which magic realism could endanger the position of socialist realism as the official literary doctrine of the time.
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ANECDOTES IN BAJZA'S BOOK OF HUMOUR (Anekdoty v Bajzovej knihe humoru)

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Brtanova E.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2011
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vol. 58
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issue 3
230-239
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The collection Vesele ucinki a receni (Cheerful teachings and sayings) is the first humorous print medium in the history of Slovak literature. However, the significance of its editor J. I. Bajza´s contribution requires objective assessment. Besides the question of its originality and inspirations there should also be raised a question of the genre and the reflected reality the collection presents. The contents analysis allows stating that the genres of the collection include riddle, humourous short story and anecdote, which outnumbers the others. The anecdotes are not only meant to entertain but also to educate. They reflect the experiences of people´s coexistence in the ethnically and confesionally diverse Central-European region. There are also depicted episodes from everyday life (about social classes, professions and wives as well as various historical and contemporary figures). The editor´s intention was to cultivate the relationships between the contemporaries and influence their conventional opinions and attitudes.
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ŽÁNROVÁ INICIÁCIA MEMOÁROVÝCH A CESTOPISNÝCH PRÓZ V SLOVENSKEJ LITERATÚRE V OBDOBÍ BAROKA

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Markovič P.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2015
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vol. 62
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issue 2
139 – 146
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The main thesis of the paper is the need to review the well-established genre denomination of certain prose collections named as travel memoirs written in the period of Baroque. What seems to be inaccurate in this context is the element „travel“. There are several arguments for correcting the denomination. There is a specific configuration of aesthetic and non-aesthetic functions, a contradiction between the theme and the genre denomination, the actual motives for the writers´ travels being forced, a wider problem of the relationship between the subject and the world, and, finally, the considerable degree of genre attribute syncretism. Another issue is the aesthetic status of the proses, which corresponds to the conventions of the previous literary periods when the literary qualities and aesthetic values tended to be a configuration of means of expression which served to support and promote the ideology in the proses.
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PREMENY FEMINISTICKEJ KNIHY (HANA GREGOROVÁ: ŽENY, 1912, 1946)

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Hučková D.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2022
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vol. 69
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issue 3
205 – 223
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Hana Gregorová’s (1885 – 1958) early work was mostly concerned with themes pertaining to women’s emancipation. Later, the author widened her scope and also dealt with the questions of social justice. Feminist instrumentalisation as outlined in her debut collection of short prose Ženy ([Women] 1912) was combined with projecting a new, better world for all the impoverished ones. Social and pedagogical (didactic) function remained a stable characteristic of her writing. As to her themes, Gregorová was mainly concerned with the depiction of the suffering women and her empathising authorial narrator was a representative figure voicing progressive ideas. Works that the author published before 1918 (but also those from the first half of the 1920s) were later significantly revised. Gregorová updated her early work in accordance with the way her opinions evolved (especially with regards to her affinity towards socialist and communist ideas) and also as a reaction to the changes in social circumstances (the end of Second World War). Analysis of the revisions that the author made in the second publication of the collection Ženy (1946) had a direct impact on the poetics of the texts and in turn also influenced the literary-historical reception of the collection – a fact that is most visible in cases in which the scholars only worked with the second edition.
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OD USTAĽOVANIA OBRAZU K JEHO ROZRUŠOVANIU: REFLEXIA ČASOPISU HLAS A PRVEJ FÁZY HLASISTICKÉHO HNUTIA

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Draganová A.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2020
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vol. 67
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issue 5
413 – 432
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The magazine Hlas, published between the years 1898 and 1904, had a significant impact on the political, social and cultural context at that time. Thinking in Slovakia in the 20th century was formed in relation to the magazine and its legacy on several levels. The goal of the paper is to carry out a survey of the reflections on the Hlasist movement, consciously constrained to the field of literature and literary science, although occasionally making inevitable references to a wider context of social science. The sources and texts analysed are divided here into four areas based on the time of creation, author´s position, text strategy assuming a target group, genre and interpretation range. The aim of the analysis is not a review of the stereotypes used to interpret the Hlasist movement so far but an attempt at new reading based on the latest methodologies. A new reading of the texts indicates the literary historical process of creating the image of the Hlasist movement. It also defines the nature of the tools used by individual authors to create the given image (e.g. legitimization, canonization, ideological interpretation, subversion of the traditional interpretation etc.).
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SLOVENSKÁ TEXTOLÓGIA A EDITORSTVO V DRUHEJ POLOVICI 20. STOROČIA

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Hašková Z.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2013
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vol. 60
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issue 2
143 – 155
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The goal of the article was to at least partly systematize the knowledge gained by the Slovak text studies as a generalizing work in this field does not exist in our country. The ideas built on the scientific articles within text studies written in the second half of the 20th century. The beginning of the Slovak text studies in the 1950s is represented by the works by Jozef Felix, Karol Rosenbaum and Mikuláš Bakoš. Later studies by Nora Krausová, František Miko and Peter Zajac form the next stage of its development and with regard to the future seem to be trend-setting. Owing to their communicative and inspiring nature, the summary can be considered a good starting point for an effective exploitation of their potential. Based on the study of the texts used at the birth of Slovak text studies it can be concluded that the most serious practical problems are related to the way texts are edited and the choice of the basic text. Using the texts written by younger authors the scientific character of the text studies was demonstrated as well as how they are bound with literary theory and why they are important for the correct understanding of literary texts. The summary and assessment of the Slovak text studies in the article map their most important topics and debatable issues, relate the results of the research by the literary scientists engaged in this field and draw attention to their various approaches. They also raise questions about the direction of the Slovak text studies in the future.
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NA RUBE SPRÍTOMŇOVANIA IDEÁLU (MELANCHÓLIA V DISKURZE SLOVENSKÉHO LITERÁRNEHO REALIZMU)

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Taranenková I.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2015
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vol. 62
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issue 2
81 – 95
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The paper is focused on several ways of presenting melancholy in the discourse of Slovak literary realism – in the works by P. O. Hviezdoslav but mostly in the proses by S. H. Vajanský and M. Kukučín. Built on the latest research into the subject matter of interdisciplinary character, it deals with the dual presence of melancholy in the national revivalist narrative, which highlights the fundamental contradiction in Slovak literature of the 19th century oscillating between the ideal and its manifestations, i.e. the deficit of it in empirical experience. Despite the explicit marginalization, melancholy becomes a category showing deeper structural qualities of Slovak culture including Slovak literature in the 19th century, which is related to the nostalgic and utopian moments being the subject of numerous writings. It represents the „negative reality“ (L. F. Földényi), which reflects its efforts, ambitions and contradictions reaching beyond the actual era.
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CONCERNING POETRY AND FICTION (LYRICS AND EPICS) AS THE TWO FORMS OF CRITICAL INITIATION AND INSPIRATION IN DEALING WITH LITERATURE (Na margo poezie a prozy (lyriky a epiky) ako dvoch podob kritickej iniciacie a inspiracie pri praci s literaturou)

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Matejov F.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2009
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vol. 56
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issue 3
201-205
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This reflection is a short summary of reading and partly of a work experience with the texts devoted to Slovak literature. They come approximately from the half of the last century. This experience points the title of formulated thesis. Writing about poetry was particularly focused on older personalized line (empathic or critically distant), and stressing more evocation of the work, dealing with the character of an author and methodically progressing a structural line. Inspirational confrontation with transformation in poetry that happened in the end of the 50s and the 60s evolved several interpretational initiatives concentrated on semantically complicated contemporary poetic texts. Fiction, modernized in all transformations, would more correspond with all articulated constituted 'worlds' than contemporary poetry with intermediate self-understanding of society, with its official or alternative explanation and with the 'world' opening explosiveness, contemplativeness, fragmentariness, etc. Analogies of narrative fiction and historiography interpretation could help in a less conflicted transposed fiction in treating history of literature. An experience that makes rather problematic usual work with literature of a strong poetry sort can serve as a reminder: history is not only stated by 'subsequence' and 'similarity' of facts (in all methodological travesties still always by Comte's provenience), but it has non spectacular dimension 'in actu' evolving semantic ruptures, explosions, epiphanies, illuminations, or catastrophes.
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DRAMATICKÝ FRAGMENT PAVLA ORSZÁGHA HVIEZDOSLAVA NA LUCIU

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Gbúr J.
Slovenské divadlo (Slovak Theatre)
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2021
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vol. 69
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issue 4
403 - 415
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The aim of the study is a comprehensive analysis of the little-known dramatic fragment Na Luciu, written by the classic of Slovak literature Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav. The complexity of the applied approach lies in the use of several research methods (heuristic, comparative, analytical-synthetic), which are used to assess relevant facts of theoretical (the form-genre area of drama, romantic-realistic creative principle) and the material character (the circumstances of the creation of the dramatic fragment, the thematic background of its creation, the structural characteristics of the text).
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IDYLICKÝ TOPOS V SLOVENSKEJ PRÓZE ŠESŤDESIATYCH ROKOV 19. STOROČIA

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Palkovičová E.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2019
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vol. 66
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issue 6
463 – 477
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The paper focuses on Slovak prose written in the 1860s. The first part maps the social and cultural context of literary production and the state of the national emancipation process which received new impulses in the new political situation during the period of time between the end of absolutism and the Austro-Hungarian Compromise in 1867. The other part of the paper pays attention to social novellas written by Mikuláš Štefan Ferienčík (1825 – 1881), Daniel Bachát (1840 – 1906), Viliam Pauliny-Tóth (1826 – 1877) and Štefan Križan (1826 – 1894), which comply with new requirements laid down on prose, namely to entertain, to attract and to educate the bourgeois audience as well as to address their national awareness. The works of prose mentioned above feature an idyllic topos characteristic of the 19th century Slovak literary discourse. It either has a form of a „lovely place“ in a remote forest settlement which keeps the world of civilization at a distance or a „happy home“ which stays in a close contact with it. Despite certain remnants of romantic poetics, which may be disclosed in representations of an idyllic topos, the writings present a rather Biedermeier-like attitude towards the reality: the ordinary is shown as a celebration or a ritual, they try to establish harmony between the idyllic place and the outer world, the community of a family or friends is depicted as a place that is a guarantee of moral values and national freedom.
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K AUTOPORTRÉTU LITERÁRNEHO KRITIKA V PREMENÁCH DOBY (LITERÁRNY KRITIK JÁN ROZNER V ROKOCH 1954 – 1963)

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Taranenková I.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2013
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vol. 60
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issue 3
233 – 243
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The study is focused on the literary-critical writings by Ján Rozner published between the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s, which are compiled in the collection of his reviews called Pohľad v zrkadlách (A Look in the Mirrors, 1969). They have all the attributes of the situation in Czechoslovak culture and society cautiously but still moving from the normative paradigm set by the Socialist Realism doctrine to more spontaneous and more pluralist forms. As regards the arts and culture, the liberalization of the social situation was manifested in diagnosing and criticizing the acts of „schematism“ and in gradually undermining the Socialist Realism doctrine, in growing tendencies to see the concept of Socialist literature within a wider context, accenting the independence of the arts from the political power. The latest research into the period of time in question suggests that the process was not homogeneous and linear, but rather discontinuous and heterogeneous, containing obvious relapses, controversies and paradoxes, which is significantly proved in the analysed Rozner´s writings. Rozner carries out a consistent analysis of the notions used in the contemporary cultural discourse, because he sees them as the world structure processing medium. His goal is then to restore critical-analytical thinking and to point at the dynamic nature of the cognitive process. One of the central notions related to the immediate present, which makes it different from the past at the same time, is the „multidimensional“, „multifarious“, „multi-individual“ nature of each approach, which helps spread „the freedom of open possibilities“. However, establishing the framework for making the individual processes and attitudes more dynamic, individualistic, heterogeneous is unquestioned in Rozner´s articles from this period, and presenting the richness and variety eventually refers to the whole of „the Socialist Realist arts“, more or less accented, yet undoubted.
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SLOVENSKÁ ELEKTRONICKÁ LITERATÚRA

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Husárová Z.
World Literature Studies
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2016
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vol. 8
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issue 3
57 – 77
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The study maps and describes the production of electronic literature in the Slovak cultural environment. Even though it focuses on the era after communism, theoretical texts on the connections between cybernetics and arts, with discussions on the possibilities for literature and literary theory, dating from the 1950s onwards, are also presented. The study divides Slovak electronic literature according to the way the authors treated the digital text: whether they appropriated the existing one (Legel, Labuda, Barok, Gruska, Bartoš, Ivan, Husárová-Panák, Šicko), combined the appropriated text with their authorial text (Juhász, Kitta) or wrote their own text (Šulej, Murin, Juhász, Husárová – Panák).
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DOWNCOME TO THE DEPTH OF THE BASEMENT, ASCENSION TO THE HEIGHT OF THE CEILING (Zostup do hlbin suterenu, vystup do vysin povaly)

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Horvath T.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2009
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vol. 56
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issue 3
221-232
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The author stated in the study introduction that the social and literary crisis in the period of schematism, which suppressed 'low', entertaining genres as 'bourgeois relic', had also its non intentional positive consequences on writing on crime story. In the 60s of the 20th century following boom of publishing detective novels brought also a need of their defence, what happened with help of scholarly reflection on literary scholarship (J. Skvorecky, J. Zabrana, F. Jungwirth, K. Földvari, R. Stukovsky, V. Petrik, T. Schwarz, E. Klinger and the others). The author comes to the 'basement' of a detective genre in the study and makes analysis of literary courses of Nick Carter, Tom Shark and Leon Clifton. He analysis e.g. Tom Shark's stories keeping the schemes of classical type of a crime story: a criminal is always mysterious, then narrative block follows the investigation (in 'Tom Shark's like stories' adventurous and dominant in all composition) and finally the criminal is disclosed in scene presenting solution as one of the participating characters, usually 'the least-likely person'. In spite of classical crime story those stories do not follow the fair play rules, articulated by former establishers of the detective genre. Nowadays thrillers become close to 'Tom Shark's like stories', of course, they are more worked out in plot and in stylistics.
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VZÁJOMNÉ HĽADANIE IDENTITY: SLOVENSKO-MACEDÓNSKE LITERÁRNE, KULTÚRNE A JAZYKOVÉ KONTAKTY V 20. STOROČÍ A V SÚČASNOSTI

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Taneski Z.
Konštantínove listy
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2014
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vol. 7
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issue 7
61 – 72
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The main aim of the paper is to present the literary-historical analysis of the Slovak-Macedonian literary, cultural and linguistic relations in the 20th century and in the present. The study offers an overview of the history of literary translation which has had a major impact of the nature of the Slovak-Macedonian literary and linguistic associations. Other forms of contacts, especially of cultural and historical character, are mentioned as well. Finally, a detailed survey of bibliography is included, which covers the variety of Slovak-Macedonian literary landscape. These include also translations and book reviews from 1945 to 2012.
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V SÚMRAKU MILA URBANA

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Janecová T.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2017
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vol. 64
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issue 6
461 – 471
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The goal of the paper is an analytical and interpretatory reflection on Urban´s short story V súmraku/In the Twilight from the collection titled Výkriky bez ozveny (Screams without Echos, 1928). The interpretation was written with the ambition to contribute to the literary and scientific corpus dedicated to Urban´s literary work with regard to various text forms of his short story published in the years 1928, 1943 and 1965, and also to comment on the parallels between the short story in question and Russian literature (Dostoyevsky, Andreyev). The resources used for writing the paper include the editions of the short story: the original edition of the collection of novellas was provided by Báčki Petrovac library, the later ones are widely available. The literary and scientific resources included writings by experts of Urban´s literary work (Koli, Rakús, Števček), whose findings are related to the subject and the goal of the paper. The comparison of the editions of the short story In the Twilight from the years 1928, 1943 and 1965 helped discover the tendency to weaken the explicitness by making the expressions more and more vague and by reducing the narrator´s comments, as well as to increase the suspense in the short story through the reduction mentioned above and the tendency to strengthen the lyric and vivid elements in the text. The nature of the contrasts on the syntactic and semantic levels was described in order to clarify the way of creating the tension-and-ease arc employed in the short story. The presence of the allusions to Russian literature was demonstrated by including the quotations from the literary works dealing with the creation of characters in the situation of a murderer´s inner drama (Andreyev), the similarity between the literary works of Urban and Dostoyevsky was presented by comparing the outer motifs (the image of beating a horse, an axe as a murder weapon) as well as the inner ones (the motive for the crime, the breaking point of the conflict with God). The paper is supposed to enrich the literary and scientific reflection on Urban´s literary work. The in-depth interpretation of the structure of the short story In the Twilight contributes to the research into Urban´s poetics.
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