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The main intention of the paper is to discern particular female features in the travel story that belonged to the most popular literary genres of the 19th century. The travel story may be considered a male genre as women writers hardly took a share in creating its modern shape. The genre of travel story was very important for the Slovak literature of the 19th century: according to Zlatko Klatik, a specific Slovak variant of this genre was created, which he calls 'the ideological travel story', in order to convey both the ideas of national sovereignty and co-operation of Slavonic nations. Regarding this context, the paper is aimed at examining how all the features of this male genre were modified in the only one Slovak ideological travel story of the 19th century written by a woman - 'Pani Georgiadesova na cestach. Vesely cestopis do Prahy na narodopisnu vystavu' by Terezia Vansova.
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The travelogue 'Mrs Georgiadesova on her travels' written by Theresa Vansova is an original record of some Slovak patriot´s visit to the Panslavic Exhibition in Prague held in 1895. Then Prague was the place where the stimuli for the cooperation of the Slavs used to come from. The writer deeply appreciates the Czech´s fraternal empathy with Slovaks in the period of Hungarianization and focuses on national education in her narration. The travelogue also includes a detailed description of the exhibits and the atmospehere at that great event. The exhibition represented a symbolic world where the Slovaks could see themselves from a distance in the scale models and so the trip was also considered an allegorical journey to their self-awareness. Unlike literary genres of high culture, the marginal genre of travelogue allows Vansova to experiment with the language, which she does in an original way by breaking the rules of its rigid official form. The natural language used by Johanka, the narrator, reflects the author's desire to establish a closer relationship with the reader, to be more communicative. The travelogue 'Mrs Georgiadesova on her travels' does not only deal with the conflict between idealism (romanticism) and realism; it present us with a wider range of issues directly affecting the relationship between the language and the reader, the relationship between the citizen and the nation as well as other nations, the problem of modality and the artistic transformation of the national characteristics.
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