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THE PERMANENT CRISIS, OR CAN, COULD OR SHOULD COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES SURVIVE?: BETWEEN HISTORY, THEORY AND AREA STUDIES

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Pospisil I.

World Literature Studies

2009

vol. 1(18)

issue 1

50-61

At the same time comparative literature is approach, method and autonomic discipline of literary science with developed terminology and methodology. In the past besides positivism it passed through psychologism and immanent methods, esp. formalism and structuralism too. At present its characteristic feature is deep self-reflection. Comparative literature represents discipline, which contains history, theory, terminology and type of research method in the structure of literary science. Its long history already makes from comparative literature specific discipline that goes from study of Mediterranean area, antique and than from national literatures. Traditions, which are created in the Czech and Slovak cultural area and directed from Wollman's ideology to Durisin's special inter-literary community, disclosed not only the power but also lower aspects of literary comparatistics. One of the aspects of contemporary comparative literature is linked with cultural dialogue and area studies, which spread background of comparative researches. Contemporary status of comparative literature is rather complicated: on one hand there are traditional comparative methods and on the other, there is a keen quest for radical innovations. And, last but not least, comparative literature has appeared in the focus of application as a methodological tool when conceiving a new model of literary history or a history of any national literature that cannot be understood outside its comparative framework. The answer to the question in the title of this paper may be: comparative literature may function as loos net of historically tested approaches, single methods and visions, or as a chain of more complex approaches connected with new subjects and problems of world literature.

HRY FRANKA WOLLMANA NA SCÉNE SLOVENSKÉHO NÁRODNÉHO DIVADLA V DVADSIATYCH ROKOCH 20. STOROČIA

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Zelenková A.

Slovenské divadlo (Slovak Theatre)

2020

vol. 68

issue 4

297 - 309

Using new archival material, the study explores Frank Wollman’s plays staged by the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava in the 1920s. Recognised as a Czech expert in Slavonic studies, he lectured at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava. In the early years of his professional career, he presented himself as a “manifestly Czechoslovak” dramatist, whose drama Bohokrál (1921) [The Godking] published in book form portrayed Alexander the Great. The ideas of Czech and Slovak togetherness were conveyed through the Great Moravia theme in his historical tragedy Rastislav (1922). His Člun na moři (1924) [A Boat at Sea], a “human grotesque and political utopia” juxtaposing opposing human types, got a particularly keen public response. Overall, Wollman’s dramas reflected on major social conflicts, and by putting emphasis on moral ethos, they were intellectual in nature. They linked expressionist elements with the tradition of classical realistic drama. Even though the plays were not included in the basic repertory of the Slovak National Theatre when first staged, they have remained a witness of the author’s artistic formation as well as of the dramaturgy of SNT.

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THE PERMANENT CRISIS, OR CAN, COULD OR SHOULD COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES SURVIVE?: BETWEEN HISTORY, THEORY AND AREA STUDIES

HRY FRANKA WOLLMANA NA SCÉNE SLOVENSKÉHO NÁRODNÉHO DIVADLA V DVADSIATYCH ROKOCH 20. STOROČIA