Stereotypy vo vyučovaní slovenského literárneho realizmu
Stereotypes in the teaching of Slovak Literary Realism

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the teaching of Slovak realist literature in secondary schools and on the transfer of the latest findings of literary research concerning this movement into classroom practice. An analysis of secondary school literature textbooks, handbooks and compendiums for high school graduates, as well as teaching materials, educational videos and podcasts currently available on the internet shows that the teaching of Slovak realist literature still contains relics of Marxist literary discourse and stereotypically repeats outdated interpretations of literary-historical facts. The article pays particular attention to the established “school” division of Slovak realism into “first” and “second waves”, which is a remnant of the originally broader and now outdated Marxist pan-realistic concept of the history of Slovak literature, which favours a literary-historical narrative about the victorious establishment of realism during literary development. In the next section, the study addresses the question of the appropriateness of using the term “critical realism.” This term was also part of the older Marxist literary-historical discourse, but is still used in school practice today and is stereotypically identified with the “second wave” of Slovak Realism.

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