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Ján Kollár (1793 – 1852) was well known Slovak representative, celebrated poet and ideologist. However his scientific career is still not well illuminated. This paper focuses on Kollár's interest in history and his discovery of the supposed Slavic pagan idol. During the honeymoon in autumn 1835 Kollár visited town Bamberg in Germany. Near entrances of the Bamberg cathedral he found two ancient sculptures of lions and copied supposed runic inscription. He believed that they represent Slavic deity "Černoboh" [Dark/Evil God] and that the inscription is evidence of the runic letters of the ancient Slavs. About his discovery he wrote to friends. Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795 – 1861) informed the scientific spheres and also German scientists began to occupy themselves with problems of the sculptures and inscrip-tion. Although the final achievements proved that the inscription was not real Slavic relic and sculptures were created in the Middle Ages, Kollár believed in their authenticity for the rest of his life. The discovery also influenced his later scholar activities, when he became a professor of Slavic archaeology and occupied himself with problems so-called "Prillwitz idols".
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The paper analyzes the importance and place of evangelical bishop Daniel Krman as a symbol in the local (the inhabitants of town Myjava), confessional (Protestants) and national (Slovaks) identity and memory. It examines folk manifestations, literary production and the societies, institutions and public spaces in Myjava that have adopted Krman´s name. The golden age of the institutionalized commemoration of D. Krman may be the first half of the 20th century. To date Krman predominantly functions as a significant confessional symbol, therefore Krmanesque festive culture is also closely related to the clerical and religious life. This symbol was usually pushed out of the context of various secular (public, national) festivals. The literary texts and ceremonial speeches written in the year 1940 (the 200th anniversary of Krman´s death) were marked by the resistance of the Lutheran community to the totalitarian regime of the Slovak State: despite the single attempt at the ecumenical understanding of the symbol, the literary image of Krman as a martyr of the evangelical faith became a tool of petrified confessional differences on the local as well as nationwide level.
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The book is devoted to the Polish translations of Slovak dramatic works in the context of the dialogue between both cultures. In the first part of the work an attempt is made at formulating a definition and arranging concepts, beginning from the concept of the dialogue between cultures, translation, the competence of the recipients and the translator proceeding through a discussion of the determinants of cultural proximity and the factors which specify the contribution of translation in the intercultural dialogue, including its functions and value. There is an outline of the contacts between Polish and Slovak cultures, with reference to the contribution of translations of Slovak literature into Polish. The second part of the book contain a discussion of the particular translations of Slovak dramatic works and their reception, which is preceded by an outline of the development of Slovak drama as well as the discussion of the theoretical concepts of translating dramatic works and their possible participation in the dialogue between cultures. An attempt was made at determining the contribution of these works in the Polish-Slovak dialogue of cultures in reference to each work that was discussed and to indicate the reasons of the particular state of affairs in the case of a given translation. Reference has also been made to the information about the authors of the particular translations. We may distinguish three periods in the history of the presence of Slovak playwriting output in Polish culture: the pre-war years, the post-war years and the period after the Velvet Revolution. Each of these periods has a peculiar nature of its own, determined above all by the historical context in which the cultural contacts between both peoples developed. In the inter-war period Slovak dramatic works were not staged in Polish theatres, and only one work was published in print — a one-act play by Jozef Gregor Tajovský entitled “Matka” [“Mother”]. Another phase of the Polish-Slovak dialogue of cultures begins in the years that followed the Second World War. Both the Polish literature as well as the Slovak literature was subordinated to the standards determined by the third, Soviet culture. The intercultural contacts were ideologised and politicised. Therefore the notion of a dialogue of cultures hardly applies here. In this context we may mention the translations of the following dramatic works: “Experiment Damokles” [“The Damocles Experiment”] by Peter Karvaš and “Kráľovná noci v kamennom mori” [“The Queen of the Night in the Stone Desert”] by Ján Solovič. After 1989 the conditions of cultural contacts changed. There appeared an opportunity to forge intercultural relations based on an authentic interests of both parties involved. In this time, the number of translations that were published in print increased in comparison with the previous period, whereas the number and the frequency of performances considerably decreased. This stage of the Polish-Slovak dialogue of cultures saw the publication of translations of the following works: Próba [The Test] by Lubomír Feldek, “Nowa skóra” [“New Skin”] by Viliam Klimáček, “Armagedon na Grbie” by Rudolf Sloboda, “Uczuciowa mieszanka” [“A Mixture of Feelings”] by Zuzana Uličianska and “Stryczek dla dwóch” [“A Noose for Two”] by Ivan Bukovčan. The text of the translation may assume various positions in the new cultural context: it may be domesticated, being subject to acculturation or on the contrary — it may become a rejected or even alienated translation. The last chapter of the book is devoted to problems of this kind. Among the Polish translations of Slovak dramatic works there were none that would be domesticated in our culture. Slovak drama participates in the Polish-Slovak intercultural communication but it struggles to participate in the dialogue between both cultures. Apart from the content of the bulk of the dissertation there is a critical discussion of the anthology of modern Slovak drama that is the only publication of its kind that was heretofore published in Poland — “Nowy dramat słowacki/Most recent Slovak drama”.
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The paper was created as a part of solving APVV project devoted to Cyrillic literature in Slovakia written until the end of 18th century. Uglian Gospel and Uglian Miscellanea are Cyrillic literary monuments of the Carpathian provenience from the end of 17th century. In this paper we describe Uglian manuscripts in angle of palaeography and content.
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“Emigrantologia Słowian” is an interdisciplinary scientific journal of the Committee of Slavonic Emigration Studies affiliated by the International Committee of Slavists. The main aim of “Emigrantologia Słowian” is to publish research papers, reviews and reports on various aspects of life of the Slavonic communities in emigration: culture, literature, language situation (with special reference to bilingualism).
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European Journal of Media, Art and Photography is scientific research journal in the field of mass media communication, which reflects contemporary forms of mass media background in the context of visual media.
EJMAP reflects the theoretical and visual aspects of interconnection and interdependency of mass media platform. It mediates the studies of theoretical character, theoretical and empirical character, research results and their implementation in practice, with a focus on the visuality, and profiling the journal such as intermediary of the mass media and intermedia issues.
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The point of this paper is to show that the idea of new beginning was clearly present in mid-19th century Slovak literature. This idea became the means of conveying revisions of Slovak history. It was also a sign of a deep cultural change, resulting from factors including secularisation and the influence of nationalist ideology. The direction of change can be observed in selected works by Janko Kráľ, Viliam Pauliny-Tóth, and Jonáš Záborský. These writers challenge the optimistic view of the world by seeing in it a fundamental mistake that needs to be corrected. They propose correcting the myth of origin (Christian, national), but on the basis of a hermetic paradigm (magic and/or gnosis). Thus they create a false dimension of transcendence that becomes the foundation of the “new era”.
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The paper focuses on the specific aspects of the manuscript irmologion of Ján Juhasevič Skliarskij. Unique details are shown not only by precise book presentations but also by the language and music records and a rare repertoire system. Presented irmologion redounds to the understanding of scribes, music and liturgical practice in the region of Byzantine-Slavonic tradition in Slovakia and the Sub-Carpathian area.
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The paper analyses the work of Ján Stanislav in the field of current Slovak literary language, current language culture and current Slovak correct pronunciation. Ján Stanislav´s view on these language areas is characterized and compared to current views. The paper provides an overview of works on these areas closely in the final bibliography.
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The author of the article considers the latest translations of Slovak literature in Poland in 2015. Among very well‑known and valued Slovak authors whose translations have been published recently are contemporary and modern authors of the younger generation (Pavol Rankov, Peter Krištúfek, Maroš Krajňak, Jana Beňová) and the older generation (Pavel Vilikovský, Daniela Kapitáňová). Their books were very well received by Polish recipients and it occurs that Slovak literature in Poland is read with steadily growing interest. The article concerns the Polish translations of Slovak poetry as well. The survey shows a decreasing number of translations of this kind of literature.
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When assessing and exploring the contents of Proglasu, they are still mostly the same, whether related to reproduce and recycle, conventional previews and affirmations in the scientific literature. There is no need to be too sharp observation, that we recognize that they have the passion to accent , just the size of the religious, liturgical interpretations in Proglas. Finally, it is logical, however, preceded by the words of the Gospel is Proglas. Proglas from 9th century s, however, something different than in the 21st century. Medieval realities have been well controlled and influenced by the emergence of this poem, especially religious, perhaps even more ecclesiastical influence. Proglas today is different than at the time of its creation, and still the same. Its central theme can be just its literariness interpretations.
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The paper is a marginal reflexive probe into this year’s New Drama Festival (10 – 15 May 2015 in Bratislava). This festival has a unique focus on contemporary texts of the so-called new drama (of Slovak and foreign provenience). The author deals with several selected productions, thinking about their themes and unusual expression, or innovative communicativeness. He states that this year’s 11th year of the New Drama Festival was mainly a platform of new communication of theatre in the universal sense and not only a traditional, recapitulating show.
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Historical plays about the protagonists of the national revival in the 19th century arise from the literary and scholarly ambitions of the Slovak author, playwright, fiction writer, literature and theatre scholar Karol Horák. In basic features, the study characterizes and summarizes the poetological and aesthetic specifics, characteristics and dramatic character of Horák’s works, which focus on both the leaders of the Slovak national movement (Ľudovít Štúr and Jozef Miloslav Hurban) and other players in the events of this period (Jonáš Záborský, Samo Bohdan Hroboň, Janko Kráľ). In the context of Slovak drama the mentioned group of dramas can be read separately, but also as a dynamic historical developmental process of the authorial dramatic method. In the broader sense, they are historical plays, and in the narrower sense, they are unconventional biographical historical plays in which the author values facts and adds nuances, colours and individualizing features to them, which reflect the outer reality and acquire the status of drama essays.
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The goal of the paper is to address the continuous existence of Slovak national culture outside the physical borders of the mother land. The readers are introduced into the subject of the complex evolution of the Slovaks living in the then Romanian Kingdom / Romania, especially in the first half of the 20th century. The objective and subjective interpretation reflects on the religious and didactic aspect in factual literature written by the Slovaks living in Romania by presenting two original writings which had (have) an important role and function in the social – cultural – literary development (i.e. they are a kind of stimuli for the national identity and self-preservation). The study contains particular extracts of the originals or metatexts written by experts in the given field, which help „illustrate“ the atmosphere of that period as well as the creative stimuli for this national minority within a wider context. The outcome and the contribution of the paper are seen in informing the people interested in the subject of the fact that the Slovak element „has pulsated with life“ not only below the Tatras but also further south.
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The paper is concerned with establishing the allegory of a cursed country in Slovak Romanticism, which is one of the defining signs in the works by the poets of the so-called Levoča School, however, their sphere of action was actually (as it is demonastrated in the material processed) considerably wider. The goal of the paper is to show when, in what way and through what mechanisms an originally neutral and general term, which was and still is an integral part of the language schemes (in the general sense, featuring a potentially implicit reference to the Bible – a curse), has transformed to one of the defining motifs of the Romantic topics, what way, in what forms and functions, it has become part of the mythic and poetic image (simile, symbol, allegory) and what mechanisms made it possible for the term to develop a form of one of the Slovaks´ best-known national myths.
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Poetika mlade generacije slovačkih peinika u Vojvodini (Miroslav Demka, Miroslav Dudok, Mihal Đugk Zlatko Benka, Jozef Klaeik), posmatrano s više aspekata, formiirala se kao negacija onih najkarakterlističnlijih ishodišta koji su uticali na stvaranje »grupne poetike« prethodne generacije. Termin »grupna poetika« ovaj put obeležavamo navodniioima, jer jd u prethodnoj generaciji i ne treba tražiti samo u pesničkim tekstovima, nego i u tekstovima kritičkim, kakve je pisao i piše jedan njen pnipađnik koji deluje ssuno kao kritičar (Mlihal Harpanj), kao i onaj drugi koji je pre svega pesnik |(autor ovih redova).
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