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MARGINÁLNE O FESTIVALE NOVÁ DRÁMA 2015

Author(s): Miroslav Balay / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 04/2015

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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VLADIMIR VYSOCKIJ V SLOVENSKÝCH A ČESKÝCH PUBLIKÁCIÁCH

Author(s): Zuzana Spodniakova / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 02/2016

This study presents a bibliography of poem and song collections by Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky (1938-1980), a Russian actor and bard from the second half of the twentieth century, and publications dealing with him published either in the Slovak or Czech language from 1980 until present. It offers a survey of the translations of particular books and examines the source texts with regard to publication tendencies and editorial context in the original literary environment. It also explores publications consisting of thematically relevant translated and original materials about Vladimir Vysotsky. It follows the dramaturgy of publications, taking into consideration the tradition of translation of Vysotsky’s poetry by Milan Dvořák and Jana Moravcová into Czech and Lýdia Vadkerti-Gavorníková, Ľubomír Feldek and Ján Štrasser into Slovak, in books compiled and edited by Milan Tokár. Although the study focuses on seminal book publications, it also touches upon important magazine and journal publications of Vysotsky’s work and texts dealing with his legacy or personality.

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Slávnostná prednáška pri príležitosti udelenia Medzinárodnej ceny SAV 2017

Author(s): Joanna Goszczyńska / Language(s): Slovak,Polish Issue: 5/2017

Within the context of reflection on her own research into Slovak culture of the 19th century the author of the paper draws attention to the essential areas of her interest in her scientific projects: the myth of the folk hero Jánošík, the issue of Messianism, the issue of the historical mission of the Slovak nation and its narrative form. This is where she comes to the conclusion that certain simplification, silence and superficial perception have made the paradigm of 19th-century Slovak literature lean, while its precious universality was often overlooked in the name of its specific nature. For instance, the rehabilitation of Messianism reviews the opinion as to the provincial character of Slovak culture to a certain extent and situates it nearer the European universe. The multi-layer nature of the national identity discourse points out to the participation of Slovaks in the national political relations.

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Can the dissident speak? The Czech woman writer in the work of Philip Roth and Dominik Tatarka

Author(s): Charles Sabatos / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2017

The Czech dissident movement that began in the late 1970s was a network in which women played a key role, but the Czech writers who gained fame in the West were invariably men. In Philip Roth’s 1985 novella The Prague Orgy, his alter ego Nathan Zuckerman meets a woman writer named Olga, whose pursuit of the American writer owes more to erotic fantasy than to the milieu Roth recreates in otherwise faithful detail. This portrayal of the Czech female as both sexualized and “other” can be traced back to twentieth century Prague-German writers,but Roth both politicizes and intellectualizes this archetype by making the desiring (rather than desired) woman a writer and dissident. A real-life perspective on the Czech disidentka (female dissident) appears in the work of Dominik Tatarka, one of the few Slovak writers tobe closely associated with the dissident movement. The last work Tatarka published in hislifetime was a memoir based on tape-recorded interviews with Eva Štolbová, who became Tatarka’s connection to Prague dissident circles. In 1988, these Navrávačky (Tapings) were published in edited book form in Germany, and it was not until more than a decade later that the full transcripts were published in Slovakia. While the female Czech dissident is eroticized in this text as well, Štolbová is not a mere object of desire; she portrays her side of the story inher own memoir, Lamento (1994). The gender dynamic between Štolbová and Tatarka subverts the cultural assumption in which the Czech language was constructed as “masculine”and Slovak as “feminine.” Thus both Roth and Tatarka illustrate the interplay between “otherness”and gender in the production of dissident culture, and its reception by domestic (both Czech and Slovak) as well as international readers.

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Die Gestalt Jánošíks, des Gebirgsburschen, in der slowakischen Folklore und Literatur (1740–1820)

Author(s): Anna Gyivicsán / Language(s): German Issue: 1(2)/2007

Predominantly, this study examines two issues. First, why in a very short span of time the real historical person of Jánošík turned into a folklore and literary character and what kind of interaction can be revealed between these two fields. Second, why compared to the whole of the Slovakian folklore the Jánošík tradition is so scarce in Slovakian communities of Hungary. The author also attempts to answer to the question how the Jánošík legends attested in these communities appeared among the Slovakians who settled down in Hungary in the late 17th and early 18th century.

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Dieťa vo svete trpiacich alebo Interpretačné prieniky do próz Júliusa Barča-Ivana (Cirkus a Veľké tajomstvo)

Author(s): Martina Petríková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 27-28/2016

In this paper we deal with selected motifs (of child, suffering, cicrus, guilt…) in the artistic text of Július Barč-Ivan, which is connected with the context of eastern Slovakia and which was formed by ideology, as well as socio-political situation of the first Czechoslovak Republic. We choose the Barč-Ivan's proses, which thematises the „story‟ of character determined by dark sides of reality and in which the choosen motifs are presented through the artistic means and methods „from the interface‟ of expressionism and existentialism. Barč-Ivan's literary works fulfill not only an aesthetic function, but also other functions, as they benefit from the difficult family or socio-political, or socially conditioned situation.

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Medzi ideológiou, žánrom a spoločenskou objednávkou – filmové adaptácie popkultúrnych predlôh v československej kinematografii prechodu

Author(s): Juraj Malíček,Michaela Malíčková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 3/2019

The text attempts to identify specific methods used in film adaptations of literary works bySlovak and Czech authors that represent genres of popular culture in the so-called cinematographyof transition, defined by historical milestones which reflect various social, culturaland political changes. The normalization process in Czechoslovakia “softened” after 1985 andCzechoslovak cinematography became more open and free, although it still remained controlledby censorship which was not institutionally based. The sci-fi films for children andyoung adults, such as The Third Dragon (1985), directed by Peter Hledík, and the televisionfilm Gemini (1991), directed by Pavol Gejdoš, Jr., are pars pro toto examples of films whichwere not heavily loaded with ideology. The blood-spattered comedy The Flames of Royal Love(1990), directed by Jan Němec, typifies the period of social change after the fall of the IronCurtain in 1989 and the bizarre film Horror Story (1993), directed by Jaroslav Brabec, indicatesthe end of the cinematography of transition.

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The place of translated American literature in Slovak publishing houses after 1989

Author(s): Ľubica Pliešovská,Natália Popovcová Glowacky / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

This paper examines the main changes which were brought about by the globalization of culture and the commercialization of the book market in Slovakia after the fall of state socialismin 1989. It also aims at demonstrating the place of American literature in literary translationin Slovakia in the wake of the Velvet Revolution. The research assesses several different trends within publishing by answering such questions as: What are the most translated genres/subgenres? What are the proportions between aesthetically demanding literature and commercial/popular fiction? Who are the most widely translated American writers? Who are the translators that translated their works?

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Medzi izolovaným a fenomenalizujúcim subjektom: Melanchólia ako estetická kvalita v (spirituálnej) poézii Erika Jakuba Grocha

Author(s): Jana Juhásová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 3/2020

Clashing tendencies of despair, sadness and spiritual yearning can be observed in the work of the leading Slovak spiritual poet Erik Jakub Groch. The disturbing preponderance of the strained motives in the author’s recent collections leads to reflections on the nature of religious melancholy and its possible integration within the spiritual path and personal growth. Since visualization plays an essential role in the synthetic consciousness of this Slovak poet, the author of the study attempts to give more engaged solutions through the analysis of his viewpoint. In her search for answers, she relies mainly on Søren Kierkegaard’s reflection on despair (Tungsind), the concept of the dark night of St. John of the Cross, and the reversible visuals of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

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The intertextual aspect of the Faustian theme in 19th-century Slovak and Czech literature: Jonáš Záborský, Šebestián Hněvkovský, and the categories of “national” vs. “world”

Author(s): Anna Zelenková / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2020

The study attempts to identify the “interliterary network” of the post-Romantic period from the perspective of “small national literatures” through an analysis of two Central European texts: Faustiáda (1864) by the Slovak writer Jonáš Záborský and Doktor Faust (1844) by the Czech writer Šebestián Hněvkovský. Although in the history of their respective literatures, both texts rank among the classics, they have been seen as “antiquary relicts” because of their genre hybridization, literary-orientational interference, and parallel coexistence of two different poetics within individual texts. The works belong to the genre of “Faustiads” whose purpose is to demythicize and desacralize the Faustian theme. The parodical-humorous form or didactically patriotic presentation enables them to cope with the historical philosophy of their nations. The interliterary interpretation of these works results in the transformation of fixed negative reflections in the literary discourse and in the confirmation of the diversity of the Central European post-Romantic tradition.

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Hrdina v lyricko-epickej skladbe Detvan v kontexte dobového nacionalizmu

Author(s): Marta Fülöpová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2021

The analytical-interpretative study examines the depiction of literary characters in the lyrical-epic work Detvan written by Andrej Sládkovič. It interprets the ingenious system of relations between the Slovak nation represented by the main character Martin and King Matthias Corvinus. The study notes the shifts in meaning and symbolization of relationships in this work and reveals the influence of national ideology in the creation of characters and their relations. It proves that the relationship between the king and the main character is a poetic expression of the national program, and that the story line is determined by the Slovak autostereotype of a peaceful nation. The article was written on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Andrej Sládkovič’s birth.

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Slovenská literatúra v literárnohistorických prácach napísaných po maďarsky (1867 – 1918)

Author(s): Iván Halász / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 4/2021

The article concentrates on the image and reception of Slovak literature in specialised Hungarian-language texts from the period of Austro-Hungarian Compromise. In the history of Slovak-Hungarian relations, this period was one of the most complicated: the middle classes were being speedily assimilated and the Slovak culture was under intense pressure of the state and Hungarian culture. The first comprehensive publication on Slovak literature in this period was written by Imre Gáspár as early as 1879, but it remained without much feedback. Subsequent articles and encyclopaedic entries were penned by Slovak authors who either worked in Budapest as civil servants (Samo Czambel, Adolf Pechány) or were based directly in Martin, Slovakia (Jozef Škultéty). Škultéty was invited to write on Slovak literature by the Budapest-based professor Oszkár Asbóth who also authored a journal article on Svetozár Hurban Vajanský. Despite differences in authors’ social and cultural backgrounds, the narrative texts share several similarities: in the introduction, they provide a general overview of the history of the Slovak language and literature and then deal with outer-literary aspects in the works of a few authors and looked for similarities. The works of Ján Hollý and Andrej Sládkovič were held in especially high esteem.

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Biblická mýtizácia v autobiografckých dielach Štefana Pilárika

Author(s): Ingrid Papp / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 6/2022

The life of the Slovak Protestant priest and Baroque period author Štefan Pilárik (1615 – 1693) was filled with hardships. Pilárik was forced to convert by the Jesuits – and several times during his life at that –, in 1663, he was captured by the Tatars and Turks, and at the time the Protestant priests were persecuted, he was forced to leave the country. Pilárik described his sufferings in three texts bearing Latin titles: Sors Pilarikiana (1666), a poem written in Slovakized Czech and in German-language proses Currus Jehovae mirabilis (1678) and Turcico-Tartarica crudelitas (1684). These autobiographical stories are rare examples of early modern period autobiographical ego-documents written in the Kingdom of Hungary. As to the form and content, they followed the 17th-century Protestant preaching practice – the rhetorical and homiletic ways of creating the texts of sermon literature. The author was familiar with the inventive, dispositional, and elocutionary devices of the Lutheran homiletics and exegesis as formed by the Protestant theologians Philipp Melanchthon (1497 – 1560) and Andreas Gerhard Hyperius (1511 – 1564) and made them part of the systematising, interpretational, and expressive means he employed in his literary works.

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Religio triplex jako rámcový model autoreferenciality v Cestopisu Jána Kollára

Author(s): Róbert Kiss Szemán / Language(s): Czech Issue: 5/2023

The paper, employing the narratological method, examines and systematises self-referential speeches in Cestopis obsahující cestu do Horní Italie ([Travelogue containing a journey to Upper Italy] 1843) by Ján Kollár (1793 – 1852). Drawing on materials included in the kollar.elte.hu database, it maps typical forms of narrator’s self-referential speeches: the name of the author and his family members in the narration; the use and interpretation of the author’s own works in the narrative; the various forms of the author’s taste manifested in the text; the preferred literary, artistic, and architectural works he encounters or quotes; the presentation of the author’s ecclesiastical, philological, pedagogical, and other activities in the travelogue; and the narrative forms of self-referentiality that provide the narrator with the opportunity to express himself on an ideological level. The article also examines the various narrative roles which can be attributed to self-referential speeches and which point to the existence of an ideological system generally characteristic of the Enlightenment and Romantic periods in Central Europe. In this way, it reveals the characteristic features of Slavic national emblematism in the text and a certain broad system of ideas which can understood as religio triplex, which by merging revealed, natural, and national devoutness provides the narrator with a unified narrative framework.

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Dve „amerikánske“ poviedky zo začiatku 20. storočia z Dolnej zeme

Author(s): Dana Hučková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 6/2023

The emigration of Slovaks to overseas countries had a mass character at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. This phenomenon led to the emergence of a cultural-anthropological and subsequently literary topos of the Amerikán – “Americaner” (a person who returned from emigration to America to their homeland). Vojvodina Slovak writers in the early 20th century – the realistic prose writer Ján Čajak (1863 – 1944) and the prose writer and modernist playwright Vladimír Hurban Vladimírov (VHV, 1884 – 1950) among others – also addressed this topic. They perceived modernization processes differently, as evidenced by their choice of the genre. J. Čajak, in his moralistic short story Vysťahovalec ([The emigrant], 1904), emphasises tradition, religion, stability, and the order of the old world; he sees emigration as a destructive element. VHV incorporated the same social theme into the genre matrix of melodrama in the short story Dievča zo slepej uličky ([The girl from the blind alley], 1913). He critically captures the conservatism of the domestic environment and the mentality of Vojvodina Slovaks. Through the gradation of situations of emotional uncertainty, he introduces modernist poetic techniques into the traditional rural realistic short story. The thematological article primarily follows the relationship of both texts to the modernist discourse of the period.

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Téma emigrácie v súvislosti s post-juhoslovanskými konfliktmi v súčasnej slovenskej vojvodinskej dráme

Author(s): Ana Marić / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 6/2023

This study focuses on Slovak Vojvodina drama in the last decade of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, with an emphasis on the theme of emigration as one of the important topics in current dramatic production in Serbia. It analyses dramatic texts from the collections Nová slovenská vojvodinská dráma ([New Slovak Vojvodina drama], 2004, 2014) and the journal Nový život written by Slovak author Ľubomír Šárik, Slovak Vojvodina author Jan Hrubík, and playwright Vladislava Fekete, originally from Vojvodina but living in Slovakia. The authors in these dramas respond to the complex socio-political situation in Yugoslavia, particularly Serbia, in the 1990s and its subsequent impacts on the following decades, including the prominent issue of Slovak emigration from Serbia. The portrayal of the thematic and motivational layer of emigration varies in value depending on the creative potential of the author and their contextual placement. It ranges from unique dramatic story backgrounds (Ľ. Šárik, J. Hrubík) to the existentially heightened description of the immigrant’s border situation, including those from the Slovak enclave in Serbia (V. Fekete). This research opens up space for a more active intercultural dialogue between Slovak, Slovak Vojvodina, and Serbian drama.

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Postoj slovenských dolnozemských spisovateľov ku kodifikáciám slovenčiny

Author(s): Marko Stojanović / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 6/2023

This contribution addresses the relationship between Vojvodina Slovak writers and the issue of Slovak language codification in the second half of the 19th century. It is based on the thesis that a literary language is one of the most important elements in the process of nation-building and that its establishment is politically, historically, and linguistically crucial. The study examines the awareness of the Lowland intellectual elite regarding the language situation in Slovakia, as it developed in the 1840s and 1850s, marked by the 1848/1849 revolution in the Austrian Empire. A chronological analysis of the relationship between Slovak elites from the Lowlands and two codifications of literary Slovak – Ľudovít Štúr’s (1843) and Michal Miloslav Hodža and Martin Hattala’s (1851, known as the Hodža-Hattala codification) – documents the confusing language situation in the Slovak context in the second half of the 19th century. The Hodža-Hattala reform was more or less successfully established in the journalistic discourse of Vojvodina Slovaks, but biblical Czech continued to dominate communication within the Evangelical Church.

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Cyrilský rukopis Klimenta Bukovského z 18. storočia

Author(s): Svetlana Šašerina / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 04/2023

The present issue contains a diplomatic edition of the Cyrillic manuscript book known as the Manuscript of Kliment Bukovský. The edition is prefaced by an article with a manuscript edition. Kliment Bukovský’s Manuscript is located in the archive of the Uzhhorod State Library and is connected with the Slovak linguistic-cultural horizon. The handwritten book was used in the monastery on Buková hôrka, as evidenced by the ex-libris and marginalia. As with other documents of Eastern Slovak provenance, the use of the Gospel pericopes in vernacular language is characteristic of this manuscript. In addition to the Gospel readings and commentaries on them, Kliment Bukovský’s manuscript also contains texts common to collections for vernacular reading, such as overview on Old Testament kings and Roman emperors, a retelling of a legend from the Gesta Romanorum, and an apocryphal legend of Christ’s birth.

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Theological Prints as a Cultural Particularity of the Aristocratic Library in Voderady with a Focus on Péter Pázmány’s Prayer Book and Its Didactic Importance

Author(s): Zuzana Suchaňová,Rastislav Nemec / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2024

The objective of this contribution is the presentation and analysis of the theological assemblage of the aristocratic library in Voderady, which, from a historical viewpoint, represented an important collection of period prints. According to the period catalogue Catalogus Vedroniensis 1894, it initially contained as many as twelve thousand works divided into 19 thematic groups, listed over 532 pages based on the catalogue system common of the time. The aggregate of the- ological treatises contains several dozen interesting works in multiple languages, which testifies to a considerable degree of open-mindedness from the Zichy family, in religious and confessional issues among others. From the 83 theological works in the Voderady library, we intend to call attention to one of the most published works of Péter Pázmány, published both during his lifetime and after his death: Christian Prayer Book2 (Pécs 1853), and analyse its literary and linguistic parameters to reveal interesting didactic and humanistic elements that go back to the ancient rhetorical tradition.

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Recepčné hry Dušana Taragela (neherca)

Author(s): Peter Darovec / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2025

The study focuses on the various forms of a specific postmodernist literary game, whose framework and rules are primarily determined by the conventions of pop culture genres. These genre foundations serve as a substrate for creating a unique artistic expression. The transitional period of the 1990s in Slovak literature, marked by significant changes in the socio-political landscape and a shift in literary life, is identified as the typical era for such ironically subversive text-forming practices. This period also saw a shift in readers’ genre preferences toward popular culture. The article analyses the forms of literary games with genres on the works of contemporary Slovak prose writer Dušan Taragel (1961), drawing on texts spanning his entire oeuvre from his debut book Rozprávky pre neposlušné deti a ich starostlivých rodičov (Stories for naughty children and their caring parents, 1997) to his latest novel Mafiánske balady (Mafia Ballads, 2022). A more extensive interpretation is dedicated to this recent novel, as it serves, in many respects, as a bridge between the present and the author’s creatively productive decade of the 1990s.

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