Slovenská literatúra

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Authors: Viliam Nádaskay

The prose work of Márius Kopcsay

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Authors: Martina Vangorová

Feminisms

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Authors: Šimon Čižmár

Body and embodiment in Slovak poetry

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Authors: Judit Dobry

The article takes a historical approach to the phenomenon of Hungarian literature in Czechoslovakia and Slovakia. As a result of peace treaties ending the First World War not only new states, but also new literatures appeared on the map of Europe. Hungarian authors of the former Austria-Hungary started to write a completely new literature in a completely new state which required a completely new terminology as well. This article tries to shed light on key factors that shaped this literature and the identity of its authors, as well as on issues that preoccupied literary scholars from its early years to the present days. Since the article was based on source texts in Hungarian language that are not accessible in other languages, it can be also considered as a short summary and overview of Hungarian literature written in Czechoslovakia and Slovakia and the space for introducing its most relevant literary scholars, literary historians, and their most important theoretical and historical works on this phenomenon. In this way, it can also provide a starting point for further research.

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Authors: Jana Juhásová

The historical form of minimalism which culminated in the Euro-American context in the 1960s – 1980s did not find its way into Slovak poetry. Nevertheless, several Slovak artists and poets adopted and creatively adapted individual features of minimalist poetics – conceptuality, aesthetics of the sublime, poetics of indications, ellipsis, short forms of narrative, the enunciative, intermediality, seriality, thematic minimalism, etc. They did so also under the influence of contacts with the work of foreign authors. Literary historian Peter Zajac connects the Slovak poets with the cultural paradigm of the minimal and perceives them also in contemporary cultural landscape as productive tendencies in the visual arts and literature. The article focuses on the work of Rudolf Jurolek (1956) whose poetry joins natural lyricism with subtle spiritual overtones. His inclination towards the short poetic form and reduction can be observed in various forms and modifications in his poetry over the years from his early writing published in journals in the 1970s to the most recent collection of poetry Bukolika ([Bucolics] 2021) which was awarded Zlatá vlna award in 2022. Jurolek’s manifestations of minimalism captivate with their conceptual character and variety of procedures, but also with their unique thought conception, in which minimalism is connected with complementary and harmonizing processes.