Slovenská literatúra

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Authors: Milan Šišmiš

Review

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Authors: Katarína Badžgoňová

Review

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Authors: Veronika Rácová

The paper deals with literary and historical mapping of the beginnings of professional reflection of the textological and editorial stages of pre-production in book publishing in Slovakia. It focuses on the attempts at a theoretical grasp of the subject within a given period of time, i.e. from the 1950s to the early 1960s, which can be regarded as a period of time when this scientific branch was being formed in the Slovak environment. It reflects on three fundamental articles, which were published on this subject by Jozef Felix, Karol Rosenbaum and Mikuláš Bakoš and it shows how the authors mentioned above attempted at an early systematization of the knowledge of the branch although their conclusions were first and foremost based on the practical needs of the editorial pre-production for publishing houses. Therefore, the paper also pays attention to the reasons behind it coming to the conclusion that the beginnings of a more systematic thought given to the editorial pre-production stage in book publishing date back to the creation of an important publishing edition, which was the book series Hviezdoslav Library.

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Authors: Pavol Matula

The goal of the paper is to show the manifestations and forms of polonophileness of literary historian Stanislav Mečiar (1910 – 1971) in and 1930s. The interwar relations between Czechoslovakia and Poland were tense for almost twenty years. Problems were mainly caused by border disputes in Teschen Silesia, Spiš, Orava and Kysuce, different interests in foreign policy, power competition in the Central European area and attitude towards minorities. In this situation, the interest of young Slovak intelligence in Polish culture and science began to increase in the early 1920s, which was supported by Warsaw, in its efforts to undermine the position of Prague. Stanislav Mečiar, an important literary historian and representative of Matica Slovenska, was one of the young Polonophillic oriented Slovaks. His journey to Polish literature and culture began in the early 1930s, when he went through Professor of Jagiellonian University Władysław Semkowicz, a well-known Slovakophile, on his first scholarship in Zakopane and Krakow. His study trips to Poland continued in the following years, resulting in literary-historical texts and translations published in Slovak periodicals. Later, there was more extensive work on it: Tatras in Slovak and Polish poetry, Hviezdoslav and Kasprowicz and last but not least Poetry and Life. Since the mid-1930s Mečiar, as a representative of Matica slovenská, has maintained close contacts with several personalities of Polish literature and has been intensively involved in the development of Slovak-Polish cultural cooperation. His Polonophillic orientation was not disturbed even by the defeat and occupation of Poland, even though he was an exponent of the regime of the war Slovak Republic, a satellite of Nazi Germany. The paper built on archive materials shows development and forms of Stanislav Mečiar polonophileness.

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Authors: Mira Nábělková

The paper focuses on mutual reception of literary works and nurture of biliteracy in the Czech and Slovak cultural environments. Attention is paid to the issue of mutual intelligibility of Slovak and Czech in relation to the existence and development of bilingualism and biliteracy as historically changeable phenomena. Alongside the traditional dichotomy between „reading books in original“ and „reading books in translation“, what may be observed in the Czecho-Slovak context is also existence of the third way – reading books in the original language equipped with appended text dictionaries serving as aids in solving potential problems with unknown expressions in literary works. The paper presents specific examples of language management aimed at simultaneous nurture of bilingualism and biliteracy – publishing the requirements and suggestions of text lexicography and editorial pre-production of literary works including appended text dictionaries designed for Czech readers of Slovak literature. Attention is paid to the interwar period marked by intense social negotiations over the optimal interliterary relations.