Slovenská literatúra

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Authors: Nina Podmanická

Zdenka Valentová-Belićová: Images of Serbs in Slovak literature

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Authors: Beata Hanesová

Miloslav Vojtech – Zuzana Kákošová – Dagmar Garay Kročanová: Slovak fiction of the 18th – 20th centuries – poetics, interpretation, context

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Authors: René Bílik

The article takes a poetological approach to the thematising of everyday life and its connections with the poetics of the “effect of the real.” Methodologically, it is part of the research concept of the new poetics. On the material of a canonical text of Slovak literary realism – the novella “Neprebudený” ([The unawakened] 1886) by Martin Kukučín (1860 – 1928) –, it identifies poetological characteristics of the novella, reveals its existential parameters, and points to the place of M. Kukučín in the ironic-polemical line of modern Slovak prose. This innovative approach allows for identification in the structure of the text the tradition of the poetics of grotesque realism as conceptualised by M. M. Bakhtin on the folk culture of the Middle Ages and the literature of the European Renaissance. The identification of elements of the poetics of the grotesque in the text of the novella is based on the emphasis of this poetics on the shape/surface of the phenomena of the life world, especially the human body. Therefore, the starting point of the interpretation of the novella as outlined here is description as the basic stylistic procedure of realistic texts – the description of the character in this case. The description and subsequent interpretation of the image of the grotesque body makes it possible to identify the presence of the poetics of discrete irony as a key strategy of authorial narration in the text of the novella.

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Authors: Martin Navrátil

The article is a continuation of the author’s paper “Jozef Felix’s theoretical contributions to textual studies” (2023) which dealt with the theoretical conception of textual studies as outlined by Jozef Felix (1913 – 1977). Complementary to it, it attempts to capture the practical utilisation of Felix’s theoretical views (the need for careful collation of sources, justification of individual editorial steps, the application of the rule of “the last hand” with regards to the selection of the source text, searching for a space between the rejection of “proofreading deposits” and the rejection of “textological purism” in the linguistic treatment of the text, etc.) in the preparation of reader editions of the Slovak literary heritage. Felix’s editorial work, through which he set textological standards, is examined in the editions of Ivan Krasko’s works in the volumes Dielo ([Works] 1954) and Lyrické dielo ([Lyrical works] 1956) and in the edition of the first volume of Jan Palárik’s Dielo v dvoch zväzkoch ([Works in two volumes] 1955) that contains Palárik’s dramatic works and essays on theatre. Felix as a practical editor seems to have been successful in fulfilling his own requirements and contributed to the limitation of arbitrary and invasive editorial interventions, yet his procedures also seem to have had unintended and unwanted consequences.