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2023

  • New Poetics and Russian Prose of the Early 21st Century

    Obalka_1_obryseds. MÁRIA KUSÁ – IVAN POSOKHIN

    Russian prose of the early 21st century, as one of the last refuges for freedom of expression in Putin’s militant Russia, has gone through several poetological and thematological transformations. The studies in this issue, originating from the post-socialist cultural spaces, present a “sideways glance” at the key names and works of this period, reflect changes in literary paradigms, approach traditional categories such as literary space or plot in the framework of existential poetics, (re)interpret ways of presenting one’s own identity and images of the Other, and present the reception of Russian prose in the current wartime circumstances.

     

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    OBSAH / CONTENTS
    EDITORIÁL / EDITORIAL
    MÁRIA KUSÁ – IVAN POSOKHIN
    New poetics and Russian prose of the early 21st century ■ 2 (go to article)

    ŠTÚDIE – TÉMA / ARTICLES – TOPIC
    JAKUB KAPIČIAK – HELENA ULBRECHTOVÁ
    Postmemorial sincerity in the writing of Sergei Lebedev and Maria Stepanova ■ 3 (go to article)
    MAXIM DULEBA – IRINA DULEBOVÁ
    Metamodern urban experience in the anthology of topophilic prose V Pitere zhit’ ■ 23 (go to article)
    TÜNDE SZABÓ
    The symbolization of the fragmented plot structure in Ludmila Ulitskaya’s novels ■ 36 (go to article)
    MONIKA SIDOR
    From Kyiv to Brisbane: Evgenii Vodolazkin’s reflections on spiritual identity in the context of space ■ 47 (go to article)
    GANNA MEREZHYNSKA – OLENA VASYLEVYCH
    The image of the Other as a reflection of cultural identity (a case study of Russian postmodern prose and dramaturgy) ■ 58 (go to article)
    IVAN POSOKHIN
    Transformations in the perception of Russian literature after February 24, 2022 ■ 69 (go to article)

    ŠTÚDIE / ARTICLES
    ANNA ZELENKOVÁ – AGNIESZKA JANIEC-NYITRAI
    The Central European path to worldliness from the point of view of so-called small literatures ■ 88 (go to article)

    SPRÁVY / NEWS
    MILOŠ ZELENKA
    XXIII International Congress of the AILC-ICLA in Tbilisi ■ 102 (go to article)

    RECENZIE / BOOK REVIEWS
    Michaela Pešková: Vladimir Sorokin: The Future of Russia (Ivan Posokhin) ■ 110 (go to article)
    Markéta Křížová – Jitka Malečková (eds.): Central Europe and the Non-European World in the Long 19th Century (Róbert Gáfrik) ■ 111 (go to article)
    Matthias Schwartz – Nina Weller – Heike Winkel (eds.): After Memory: World War II in Contemporary Eastern European Literatures (Dobrota Pucherová) ■ 114 (go to article)
    Bertrand Westphal: Atlas des égarements: Études géocritiques [Atlas of bewilderment: geocritical studies] (Terézia Guimard) ■ 117 (go to article)
    Jana Truhlářová: Dlhá cesta k porozumeniu. Émile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant v slovenskej literatúre a kritike [A long way to understanding. Émile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant in Slovak literature and criticism] (Andrea Tureková) ■ 119 (go to article)

  • The Many Faces of Resilience and Healing in Contemporary Narratives

    Obalka_2_2023ed. ANA MARÍA FRAILE-MARCOS

    Resilience, the capacity to adapt to adversity and rebound, has become a ubiquitous and contested concept, yet approaches to it from the field of literary criticism are still scarce. This issue contributes to filling in this gap by probing current narratives, from which resilience emerges as a central multifaceted paradigm allowing to apprehend contemporary reality and subjectivity. The ten articles gathered here interrogate the global currency of notions of resilience, while mapping an aesthetics of critical resilience that opens new paths to knowledge, hope, and positive agency..

     

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    OBSAH / CONTENTS
    EDITORIÁL / EDITORIAL
    ANA MARÍA FRAILE-MARCOS
    The many faces of resilience and healing in contemporary narratives ■ 2 (go to article)

    ŠTÚDIE / ARTICLES
    BELÉN MARTÍN-LUCAS
    Resilience and healing in the slums of Manila: Merlinda Bobis’s The Solemn Lantern Maker ■ 6 (go to article)
    MARISOL MORALES-LADRÓN
    Embodying the mother, disembodying the icon: Female resistance in Colm Tóibín’s The Testament of Mary ■ 19 (go to article)
    MIRIAM BORHAM-PUYAL
    Nurses, mothers, sisters: Relational resilience and healing vulnerability in Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder and The Pull of the Stars  ■ 31 (go to article)
    LUCÍA LÓPEZ-SERRANO
    Subverting resilience in the psychiatric ward: Finding the good death in Miriam Toews’s All My Puny Sorrows ■ 44 (go to article)
    PETER ARNDS
    From defeat to resilience: The human cockroach in world literature after Kafka ■ 56 (go to article)
    SARA CASCO-SOLÍS
    Socio-ecological resilience in Sharon Bala’s The Boat People ■ 66 (go to article)
    VICENT CUCARELLA-RAMON
    Resilience and ethics of care against racial capitalism in David Chariandy’s Brother ■ 77 (go to article)
    MARTINA HORÁKOVÁ
    Words that matter: Yindyamarra, Wiradjuri resilience and the settler-colonial project in Tara June Winch’s The Yield  ■ 88 (go to article)
    SILVIA MARTÍNEZ-FALQUINA
    Violence, relation and beauty in Toni Jensen’s “Women in the Fracklands”   ■ 101 (go to article)
    KENDRA REYNOLDS
    Re-examining the “Hero’s Journey”: A critical reflection on literature selection for affective bibliotherapy programs on resilience ■ 113 (go to article)

    DISKUSIA / DISCUSSION
    CHARLES SABATOS
    Robert B. Pynsent’s contributions to the study of Slovak literature ■ 126 (go to article)

    RECENZIE / BOOK REVIEWS
    Vincent Jouve: Pouvoirs de la fiction. Pourquoi aime-t-on les histoires? (Silvia Rybárová) ■ 135 (go to article)
    Peter Getlík: Pohyb ku kognitívnym adaptačným štúdiám. Adaptácia ako hra (Jana Kuzmíková) ■ 138 (go to article)
    Zuzana Kopecká: Symptómy literárnej moderny v slovenskej a českej medzivojnovej próze (Ján Gallik) ■ 140 (go to article)
    Miloslav Szabó: Kráska a zvrhlík: Rasa a rod v literatúre 19. a 20. storočia (Adriana Amir) ■ 142 (go to article)

  • World Literature and National Literature

    WLS_3_2023_obalkaed. PÉTER HAJDU

    From the perspectives of circulation or canonization, world literature does not exist in a single universal form, but in local, regional, areal, national, and sociocultural variations. National literature emerged as a meaningful term in the 19th century. Its relationship to world literature has been a topic of discussion for 200 years. The articles in this issue scrutinize the concepts of world and national literature from various theoretical approaches, such as investigating their interactions from viewpoints of power and gender. It also includes case studies from the Lusophone and Chinese contexts, showing how writers from the Renaissance to the Internet era have transcended national readerships and reached global ones.

     

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    OBSAH / CONTENTS
    EDITORIÁL / EDITORIAL
    PÉTER HAJDU
    World literature and national literature ■ 2 (go to article)

    ŠTÚDIE – TÉMA / ARTICLES – TOPIC
    PÉTER HAJDU
    National peculiarities in approaching the Classics: The case of Catullus with Hungarian modernism ■ 4 (go to article)
    MICHAEL STEPPAT
    Nation vs. world? Global imprints on Shakespeare and the orientation of world literature ■ 13 (go to article)
    SIMÃO VALENTE
    World literature and national literatures in Portuguese  ■ 25 (go to article)
    FATIMA FESTIĆ
    Gender as a mediation between world literature and national literature ■ 34 (go to article)
    ZHENLING LI
    Cross-culture, translation and post-aesthetics: Chinese online literature in/as world literature in the Internet era ■ 45 (go to article)
    TAO HUANG
    The state’s role in “worlding” a popular national genre: The case of China and Liu Cixin ■ 62 (go to article)
    DAVID PAN
    The end of world literature? ■ 73 (go to article)

    ŠTÚDIE / ARTICLES
    BENEDIKTS KALNAČS
    Walking through the text: The representation of mobility in late 19th-century Latvian fiction  ■ 89 (go to article)
    ROLF PARR
    Teória interdiskurzov: Teoretický rámec – operacionalizácia – vzorové analýzy  ■ 99 (go to article)

    DISKUSIA / DISCUSSION
    MILOSLAV SZABÓ
    Literarischer Antisemitismus? Diskussionsbeitrag anhand einer Analyse von Thomas Manns Novelle Der Tod in Venedig  ■ 115 (go to article)

    RECENZIE / BOOK REVIEWS
    HERBERT E. CRAIG: Assessing the English and Spanish Translations of Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu (Charles Sabatos) ■ 127 (go to article)
    ANTONIO BARNÉS — MAGDA KUČERKOVÁ (eds.): The Figurativeness of the Language of Mystical Experience: Particularities and Interpretations (Rafael Ruiz Andrés) ■ 130 (go to article)
    YIFENG SUN: Translational Spaces: Towards a Chinese-Western Convergence (Yujuan Zou) ■ 132 (go to article)
    CHRISTINE DAIGLE — TERRANCE H. McDONALD (eds.): From Deleuze and Guattari to Posthumanism: Philosophies of Immanence (Ivana Hostová) ■ 135 (go to article)

  • Autobiographical Writing and Autofiction: Contemporary Approaches

    WLS_4_2023_OBALKA_1_obryseds. JÁN JAMBOR – ZUZANA MALINOVSKÁ

    This journal issue is devoted to the forms of authorial self-expression in prose works of world literature since 2000. The relevance of the topic is explained by the significant changes that affect lives nowadays. By means of different methodological approaches, the authors of the nine studies in five languages confirm that autobiographical writing and autofiction do not result in straightforward life documentations, but in unique literary constructions of reality, coping with personal and collective experience, with liminal life situations, with the process of writing and literary tradition, as well as with the past or present of a given country.

     

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    OBSAH / CONTENTS
    EDITORIÁL / EDITORIAL
    JÁN JAMBOR ‒ ZUZANA MALINOVSKÁ
    Autobiografické písanie a autofikcia v súčasnej próze ■ 2 (go to article)

    ŠTÚDIE / ARTICLES
    ZUZANA MALINOVSKÁ
    Écriture du deuil comme interrogation de soi : Deuils cannibales et mélancoliques de Catherine Mavrikakis ■ 3 (go to article)
    JÁN JAMBOR
    Melitta Brezniks Prosawerk zwischen faktualem und fiktionalem Erzählen ■ 14 (go to article)
    ROMAN MIKULÁŠ ‒ ANDREA MIKULÁŠOVÁ
    Von der Auflösung der Person: Das seltsame Problem der personalen Identität in neueren deutschsprachigen Autopathographien  ■ 33 (go to article)
    NADEŽDA ZEMANÍKOVÁ
    Autobiografie – Metaautobiografie – Autosoziobiografie: Ostdeutsches autobiografisches Erinnern im neuen Jahrtausend ■ 50 (go to article)
    JAN TLUSTÝ
    Život, který se stal románem: Autofikční Životopisy Oty Filipa ■ 67 (go to article)
    MAGDOLNA BALOGH
    Genre hybridity, self-discovery and trauma: Andrea Tompa’s The Hangman’s House ■ 83 (go to article)
    JUDIT GÖRÖZDI
    „Problémy so žánrom v pažeráku smrti“: Vlastná smrť Pétera Nádasa a Pankreasník Pétera Esterházyho ako hraničné prípady autobiografie ■ 96 (go to article)
    ROMAN DZYK ‒ LILIIA SHUTIAK
    The Secret by Yuri Andrukhovych: An autobiographical novel in the form of an interview  ■ 110 (go to article)
    MARTA SOUČKOVÁ
    K rôznym podobám autobiografického písania v slovenskej próze po roku 2000   ■ 121 (go to article)

    RECENZIE / BOOK REVIEWS
    Élise Hugueny-Léger: Projections de soi. Identités et images en mouvement dans l’autofiction (Silvia Rybárová) ■ 136 (go to article)
    Sonia Anton (ed.): La territoire littéraire de la Seine, géocritique d’ un fleuve (Terézia Guimard) ■ 139 (go to article)
    Tibor Žilka ‒ Anna Zelenková ‒ Krisztián Benyovszky: Stereotypes and Myths. Intertextuality in Central European Imagological Reflections (Oksana Blashkiv) ■ 141 (go to article)
    Jana Horáková ‒ Marika Kupková ‒ Monika Szücsová (eds.): The Black Box Book: Archives and Curatorship in the Age of Transformation of Art Institutions (Zuzana Husárová) ■ 144 (go to article)
    Magdalena Garbacik-Balakowicz: Filozofické souvislosti v literárním díle Sándora Máraiho (Szilvia Szarka) ■ 148 (go to article)


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