2022

World Literature from the Perspective of “Small” Literatures

eds. RÓBERT GÁFRIK – MILOŠ ZELENKA

Over the past few decades, world literature has been conceived of as a canon or a system which texts enter through the “large” literatures written in hegemonic languages such as English. Texts from smaller literatures have to fulfill something extra in order to achieve the status of world literature. This concept presents world literature as a correlate of political and economic power. The current issue presents studies reflecting on the relation of ”small” literatures to world literature, while also raising epistemological and ethical questions.

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OBSAH / CONTENTS
EDITORIÁL / EDITORIAL
RÓBERT GÁFRIK – MILOŠ ZELENKA
World literature from the perspective of “small” literatures ■ 2 (go to article)

ŠTÚDIE/ ARTICLES
MILOŠ ZELENKA
The concept of world literature in Czech and Slovak comparative literary studies ■ 5 (go to article)
WOOK-DONG KIM
Against Sinocentrism: Internal orientalism in world literature ■ 31 (go to article)
SONALI GANGULY – LIPIKA DAS
The Biswa Sahitya Granthamala (World literature book series) as a reaction to English linguistic domination in Odisha ■ 48 (go to article)
PAULS DAIJA – BENEDIKTS KALNAČS
“Provincializing” world literature: The role of translations in shaping 19th-century Latvian culture ■ 59 (go to article)
RADU VANCU
The post-national Celan: The imperfect triangulation from (abandoned) Romanian poetry to world literature and back ■ 72 (go to article)
CHARLES SABATOS
Prague beyond Kafka: Rethinking minor literature through the work of Jiří Langer ■ 85 (go to article)

RECENZIE / BOOK REVIEWS
Arie van der Ent (ed.): Vermoorde dichters almanak: Onvrijwillig gestorven 1919–1944 [Murdered poets’ almanac: Involuntary death 1919–1944] (Adam Bžoch) ■ 103 (go to article)
Carola Heinrich: Was bleibt? Zur Inszenierung von Gedächtnis und Identität im postsowjetischen Kuba und Rumänien [What remains? On the staging of memory and identity in post-Soviet Cuba and Romania] (Roman Mikuláš) ■ 105 (go to article)
Peter Zajac (ed.): Poetika festivity [The poetics of festivity] (Zornitza Kazalarska) ■ 109 (go to article)
Jana Kuzmíková: Kognitívna literárna veda. Teória, experimenty, analýzy [Cognitive literary studies: Theory, experiments, analyses] (Peter Getlík) ■ 112 (go to article)
Jitka Zehnalová: Aspekty literárního překladu. Mediační úloha překladatele [Aspects of literary translation. The mediating role of the translator] (Marie Krappmann) ■ 115 (go to article)

Transculturalism and narratives of literary history in East-Central Europe

eds. JUDIT GÖRÖZDI – ZOLTÁN NÉMETH – MAGDALENA ROGUSKA-NÉMETH

This issue explores East-Central European literary and literary historical narratives from the perspective of the phenomena and networks of transculturalism, following the concepts of globalism, heterotopia, extraterritoriality, translocality, deterritorialization and border crossing. By examining the role of transculturalism in the specific literary formations of the region, the articles show the effect of multi- and translingualism as well as cultural hybridity in texts, microliteratures and minority literatures. The aim is to contribute to the development of more diversified approaches in the writing of national literary history in East-Central Europe.

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OBSAH / CONTENTS
EDITORIÁL / EDITORIAL
MAGDALENA ROGUSKA-NÉMETH – ZOLTÁN NÉMETH
Transculturalism and narratives of literary history in East-Central Europe ■ 3 (go to article)

ŠTÚDIE / ARTICLES
WOLFGANG WELSCH
Transculturality in literature: A phenomenon as old as it is current ■ 5 (go to article)
ANDERS PETTERSSON
On the concept of world literature ■ 12 (go to article)
KATARZYNA DEJA
The problems with delimiting the notion of transculturality in literary studies ■ 24 (go to article)
MAGDALENA ROGUSKA-NÉMETH
Transculturalism in literature as reflected in the works of translingual writers
from the Hungarian cultural context ■ 35 (go to article)
BEÁTA THOMKA
Fiction: heritage, choice, creation ■ 48 (go to article)
KAROLINA POSPISZIL-HOFMAŃSKA
Confluences: On the possibility of describing a transcultural history
of (micro)literature – the Upper Silesian perspective ■ 60 (go to article)
EVA KENDERESSY
Transculturality in Romanian literary histories: The case of literature
from Moldova ■ 79 (go to article)
ZOLTÁN NÉMETH
The transcultural levels of minority literary history writing: Hungarian literature
in Slovakia ■ 96 (go to article)
ANIKÓ DUŠÍKOVÁ
The possibilities of a transcultural narrative in 19th-century Central Europe:
Ján Chalupka and Gusztáv Szontagh ■ 114 (go to article)

RECENZIE / BOOK REVIEWS
Zoltán Németh – Magdalena Roguska (eds.): Transzkulturalizmus és bilingvizmus a közép-európai irodalmakban / Transkulturalizmus a biling­vizmus v literatúrach strednej Európy [Transculturalism and bilingualism in Central European literatures], Zoltán Németh – Magdalena Roguska (eds.): Transzkulturalizmus és bilingvizmus az irodalomban / Transkulturalizmus a bilingvizmus v literatúre [Transculturalism and bilingualism in literature], Orsolya Hegedűs – Zoltán Németh – Anikó N. Tóth – Gabriella Petres Csizmadia (eds.): Transzkulturalizmus és bilingvizmus / Transkulturalizmus a bilingvizmus [Transculturalism and bilingualism] (Judit GÖrÖzdi) ■ 128 (go to article)
Mihaela P. Harper – Dimitar Kambourov (eds.): Bulgarian Literature as World Literature
(Zvonko Taneski) ■ 130 (go to article)
Száz Pál: A tizedik kapu. A haszidizmus hatása a magyar irodalomra [The tenth gate. The effects of Hasidism on Hungarian literature] (Gabriella Petres Csizmadia) ■ 134 (go to article)
Ján Jambor – Zuzana Malinovská – Jakub Souček (eds.): Rodina ako spoločenský problém v súčasnom švajčiarskom a slovenskom kriminálnom románe [Family as a social problem in contemporary
Swiss and Slovak crime fiction] (Jan Trna) ■ 136 (go to article)

“Literature and Knowledge” in the Context of Literary Interdiscourse Analysis

eds. ROMAN MIKULÁŠ – JÁN JAMBOR

This issue responds to current key research questions on the literature-science nexus, opening up two basic lines of thinking: how literature transforms the complex contents of scientific knowledge and how distinctively literary modes shape scientific discourse. Conceptually the articles focus on this research through the literary theory of interdiscursivity, that is, the analysis of interdiscourses. One block of articles is devoted to the theoretical, methodological and literary-didactic aspects of interdiscursivity, while the other presents case studies on the work of authors whose poetics are characterized by elements of special scientific discourses.

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OBSAH / CONTENTS
EDITORIÁL / EDITORIAL
ROMAN MIKULÁŠ – JÁN JAMBOR
„Literatúra a veda“ v kontexte analýz literárneho interdiskurzu ■ 2 (go to article)

HOSŤOVSKÁ PREDNÁŠKA / GUEST LECTURE
THOMAS KLINKERT
Teória systémov, poznanie a literatúra ■ 3 (go to article)

ŠTÚDIE / ARTICLES
ROMAN MIKULÁŠ
Od topológií k typológiám a späť: K problematike štruktúrovania korelácií literatúry,
vedy a poznania ■ 14 (go to article)
MONIKA SCHMITZ-EMANS
Apotheke, Baukasten, Randgang, Exkursion ins Imaginäre: Lexikographien wissenschaftlicher
Begriffe und Theorien als Beiträge zum literarisch-wissenschaftlichen Interdiskurs ■ 32 (go to article)
MARKO JUVAN
The essay and interdiscursivity: Knowledge between singularity and sensus communis ■ 48 (go to article)
NATHALIE KÓNYA-JOBS
Literarhistorisches Verstehen auf Grundlage der Interdiskursanalyse fördern? Didaktische
Überlegungen zum Text-Kontext-Problem ■ 60 (go to article)
ALINA BAKO
Cognitive cartographies in Liviu Rebreanu’s “Forest of the Hanged” ■ 78 (go to article)
MARTA SOUČKOVÁ
Medzi literatúrou a vedou – na materiáli textov Stanislava Rakúsa ■ 91 (go to article)
CAROLA HEINRICH
Theater und Wissen. Pflanzenphilosophie auf der Bühne ■ 104 (go to article)
SANTIAGO SEVILLA-VALLEJO
Science fiction, ecology of mind and the uncanny in “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
by Philip K. Dick ■ 119 (go to article)

DISKUSIA / DISCUSSION
ADAM BŽOCH
Koncept pamäti a spomienky v „Hľadaní strateného času“. K storočnici úmrtia
Marcela Prousta ■ 134 (go to article)

RECENZIE / BOOK REVIEWS
Josef Hrdlička – Mariana Machová (eds.): Things in Poems. From the Shield of Achilles
to Hyperobjects  (Róbert Gáfrik) ■ 144 (go to article)
CompLit: Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society (Dobrota Pucherová) ■ 146 (go to article)
Ján Jambor – Jakub Souček – Monika Zázrivcová (eds.): Aktuelle gesellschaftliche Probleme
im Kriminalroman der Gegenwart am Beispiel von deutsch-, franzÖsisch- und slowakischsprachigen
Texten… [Current social problems in contemporary crime novels as seen in German, French and
Slovak Texts] (Petr Kyloušek) ■ 149 (go to article)
Pavlína Šišmišová – Eva Palkovičová (eds.): Cervantesov Don Quijote na Slovensku a vo svete
[Cervantes’s Don Quixote in Slovakia and the world] (Silvia Brodňanová) ■ 151 (go to article)