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  • Derrida and Literature

    eds. MARCEL FORGÁČ – MILAN KENDRA – ALŽBETA KUCHTOVÁ

    This journal issue, devoted to Derrida’s thinking about literature, addresses a number of questions raised by deconstruction with regard to literariness. In the terms set by deconstruction, the study of the relationship between Derrida and literature leads to an interdis­ciplinary textual analysis. The studies gathered here therefore deal with issues such as the death of the author, autobiographical writing, the marginality or singularity of literature (and in literature), as well as the difference between philosophy and literature or the transgres­siveness of literature. At the same time, they reflect on the problems of democracy, politics, law, ethics or economics, which in Derrida’s approach are associated with the effects of literature.

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    OBSAH / CONTENTS
    EDITORIÁL / EDITORIAL
    MILAN KENDRA ‒ ALŽBETA KUCHTOVÁ
    Derrida and Literature ■ 2 (go to article)

    ŠTÚDIE / ARTICLES
    MARCEL FORGÁČ
    Hry záhybov: Habermas, Derrida, Mukařovský ■ 8 (go to article)
    JACQUELINE HAMRIT
    Derrida et la littérature : une relation passionnelle ■ 26 (go to article)
    JUAN EVARISTO VALLS BOIX
    This strange institution called performativity: Jacques Derrida, the anarchy of literature,
    and the counterinstitution of democracy ■ 39 (go to article)
    DARIN TENEV
    Derrida and the potentiality of literature: Notes on Derrida’ s “The Law of Genre” ■ 54 (go to article)
    MANUEL RAMOS DO Ó
    La question de la littérature chez Jacques Derrida : le droit fondamental et l’ ouverture du parergon ■ 71 (go to article)
    ERNESTO FEUERHAKE
    L’ unique et le texte. Derrida, Valéry, entre autres ■ 83 (go to article)
    SALIM HAFFAS
    La mort de l’ auteur entre Barthes, Derrida et Foucault ■ 97 (go to article)
    MIROSLAV KOTÁSEK
    How many deaths? Auto-bio-graphy as death-writing ■ 109 (go to article)

    RECENZIE / BOOK REVIEWS
    MASHA KARP: George Orwell and Russia (Ivan Posokhin) ■ 120 (go to article)
    MARKO JUVAN (ed.): Med majem ʼ68 in novembrom ʼ89. Transformacije sveta, literature in teorije [From May 1968 to November 1989: Transformations of the world, literature, and theory] (Miloš Zelenka) ■ 123 (go to article)
    ALEXANDER FYFE — MADHU KRISHNAN (eds.): African Literatures as World Literature (Martina Kopf) ■ 127 (go to article)
    PIOTR FLORCZYK — KEVIN A. WISNIEWSKI (eds.): Polish Literature as World Literature] (Anna Gnot) ■ 130 (go to article)

  • The Interdiscursive Communication between Literature and Bioethics

    eds. BOGUMIŁA SUWARA – JANA TOMAŠOVIČOVÁ

    The interdiscursive communication between literature and bioethics has gone through significant changes under the influence of dynamic bio-scientific advancements. The articles in this issue document the shift from the traditional portrayal of the doctor-patient relationship to new themes inspired by contemporary bioethical challenges, including regenerative medicine, gene editing, cloning, human enhancement, and euthanasia, thus demonstrating the reciprocal transfer of literary and bioethical discourses. Through the emergence of this new interdiscursive space, literary and artistic representations are enriching the rationalist ethical rhetoric and normative argumentation with many humanistic aspects, including a narrative approach to ethics, specifically bioethics.

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    OBSAH / CONTENTS
    EDITORIÁL / EDITORIAL
    BOGUMIŁA SUWARA – JANA TOMAŠOVIČOVÁ
    The interdiscursive communication between literature and bioethics ■ 2 (go to article)

    ŠTÚDIE / ARTICLES
    SAJJAD GHEYTASI
    Unveiling the subversive potential: Challenging dominant ideological discourses in selected literary texts ■ 3 (go to article)
    IVAN LACKO
    Dignity, healing, and virtue: Bioethical concerns in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never let me go ■ 20 (go to article)
    TOMÁŠ KÁROLY
    The bioethics of coexistence with robots today and in the sci-fi future ■ 31 (go to article)
    ADAM ŠKROVAN
    Bioethics and genetic engineering in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake ■ 44 (go to article)
    MARIUSZ PISARSKI
    Ripperdocs and game makers: Bioethics in the dystopian future of (post)cyberpunk fiction ■ 58 (go to article)
    PETER SÝKORA
    Bioethics of the human body in Michael Crichton’s Next and Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks ■ 66 (go to article)
    JANA TOMAŠOVIČOVÁ
    Význam naratívneho prístupu v bioetike ■ 78 (go to article)
    BOGUMIŁA SUWARA
    Rozmanitosť života, a najmä jeho konečnosti, na príklade vybraných diel ■ 89 (go to article)

    HOSŤOVSKÁ PREDNÁŠKA / GUEST LECTURE
    CLAUS-MICHAEL ORT
    Text – poznanie – prax: Za možnosť literárnej vedy vychádzať z vedomostnej sociológie ■ 106 (go to article)

    RECENZIE / BOOK REVIEWS
    ALEX GOLDIȘ – ȘTEFAN BAGHIU (eds.): Translations and Semi-Peripheral Cultures. Worlding the Romanian Novel in the Modern Literary System (Eva Kenderessy) ■ 130 (go to article)
    JUSTYNA TABASZEWSKA: Pamięć afektywna. Dynamika polskiej pamięci po 1989 roku (Magdalena Garbacik-Balakowic) ■ 135 (go to article)
    BOGUMIŁA SUWARA: Literatúra na rozhraní technológií (Zuzana Husárová) ■ 138 (go to article)
    SOŇA PAŠTEKOVÁ – DUŠAN TEPLAN (eds.): Mikuláš Bakoš – pluralitný literárny vedec v metodologickej diskusii dneška (Anton Eliáš) ■ 141 (go to article)

  • Translation, Censorship, and Marginalized Voices

    eds. IVANA HOSTOVÁ – MÁRIA KUSÁ

    This issue with a focus on translation studies explores the intersection of translation with power, censorship, and marginalized identities. The articles investigate how translation can reinforce or resist oppressive structures, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe. Themes include the curation of cultural exports, censorship in literary translation, and the political economy of reception. The issue also highlights the role of translators in shaping theoretical works, and advocates for the decolonization of knowledge and greater inclusivity in global cultural production.

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    OBSAH / CONTENTS
    EDITORIÁL / EDITORIAL
    IVANA HOSTOVÁ – MÁRIA KUSÁ
    Translation, censorship, and marginalized voices: Challenging power and economic barriers ■ 3 (go to article)

    ŠTÚDIE / ARTICLES
    IRYNA ODREKHIVSKA
    Decolonial analytics in translation history: Ukrainian literature in the contested space of English translation ■ 4 (go to article)
    NATALIIA RUDNYTSKA
    Soviet ideological and puritanical censorship of Ukrainian literary translations ■ 15 (go to article)
    MARIE KRAPPMANN
    Individual decisions in a collectivist ideology: Two Czech translations of I. L. Peretz’s short story Bontshe shvayg ■ 27 (go to article)
    MERVE ÖZENÇ KASIMOĞLU
    Words in time: Inclusive reading and rewriting in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ■ 42 (go to article)
    KATARÍNA BEDNÁROVÁ
    Translation as a scholarly dialogue ■ 58 (go to article)
    IVANA HOSTOVÁ
    Translated, transgressed, transported: A century of Whitman in Slovakia ■ 74 (go to article)
    JÁN GAVURA
    Publishing poetry in translation in Slovakia 2013–2023 ■ 86 (go to article)

    DISKUSIA / DISCUSSION
    IVANA HOSTOVÁ ‒ DANIELE MONTICELLI ‒ OLEKSANDR KALNYCHENKO ‒ MARTIN DJOVČOŠ
    Addressing power imbalances in research and translation studies ■ 108 (go to article)

    MATERIÁLY / MATERIALS
    EVA VEREBOVÁ ‒ EMÍLIA PEREZ
    Theater performances and their accessibility in Slovakia: Insights from the Deaf communitys ■ 126 (go to article)

    RECENZIE / BOOK REVIEWS
    MARIÁN ANDRIČÍK – TARAS SHMIHER: Translating Milton into the Slavic World (Matej Martinkovič) ■ 135 (go to article)
    JÁN ŽIVČÁK: Sila a slabosť periférie. Stredoveká francúzska literatúra na Slovensku v rokoch 1900 – 2017 [The strengths and weaknesses of the periphery: Medieval French literature in Slovakia in 1900–2017] (Magda Kučerková) ■ 138 (go to article)
    SHARON DEANE-COX – ANNELEEN SPIESSENS (eds.): The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Memory (Marián Kabát) ■ 141 (go to article)
    MARTIN DJOVČOŠ – PAVOL ŠVEDA: Premeny prekladu a tlmočenia [Changes in translation and interpreting] (Mária Koscelníková) ■ 143 (go to article)
    ADAM BŽOCH: Konverzácia a európska literatúra [Conversation and European literature]] (Peter Zajac) ■ 145 (go to article)

  • Fictional Realities of Eternal Peace

    ed. JOHANNES D. KAMINSKI

    The utopian appeal of peace, both in a political and spiritual sense, belongs to the powerful drivers of the human imagination. Yet the rhetorics of peace are difficult to untangle from the realities of war; after all, efforts that supposedly serve a higher purpose frequently result in injustice and violence. In the present issue, an international group of scholars discusses European, American, and Chinese texts that cover a wide spectrum of imagined peace, ranging from naïve enthusiasm for top-down solutions to dejected elegies for the demise of civil liberties.

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    OBSAH / CONTENTS
    EDITORIÁL / EDITORIAL
    JOHANNES D. KAMINSKI
    Fictional realities of eternal peace ■ 2 (go to article)

    ŠTÚDIE / ARTICLES
    ALEXIS SHOTWELL
    “All we have is means”: Ursula K. Le Guin’s utopianism as ongoingness ■ 3 (go to article)
    KILIAN JÖRG
    Messy utopianism and the question of war: What does “staying with the trouble” mean in relation to war? ■ 18 (go to article)
    JOHANNES D. KAMINSKI
    World-wide conflicts, insular solutions: Universalizing government, language and race in H. G. Wells’s A Modern Utopia and Kang Youwei’s The Great Unity ■ 29 (go to article)
    GABRIEL F. Y. TSANG
    Mind and peace: The “democratic” info-technological determinism of Gu Junzheng’s “The Dream of Peace” ■ 47 (go to article)
    MICHAEL KA-CHI CHEUK
    The Chinese Nobel complex and peacebuilding: Gao Xingjian and Mo Yan as case studies ■ 61 (go to article)
    CATHERINE MACMILLAN
    Everyone’ s watching you: The future of society in Dave Eggers’ s The Every ■ 79 (go to article)
    ANTON MATEJICKA
    Totalitarian systems and their peaceful alternatives in Karin Boye’ s Kallocain and Olga Ravn’ s The Employees ■ 93 (go to article)

    MAGDALENA MÜHLBÖCK
    The terrible within the peaceful: Christoph Ransmayr’ s Morbus Kitahara ■ 104 (go to article)
    ADAM ŠKROVAN
    The pursuit of harmony: Groups and communities in post-apocalyptic narratives ■ 117 (go to article)

    MATERIÁLY / MATERIALS
    ELAHEH KARIMI RIABI
    The image of Persian women in Lomnitsky’ s travelogue Persia and Persians ■ 134 (go to article)

    RECENZIE / BOOK REVIEWS
    JEAN-MARIE SCHAEFFER: La vie des arts (mode d’emploi) [The life of the arts (A user manual)] (Silvia Rybárová) ■ 149 (go to article)
    THEODOR W. ADORNO: Poznámky k literatuře I [Notes to literature I] (Marcel Forgáč) ■ 153 (go to article)
    PAVEL BARŠA: Dekadence a obrození: Krize evropského liberalismu a „židovská otázka“ [Decadence and revival: The crisis of European liberalism and „the Jewish question“] (Miloslav Szabó) ■ 156 (go to article)
    SOŇA PAŠTEKOVÁ: Reflexia ruského formalizmu v diele Mikuláša Bakoša [The reflection of Russian formalism in the work of Mikuláš Bakoš] (Anton Eliáš) ■ 160 (go to article)


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