eds. 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.

Articles:

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

The full content of the issue with links to the individual texts can be found HERE.

Our colleague, the comparatist Róbert Gáfrik, visited the Centre for the Study of World Literature at the International Institute of Information Technology Bhubaneswar in the Indian state of Urisa  in August 2023. This is the first centre dedicated to world literature in India, it was founded by Dr. Lipika Das in 2022. Róbert Gafrik is a member of its advisory board. On August 23, he delivered a guest lecture titled “The Concept and Objectives of World Literature”. The lecture organized in collaboration between IIIT Bhubaneswar and the Centre for Asian Studies was introduced by Professor Jatindra Kumar Nayak.

The local newspaper, The Political and Business Daily, reported on this comparative event. Read here: http://pbdodisha.in/Bhubaneswar-25th-August-Friday-2023.

Roman Mikuláš
Ján Jambor
(eds.)

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.

Articles

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

The full content of the issue with links to the individual texts can be found HERE.

Judit Görözdi
Zoltán Németh
Magdalena Roguska-Németh
(eds.)

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.

You can read the editorial HERE.

Articles

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

The full content of the issue with links to the individual texts can be found HERE.

Róbert Gáfrik
Miloš Zelenka
(eds.)

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.

Read more HERE.

This issue takes creativity and translation as its two core topics. The contributions position themselves to these themes in various ways, ranging from addressing creativity in translation on the theoretical level, through the employment of methodologies creatively appropriated from other disciplines and applied to hybrid objects of study, to the inquiries into interactions between humans and technologies and persisting hierarchies of power. The composition of the volume, addressing such topics as dance, troubadour poetry, neural networks or queer perspectives in translation studies, encourages the reader to embrace the cross-pollination of research objects and methodologies.

Read more HERE.

Editors: Péter Hajdu and Róbert Gáfrik

The geographical and temporal orientation of European and non-European utopias seem to differ in many politico-cultural aspects. The articles collected in this issue demonstrate that national and cultural determination can still be perceived, and they confirm the attention paid to the issues of nationalism, colonialism, or religious imperialism in utopia studies. Moreover, some of the authors show that an interplay between the culture of origin and the local/cultural otherness of the imagined elsewhere allows for an imagological approach to utopias.

Read more HERE.

Editor: Bogumiła Suwara

Since its emergence as a genre, science fiction has dealt with the concept of human transformation. In various narratives describing the encounter of people with posthumans or aliens, human stereotypes, human nature and the humanistic paradigm itself are exposed to the challenge and critical reflection which posthumanism has introduced and developed within the contemporary humanities. The articles in this issue are focused on identifying transhuman and posthuman themes and motifs in both literary and artistic forms of science fiction (including bioart, film and television series) from a posthumanist perspective.

Read more HERE.

Editors: Magda Kučerková, Martin Vašek
This issue is thematically focused on the language of transcendent experience, especially the category of inexpressibility, as it has been captured in the history of European literature by texts with artistic or aesthetic value. The individual studies, in the form of literary interpretation or philosophical reflection, seek to examine the balance between the transcendental experience and the words that capture it. The intellectual impulse behind this reflection, anchored in the dialogue of literary science and phenomenology, is the work of the contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Marion, especially the concept of the saturated phenomenon.

Read more: http://www.wls.sav.sk/?page_id=322&lang=en