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.

Articles:

BOGUMIŁA SUWARA ‒ JANA TOMAŠOVIČOVÁ
The interdiscursive communication between literature and bioethics
SAJJAD GHEYTASI
Unveiling the subversive potential: Challenging dominant ideological discourses
in selected literary texts
IVAN LACKO
Dignity, healing, and virtue: Bioethical concerns in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never let me go
TOMÁŠ KÁROLY
The bioethics of coexistence with robots today and in the sci-fi future
ADAM ŠKROVAN
Bioethics and genetic engineering in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
MARIUSZ PISARSKI
Ripperdocs and game makers: Bioethics in the dystopian future of (post)cyberpunk
fiction
PETER SÝKORA
Bioethics of the human body in Michael Crichton’s Next and Rebecca Skloot’s
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
JANA TOMAŠOVIČOVÁ
Význam naratívneho prístupu v bioetike
BOGUMIŁA SUWARA
Rozmanitosť života, a najmä jeho konečnosti, na príklade vybraných diel
CLAUS-MICHAEL ORT
Text – poznanie – prax: Za možnosť literárnej vedy vychádzať z vedomostnej sociológie

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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.

Articles:

MILAN KENDRA ‒ ALŽBETA KUCHTOVÁ
Derrida and Literature
MARCEL FORGÁČ
Hry záhybov: Habermas, Derrida, Mukařovský
JACQUELINE HAMRIT
Derrida et la littérature : une relation passionnelle
JUAN EVARISTO VALLS BOIX
This strange institution called performativity: Jacques Derrida, the anarchy of literature,
and the counterinstitution of democracy
DARIN TENEV
Derrida and the potentiality of literature: Notes on Derrida’ s “The Law of Genre”
MANUEL RAMOS DO Ó
La question de la littérature chez Jacques Derrida : le droit fondamental et l’ ouverture
du parergon
ERNESTO FEUERHAKE
L’ unique et le texte. Derrida, Valéry, entre autres
SALIM HAFFAS
La mort de l’ auteur entre Barthes, Derrida et Foucault
MIROSLAV KOTÁSEK
How many deaths? Auto-bio-graphy as death-writing

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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

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