Mária Kusá
Ivan Posokhin
(eds.)

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.

JAKUB KAPIČIAK – HELENA ULBRECHTOVÁ
Postmemorial sincerity in the writing of Sergei Lebedev and Maria Stepanova
MAXIM DULEBA – IRINA DULEBOVÁ
Metamodern urban experience in the anthology of topophilic prose V Pitere zhit’
TÜNDE SZABÓ
The symbolization of the fragmented plot structure in Ludmila Ulitskaya’s novels
MONIKA SIDOR
From Kyiv to Brisbane: Evgenii Vodolazkin’s reflections on spiritual identity in the context
of space
GANNA MEREZHYNSKA – OLENA VASYLEVYCH
The image of the Other as a reflection of cultural identity (a case study of Russian postmodern prose and dramaturgy)
IVAN POSOKHIN
Transformations in the perception of Russian literature after February 24, 2022
ANNA ZELENKOVÁ – AGNIESZKA JANIEC-NYITRAI
The Central European path to worldliness from the point of view of so-called
small literatures

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

World Literature Studies, Special Issue, vol. 11, no. 4, 2019

Edited by Tomáš Jirsa (Palacký University Olomouc) and Rebecca Rosenberg (King’s College London)

Across cultural history, the face has figured both a site of intimate familiarity and radical unknowability. On the one hand, the face is the most immediate and recognizable marker of identity: an organic surface upon which interiority is projected and displayed. Continue reading Call for Papers: (Inter)Faces:Thinking the Face in Literature and the Visual Arts →