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| Apórie výskumu ľudskej pamäti v literárnej vede a vedách o živote | |
| Aporias of human memory research in literary studies and life sciences | |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Mikuláš Roman, PhD. |
| Annotation: | oday, we can observe an increase in the number of literary texts dealing with human memory. This is often done with reference to research in the life sciences and in relation to pathological manifestations in neurobiological or biomedical discourses. Literary representations of issues related to memory dysfunctions also touch fundamentally on the foundations of personal identity and reveal different perspectives of thinking about personal identity, especially with regard to the controversial postulate of its biological nature. By focusing on the question of identity and its disruption or loss through pathological memory disorders, we aim to uncover the possibilities of linking memory processes to notions of identity in contemporary literature from French and German-speaking countries, as well as to trace the traditions of their representation in specific discourses and interdiscourses. We will also examine ways of thinking about memory and identity in the research traditions of both cultures. |
| Duration: | 1.1.2026 - 31.12.2029 |
| N/A - Naratív o dejinách v maďarskej literatúre 21. storočia v kontexte (stredo)európskej literatúry | |
| Narrative of History in 21st Century Hungarian Literature in the Context of (Central) European Literature | |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Görözdi Judit, PhD. |
| Annotation: | Scepticism about the validity of grand historical narratives brought about at the turn of the millenium a boom of ways of telling history in literature. The forms of narratives of history pointed out that history is not a coherent phenomenon expressing a particular point of view, and emancipated the perspectives of various actors of historical events. Emphasis was put on microhistorical perspectives and the questions of memory, remembering, and forgetting history. The project builds upon the previous research of the principal investigator on historicity in Hungarian postmodern novels, extending it to additional aspects and literary texts. It also includes comparative research, which puts the phenomena of Hungarian literature in the context of (Central) European literature and brings analyses from the field of other, especially Romanian and French literary representations of history. |
| Duration: | 1.1.2025 - 31.12.2028 |
| Preklad a prekladanie v dejinách a súčasnosti slovenského kultúrneho priestoru. Premeny podôb, statusu a funkcií: texty, osobnosti, inštitúcie . | |
| Translation and translating in the history and present of the Slovak cultural space. Transformations of forms, status and functions: texts, personalities, institutions. | |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | prof. PhDr. Kusá Mária, CSc. |
| Annotation: | The project continues the tradition of translatological research that has contributed to the creation of a real Slovak translatological community over the last twenty years. The direction of the interdisciplinary translatological discourse will go (in the sense of current tendencies in thinking about translation) also into the context of reflections on world literature, as well as into the expansion of knowledge in confrontation or synergy with the discourses of other humanities (philosophy, history of culture, sociology, "oral history"), but also natural sciences (human geography, interpretive statistics, ecology, etc.). The object of research should be a) interpretations of translations and receptions of literary texts in Slovak cultural space (forming the canon?), but also b) of culturally significant various, e.g. also educational, pragmatic, audiovisual, or popular culture texts or sacred texts. The scholarly outputs of the project will be monothematic issues of WLS, as well as personal monographic nature. |
| Duration: | 1.1.2023 - 31.12.2026 |
| Prekusvet - Preklad a aspekty recepcie spoločenskovedných a humanitnovedných textov ako kultúrny a literárny transfer v 20. storočí | |
| Translation and aspects of reception of social science and humanities texts as cultural and literary transfer in the 20th century | |
| Program: | SRDA |
| Project leader: | prof. PhDr. Bednárová Katarína, CSc. |
| Annotation: | The primarily literary studies and translation studies focused project will explore ways and means of disseminating scientific knowledge, research results, theories and concepts in the social sciences and humanities, such as philosophy, literary science and its borderline and interdisciplinary overlaps (literary essay, translation studies, theory, and art history), in broader cultural and sociological contexts through translations (from English, French, German, Russian and partly from Polish, Spanish and Italian) and their reflection in the Slovak cultural space in the 20th century. It will try to answer the question to what extent the social and scientific valorization of circulating translation texts was / is present in the receiving (Slovak) scientific and socio-cultural environment, to what extent translations saturated the social demand in the 20th century, and whether and how they contributed to the development of individual researched disciplines (to their enrichment, innovation, reception), or, alternatively, what role the fact of non-translation or translation of irrelevant texts or the fact, of erroneous / poor / incompetent / translation played. The project will examine the conditions for translations in the historical context as well as the status, function, and roles of translators as mediators, the institutional background and the functions of translations in the wider literary transfer framework with the aim of creating a more comprehensive picture of this type of translation as a scientific and creative activity. The material (social sciences and humanities translations) will be strictly selective, and the project has no ambition to cover all thematic and linguistic areas. |
| Duration: | 1.7.2022 - 30.6.2026 |
| Hyperlexikón - Interaktívny hypertextový lexikón literárnej vedy s korpusom kľúčových literárnovedných textov | |
| Interactive hypertext lexicon of literary studies with a corpus of key literary studies texts | |
| Program: | SRDA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Mikuláš Roman, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The main aim of the project is the creation of an interactive lexicon of literary studies terms in hypertext formattogether with a corpus of texts from the said field. The project follows up on the work on the electronic Hyperlexiconof Concepts and Categories in Literary Studies which was created in two VEGA research projects. The updatedand expanded Hyperlexicon will adopt new content-related and functional elements. In terms of function, the workwill be more interactive and open; in terms of content, the Hyperlexicon will now include important texts which intheir time helped spearhead new modes of thinking or even whole new paradigms. However, the hypertextuality ofthe lexicon will still be retained. The experts who will author the new entries will not only summarize the currentbody of knowledge but also conduct their own research and other related publication activities in accordance withthe aims of the project to provide even more up to date findings on the subject matter. We are convinced that sucha broad and synthesizing collaborative endeavor must be rooted in basic research. As of today, Slovak literaryscholars do not have access to a dictionary that would summarize the state of the art knowledge in the field in abroad manner and across individual philological specialization and would be fully available to them online. |
| Duration: | 1.7.2021 - 30.6.2025 |
| Preklad ako súčasť dejín kultúrneho procesu III. Preklad a prekladanie – texty, osobnosti, inštitúcie v interdisciplinárnych a transdisciplinárnych vzťahoch | |
| Translation as part of the cultural process history III. Translation and translating – texts, personalities, institutions in inter- and transdisciplinary relations | |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | prof. PhDr. Kusá Mária, CSc. |
| Annotation: | The aims of this inter- and even transdisciplinary project reflect the current developments in translation studies and issues in world literature and comparative literature. Moreover, the project has been designed to connect these discourses to what is currently going on in other fields of the humanities (philosophy, cultural history, sociology, oral history, etc.) and natural sciences (human geography, inferential statistics, ecology, etc.). The aims of the projects are as follows: a) interpretation of significant translations in the Slovak cultural space (with the assessment of their canonical status); b) examination of culturally significant, yet less defining texts, i. e. educational, pragmatic or religious texts, which have not been thoroughly examined so far; c) examining the broad and still evolving field of audio(and/or)visual texts operating in the popular culture. Given the scope of the project’s aims and the research team’s expertise, it is only natural that the research will focus not only |
| Duration: | 1.1.2019 - 31.12.2022 |