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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 |
| Memory, Space an - „Pamäť, priestor a identita v nemecky hovoriacej (transkultúrnej) literatúre od moderny po súčasnosť“ | |
| Memory, Space and Identity in German-Speaking (Transcultural) Literature from Modernity to the Present | |
| Program: | SRDA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Mikuláš Roman, PhD. |
| Annotation: | Lived space in its broadest sense has been influenced by time with all its collective events and individual experiences, it is the core of our cultural memory and it seems that literature takes on an important role as the medium of cultural memory in the landscape of remembrance. We want to contribute to investigating the relations between memory, identity and space in the works of (transcultural) German-speaking authors who are biographically connected to the historic and contemporary geographical areas of the Slovak Republic, the Czech Republic and Croatia. The three partnering countries in this project are historically, geographically, politically and culturally connected with and through German-speaking culture, but are in the geopolitical context somewhat “other” to the central European position of the German culture so the proposal offers a new insight into German literature (other than the “Inlandgermanistik”). Theoretically, our project is grounded in the context of life writing studies, memory studies, identity studies, cultural studies, regional studies. The project thus aims to devise a sketch of a “map of self-experience” of authors, containing both processes of memory as well as those of forgetting on the one hand, and a “conceptual map” of these spaces/regions on the other. These regions were once characterized by dynamic cultural exchange and vitality, whereas today, they represent quasi palimpsests or eroding landscapes, containing many traces of individual and collective experiences, often represented through the medium of literature. These literary works are thus traces characteristic of the memory and the knowledge of the |
| Duration: | 1.7.2025 - 30.6.2027 |
| 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 |
| Interdiskurzívne konštruovanie reality v literatúre | |
| The Interdiscursive Construction of Reality in Literature | |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Mikuláš Roman, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The project is focused on ways of exploring literature as an interdiscourse from a theoretical literary perspective. The research team will focus on the analysis of the potential of literary studies to describe literature as a phenomenon of interdiscourses, i.e. mutual communication and interrelation of the system of literature with other systems at various levels within the preconceived framework of interaction. These other systems constitute specific discourses (such as those of philosophy, mathematics, physics, biology, cognitive sciences, medicine, information technology and many others), producing knowledge that is communicated both within its original discourses and outside these discourses, either within the scientific system (interdisciplinary approach) or across various social systems via interdiscourses (such as literature, art, journalism and politics). |
| Duration: | 1.1.2020 - 31.12.2023 |
| Hyperlexikón literárnovedných pojmov a kategórií II | |
| Hyperlexicon of Concepts and Categories in Literary Studies II | |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Mikuláš Roman, PhD. |
| Annotation: | This project is the continuation of an existing project bearing the same name. Its chief objective was, and still is, the creation of a lexicon of literary studies in hypertext medium. The hyperlexicon contains terms describing aspects of literary texts and also concepts that belong to the literary meta-discussion. The necessity to continue with the project and fulfill its objectives are due to the fact that the conclusions of the discussions in the ongoing project infer high degrees of complexity and, simultaneously, the difficulty of the problem of orientation within the language of literary studies in various areas of research traditions. Yet another motivation for the continuation of the project resides in the great dynamics of transformation of knowledge between disciplines (in recent times increasingly among the natural, technological and human sciences), however always wanting to benefit from the anticipation of trends in the field of meta-theory or methodology. |
| Duration: | 1.1.2016 - 31.12.2019 |
| Hyperlexikón literárnovedných pojmov a kategórií | |
| Hyperlexicon of Concepts and Categories in Literary Studies | |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Mikuláš Roman, PhD. |
| Annotation: | Project´s aim is to create a lexicon of concepts and categories in literary studies in the hypertext medium. A need to clarify the language of literary studies is significant due to the interdisciplinary transfomations in the system of literary studies resulting in the growing complexity of knowledge in the field of literary studies. Based on the contemporary discussions at domestic and foreign literary research institutes, we can deduce a high degree of importance in the problematics of clarification of the language of literary studies. This condition is on the one hand a result of dynamic transformations of knowledge among scholarly disciplines in favour of the creation and consolidation of their identities and on the other hand a result of the contemporary process of democratisation of the scholarly knowledge. The project outlines, concretized mainly in the hyperlexicon entries, will be grounded in the interpretation of the problem itself and will have a character of the „primary research“. |
| Duration: | 1.1.2013 - 31.12.2015 |
| Literárna veda ako "Systemics" | |
| Literary Studies as "Systemics" | |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Mikuláš Roman, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The project is an attempt at an analysis and systematization of the possibilities of the interconnection of constructivism, systems theory and chaos research in literary studies, which have recently featured more frequently also in the literary critical discourse. They are meta-discourses that by their mutual intersections form the background of the so-called postmodern literary studies. Without their detailed knowledge postmodern literary studies become just a vague metaphor and lose their validity. It should be taken into consideration that the radical constructivism as well as chaos theory belong to systems theory in the system of science. This new paradigm, which began to be known as systemics, represents a departure from the analysis of static structures in favor of the observation of movements in highly complex dynamic systems. We assume that literature can be understood only in the process of communication. |
| Duration: | 1.1.2010 - 12.12.2012 |
| Literatúra v kyberpriestore | |
| Literature in cyberspace | |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Suwara Bogumiła, PhD. |
| Annotation: | Cyberspace is understood here as a space for functioning of virtual, multicultural and literary communication. Producing texts (also literary) in cyberspace forces to reassess the notion of communication - comunicare, namely in the meaning of: allow participation, offer, unite; as well as: electronic dispersion of information. It is needed to direct the study of literature, as a major form of communication (we suppose that it is so also in cyberspace), towards searching for relations and concerns the e-texts are accompanied with. Reading (lecture) is perceived as a non-unidirectional process, in which reading is blending with writing. The project Literature in Cyberspace aims to study thoroughly ontological, epistemological and aesthetic relations decisive for the participation of the reader on the creation of the story (creative writing, plays, random choice, computer programme) in an open, multi-ply and even transient (non-lasting) text spread by means of electronic canal. |
| Duration: | 1.1.2007 - 31.12.2009 |
| Diskurzy literatúry pre deti a mládež | |
| Discourse about Children´s and Juvenile Literature | |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Mikuláš Roman, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The project entitled “Discourse about Children’s and Juvenile literature” is an analytical exploration of the complex of utterances, conditions and rules of production and reception of academic studies influencing thinking about children’s and juvenile literature. In literary scholarship, the various discourse-analytical concepts are problematic. The term discourse itself is extremely ambivalent. We will understand the term in the sense of a system of thinking and reasoning focused on a particular object (of a speech act) which is governed by rules (of the speech act) and which is defined by the system of relations to other discourses. Basically, we are concerned about the analysis of the complexity of the term children’s and juvenile literature in its entanglement in sociological, psychological, aesthetic, didactic, pedagogic, literary-historical, literary-theoretical and other ideological concepts. We will follow the origins of the term on the example of its use in German speaking countries. We will draw on the genealogical concept of discourse analysis, which as the only one accepts the historical reconstruction of functions and conditions of discourses. |
| Duration: | 1.1.2007 - 1.12.2009 |