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This paper aims at focusing on cognitive meaning of Carlo LeviВ’s work, based on his evidentiated historiographical, socio-cultural, ethnographic and anthropological interest, with the objective of exploring how the traces of memory, suggesting nostalgic attitude, but also dualistically drawn toward the future, are aspects which substantiate his pictorial search and reflection on art matters. Concomitantly, the purpose is to elucidate compositional elements of literary derivation or those that reflect themselves o...

The present research provides a detailed textual analysis of David BezmozgisВ’ recently published short story collection Immigrant City (2019). It expands on the authorВ’s response to life in exile exercised in his fiction, namely short fiction, as projection to his thirteen years earlier released short story collection Natasha and Other Stories (2004). The main focus of the analysis is on the treatment of the perception of the past and its reflection in memory. Various modes of memory, as justified by various sch...

The aim of the research is to describe childВ’s image as one of the most important components in the structure of childhood narrative. Great significance is attributed in its depiction to charactersВ’ portrait, action and its psychological motivation, age, degree of socialization, and name. Methods of the paper: theoretical and historical analysis of prose texts by bringing together semiotic, comparative, biographical, literary historical methods of literary research. Results of the paper: depiction of the artisti...

At the beginning of the study the concept of homelessness, which has officially appeared in post-socialist countries only in the last thirty years, is briefly characterized. The authors state that this pathological social phenomenon is only slowly entering Slovak childrenВ’s literature. The core of the study is an analysis of fictional and factual modifications of this topic. The combination of fiction and factuality is present in two books by Slovak writers Zuzana Csontosova and Nina Benova (A Stray Button, 2014;...

The study deals with the topic of otherness in literary work for children and youth in Slovakia. The gradual incorporation of otherness into the literature for children and youth is one of the possible ways to strengthen the inclusion of people with disabilities in society. The literature for children and youth on the topic of human otherness shows the way, in which it is possible to acquaint children with this important issue, and accordingly prevent the social exclusion of handicapped individuals. By offering a ...

The popularity of travel literature should not be underestimated. Travelogue is one of the most readable literary genres in the world literature, including the major literatures of the USA and Canada with their rich literary heritage, as well as such less popular or minor literatures, as the Latvian. The popularity of travel writing does not stop growing despite any world cataclysms; travelogue gains particular expansion in the 21st century due to the processes of globalization and rapid technological progress. Th...

Josef Skvorecky is one of the most significant representatives of the Czech writers who published their works in the exile. Josef SkvoreckyВ’s constant interest in the development of Czech society in recent decades is, among other things, the source of his work The Life of Czech Society, which is the subject of interest in this article. The book is a living testimony to a relatively recent period that was very difficult for the Czech nation. The analysis of the work makes it possible to follow SkvoreckyВ’s mastery...

The present study considers the interrelations between the personality of a socially and politically active writer and literary and cultural processes in the country. To analyse literary processes in a wider historical and cultural context the cultural-historical view on literature was applied; in its turn, to examine the writerВ’s place within the overall cultural milieu and to determine the interaction of the authorВ’s writings and his era the elements of the biographical method were used. In Latvia, the Russian...

The paper focuses on humour, the phenomenon that has many forms of manifestation and whose level of comicality depends on a particular culture. Czech culture is quite well-known for its sound representation in this area, and this will form a certain background allowing a better understanding of the target text. The main objective of the paper dwells in the application of actual theories of humour, especially S. Attardo's and V. Raskin's, into its identification and explanation in the contemporary Czech novel serie...

The Little Prince, a symbolic fairy tale by A. de Saint Exupery, is one of the pillars of modern European literature; since the first edition (1943) this literary work has been translated into over 200 languages, it has been processed in adaptations for film musicals, operas, animated series, and it still inspires dancers, musicians and writers. At the beginning of the study we briefly outline the reception of the Little Prince and selected creative updates of this story in Slovakia. The core of the study consists...

In contemporary creation for children and young people there is an increasing production of works with intermedia characteristics. Interdisciplinary cooperation of experts in the field of individual types of art is required in order to analyze, interpret and evaluate it. Monika Kompanikova, an experienced and awarded author for children and adults, created a multimedia project for children called Toddler Punk: TulinoВ’s Musical Stories (Monokel Publishing House) in 2019. The project includes a collection of fairy ...