Browse

William Hazlitt’s “Lectures on English Comic Writers” were delivered in 1818 at Surrey Institution and immediately after, they were published. Two centuries later the list of authors discussed in the “Lectures” by Hazlitt still draws University lecturers’ attention around the world. Poetry and plays by William Shakespeare and Ben Johnson, Cowley’s and Vanbrugh’s comedies, Alexander Pope’s poems, Addison’s and Steele’s periodical essays, Fielding’s, Richardson’s, Smollett’s and Goldsmith’s novels, even Hogarth’s pa...

The acculturation of ethnic minorities of migrants and the harmony of interethnic relations in the regions of their compact settlement in the South of Russia is discovered in the article. The authors classify the ethnic minorities into three categories. They are: the groups of indigenous small peoples; the representatives of historical diasporas of the South of Russia; local groups formed mainly during the post-Soviet period abroad within the country. Migrant ethnic minorities became the subjects of the most acute...

Recently, the problems of indigenous peoples of the North have been related to the realization of the indigenous low-numbered peoples' basic right to own and use their land. Its acquisition is often antagonized, which is not only due to ignorance of these peoples' specifics, but also their lands rich in oil, gas and other natural resources. The special importance of the land issue for indigenous peoples is currently connected with the modern Russia realities: privatization, land leasing and private property rights...

Issue of personal identity, i.e. personal uniqueness of an individual in its dynamics, is widely discussed and has become interesting also for artistic literature in the 21st century. The authors of the paper in the introduction briefly clarify concept of identity from philosophical, sociological and psychological aspect. The essence of the paper is focused on analysis and interpretation of image-textual narration Boy without name by the writer Slavka Liptáková and the illustrator Fero Lipták. The authors examine ...

Paper roots in the literary-historical research on the Romany literature for children and youth in Slovakia, which documents its footing in the Slovak literature for children and youth. Simultaneously, it points out quantitative increase and generic variety of the Romany literature (folder books, collections of poems and songs, collections of Romany folklore, Romany folk-tales anthologies, collections of modern Romany folk-tales, short stories, novels, romans, non-fiction literature genres, text-books, and spellin...

Usage of child’s perspective (including its sophisticated utilization of naivety) in the literature for adults is able to unmask deformed social experience and human characters in extraordinarily convincing way. The work of the German author Edgar Feuchtwanger - Hitler, My Neighbour - is ranked among this kind of proses. The author depicts collective trauma of humanity (racial genocide in the 20th century) by the means of the child’s optics. The authors of the study interpret two levels of factualism in this memor...

The stereotypes of teachers regarding their professional and personal status depend on the perception of the society and culture they are in, and they can affect the teachers’ professional competence. The teacher’s professional competences are reflected in the teacher's ability to apply the acquired knowledge, skills, abilities, and intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for their job. The aim of the paper was to examine the stereotypes of teachers in Croatia and the acceptance of stereotypes of Croatian teachers on p...

The paper presents the results of research focused on music education at elementary schools that specialize in regional culturally oriented education and folk culture in Slovakia after 2008. The Elementary Art School of Folk Dance and Music in Ružomberok is introduced here in greater detail.

This article considers the influence of Theodor Adorno's cultural and philosophical ideas on the concept of creativity of a fictional composer Adrian Leverkühn, presented in the novel “Doctor Faustus” by Thomas Mann. Based on the comparative analysis of the text of the novel “Doctor Faustus” and Adorno’s philosophical treatise “Philosophy of New Music”, as well as the reference to the history of the creation of the novel reflected in Th.Mann's diaries, in the author's commentary on the novel “Die Entstehung des Do...