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{"title":"Mystification as an Artistic Strategy in Milan Kundera's Work","authors":"Jan Čulík","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2018.1560928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2018.1560928","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Using close reading of Kundera's texts, Jan Čulík argues that many arguments in Milan Kundera's literary works are deliberate provocations. Kundera's approach is undoubtedly related to post-modernism, although he used his mystification techniques long before the arrival of postmodernism, as early as in the Stalinist 1950s when he published fake quotes from Lenin in official Stalinist publications. In Jan Čulík's view, it is the purpose of Milan Kundera's systematic use of false facts, distortions and disrupted logic to warn his readers against against the unreliability of words and human communication. Kundera seems to argue that the world in its complexity is basically unknowable and the only thing that is left for us is, in despair, in our ignorace of what is going on around us, to carry out pranks.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"23 1","pages":"113 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2018.1560928","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46644901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Vladimir Nabokov’s lectures on literature: portraits of the artist as reader and teacher","authors":"Ákos Farkas","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2019.1567988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2019.1567988","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"23 1","pages":"168 - 170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2019.1567988","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49283585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Popular cinemas in East Central Europe: film cultures and histories","authors":"Kristína Čimová","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2019.1582189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2019.1582189","url":null,"abstract":"make mistakes and their errors are portals of discovery’ (paraphrased in Lernout, 113). No doubt, Nabokov the writer is as ‘elusively present’ in his academic works as the subjects of his scholarly endeavour are ubiquitous in his fiction. But such subjectivity may be more of an asset than a liability here. Taken together, the various chapters in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lectures on Literature will convince the reader, professional or otherwise, about the truth of the afterword’s concluding remark. Indeed, Nabokov’s ‘lectures on Russian and European literature bring us as close as we can get to the impressively good reader that Nabokov definitely was’ (Pieters, 220). Let us hope that there still is room for good – or, for that matter, poor or indifferent – readers in this post-Gutenberg age of ours.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"23 1","pages":"170 - 172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2019.1582189","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41403744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Literary Narratives of the Past: Generations of Memory and Everyday Life Under the Romanian Communist Regime","authors":"Simona Mitroiu","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2018.1558938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2018.1558938","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In Romania, the literary approach to the recent communist past centred on everyday life under the communist regime is usually associated with a nostalgic communist perspective. By reading communist nostalgia in the context of the communist politics that pervaded every aspect of everyday life, this paper traces the connections between narratives and moral responsibility at the level of Romanian literary productions. Many of the topics included in the collective volumes that bring together personal narratives of the past resonate with and influence the fictional creations of the past; in many cases, combining personal testimonies with fictional characters offered an improved mechanism for dealing with the past. The paper argues that the topic of daily life experiences under the communist regime can be further developed, raising awareness of the lack of discussions about moral responsibility at the societal level in post-totalitarian Romania. Even if the younger generations can use the literary narratives of the past to re-appropriate their predecessors’ life stories, the reduction of the past to visual or linguistic stereotypes deepens the separation between public and private memory.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"23 1","pages":"112 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2018.1558938","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44419229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Prof PhDr Danuše Kšicová, DrSc (Born 26th April 1932–died 31 January 2017)","authors":"R. Porter","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2018.1472837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2018.1472837","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"23 1","pages":"1 - 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2018.1472837","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47947843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The unwomanly face of war: an oral history of women in World War II","authors":"Helga Lenart-Cheng","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2018.1473102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2018.1473102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"23 1","pages":"69 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2018.1473102","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43897713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Notorious Beyond Any Other European Woman of Her Generation’: The Case of Count(ess) Sarolta/Sándor Vay","authors":"Z. Török","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2018.1469507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2018.1469507","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The paper investigates the curious case of the Hungarian Count(ess) Sarolta/Sándor Vay, journalist and writer, but, above all, a notorious gender bender in late nineteenth-century Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The article examines her case in the context of the history of European cross-dressing and of narrative transvestism. The author argues that nineteenth-century dandyism provided an effective cultural framework for Vay’s contemporaries to accept her unconventional presence in fin-de-siècle Hungarian society. Moreover, she claims that Vay’s narrative transvestism may also be construed within the cultural phenomenon of dandyism, as her writing practices prove to be further instruments for her self-fashioning. Finally, she concludes that Vay’s gender performance and narrative transvestism become illustrative examples of instances that both frame and confuse accepted cultural patterns, destabilize gender binarism, and participate in its maintenance.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"23 1","pages":"53 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2018.1469507","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41977073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Celebrating the Centenary: The History of the Founding of the Russian Lectureship at the University of Glasgow","authors":"Kristína Čimová, Giasemi Kranoudi","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2018.1471808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2018.1471808","url":null,"abstract":"It is safe to say that the lectureship in Russian at the University of Glasgow could not have been established without the extraordinary support given to the Faculty of Modern Languages by Principal Donald MacAlister (1854–1934). Principal MacAlister, a selflearner of Russian, not only partially financed, but also actively encouraged the establishment of what is one of the oldest Russian lectureships in the U.K. Though many would associate the establishment of the lectureship solely with the significant financial gift of William Weir to the university, the role of Principal MacAlister gained a new significance during the explorations carried out by Glasgow University’s Russian students in the University Archives. While some information on the relations between the University of Glasgow and Russian institutions is available, there is still a lot of exploration to be done into the intricacies of this relationship and the main figures who shaped the lectureship. Under the auspices of the Chancellor’s Fund and the Russian department, we, students of Russian in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures of Glasgow University, were able to uncover remarkable detail about how Russian at the University of Glasgow truly came about. The primary purpose of the Russian lectureship appears to have been of a much more prosaic, commercial nature than that of a romantic endeavour to master the likes of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky in the original. Not only did Principal MacAlister and Lady MacAlister tender a sum of around £14,000 to the University and by extension to the modern languages, but he also singlehandedly wrote the ‘Memorandum containing suggestions for the promotion in Glasgow of closer relations with Russia’, dated September 1916. In the Memorandum, the primary goals of the lectureship were outlined, and very quickly it became apparent that the lectureship was not only meant to provide ‘instruction in the Russian language’ but also to promote trade relations with a specific focus on training Russian-speaking commerce graduates. Within the Memorandum, good relations with the Glasgow Commercial College were emphasized as paramount. The lecturer-to-be was specifically instructed to arrange, ‘with the help of a qualified colleague’, evening Russian courses focused on reading, writing, speaking, commercial correspondence and economics of Russian trade. These courses were specifically to be adapted to those students already in business and to those aspiring to be ultimately employed by Russian firms requiring British employees. The urgency to boost trade relations and the economy between the two countries is palpable in MacAlister’s use of language. MacAlister envisioned a ‘bureau or office, under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchant’s House’ to be established as a part of the same endeavour, to facilitate the","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"23 1","pages":"3 - 6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2018.1471808","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47242362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hugh George Brennan: Glasgow University’s First Lecturer in Russian","authors":"Tania Konn-Roberts","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2018.1469278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2018.1469278","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT To date little has been known, and less written, about the life of Hugh George Brennan, Glasgow University's first lecturer in Russian. The uncovering of previously unused Russian and British sources throwing fresh light on his life, intellectual development and occupations has made possible a fuller assessment of a significant figure in Glasgow's contribution to Slavonic Studies. Brennan lived and taught in Russia for 20 years. The resulting intense and unusually intimate experience of Russian life probably explains unconventional aspects of his Glasgow appointment. Brennan was an undoubted educational and social success in Russia. Events in the shape of the February Revolution of 1917 forced him to return to Britain. Glasgow's timely offer of a new position was the start of a very different life. This aspect of Brennan's career is reviewed mainly through his commitment to extensive public activities.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"23 1","pages":"24 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2018.1469278","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47516331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Oxford history of Poland-Lithuania, vol. 1: the making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1385-1569","authors":"Andrew P. Roach","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2018.1473105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2018.1473105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"23 1","pages":"70 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2018.1473105","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42314502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}