Studia et Documenta Slavica

Martina Berrocal: Delegitimierung im tschechischen parlamentarischen Diskurs. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2018, 242 s. ISBN 978-3631737460

Jan Ciosk — 2020-11-20

Vulgarismus jako laser (nad tvorbou Ladislava Šerého)

Lubomír Machala — 2020-11-20

The article deals with the work of the Czech essayist and prose writer Ladislav Šerý (born 1958) who, remaining under the influence of the French literary tradition, criticizes the contemporary Euro-Atlantic consumer civilization and its form as the dominating one in the Czech society after 1989. It is a shrewd and comprehensive critique of the scientific (predominantly philosophical and sociological) discourse, in which he realizes the existence of plebeian speech full of vulgarisms. A confrontation of the author’s texts that contain vulgarisms (The First Book ..., Laser Romance 1 and Laser Romance 2), with those in which they are not used (Laser Romance 3), proves that Ladislav Šerý’s vulgarisms work as a laser: they make the achievement more effective, enhance the impressiveness of the literary testimony, make it more accurate and convincing.

Podoby a funkce hédonismu, obžerství a opilství v nejnovější české literatuře

Marek Lollok — 2020-11-20

The aim of this paper is to describe some of the most distinctive ways of displaying hedonism, gluttony and drunkenness in the Czech literature over the last approximately 15 years. Based on the analysis of the most significant books concerning these themes (e.g. texts by Petr Stančík, Jan Balabán, Emil Hakl, Václav Kahuda, Jáchym Topol and other authors), the author proposes a more detailed typology of the forms of these phenomena in the latest Czech literature, as well as of their specific functions in concrete texts.

Rozwiązłość w twórczości czeskiego undergroundu literackiego lat 40. i 50. XX wieku

Joanna Królak — 2020-11-20

The article deals with images of promiscuity found in works of the Czech literary underground created in the 1940s and the 1950s. Accordingly, works by Egon Bondy, Jana Krejcarova and Karel Hynek are discussed in this respect. As part of the polemics concerning the era presented in the works of the underground pole representatives, there appears a vulgar dictionary and the subject of tabooized erotic practices like scatology, polygamy, sodomy or incest. The description of these practices in the works of representatives of the Czech literary underground of the 1950s was a form of protest, violating the then rigid moral norms and, at the same time, an expression of artistic provocation in relation to the official literature.

Recht in Literatur und Literaturkontrolle – Doppeltes Verständnis von Recht und Literatur im Theater des dritten Reiches am Beispiel von E.W. Möllers Thingspiel Das Frankenburger Würfelspiel

Joanna Szczukiewicz — 2020-11-20

The recognition that literature and law were closely linked in the Third Reich explains, firstly – the legal provisions introduced after Hitler’s seizure of power, including the establishment of the Reich Chamber of Culture, and secondly – the literary approaches which were developed on the basis of these provisions. A prime example of the intrusion of laws enacted in Nazi Germany into the literary life of those times is the theatrical form of Thingspiel, developed around the mid-thirties. This theatrical concept presents a dual approach to law and literature. Not only was the Thingspiel subordinate to the legal provisions of the Reich Chamber of Culture, but criminal law itself also became a theme of these plays. The Thingspiel originated in the Old Germanic concept of people’s and court assemblies called a “Thing”. The model of putting criminal law on stage also found its way into “Frankenburger Würfelspiel” by E.W. Möller, Head of the Theater Unit at the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Examining the connection between literature and law in this piece and also its function for the NS-Politics is the main aim of this study.

O pojmowaniu „rozwiązłości” w czasach przedchrześcijańskich: zjawisko prostytucji sakralnej

Maria Krysztofiak — 2020-11-20

The article presents the phenomenon of sacred prostitution which was characteristic of many ancient cultures and religions throughout the world. It shows a few of the most important issues connected with the sacred prostitution (also called religious or ritual): its origins (the cult of deities of love and fertility, typical of the pre-Christian cultures); its forms (one-time prostitution as an act of sacrificing one’s virginity or one-time sacrifice of a woman who was no longer a virgin, and constant prostitution practiced by priestesses or temple prostitutes); its main purposes (unification with deity, making a tribute to deity, pledge of the fertility of men, earth and animals by re-enactment of archetypical act of hieros gamos, the divine marriage). The article also analyses the religious anatomy of the phenomenon, basing on the thesis of Mircea Eliade; shows examples of sacred prostitution, taken mainly from The Golden Bough,
the canonic work of Sir James George Frazer, and F.S. Pierre Dufour’s History of Prostitution; discusses the taboo of women’s blood on the basis of Jean-Paul Roux’s works; mentions the historical change in the meaning of the word “virgin” applying to Edward Whitmont’s statements; brings up controversies over the judgment of sacred prostitution as a historical phenomenon, referring to Edward Whitmont’s and Georg Baudler’s standpoints.

Stanisława Lema zabawy językiem – czy neologizm rzeczywiście jest neologizmem?

Maciej Fastyn — 2020-11-20

The author has analysed the content of the Polish-Russian dictionary of S. Lem’s neologisms created by Monika Krajewska. Among ca. 1,450 lexical units, 27 cases were found that a supposed neologism is not a neologism but an archaism, dialectal term, professional language word, or a scientific term. In that way the author corrects the erroneous interpretations being present in the papers published before, and shows how difficult Lem’s language can be not only for an average reader, but also for translators and linguists as well.