The author confronts homogenous linear model of history of national literatures based on exclusion, alteration, singularity, and juvenility. Model of the literary history is presented as a synoptic map presenting poly-functionality, poly-focal and poly-perspective characters, poly-chronic and poly-territorial aspects. He proposed a concept of trans-local Middle-European national literary history coming out from their inner difference and outer plurality, and their belonging to the cultural memory of the Middle-Europe.
The author of this paper presents the fundamental ideas of a research project that is directed at the topical questions of the relation between language and culture in the Slovak language milieu. He focuses the attention on four aspects of this relation. (1) Language as a medium of culture. The cardinal question is how works the language as a constituent of the cultural memory. (2) Language as a medium of the formation of culture. The central problem is the role of the language in the process of creation of the mental and social culture. (3) Language as a product of culture. This aspect concerns the nature of the language perceived as a cultural phenomenon. (4) Language as an object of cultivation. The question is what a culture of the cultivation of the standard language is adequate with regard to the current conditions of his using.
The author asks: was W. Benjamin an intellectual connected exclusively with European, or Jewish traditions of thought, or was he also a pioneer of cultural difference, gaining relevance, above all, today, in the epoch of globalization of culture? From the amount of Benjamin's examples of non-European art, possibly marginal remarks spread throughout his theoretical and critical work since 1920s till his death, it can be shown, that the construction of his extensive and ambivalent theory of culture (including the notions incorporated in the essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproduction'), was permanently determined by his subliminal interest in geographically distant civilizations. Benjamin considered them an important means of critical self-experience, and questioning of Eurocentrism. The author shows that Benjamin's way of thinking corresponds to the post-colonial discourse not only in the meta-theoretical way, but particularly by means of understanding of the concreteness of non-European cultures. But, at the same time, he exalts the fact that the approximation of the non-European in Benjamin deals both with 'material semi-exoticism', and his notion of individual and collective cultural memory.
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Based on the analysis of the texts by the Hungarian writer Péter Esterházy Harmonia cælestis and A simple story comma a hundred pages − the fencing version (Jednoduchý príbeh čiarka sto strán − šermovacia verzia), the study reflects on the character/specifics/possibilities of the idea of postmodern historiography that the historical novel as a form of articulating the past contributes to the creation of collective memory. The first novel is understood as a text that elaborates cultural and communicative memory (J. Assmann), the second is approached from the perspective of narrative social psychology (J. László). Possible postmodern answers to the question are found in the structural choices of narratives based on historical material.
In this article, changes in the meanings attributed to and local relations with General Gablenz's memorial – a local monument and reminder of the 1866 Prussian-Austrian War – are observed over the period from its construction to the present. First, the role of the memorial in memory studies is presented in terms of its semiotic-content structures and three basic functions of festivities that establish its social significance. Second, the use of historical consciousness or local cultural memory is considered as a methodical concept for the study of this monument, which fulfilled a social role not at the national level, but only in the regional context within the collective memory of the local community. Third, the concept of local culture memory is applied and described from the point of view of various actors (subjects of memory places) of commemorative practices (military associations, city leaders, etc.) during the ceremonial inauguration of the monument in 1868, during the solemn deposition of General Gablenz’s relicts in the monument in 1905, and during the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the deposition of those relicts in 2005. It is obvious that the significance of this monument as a place of memory has been shaped by the local community, but at the same time it itself became an important source of identity for this society because of its ability to preserve his living memory.
The goal of the study is to place the poetry of Jan Smrek's 'sunny books' into the wider philosophical, artistic and cultural-aesthetic context of the early 20th century. The influence of Bergson's philosophy on the artistic thinking, culture and sensibility of modernist literature of the time proves to be more and more significant. In the context of the philosophy of life (Bergson, Dilthey, etc.) and related artistic-aesthetic, philosophical and psychological concepts (Husserl, Jung, Steiner, Guardini, etc.) it can be seen revitalisation of religion, mythology and spirituality, whose sources can be traced back to German idealistic philosophy, romanticism and the tradition of hermetic-esoteric sciences. With the intention of reconstructing culture, values and meaning, several modernist artistic-aesthetic manifestos (Anglo-American modernism, Russian acmeism etc.) turn to the principle of cultural memory and the tradition, which they reformed by modern means. Those attempts are developed within the intentions of Bergsonism. The identical dynamic understanding of a tradition can be found in Jan Smrek's artistic-aesthetic manifestos. In a narrower context, the influence of the vitalism-oriented Czech thinking (the artistic branch - Neumann, Sramek and the theoretical-aesthetic branch - K. Capek, J. Capek, Salda, Cerny) on then forming Smrek's poetics and aesthetic beliefs is also interesting. The gain of the study can be clear with regard to the fact that the influence of Bergsonism and vitalism on Smrek's poetry has not yet been analysed or researched. The most important is to grasp Smrek's aesthetic gesture in a wider context of artistic and theoretical thinking of the time.
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The mode of perception of National Socialism and its positioning in the history of Germany played a fundamental role in the development of the country's political culture. The establishment of two German states founded on different political systems entailed far reaching consequences for the cultural memory of the divided society. The contradiction inherent in the construction of a post-war order of Germans consisted in the discrepancy between a negative, discredited past and the need for an acceptable image in order to build a positive identity of the new state. From the onset, GDR propaganda developed a strategy of overcoming the past, based on the ideology of antifascism. It gave the multitudes embroiled in Nazism the opportunity to free themselves from a feeling of guilt and integrated the society around future oriented slogans in confrontation with the West German state.
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