Stereotypes and Myths. Intertextuality in Central European Imagological Reflections

by Tibor Zilka, Anna Zelenková, Krisztián Benyovszky

Overview

This book combines the theory of intertextuality and intermediality with imagological reflections. These are understood as a way of intercultural, hermeneutically oriented secondary communication in which the analyses of "otherness" do not serve for the purposes of presenting one’s own self, but for understanding it. By providing tangible text examples from Central European literatures (and others), the authors focus on the circulation of "culture images" as a multilayer text, where reality is represented through verbal means and interpretational proceedings. These images emerged primarily in the period of rising nationalism and, to some extent, they persist to this day. The monograph thus opens a new perspective for theoretical analysis of problems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631874486
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	09/21/2022
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tibor Žilka is a co-founder of the Department of Literary Communication at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (Slovakia). The latest years of his career have been connected to the Institute of Languages and Cultures of Central Europe of the same university. He specializes in semiotics, poetics and narratology.

Anna Zelenková is a scientific member of the Institute of Slavonic Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague. She is a well-established researcher in literary comparative studies and the theory of imagology.

The same is true for Krisztián Benyovszky. He is Professor at the Institute of the Hungarian Language and Literary Science in Nitra.

Table of Contents

Introduction — The　Film　Adaptation　of　a　Literary　Work — The　Ours　and　the　Foreign　in　Literature　(Fiction) (Slovak-Hungarian　Relations) — The　Ours　and　the　Foreign　in Formation　of　the　Image　of　a　Tinker (Slovak-Czech Relations) — Slavic Myths in the Context of the Study of East-West Relations — The　Faustian　Myth and　its　Forms — The Intertextual Aspect of the Faustian Theme in the Nineteenth–Century Slovak and Czech Literature — Central　European　Ethnic　Stereotypes　in　the　Popular　Culture — Conclusion — Index — Bibliography .