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In the „Whale's Womb" or the „Silent Outcry" of the Bulgarian Poets of the 1960s and 1970s

This article entitled unassumingly aims at reminding - just in a cursory way, but with a substantial degree of certainty, too, in their literary and historical justification - of a specific list of names of Bulgarian po…

Resistance to the Totalitarian System as a Key Theme of the Memoir-Autobiographical Discourse of the Sixties

Some European nations and countries stayed in the area of totalitarianism for a long time. This fact and various ways of transforming and self-identity in a totalitarian society require careful studying in a broad scien…

Discourses of Feminism and Modernism in the Essays of Julka Chlapec Đorđević and Jela Spiridonović-Savić

I start from the definition of Serbian Yugoslav bourgeois culture as a semi-peripheral and having this in mind, I tend to analyze the essays by Julka Chlapec Đorđević and Jela Spiridonović-Savić, from the perspective of…

The Czech Lot: Illusions and Realities [Milan Kundera and Václav Havel Polemics]

The article is devoted to the analysis of the M. Kundera and V. Havel polemics over the fate and fortunes of the Czech ethnical identity, Czechoslovakian nationhood and ways of Czechoslovakian society development after…

„The Emigrant Within": The Political Ideas of Milovan Djilas 1954-1989

The aim of this article is to examine the political ideas of Milovan Djilas (1911-1995) developed in his dissident period (1954-1989). Once a highly ranked communist and revolutionary of Tito's antifascist partisan army…

Poezie Pavla Zajíčka po jeho návratu z exilu

Pavel Zajíček was a leading personality of Czech rock and literary underground in the 1970s. His imprisonment in 1976 was an important impuls for creation of Charta 77. Communist establishment wanted to get rid of him a…

„It's not on the Poet to Bow to the King". The Dissident's Position in Croatian Theatre Studies - the Ivšić Case

The paper discusses the position of Croatian playwright Radovan Ivšić in Croatian theatre historiography, before and after the independence of Croatia in the nineties. The research results point to three major phases in…

„Writing the Truth Instead of History": Resistance to Ideology in some Croatian Plays in the Second Half of the 20th Century

In this paper the authoress refers to examples from the period between the 60s and the beginning of the 90s of the 20th century in Croatia which best illustrate not only the playwriting but also the lethalness of the ac…

Two Motives of Russian Dissident Movement: Background and Literature Antagonism Technologies

In the Russian social thinking, the notion „dissident movement" has appeared twice. For the first time, as a historical and theoretical term in the essay The Dissident (1866) by Nikolay Sokolov, and then, a century late…

Through the Eyes „of the Other" [Notes on E.G. Etkind's Prose]

In the article E.G. Etkind's prose is discussed from the point of view of its place and role in the dissident movement in the Soviet Russia. The particular attention is paid of Etkind's ideological differences with the…

Reaches and Limits of the Symbolic Resistance. „Jeans Prose" in the Context of Yugoslav Socialism

The main thesis of the paper implies the historically changeable characteristics of symbolical resistance in the texts of „jeans prose" (Flaker). Using jeans as a symbol of global popular culture, freedom, casualness, t…

Early 1970s and the Cinematic Case of Tomislav Radić

Although his early feature length works - Živa istina and Timon - created quite a stir and could be called provocative at its time (the first half of 1970s), as much as they can be considered stylistically interesting w…

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Hermaphrodite Woman. The Rhetoric of Sexuality and Femininity in the Short Stories of A.G. Matoš [the Example of the Short Story Crossroads Flower]

The literary work of A.G. Matoš is characterized by a strong interest in femininity and sexuality. The analyses of female's figures and sexuality in the author's oeuvre have strived to imbue these concepts with stable m…

Kilka słów o początkach kina bułgarskiego

The Krugovi Generation about Matoš

Antun Gustav Matoš, central figure of Croatian Modernism became an icon and a legend yet in life, which, after the artistʼs death, only strengthened and his influence on the further shape of Croatian literature is diffi…

Royalists and Dwarfs Take to the Streets. Culture of Resistance in the Activities of Movements of Czech Children and Orange Alternative

This article is an attempt to compare two contestation models, that occurred in the activities of new social movements formed in the 80s of the twentieth century in Czechoslovakia and Poland (Czech Children and Orange A…

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Václav Havel: Non-political Politician

The article presents the political and intellectual silhouette of Václav Havel (1936-2011) - the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first one of the Czech Republic. Havel, the next to the Pole Lech Wałęsa, is the…

Parenthetical Remarks on Literary Contestations by Dubravka Ugrešić

In the article, the literary texts of the Croatian authoress are considered, since they present a critical comportment that is to remain in opposition to the crisis of the contemporary culture. The article makes an atte…

A Dissident Bogdan Radica

In the article a certain prominent Croatian emigrant, but very little known in Croatia, is taken into consideration. Bogdan Radica (1904-1993) was a political dissident in two different circumstances. Between 1941-1945,…

A Few Remarks about the Dissident Movements and the Anti-Totalitarian Literature in Bulgaria

The aim of this article is to introduce a characteristic of the dissident movement and the anti-totalitarian literature in Bulgaria in the period 1944-1989. In the early‚ 90s a group of very important researchers began…

„Byl to život na sopce, život pod závalem, život v tekoucí lavině". „Dissident Ghetto" by Pavel Kohout

The main intention of the presented article was to find and indicate thoughts connected to the dissident tradition of Czech 20th century history. The generational experience regarding the „drunken festival" of Prague Sp…