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The aim of this study is to examine the censorship measures that led to the banning of pulp fiction in Slovakia after the World War II. To clarify the issue, the introduction documents how the contemporary discourse on pulp fiction was formed and what its basic ideological foundations were. Examples from the period press are used for illustration, including journalistic articles by Alexander Matuška, Andrej Mráz, and Ľudo Zúbek, which contributed significantly to the creation of a negative image of pulp literature and were also direct stimuli for subsequent censorship interventions by the state apparatus. The main part of the article consists of a description of selected measures, including a detailed description of their consequences for publishing and distribution across the board. Using archival documents, the ban on the western novel Zlatá ostroha [The Golden Spur] by Bob Alberts, the pseudonym of Slovak writer Ratibor Bodecký (1922–1968), is examined in particular detail. The final part of the article mentions the chapbook series Ľudové čítanie [Folk reading], which was intended to replace banned literary pulp. Methodologically, the study is based on current views on the issue of control and regulation of literature.

The aim of the study is to present and specify the possibilities of quantitative-corpus analysis of verse, which was characteristic for the work of the representatives of the avant-garde movement of Slovak surrealism (Rudolf Fábry, Július Lenko, Vladimír Reisel, Štefan Žáry and others). The study contains three chapters. The first one summarizes the previous research on the verses of Slovak surrealism and characterizes its general features. Then, isolated attempts at quantitative analysis of surrealist verse are presented and critically evaluated. The conclusion presents the possibilities of quantitative research on surrealist verse in digital processing, with the need to create a digital corpus of poetic texts that could be used for the analysis of a variety of versiological problems. The aim should be not only the digitisation of surrealist texts, but of the whole complex of Slovak poetry, so that selected problems can also be studied in their interrelations and from developmental aspects. From the methodological point of view, the study follows the current research in the field of quantitative versology.

Barborík, Vladimír – Bystrzak, Magdalena: Modernization by criticism: Hamaliar, Chorváth, Bor, Matuška

The aim of the study is to present and specify the possibilities of quantitative corpus analysis of verse, which was characteristic for the work of the representatives of the avant-garde movement of Nadrealism – the Slovak variation of Surrealism (Rudolf Fabry, Július Lenko, Vladimír Reisel, Štefan Žáry, and others). The article consists of three chapters. The first one summarises the previous research on the versological aspects of Nadrealism and characterises their general features. Then, isolated attempts at quantitative analysis of the verse are presented and critically evaluated. The conclusion presents the possibilities of quantitative research of this type of verse in digital processing, with the need to create a digital corpus of poetic texts that could be used for the analysis of a variety of versological problems. The aim should be not only the digitisation of Nadrealist texts, but also of the whole complex of Slovak poetry, so that selected problems can be studied in their interrelations and also from developmental aspects. From the methodological point of view, the study follows the current research in the field of quantitative versology.

Cieľom štúdie je predstaviť a špecifikovať možnosti kvantitatívno-korpusovej analýzy verša, ktorá bola charakteristická pre tvorbu predstaviteľov avantgardného hnutia slovenského surrealizmu (Rudolf Fábry, Július Lenko, Vladimír Reisel, Štefan Žáry a ďalší). Štúdia obsahuje tri kapitoly. Prvá sumarizuje doterajší výskum veršov slovenského surrealizmu a charakterizuje jeho všeobecné črty. Potom sú predstavené a kriticky hodnotené ojedinelé pokusy o kvantitatívnu analýzu surrealistického verša. Záver predstavuje možnosti kvantitatívneho výskumu surrealistického verša v digitálnom spracovaní, pričom je potrebné vytvoriť digitálny korpus básnických textov, ktorý by mohol byť využívaný pre analýzu najrôznejších verzologických problémov. Cieľom by pritom nemala byť len digitalizácia nadrealistických textov, ale celého komplexu slovenskej poézie, aby sa dali aj vybrané problémy skúmať vo vzájomných súvislostiach a z vývinových aspektov. Z metodologického hľadiska štúdia nadväzuje na súčasný výskum v oblasti kvantitatívnej versológie.

The interview is a part of the yet unpublished book of interviews carried out by J. E. Bor in the year 1944 with several significant representatives of the literary life in contemporary Slovakia (J. Smrek, M. Chorváth, M. Bakoš, J. Silan). The subject of the interview with Michal Považan is the specific poetics of Slovak Surrealism, which did not mechanically adopt the elements of French Surrealism e.g. in linking its production to Slovak poetic tradition. In this context Považan draws attention to Janko Kráľ´s poetry, whose work Slovak Surrealists creatively expanded. He also expresses his opinion about the concept of Structuralist criticism, the methods of which he used in analysing the works by J.C. Hronský (Jozef Mak and Gráč the Scrivener). Považan also comments in his interview on the topics which are related to the critical reflection of the contemporary literary life.