Borderlands on Maps, Borderlands in Science. Slovak PeregrinationsThe main aim of the article is to show the type of the cultural awareness typical for the borderland areas, emerging in the Slovak culture. It proposes a thesis that the borderland awareness is manifested in the model of the historical and literary description, which was created after the spatial twist in the liberal arts and under the inspiration of a weather map and a geological section. The article shows how a few generations of the Slovak literary scholars (O. Čepan, M. Hamada, P. Matejovič) focused on the way how to do research on the literary fi eld and the cultural memory of Peter Zajac, which is well demonstrated also in his theoretical refl ection. The fi nal conclusion that follows from this observation is that metaphors of a complex transport node or a gate are quite adequate in the description of the Slovak culture borderland paradigm.Keywords: borderlands, weather map, Slovak literature, Central Europe, Peter Zajac, Pavel Matejovič.Słowa kluczowe: pogranicza, mapa synoptyczna, literatura słowacka, Europa Środkowa, Peter Zajac, Pavel Matejovič.
Metafora pograniczaOderwane od ściśle terytorialnych konkretyzacji pojęcie pogranicza ze wzmożoną siłą ujawnia swój otwierający charakter. Inaczej niż granica, która oddziela i rozłącza, wyznaczając czemuś kres czy ustanawiając różnicę, pogranicze zbliża, zaciera ostrość różnicy, a wręcz radykalnie znosi granicę. Pomimo otwartości pojęcie pogranicza nie traci jednak swego liminalnego aspektu, który może (choć nie musi) zamykać jego semantyczny horyzont i go redukować, np. do tego, co widoczne tylko z jednej strony granicy. Użyte jako metafora pojęcie pogranicza zdaje się jednak uwalniać od owego izolacjonistycznego zagrożenia i oferować
The main aim of the article is to reflect on the features which define Slavic studies as a scientific discipline and to trace how they can, as an autonomous discipline, meet the challenge of developing their own research method. I put forward a thesis according to which Slavic studies constitute a kind of research filter whose application (due to its properties and origins, i.e., specialization in the area of Slavic observations) allows for a more accurate study within the space of culture thanks to a more valid (i.e., wider and deeper) recognition of the specific pattern resulting from the presence of Slavs in European history. The article aims to prove that in order for an unobjectionable distinction of Slavic studies as a specialized discipline to emerge, their hermeneutical character must be recognized. Slavic studies as a hermeneutical filter can enter into scientifically fertile and satisfactory correlations with other disciplines and scientific fields, thanks to which they gain a significant extension of their own research procedure.
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