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1.	“The German-language feuilleton in interwar Bratislava”	For German-language literature in Bratislava between 1918 and 1939, journalistic and publicistic genres such as the feuilleton, the column (gloss), the review, and the editorial were particularly characteristic. Local authors often published their texts first in newspapers and only later reworked them into independent book publications. In both quality and quantity, the most popular genre of the period was the feuilleton. Writers such as Eugen Holly, Alexander Szana, Karl Benyovszky, and Elsa Grailich used the feuilleton to capture various aspects of urban life—from politics and the economy to culture, history, and everyday scenes from the streets. The aim of this study is to characterize the profiles of individual authors on the basis of their feuilleton writing and to compare this genre with selected feuilletons from Viennese and Prague, and possibly also Brno, daily newspapers. This comparison will allow for a broader contextualization of Bratislava’s journalism within a Central European framework.
2.	Narrative, Identity, and Philosophy of Power in the Oeuvre of Lajos Grendel	The dissertation is devoted to the work of Lajos Grendel, arguably the most important Hungarian prose writer in Slovakia. It includes a comprehensive narratological analysis of the narrative techniques used in Grendel's novels and short stories. Based on Paul Ricoeur's theory, the study examines narrative identity in Grendel's works, focusing on how identity is constructed in specific contexts, the roles assumed by minority identities in the author's fictional worlds, and simultaneously in his journalistic and essayistic texts. The relationship between power and the individual is a primary factor in the formation of identity. The philosophy of power has intensely preoccupied the author, as has the question of individual freedom; however, academic reception has not yet addressed this topic. In analyzing this issue, the dissertation draws on theories from the social philosophy of power (Antonio Gramsci, Michel Foucault, and others) as well as literary models that influenced the author (Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, and others). Ultimately, this work sheds light on the complex ways in which Grendel's narratives reflect and challenge the dynamics of power, identity, and freedom in minority contexts, offering new perspectives for literary studies.