Obituary Berta Krebsová

A r t i c l e s

Zbigniew SLUPSKI: The World of Shih T'o, p. 11
Marián GÁLIK: Studies in Modern Chinese Literary Criticism: VII. Liang Shih-ch'iu and New Humanism, p. 29
Anna DOLEŽALOVÁ: The Short Stories in Creation Daily, p. 53
Ján MÚCKA: Quelques remarques sur la prose réalistique vietnamienne, p. 65
Kamil BANÁK: Mohammad Mascud „Tafri‡at-e shab“ – Analytical Approach to the Composition of the Novel, p. 81
Harry SPITZSBARDT: The Lexical and Morphological Impact of Sanskrit on Modern Indonesian, p. 97
Viktor KRUPA: Tane in the Easter Island Script, p. 115
Ladislav DROZDÍK: The Vowel System of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, p. 121
Vojtech KOPCAN: Eine Quelle der Geschichte Sili‡dars, p. 129

R e v i e w A r t i c l e s

Ema BAYERLEOVÁ, Recent Studies on Ancient Chinese History, p. 143
Marián GÁLIK, A Comment on Recent Books on Chinese Literary Criticism, p. 151
Georg HAZAI, 10 Jahre der „Uralic and Altaic Series“ der Indiana University Publications p. 171
Marián GÁLIK, A Comment on Two Slovak Books on the Theory of Comparative Literature, p. 175

B o o k R e v i e w s

Henrik BIRNBAUM, Problems of Typological and Genetic Linguistics Viewed in a Generative Framework. By Viktor Krupa, p. 187
Wallace L. CHAFE, Meaning and the Structure of Language. By Viktor Krupa, p. 188
E. COSERIU, Die Geschichte der Sprachphilosophie von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Von Ján Horecký, p. 190
New Horizons in Linguistics. Ed. by John Lyons. By Viktor Krupa, p. 192
Ernesto ZIERER, The Theory of Graphs in Linguistics. By Viktor Krupa, p. 194
Countries and Peoples of the Pacific Basin. Compiled and edited by Y.V.Maretin. By Jozef Genzor, p. 194
Okeaniya. By Jozef Genzor, p. 196
Samuel H. ELBERT, Spoken Hawaiian. By Viktor Krupa, p. 196
Albert J.SCHUTZ, The Languages of Fiji. By Jozef Genzor, p. 197
Stuart A.SCHLEGEL, Tiruray-English Lexicon. By Jozef Genzor, p. 198
Yazyki Kitaya i Yugo-vostochnoi Azii. Problemy sintaksisa. By Viktor Krupa, p. 198
N.I.NIKULIN, Vietnamskaya literatura. Kratkii ocherk. By Ján Múcka, p. 199
Marianne BASTID, Aspects de la réforme de l`enseignement en Chine au début du 20e siécle. By Marián Gálik, p. 205
Anna DOLEŽALOVÁ, Yü Ta-fu: Specific Traits of his Literary Creation. By Berta Krebsová, p. 206
The Legacy of China. Ed. by Raymond Dawson. By Marián Gálik, p. 211
Joseph R. LEVENSON, Revolution and Cosmopolitanism. The Western Stage and the Chinese Stages. By Marián Gálik, p. 213
Lawrence A. SCHNEIDER, Ku Chieh-kang and China's New History. Nationalism and the Quest for Alternative Traditions. By Marián Gálik, p. 216
Tai Chen's Inquiry into Goodness. A Translation of the Yüan Shan. By Marián Gálik, p. 218
Linguistics in South Asia. By Jozef Genzor, p. 219
J.Duncan M.DERRET, A Critique of Modern Hindu Law. By Leonard Bianchi, p. 220
Dariusch BAYAT-SARMADI, Erziehung und Bildung im Schahname von Firdousi. Von Kamil Banák, p. 220
Walther HINZ, Persich, Praktischer Sprachführer. Von Kamil Banák, p. 221
Angelo Michele PIEMONTESE, Storia della letteratura persiana. By Kamil Banák, p. 223
Hans E. WULFF, The Traditional Crafts of Persia, Their Development, Technology, and Influence on Eastern and Western Civilizations. By Kamil Banák, p. 224
Studia Turcica. Edidit L. Ligeti. Von Georg Hazai, p. 226
Hadzy Mehmed Senai z Krymu, Historia Chana Islam Gereja III. Von Vojtech Kopcan, p. 228
Ferenc A. VÁLI, Bridge across the Bosporus. The Foreign Policy of Turkey. By Jozef Braun, p. 231
Heidrun WURM, Der osmanische Historiker Hüseyn b. Gacfer, genannt Hezarfenn, und die Moderne türkische Lyrik. Von Xénia Celnarová, p. 235
Cahit ÖZTELLI, Yunus Emre. Yeni Belgeler-Bilgiler. Von Xénia Celnarová, p. 238
S.PLASKOWICKA-RYMKIEWICZ, M. BORZECKA, M. LABECKA-KOECHER, Historia literatury tureckiej. Von Xénia Celnarová, p. 239
K.E.BOSVORT, Musulmanskije dinastiji. Von Vojtech Kopcan, p. 243
H.L. GOTTSCHALK-B. SPULER-H. KÄHLER, Die Kultur des Islams. Von Vojtech Kopcan- Kamil Banák, p. 243
Heinz GROTZFELD, Das Band im arabisch-islamischen Mittelalter. Eine kulturgeschichtliche Studie. Von Kamil Banák, p. 246
Der Islam II. Von Vojtech Kopcan, p. 247
Ernst KÜHNEL, Islamic Arts. By Kamil Banák, p. 249
Edward William LANE, Arabian Society in the Middle Ages. Studies from The Thousand and One Nights. By Kamil Banák, p. 250
Arne A. AMBROS, Einführung in die moderne arabische Schriftsprache. By Ladislav Drozdík, p. 252
Mary Catherine BATESON, Structural Continuity in Poetry. A Linguistic Study of Five Pre-Islamic Arabic Odes. Von Ján Pauliny, p. 254
A.F.L. BEESTON, The Arabic Language Today. By Ladislav Drozdík, p. 255
David COHEN, Dictionnaire des racines sémitiques, ou attestées dans les langues sémitiques. Von Ján Paulíny, p. 257
Jaroslav STETKEVYCH, The Modern Arabic Literary Language. By Ladislav Drozdík, p. 258
Abdelghany A.KHALAFALLAH, A Descriptive Grammar of Saci:di Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. By Ladislav Drozdík, p. 260
Saïd HAMOUZ, Grammaire berbère. La langue. Les origines du peuple berbére. By Ladislav Drozdík, p. 262
Noveishaya istoriya Afriki. Ed. by S.R. Smirnov. By Peter Skalník, p. 262

Books received, p. 265

ABSTRACTS

THE WORLD OF SHIH T'O

Zbigniew SLUPSKI, Warsaw

Shih T'o (pseudonym of Wang Ch'ang-chien) (born ca 1908) is one of the most outstanding Chinese writers of the thirties and forties of this century. Relatively neglected by scholars, he deserves credit because of his exceptional talent shown in stories and novels about an „unknown“ and „unknowable“ world, written in an unconventional manner. Shih T'o's departute from narrow literary realism should be appreciated against the background of his undogmatic approach to conventions, contemporary ideas, his attitude to cruelty, indifference and senselessness of the „world“. A certain distortion of reality is here a means of depicting it more fully, even truthfully in a peculiar sence.

STUDIES IN MODERN CHINESE LITERARY CRITICISM: VII. LIANG SHIH-CH'IU AND NEW HUMANISM

Marián GÁLIK, Bratislava

Liang Shih-ch'iu was one of the best-known Chinese critics between the two World Wars. He was a pupil and later an adherent of Irving Babbitt, the founder of American New Humanism, and transplanted his teaching into Chinese soil. The present study shows up Liang Shih-ch'iu's opinions on various important issues of criticism: nature, human nature, mimesis, imagination, ethics and their attitude to literature and art. The question of „human nature“, the basic issue in Liang's criticism, is here analysed in particular detail. The article deals only with problems relating temporally to the pre-proletarian phase in the development of modern Chinese literary criticism.

THE SHORT STORIES IN CREATION DAILY

Anna DOLEŽALOVÁ, Bratislava

From July 21 to November 2, 1923 the journal China News published a literary supplement, Creation Daily, edited by Creation Society. Seven short stories appeared in this literary supplement, mostly describing emotional and social sufferings of heroes. These short stories form an important part of Creation Society's literary efforts during one of its most active periods.

QUELQUES REMARQUES SUR LA PROSE RÉALISTIQUE VIETNAMIENNE

Ján MÚCKA, Bratislava

Cet article n'aspire pas à une compréhension complète du réalisme dans la littérature vietnamienne. En fait, il est question ici d'une évaluation de la prose de la période entre 1930 et 1945 de notre siècle. Avant tout, nous nous sommes efforcés d'expliquer les problèmes de base qui modifient intérieurement les rappoorts du chercheur avec les problèmes de la littérature vietnamienne. Il s'agit des représentants principaux de la prose vietnamienne, comme Ngo Tat To, Nam Cao, Nguyen Hong, Nguyen Cong Hoan et Vu Trong Phung. Les problèmes traités ne représentent, certainement, qu'une partie infime des problèmes traités ne représentent, certainement, qu' une partie infime des problèmes complexes.

MOHAMMAD MAScUD „TAFRIHAT-E SHAB“ – ANALYTICAL APPROACH TO THE COMPOSITION OF THE NOVEL

Kamil BANÁK, Bratislava

In his analysis the author attempts to reveal the compositional arrangement of the Tafri‡at-e shab (Night Diversions), the first novel by the Persian writer of the thirties and forties, Mo‡ammad Mascud. The author's analysis is concerned mainly with the distribution of the characters and the manner of narrating.

THE LEXICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF SANSKRIT ON MODERN INDONESIAN

Harry SPITZBARDT, Jena

The problem of standardization and communicative optimization of a given natural language si closely connected with a steady improvement and accomplishment of its vocabulary, the creation of specified systems of terminology in the field of science, technology, economics, education, etc. In this respect, Sanskrit plays a similar role for the national language of the Indonesian Republic, the Bahasa Indonesia, as do both Latin and Greek for the whole intellectual world in East and West. Our investigations as to the impact of Sanskrit on Modern Indonesian are, on the whole, concerned with three major aspects: (a) Phonological correlations Sanskrit-Indonesian; (b) Lexicological aspects; (c) Morphological influence.

TANE IN THE EASTER ISLAND SCRIPT

Viktor KRUPA, Bratislava

The author discusses the distribution of the character 755 in the rongorongo tablets from the Easter Island. The character has been tentatively interpreted by Thomas Barthel as Tane. Since this deity plays an important part in Polynesian myths, the interpretation suggested by Barthel has been verified mainly from the point of view of mythology.

THE VOWEL SYSTEM OF EGYPTIAN COLLOQUIAL ARABIC

Ladislav DROZDÍK, Bratislava

In the present paper an attempt is made at surveying a number of alternative approaches to the phonological description of the vocalic inventory of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. Special attention is paid to the treatment of emphasis, short mid vowels and vowel quantity.

EINE QUELLE DER GESCHICHTE SILIHDARS

Vojtech KOPCAN, Bratislava

Bei der Vergleichung der Silihdar Tarihi und Cevahir el-tevarih ist klar zu ersehen, dass Silihdar bei der Beschreibung des Feldzuges 1663 (Uyvar seferi) das Werk Cevahir el-tevarih und weitere Quellen benützte. Der Text der Vorlage wurde von Silihdar neubearbeitet und in eine strenge chronologische Reinenfolge eingereiht.