KONCEPTUALIZÁCIA NATURIZMU S PRIHLIADNUTÍM NA MODERN VÝSKUM LITERATÚRY A LITERÁRNEJ KOMUNIKÁCIE

The study presents the historical development of the conceptualisation of Slovak naturism, a literary movement of the 1930s and 1940s, with an overlap into the totalitarian period, in the context of modernist theoretical approaches such as structuralism, (Marxist) social history of literature and psychoanalysis, and also incorporates the perspective of contemporary cognitive literary science. Naturism is also compared with other literary movements of the period and its position in the body of so-called “lyricised prose” is clarified. The comparisons show that the intervention of lyricism into naturistic prose is not determinative, since the domain of naturism as prose with overt epic dynamics is the unconscious. Unconscious elements are incorporated into the structure of naturist work both deliberately, aligning with and challenging contemporary psychoanalytic theories. From the perspective of modern cognitive (literary) studies, however, a broader range of unconscious affective circuits in the brain can also be considered, which serve as foundational elements within naturistic prose. Cognitive science findings support a view of the conception of naturism as a relatively distinctive developmental innovation of Slovak interwar prose.