Aesthetic distance in Slovak postmodern literature

Natália Čechová, Slovakia, ID CLEaR2016-401;       The paper studies the phenomenon of aesthetic distance in selected works of Slovak postmodern authors, such as Dušan Mitana, Pavel Vilikovský and Rudolf Sloboda. Its main aim is to describe and compare if and in what manner these authors use distancing tools and techniques in their works and what the effect of such a writing style might have on readers.