Left Foot Forward. The First Volume of the DAV magazine (1924 – 1925) by Michal Habaj

“…The DAV defines itself aesthetically (new art vs traditionalism) and politically (communism vs conservativism and bourgeois outlook, internationalism vs nationalism). …”
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DECLINE TO THE DEPTH OF THE BASEMENT, ASCENSION TO THE HEIGHT OF THE CEILING by Tomáš Horváth

“…In the introduction of the study we stated that the social and literary crisis in the period of schematism that suppressed “low“, entertaining genres as “bourgeois relic“, had also its non intentional positive consequences on writing about a crime story: following boom of publishing detective novels in the 60 – tieth of the 20th century brought also a need of their defence, what happened then with help of scholarly reflection on literary scholarship (J. …”
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The Idyllic Topos in the 1860s Slovak Prose by Eva Palkovičová

“…The other part of the paper pays attention to social novellas written by Mikuláš Štefan Ferienčík (1825 – 1881), Daniel Bachát (1840 – 1906), Viliam Pauliny-Tóth (1826 – 1877) and Štefan Križan (1826 – 1894), which comply with new requirements laid down on prose, namely to entertain, to attract and to educate the bourgeois audience as well as to address their national awareness. …”
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mages of city and town in Slovak literature at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries (Initial comments on the subject) by Dana Hučková

“…That way the original preconceived idea (either positive or negative) gradually developed into its opposite: originally idealized domestic town had to face criticism for its petit bourgeois character and superficiality (Jégé, Jesenský), and on the contrary traditionally disapproved city (namely Budapest) could be experienced as enriching even domesticated enviroment (Daniel Bachát-Dumný, Belo Klein-Tesnoskalský, Samuel Czambel). …”
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The effect of the 1885 reform of the Upper House of the Hungarian Parliament on the composition of the members (with a special focus on hereditary peers) by Veronika Tóth-Barbalics

“…The connection of hereditary membership rights to land ownership and the rewarding of personal activity with lifelong membership were unique aspects of the bourgeois age. Despite this, feudal-based elements maintained their majority in the composition of the Upper House. …”
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A Bathroom (“Hygienic love“in the Works of Tatarka) by Valér Mikula

“…Negative attributes of bathroom after the Communist upheaval in 1948, strengthen its “class“characteristics as an attribute of bourgeois and it interiorly outlasts in several titles of Slovak authors. …”
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