274 KB0 KB201520262026Trefalt, Urošštevilka:1letnik:14str. 288-305DOI:10.51937/Amfiteater-2026-1/288-306ISSN:1855-4539COBISSID_HOST:289125891URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-8QQAKSG3en= University of Ljubljana PressAmfiteater (Ljubljana)carnivalesqueCentral European puppetrycultural memorydeological domesticationideološka domestikacijakarnevalskostkulturni spominSlovenian puppet typesslovenski lutkovni tipisrednjeevropsko lutkarstvosubversion and resistancesubverzija in odportrickster puppet characterstriksterski likiDecline and emergence| puppet types from tradition to modern reinterpretations|The study focuses on the transformation of traditional puppet characters within the cultural space of Central Europe, with particular attention to the Slovenian context. It analyses the ideological, aesthetic and social implications of these changes. Challenging the linear narrative of cultural evolution, the author instead highlights the loss of the carnivalesque principle – marked by grotesqueness, ambivalence and subversion – as a critical cultural shift. Through a comparative lens on the Czech Kašpárek and Slovenian figures such as Gašperček, Jurček and Pavliha, the study reveals how ideological pressures and the absence of historical continuity led to the infantilisation and neutralisation of these characters’ critical potential. The text emphasises that these figures are not merely forms of entertainment but function as cultural archetypes that mediate memory, identity and resistance. Ultimately, the study argues that tradition cannot be replaced by formal construction and that aesthetic domestication is symptomatic of a deeper societal transformationRazprava analizira transformacijo tradicionalnih lutkovnih likov v srednjeevropskem kulturnem prostoru s poudarkom na slovenskem kontekstu. V ospredje postavlja njihove ideološke, estetske in družbene implikacije ter zavrača linearni model kulturnega razvoja. Namesto tega kot ključen premik identificira razgradnjo karnevalskega načela, zaznamovanega z grotesknostjo, ambivalentnostjo in subverzivnostjo. S primerjalno analizo češkega Kašpárka in slovenskih likov (Gašperček, Jurček, Pavliha) pokaže, kako so ideološki pritiski in prekinitev zgodovinske kontinuitete prispevali k infantilizaciji ter nevtralizaciji njihovega kritičnega potenciala. Lutkovni liki so obravnavani kot kulturni arhetipi, ki posredujejo kolektivni spomin, identitetne formacije in oblike odpora. Razprava sklene, da tradicije ni mogoče substituirati s formalnimi konstrukti ter da estetska domestikacija odraža globlje družbene transformacijeTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaSlovenski gledališki inštitut (SLOGI)