The study sets out to challenge the established view and to critically question some of the axiomic assumptions of Western theorists. Its challenge is supported by empirical research involving reader response to translations of specific literary texts. The conclusion reached is that the quality of the translation, its fluency and acceptability in the target language environment depend primarily on the individual abilities of the translator, her translation strategy and knowledge of the source and target cultures, and not on her mother tongue or the direction in which she is translating.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29202786
The article discusses the state of historical culture and its relationship to literature in Slovenia in the process of transition into the democratic political system. It demonstrates the decisive impact of some novels of distinguished Slovene authors who discussed the civil war, the politically motivated Stalinist processes, the verbal offence, the hostile propaganda etc., giving to the Slovene audience the first public information, concerning these themes and herewith not only replacing the official historiography but also influencing the political movement that lead to democratic changes.
COBISS.SI-ID: 37219426
The monograph seeks to shed light on the development of events in Western comparative literature in the past two decades. It tackles disciplinary self-reflection, starting from the first half of the 1990s onwards, focusing on the “crisis” of comparative literature. It discusses particular fields of literary studies (literary theory, literariness, otherness, translation, literary history, and world literature), seeking to demonstrate they are a special domain of CL. In its conclusion it argues for CL, investigating the inbetweennes with the methodological tools of (inter)cultural hermeneutics.
COBISS.SI-ID: 236661760
The Monograph offers insight into the background of the Russian cultural and literary development with the condensed presentation of processes, connected with the rise of our contemporary understanding of literature. Analyzing the basic characteristics of the Russian medieval culture in the 17th century it points out the specificity of the Russian cultural development and in further elaboration presents a detailed analysis of the 18th century’s Russian literature. In its central part the study discusses the creative evolution of Pushkin, Lermontov and Gogol’.
COBISS.SI-ID: 237184512
The monograph analyzes the relationship between the rhythmic and euphonic dimensions of poetic language on the one side and the semantic dimensions on the other. The specific nature of the Slovene poetic language is demonstrated with the analysis of poetic principles of the selected Slovene poets and their works. The greatest Slovene poet France Prešeren is presented as the remote successor of the medieval troubadours and as the poet who put the form “wreath of sonnets” on the throne of the high poetry, appropriate for expressions of deepest and highest emotions and cognitions.
COBISS.SI-ID: 225799936