Father Romuald from Štandrež near Gorica (1676–1748) was a Slovenian Capuchin monk who was active in Škofja Loka in the years between 1715 and 1727 as a preacher and leader of the procession – penitent piety on the day of Good Friday. Here, father Romuald wrote, in 863 rhymed verses, one of the most beautiful dramatic poems in Slovenian literature. For the penitent procession in Škofja Loka, he wrote the text that in the twentieth century became known as the Škofja Loka Passion Play. The manuscript codex in which the text is preserved was written in the time between 1725 and 1727. The text of the Škofja Loka Passion Play itself was writen by father Romuald around or soon after the year 1715. When he started to write and adapt, the tradition of Slovenian religious drama was already more than a 100 years old. This tradition has subsequently been lost. Our critical edition sets up the Škofja Loka Passion Play as a manuscriptive and textual artefact in which it strives to discern as many traces of the lost tradition of Capuchin religious drama as possible. This could be done primarily on the basis of nine preserved documents that accompanied the codex, published for the first time in this edition. A special enrichment of the internet edition is the inclusion of video recordings of the performance of the Škofja Loka Passion Play from the year 1999 and their synchronised presentation with the text.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 244855040This critical edition shows that the manuscript of the Upper-Carniolan priest Adam Skalar can be placed among the most prominent works of the 17th-century Slovenian literature. The manuscript contains four texts that have introduced a new genre into Slovenian literature, i.e. meditative prose contemplating various biblical and mystical subjects. European “ascetic” literature of Middle Ages and the Renaissance first entered Slovenian culture through Skalar's writings. This scholarly edition, edited by Monika Deželak Trojar, includes critical transcription, facsimile, critical apparatus, and studies by Matija Ogrin, Majda Merše and the editor.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 259493888In every national literature or region, or in today’s multicultural societies, different concepts and/or practices of ‘world literature’ exist(ed). Contributors to CLCWeb's special issue "World Literatures from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century" (re)examine Goethe’s notion of Weltliteratur and later discourses of world literatures, addressing the following issues: perspectivising world literature; ancient, pre-modern, European and Asian world literatures; periodisation of world literatures; relations between world literature studies, comparative literary and cultural studies, literary transnationalism and postcolonial studies; world literatures and Orientalism, hegemony, ‘third-worldism’ and imperialism; world literatures and cultural transfer; the interdependence of world and national literatures; otherness and universality in world literatures; the global role of peripheral literatures
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In addition to the primary scientific analysis and theoretical and methodological research of manuscript material, the institute projects of critical editions demonstrates a special concern for the written cultural heritage, in the form of accurate records and repositories of material. Moreover, the added value of scholarly electronic editions lies in the wide online availability,the possibility of updating, and digital facsimiles. The Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies is an institution which will has one of the central roles in the research and presentation of Slovenian written heritage and will continue to enrich the cultural awareness of our past, present and future.
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Srečko Kosovel died very young and could not publish any book of poetry. He left behind a lot of manuscripts which are often difficult to read. Thus it took the editor Anton Ocvirk decades to decipher and print them in the critical edition Zbrana dela. However, there are several manuscript poems that have remained unpublished. They are for the first time presented in the present critical edtion whose first print (2009) was sold out in a year.
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