Since the 1970s the Slovenian auto/biographical writing is no longer behindhand with the similar tendencies elsewhere . In the 1970s and 1980s it was very much engaged in the framing and reframing of the traumatic experience of life in a totalitarian regime of the former Yugoslavia. The latter was facing a gradual economic and political disintegration, but on the other hand also a process of democratization of cultural and social life that did not always proceed smoothly. However, the aesthetic differentiation of autobiographical writing was also informed by modernism and postmodernism. In those two decades the flourishing repertoires of autobiographical writing represented not only the main current of Slovenian narrative production, but had a social and individual emancipatory function as well. The paper compares the works of two authors of different backgrounds. Marjan Rožanc, one of the most important writers of the period, wrote his 1983 "Novel of Books" as an explicitly autobiographical text, structured entirely as a series of interactions between author's real-life and his reading experiences. Merging genres he wrote a passionate fragmentary narrative on the contrasts between his oppressed daily life and the ecstatic freedom offered by reading fictional and philosophical texts. Almost thirty years later Aleš Berger , editor, translator and theatre critic, wrote "The Chest in the Basement" (2011), a series of fragmentary records in which he discreetly remembers his life, some contemporaries and the cultural scene in the centre of Ljubljana. Despite his living in a free society for the last twenty years, the author is still narrating life in a totalitarian regime thus conferring his memoir a documentary function.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 34745901The lecture addresses the development of relationships between Jernej Kopitar and the Czech intellectual elite from 1808 to 1844. Three successive stages of this relations are described: contacts with Zlobicky, Dobrovsky and the romantics. The relationships were strongly influenced by Kopitar's personality and Czech nationalism which, increasingly opposing each other, nevertheless produced important knowledge both in slavic studies and literature.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 34165293The paper, delivered as a plenary talk at the French CAHIER-consortium workshop, presents the methods for manuscript description and for structured text-encoding of their data which are later used for advanced analytical queries. The paper outlines the techniques that we used in our analysis of Early-Modern manuscripts in order to analyse their textual genres and the socio-cultural context of their authors. The method relies on usage of XML encoded data, following the TEI Guidelines, and will be used for research, description and Internet presentation of further Slovenian manuscripts.
B.04 Guest lecture
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