The book deals with the importance of Zois's correspondence for the development of national revivals of ethnic Slovenians and Slavs. Baron's social network that was established at the turn of the 19th century through an exchange of letters brought together the greatest minds of Central Europe and the Balkans in an Enlightenment Republic of letters. With its nodes in Ljubljana and Vienna, it not only organized activities of Slovenian writers and linguists, but also empowered other Slavic cultural nationalisms in the territory of the Austrian Empire.
COBISS.SI-ID: 252952576
In Literatura med dekonstrukcijo in teorijo, literature is viewed as an ordinary, institutional practice. The book offers a synoptic reading of both extant conceptualizations of literature and the ordinary: the deconstruction of the philosophy of ordinary language, and the new historiography of the literary institution. Both these projects are read against the backdrop of their common historical conditions, from their key confrontations around the fall of the Berlin Wall (Derrida v. Searle; Jameson v. Ahmad) up to their canonizations around the fall of the Twin Towers (Butler’s Derrida, Spivak’s Moretti).
COBISS.SI-ID: 275173376
This article is part of a substantial collective survey of the history of the literary cultures of East-Central Europe (sponsored by the AILC/ICLA, and edited by John Neubauer and Marcel Cornis Pope). It was published in the section on national poets (Vol. 4 of the survey). The chapter presents Prešeren’s oeuvre, biography, and canonization, and critically discusses the popular thesis about the “Slovenian cultural syndrome.” Like most of the other texts in this collective volume, the chapter does not treat the canonization of Prešeren in a truly comparative way. However, the fact that the section on the national poets of the region (Mickiewicz, Mácha, Petőfi, Bialik, Eminescu, Prešeren, and Njegoš) brings together a large amount of crucial (and often difficulttoaccess) information in English increases the opportunities for future comparative work.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32124717
The book tackles the vast area of research – for the designation of which also the term post-classical narratology has been adopted – from two perspectives of literary studies: the historical-developmental and the systematic or theoretical-methodological. In this way and focusing on verbal narratives it captures the phenomenon, which in Slovenian literary criticism has not yet been presented in this manner and to this extent. The first part of the book treats the theoretical preliminaries, basic concepts, terminological questions, delimitations of the research subject, and the definitions of narrative. The second part outlines the history of narrative theories, divided into several phases, and the formation of its concepts. The third part discusses Slovenian contributions to the field and compares them to the international state of research. The fourth part examines the applicability of contemporary narratological approaches to concrete texts. It treats the concept of omniscient narration, aspects of narratology of drama and the phenomenon of narrativity in the plays of Dušan Jovanović, the development of gendered narratology, the introduction of narratological concepts in autobiographies and concludes the discussion with entering the interdisciplinary field of historiographical narratology.
COBISS.SI-ID: 272774144
Juvan’s book explores the asymmetrical relations between a peripheral literary field, such as that of Slovenia, and the world literary system. After offering a history of the idea of world literature and commenting on the evolution of its practices from Goethe to today’s globalization and transnationalism, the author focuses on the notion that Slovenian literature sacrificed its intrinsic individualism and artistic function because of its 19thcentury engagement in the national movement. It was thus supposed to suffer from aesthetic insufficiency, underdevelopment, collectiveness and belatedness. This frustrating self-image evolved from comparisons of Slovenian literature with Western cultural centers, whereby Slovenian letters were mistakenly seen by its actors as a unique case. With reference to the Slovenian “national poet” France Prešeren (1800–1849), this generalizing notion has been termed the “Prešernian structure.”
COBISS.SI-ID: 264144640