This paper addresses the economics and ideologies that influenced Slovenian literary mediation in four very dissimilar historical periods of Slovenian book production and circulation: the Habsburg Monarchy (1779-1918), the interwar period (Royal Yugoslavia, 1918-1945), the communist period (Federal Yugoslavia, 1945-1991), and the democratic period (the Republic of Slovenia, from 1991). The analysis considers three groups of factors (or constraints) that condition the production and circulation of books (and ideas) in general: economic factors, political (ideological) factors, and networking factors. As a small system, Slovenian literature turns out to be special in many respects and only partly governed by market logic.
COBISS.SI-ID: 49280610
This article presents Slomšek's efforts towards linguistic and cultural integration of the Slovene lands between 1821 and 1862. The prominence of the Slovene cultural and geographic space in Slomšek's works is presented by using his correspondence and travel writings, with a special view to his works on a unified Slovene literary language and his creative writing, in particular his poems.
COBISS.SI-ID: 50447714
The age-old gap between humanities and sciences is being cynically bridged by the neoliberal subjection of both humanist and scientific theory to expert knowledge, in the humanities mostly to cultural studies, a key source of which is the conception of performativity. The article sketches the process leading from Austin's proto-theoretical "nomothetic" exclusion of literature from his theory of the performative to Butler's ideological "idiographic" grounding of her conception of performativity in literature.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34564653