Slovenian literature in Austria finds itself at intently crossroads of regional and national traditions, historical and modern, cultural and national identities. An example of such literature presents itself in Maja Haderlap's debut Engel des Vergessens/ Angel of Oblivion. This is a work of an Slovene Author who had published Slovene poetry untill last year, when she wrote a prose literary work in German, not her native language, which is a language of her social environment and education.
COBISS.SI-ID: 19698696
In Slovenia the essay appeared relatively late, strictly speaking not until the beginning of the 20th century. Simultaneously with the delaywe can ascertain two other statements: 1) very talented writers, such as Izidor Cankar an Ivan Prijatelj and 2) the essayistics obviously simulated a lot of creative potentials and has therefore quickly evolved into a recognizable and problematically heterogeneous type of reflective prose. The essayists difer by their spiriitual image, ideological memberships ans interests, but it is obvious from the start that they form an important literary group.
COBISS.SI-ID: 253784320
Ecocriticism as a special discipline of literary criticism in the 1990s first took hold in the Anglo-American world and from there it spread to the countries of Continental Europe and Asia. After being initially limited to the study of images and genres of nature, its scope of research later broadened to include various theoretical concepts of nature, relationships between culture and nature, man and the environment, i.e., literature as a whole, and contributed significantly to the realization that man is defined not only by social relations, but to the same extent by natural environment. The article focuses on the development of ecocriticism, its subject areas, questions related to the ecological function of literature, and to individual elements of ecocritical analysis of a literary text.
COBISS.SI-ID: 19293960
According to its formal and spiritual characteristics, the Slovene literary history has classified the prose of Marjan Tomšič as the Slovene variety of magical realism or at least put it in its vicinity. However, it needs to be noted that in his works about the Alexandrians (aleksandrinke) the writer diverged from this denotation. In his collection of novellas The Southern Wind (Južni veter) and in the novel The Bitter Sea (Grenko morje), the key social, national, and moral impetuses go beyond the pagan and Christian mythologies, the emphasised interest in the mysterious, and the closeness to the enchanted, bringing those works into the sphere of new forms of realism where there is no more space for a product ive synthesis of magical and realistic elements.
COBISS.SI-ID: 19718408
This article shows dual development of the Slovene language in the Alpine and Pannoanian area - the central literary language and the east Slovene literary language existed until the middle of the 19th century. In the east- Slovene literary language it is necessary to differ between the Prekmurian and the Eastern Styrian language varieties.
COBISS.SI-ID: 18683656