A monograph on diasporic subjectivity and cultural mediation in contemporary postcolonial literatures was published in the USA and edited by Igor Maver with his extensive introductory article. He is also the author of the study that brings new views of contemporary diasporic transnationality and trans-border literary creativity within the North-American continent with a special focus on Canada. The book analyzes the contemporary diasporic literature and discusses the question of cultural identity and subjectivity in Canada and emphasizes the necessity for a reevaluation of Anglophone literary canon with the inclusion of the recent post-colonial diasporic literary discourses; moreover, it points at the need for an inter- and especially transcultural dialogue in contemporary word.
COBISS.SI-ID: 40192354
The author in the monograph discusses the process of reading literary texts in a foreign language, in German, namely with the Germanistics students in Slovenia. This is a qualitative empirical study, the result of which is a spectrum of various strategies (for a literary reading more or less adequate) of actual empirical readers (prim. http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/8584/1/SCN%201_2011_Kos.pdf). The results of this monograph were met with interest in Germany, which ist particularly important since Slovenian experience with Germanistics students in reading texts in the German language was dealt with.
COBISS.SI-ID: 17201416
The book is the result of a long research into recent and mostly overlooked literary trends. With the help of the poststructuralist theoretical conceptualisation, especially Baudrillard, the author makes the readers aware of the fact that postmodernist prose, considered the dominant trend in narrative, is coming to an end. In contrast to this dead-end of literary production, the author points out a tradition of understanding literature going back to pop-art, followed by cyberpunk and leading to avant-pop literary movement.
COBISS.SI-ID: 252950016
This contribution explores the Slovene view of Turks through an analysis of non-periodical printed matter from the 16th century and of newspaper articles published in Slovene lands from the 18th century to the present. This journalistic view was shaped by the historical experience from the time of the Turkish incursions. An extensive corpus of materials reveals an ambivalent attitude to Turks in the Slovene lands. On the one hand, journalism - under the influence of the Habsburg state framework and hence the Western political and historical discourse - portrays them in an extremely negative way as enemies of Christendom. On the other, as early as the 19th century liberal politicians in Slovene lands pointed out that such views were outdated and did not make sense. In the contemporary period, stereotypical thinking is yielding to intercultural dialogue.
COBISS.SI-ID: 53244258
In this paper Eros is understood to be a hermeneutical principle inasmuch as it is a concession to the impossibility of logically understanding what remains an unfulfilled desire. Eros thus connects itself with figures of excess and being that are beyond the realm of reason, and, finally, with figures of dissolution and of transgression as exceeding in the broadest sense. Eros shares these concepts with phenomena that can be described as marginal or borderline phenomena and that can be thought of in connection with radical strangeness and with experiencing the strange. The paper investigates the history of the concept of Eros as a borderline phenomenon and examines its portrayal in some 19th-, 20th-, and 20st-century German-language texts. It focuses especially on the portrayal of Eros as an experience of strangeness that leads via various modes of transgression to thetransformation of the given. As well, deprivation is in many ways inherent to Eros as a borderline phenomenon, and this manifests itself in the indissoluble tension between simultaneos presence and absence. Finally, Eros defines itself through the paradox of the simultaneous contitution of and lossof the self in the moment of experiencing Eros.
COBISS.SI-ID: 52792162