The study presents a selection of folkloric, mythological and literary symbols or motifs of longing, weakness and temptation from antiquity to modernity. The main section of the study aims for an in-depth investigation of the motif of Fair Vida from the perspectives of longing and temptation, and focuses on several typological groups of the motif of Fair Vida in Slovenia; in doing so, it emphasises the differences in meaning between individual groups within Slovenia and in the relation to their Albanian, Sicilian and Calabrian predecessors.
COBISS.SI-ID: 250153984
The study investigates the linguistic reasons for and the history of the transformation of biblical proper names necessitated by their transfer and transliteration from Hebrew and Aramaic into Greek, Latin and other ancient languages. The absence of some letters and sounds in Greek and Latin was the main reason for many phonetic changes in the transfer of the names from the original languages. In addition to this, translators and copyists could not easily achieve a uniform phonetic system because Hebrew itself, being consonantal, allowed variations in spelling of names. The monograph is the first study of linguistic reasons for transformation of the forms of biblical proper names from antiquity until today. The study concerns the fundamental question of naming of persons and places, of scientific and “folk” etymology and of possibilities and limits of designating properties of persons and places by names.
COBISS.SI-ID: 31118125
The article stems from the main findings of an extensive research of the author in the world of the motifs of longing, weakness and temptation as represented in literary texts from the ancient Near East, from later Mediterranean and the broader European realms. The study is based on extended literary analyses of well-known texts that deal with the same, or at least similar, literary themes and schemata. Though these texts span the period from antiquity to the present, and though they were written in various, unrelated languages, they exhibit valid and instructive semantic parallels. Perceiving and comprehending similar expressions of values from different cultures can lead to a richer, more intensive linguistic and literary experience.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34692909
This article raises the fundamental issue of the relationship between content and literary form in comparative research on Biblical literature, examining how the specific Hebrew spiritual and cultural context defines the linguistic,semantic, and stylistic similarities and differences between the literature of the Ancient Middle East and Ancient Greece, and the Old and New Testaments.
COBISS.SI-ID: 33333805
This article discusses aspects of conveying truth in autobiography with respect to a variety of historic autobiographical works in comparison to Ian Cankar’s autobiography, Moje življenje (‘My Life’). A discussion of different viewpoints on truth and reality provides criteria for judging the authenticity and credibility of literary presentations of life experience and life stories. In this way, it is possible to see more clearly what is common and what is different in autobiographical writing compared to poetry and fiction. The aim of the article is to assess the possibilities and limits of conveying truth about life by means of confessional forms characteristic of genres of autobiography.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32784429