This book is the first Slovenian monograph study that both aims at a systematic investigation of individual literary types and genres at the analytical and synthetic level and illustrates them by means of sample texts spanning from antiquity to the present. The author collected the material from 2005 on in the framework of a research project and in conjunction with lectures on literature and literary theory and types of texts held at the University of Nova Gorica’s Faculty of Humanities. Her primary aim was to prepare a suitable university textbook. Examining the roots and development of literary types and genres provides profound insight into the many contents possibilities of creative literary communication.
COBISS.SI-ID: 255187712
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
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