A monograph on Latin and Italian models of Prešeren’s Baptism on the Savica. Key authors: Virgil (Aeneid), Ovid, Lucan (Pharsalia), Augustine (Confessions, City of God), Dante, Petrarch (Secretum, Res seniles), Tasso (Liberation of Jerusalem). The bulk of the book is dedicated to the role the Augustinian doctrine of two cities and of the Platonistic allegory of two Venuses played in the medieval and early modern reception of Virgil’s Aeneid (Petrarch’s Africa and Tasso’s Liberata); Prešeren’s poem is seen as a Romantic, i. e. Schlegelian, contribution to the tradition of “Augustinian epic” (cf. J. Ch. Warner, The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton, Ann Arbor, 2005), with its main hero Črtomir as a “Slavic Aeneas” and with Ajdovski gradec as a miniature version of Virgil’s Troy. The last part of the book is dedicated to mythic paradigms of death by drowning: Palinurus, Ovid’s Sappho, Leander.
COBISS.SI-ID: 259575552
The book investigates the use of mythological motifs in the work of Plotinus, the father of Neoplatonism and founder of the Platonic school in Rome, tracing parallels in the works of Roman Platonists and exploring their impact on the development of the Renaissance Neoplatonism.
COBISS.SI-ID: 258985728
The article is dedicated to paradigmatic uses of Ovid's exile. The doubts about the historicity of Ovid's exile in Tomis, which was reduced to mere fiction by some modern scholars, originate in the effects of mythicization inherent in Ovid's treatment of his experience, which could be subsequently used as a metaphor of linguistic alienation and spontaneous assimilation by the Italian Renaissance poet Angelo Poliziano and France Prešeren.
COBISS.SI-ID: 45515106
A collection of articles based on papers presented at the international conference “Metamorphoses of the Phantastic in 20th Century Italian Literature”, held in Ljubljana on October 29, 2009. The book was edited by project group member Patrizia Farinelli and includes articles by Patrizia Farinelli (Miracoli bontempelliani: il fantastico al filtro del Novecentismo) and Irena Prosenc Šegula (Quaestio de centauris: i racconti di Primo Levi tra fantastico e fantascientifico).
COBISS.SI-ID: 50149986
The article analyses the strong presence of the Argonauts myth in the contemporary novel ‘Blindly’ by Claudio Magris. Magris’ sources are recognised in the Hellenistic poem by Apollonius Rhodius – identified as a manifest source due to mostly quoted text excerpts and explicit mentions of the author as well as the title of the poem – and in the 5th century A.D. Argonautica Orphica, which appears as a concealed source, which is never explicitly mentioned. Valerius Flaccus’ poem is also mentioned as a possible albeit marginal source. The article analyses Magris’ elaborations of the sources and the formal yet semantically meaningful changes inserted into quotations from original texts. Moreover, it studies the semantic elaborations of the Argonauts myth as the basis on which Magris develops a meta-literary reflexion on the function of the narrator, multiple narrating voices and fundamental issues regarding autobiographical narration. Furthermore, the Argonauts myth is a basis upon which Magris builds his reflexion on the fragmentation of identity and on history as recurrent violence directed towards single individuals, in which Jason recurs as a bearer of civilisation but also of new barbarism.
COBISS.SI-ID: 50860898