In every national literature or region, or in today's multicultural societies, different concepts and/or practices of “world literature” exist(ed). Contributors to the special issue "World Literatures from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century," edited by Marko Juvan, (re)examine the concept of world literature as proposed by Goethe and similar concepts and practices which occurred later and address the following issues: perspectivizing world literature; ancient, pre-modern, European, and Asian world literatures; periodization of world literatures; relations between world literature studies, comparative literary and culture studies, literary transnationalism, and postcolonial studies; world literatures and Orientalism, hegemony, “thirdworldism,” and imperialism; world literatures, international book market, and cultural transfer; the interdependence of world and national literatures; otherness and universality in world literatures; the global role of peripheral literatures.
C.03 Guest-associated editor
Selection, translation, and critical commentary of the most important writings by Franco Moretti, the leading representative of the literary world-system theory.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 255530496World literature is always “glocalized.” Every national literature has fashioned its own version of world literature. Consequently, many world literatures simultaneously exist within the single and unequal global literary system, “Slovenian” world literature being one of them. Based on Casanova’s and Moretti’s theories of the world literary system/space and, using a transdisciplinary approach, the volume explores the relationships between the world literary system and small or peripheral literary fields: the Slovenian, Estonian, Croatian, Luxembourgish, and Georgian.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 263955712The lecture discusses the process of inventing and imagining literature as national, i.e. the formation of a national literary canon in Slovenian poetry from the Enlightenment to Post-Romanticism. The utopian envisioning and the institutional and medial emergence of a “Slovenised” literary system was intertwined with the unification, purification, and standardization of Slovenian literary language. References to and rewritings of the topoi of Parnassus and Elysium was one of the self-regulatory strategies acquired by Slovenian poets who were active in the initial phases of “national awakening.” With it, they marked the distinction between the ethno-lingual and cultural singularity of their poetic discourse and the norms derived from ancient classics. Beginning with Prešeren’s romantic universalism, self-reference and intertextuality became even more intensely involved in comparing and competing of Slovenian verbal art with other modern European literatures, with the intention to be integrated into the emerging system of world literature.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
COBISS.SI-ID: 33874477Through books and magazines as its main media, literature helps create the networks of cultural spaces. Books are not merely the material bearers of texts, but also cultural products or even artifacts and symbols with their own history, codes, value, and meaning. They are the memory and archive of a given culture, as well as its virtual windows into the world. Contributors: M. Juvan, C. Domínguez, D. Šporer, M. Hameršak, D. Jipa, J. Habjan, A. Koron, M. Dović, M. Breznik, T. Aunin, J. Škulj, A. Weedon, M. Kovač, A. Vaupotič, A. Notaro.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 49270626