M. Dović focuses on the role of the international networking in the transfer of literary artifacts from their original literature into the world literary space. He deals with the development of the two avant-garde waves in Slovenia the 1920s from the perspective of their relationship to the cosmopolitan network of contemporary European avant-garde movements. The first wave is shown as autarchic and unambitious, whereas the second wave (the magazine Tank), based on Zenithism, sought to place Slovenian avant-garde on the international stage as its equal creative component. However, the second wave was also unsuccessful because of its peripherality and the lack of continuity.
COBISS.SI-ID: 35035693
Juvan’s book explores the asymmetrical relations between a peripheral literary field, such as that of Slovenia, and the world literary system. After offering a history of the idea of world literature and commenting on the evolution of its practices from Goethe to today’s globalization and transnationalism, the author focuses on the notion that Slovenian literature sacrificed its intrinsic individualism and artistic function because of its 19th-century engagement in the national movement. It was thus supposed to suffer from aesthetic insufficiency, underdevelopment, collectiveness and belatedness. This frustrating self-image evolved from comparisons of Slovenian literature with Western cultural centers, whereby Slovenian letters were mistakenly seen by its actors as a unique case. With reference to the Slovenian “national poet” France Prešeren (1800–1849), this generalizing notion has been termed the “Prešernian structure.”
COBISS.SI-ID: 264144640
In his article Jernej Habjan links the debate on Franco Moretti's distant reading to the debate on Fredric Jameson's "third world culture." In and around this debate, Aijaz Ahmad both critiqued close reading and rejected Jameson's "Third-Worldism." What Jameson's and Ahmad's interventions into literary theory meant at the end of the real-socialist alternative and what Moretti's meant at the end of the US-American alternative to real-socialism, a synoptic reading of all three interventions might help achieve at the end of what seemed the European alternative to the US-American alternative.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36630317
J. Škulj proposes a new framework for studying planetary exchanges of literatures, one that subverts the systemic distinction between centers and peripheries. She advocates a model that can yield the analytical conceptualization and hermeneutic understanding of literary phenomena and their historical reality in the complexity of semiotic traces. She argues that literary facts seen in such intricate networks of mutual intertextual phenomenology and reaccentuations attest to their character of permanent mobility, evident instability, and constant singular reformulation of verbal and literary matrices.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36629805
The present study unveils the history of circulation and collecting of philosophical, theological, and belletristic books printed across European centers, which were banned by the papal Index librorum prohibitorum because they were deemed theologically, politically, or morally controversial. In spite of this fact, from the 16th to the 18th century, the educated higher clergy in Carniola could buy, read, and collect these books in their libraries (especially in the Seminary library) without any serious problems.
COBISS.SI-ID: 35009581