The book deals with the importance of Zois's correspondence for the development of national revivals of ethnic Slovenians and Slavs. Baron's social network that was established at the turn of the 19th century through an exchange of letters brought together the greatest minds of Central Europe and the Balkans in an Enlightenment Republic of letters. With its nodes in Ljubljana and Vienna, it not only organized activities of Slovenian writers and linguists, but also empowered other Slavic cultural nationalisms in the territory of the Austrian Empire.
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Focusing the complex reality of cultural existence, the paper addresses the idea of asymmetries in literary histories and promotes views on the intricate qualities of identity in peripheral literatures. It help us to reconsider the reading of the cultural belatedness of minor literatures and to overcome the essentialist assessment of the Western metropolitan cultures as a homogeneous system. The views on asymmetries in literary histories stem from author's systematic inquiries into modernism and its inherent heterogeneity, which was the result of previous incongruous traditions in literatures.
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