The authors present the framework and goals of “The Space of Slovenian Literary Culture.” The ethnically Slovenian territory was multilingual and multicultural; it belonged to different state entities with distant capitals, what was reflected in the spatial dynamic of literary culture. The project postulates that the socio-geographical space did not exclusively determine the development of literature and its media, but that it influenced it. On the other hand, literature itself, through its discourse, practices, and institutions, had a reverse influence on the apprehension and structuring of that space, as well as on its connection with the broader region, Europe, and the world. The fundamental hypothesis is that literary discourse in Slovenian was able to manifest itself in public dominantly through the history of two spatial factors: • the formation, territorial expansion, and concentration of the social network of literary actors and media in ethnically Slovenian lands; • the persistent references of literary texts to places that were recognized by addressees as Slovenian, thereby creating and giving meaning to the idea of an ethnically coherent space; these spatial references in public media were involved in grounding a national ideology.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 47480418The paper treats the canonization of two key figures of the 19th-century Slovenian poetry, V. Vodnik and F. Prešeren, focussing on the symptomatic complications that accompanied the setting and installation of their statues (as well as other spatial elements) into the public space of Ljubljana, the capital of the province of Carniola. In broader contexts of studying regional nationalisms of the long 19th century in Europe and the canonization of national poets as cultural saints, Ljubljana turns out to be a paradigmatic example of how - with the seizure of public space for the statues of "great men of literature" - the actual battle for the nationalization of the cultural space was fought.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 33463597The article presents the Slovenian writers' path and Upper-Carniolan localities that are connected with it.
F.27 Contribution to preserving/protecting natural and cultural heritage
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