Scientific studies represent a selection from the author's long-time research of postcolonial literatures in English, especially in Canada, Australia and in New Zealand, primarily albeit not always within the postcolonial literary-critical paradigm. They focus on important issues in contemporary diasporic and transcultural writing in English. The essays include Slovenian diasporic/emigrant literary production and the image of Slovenia in Australian literature along with some other countries in an individual national collective consciousness.
COBISS.SI-ID: 56037474
The paper analyses on the basis of empirical historical-descriptive research the gradual canonization of austrian playwright Franz Grillparzer in high schools in Slovenia in Austria-Hungary, points to the differences between the theatre and school reception, assigns Grillparzer in the broader context of high school literary canon and reveals reasons for his decanonization.
COBISS.SI-ID: 54896994
The article discusses the social and cultural context of first translation of Stefan Zweig's memoire masterpiece Die Welt von Gestern (1942) into the Slovene culture at the time of socialist Yugoslavia. The article focusses on the correlations between the author and Slovene translator and journalist Angela Vode in habitus, accumulation of cultural capital and their position in the intellectual field as well as their autonomy regarding the individual practices that resulted in the translatory transfer.
COBISS.SI-ID: 20684808
This monograph by literary historian Tone Smolej forms part of the research into the cultural contacts between Slovenians and Austrians. It discusses 45 Slovenian writers who studied at the Faculties of Arts, Law or Medicine at Vienna University between the later 19th century and the mid-1920s. The first part sheds light on their years of studies in Vienna, drawing on numerous and so far unknown documents from the Vienna University Archives. While giving extensive treatment to their memories of their Vienna professors, Smolej likewise examines the extent to which each writer’s studies influenced his later literary creativity. The introduction has been contributed by Professor Peter Vodopivec, PhD, an eminent Slovenian historian. The second part provides a list of all the courses in which the writers enrolled during their studies, as well as reviews of their doctoral theses.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3200116
Borderline experiences can be perceived as an anthropological universal, although their definition and content may differ completely. Literary texts stage borderline experiences as a transgression and transformation of various arrangements in which the author examines the extent to which the staging of borderline phenomena at the level of discourse follows a more or lessuniform structure.
COBISS.SI-ID: 56423010