Auto-stereotypes and Hetero-stereotypes in Slovene and Italian Poetry About Trieste From the First Half of the 20th Century

Author(s): Ana Toroš / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2016

This article brings to light the socio-political conditions in the Triestine region, at the end of the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century. These conditions influenced the formation of stereotypical, regionally coloured perceptions of Slovenes and Italians in the Slovene and Italian poetry about Trieste from the first half of the 20th century, which were specific to the Triestine area or rather the wider region around Trieste, where the Slovene and Italian communities cohabited. This article also points out that these stereotypes are constructs. The Italian Triestine literature most frequently depicted the Italians (native culture) before the First World War, in accordance to the needs of the non-literary irredentist disposition. In this light, it depicted them as the inheritors of the Roman culture, wherein it highlights their combativeness and burning desire to “free” Trieste from its Austro-Hungarian prison. An increase in auto-stereotypes among the Slovene poetry is noticeable after the First World War and is most likely a consequence of the socio-political changes in Trieste. The Slovene Triestine literature depicted the Slovenes (native culture) after the First World War as “slaves” and simultaneously as the determined defenders of their land, who are also fully aware of their powerlessness against the immoral aggressor and cruel master (Italian hetero-stereotype) and so often call upon the help of imaginary forces (mythical heroes and personified nature in the Trieste region) and God. The Italian Triestine literature mostly depicted the Slovenes before the First World War as an inferior people, often referred to by the word “ščavi”. After the First World War, the Slovenes are depicted merely as the residents of the former Austro-Hungarian Trieste, meaning they were part of the narrative surrounding Trieste, only in when the narrative was set before the First World War. In this case, pre-war Slovene stereotypes appear, also depicted as part of the literary myth of the “Habsburg” Trieste, namely as the folkloric characters from the surrounding countryside.

Comparative Literary Studies in Slovakia – Status and Perspectives

Author(s): Zvonko Taneski / Language(s): English / Issue: 15/2017

Danuty Abrahamowicz szkoła przekładu

Author(s): Marta Buczek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2016

The author of the article focuses on the specific school of translation formulated by the well‑known Polish translator of Slovak literature, Danuta Abrahamowicz. The article defines all aspects of Abrahamowicz’s translatological activities, starting with her literary studies, critical, publishing, editorial activity and ending with her translation activity. The article shows the ways in which Abrahamowicz perceives translation and how it applies in a new horizon of reception.

Edvard Kocbek

Egy szlovén keresztényszocialista vizionárius

Author(s): György Lukács B. / Language(s): Hungarian / Publication Year: 0

The purpose of this study is to examine the political career of Edvard Kocbek (1904–1981), the internationally recognised Slovene writer, poet, Christian Socialist thinker and politician. Kocbek became well known in 1937, after publishing a long article about the Spanish Civil War, in which he raised his voice against the fact that the main Slovenian party and the Church leadership supported Francisco Franco. In World War II he and his Christian Socialists cooperated with the communists in the Liberation Front and Kocbek has received high ranking positions after the war, but as a Christian, he had no place in the new regime and was forced to resigne. After a decade, he could publish his literary works again. In the afternoon of his life, he raised a particularly unpleasant question for the regime regarding the massacres committed by the Yugoslav Communists after World War II, which was a taboo subject till then.

Edvard Kocbek ili hipoteka dvostruke (ne)vjere

Author(s): Zdravko Zima / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 21/2016

O Edvardu Kocbeku, velikom slovenskom pjesniku i ratniku u različitim značenjima te riječi, nije uputno svjedočiti kao o disidentu. Ne zato što se u jednom času distancirao od oficijelnih stajališta stanovite organizacije ili grupe, u njegovu slučaju katoličke crkve i komunističke partije, nego zato što je cijeli njegov vijek, a samim tim njegov intelektualni i revolucionarni put bio i ostao izvan kanona.

Emigrantologia Słowian

Frequency: 1 issues / Country: Poland

“Emigrantologia Słowian” is an interdisciplinary  scientific journal of the Committee of Slavonic Emigration Studies affiliated by the International Committee of Slavists. The main aim of “Emigrantologia Słowian” is to publish research papers, reviews and reports on various aspects of life of the Slavonic communities in emigration: culture, literature, language situation (with special reference to bilingualism).

Identitáskonstrukciók három délszláv regényben.

(Ivo Andrić: Omer pasa, Milorad Pavić: Kazar Szótár, Jože Hradil: Képek arc nélkül)

Author(s): Zsuzsa Tapodi / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: III/2016

Ivo Andrić gives a diverse religious and ethnic tableau, but the change of identity in his work does not become a problem set, the religious and language shift is motivated by the advancement in the hierarchy of power, while in Pavić’s novel the problem of identity is dominated by a labyrinthine nature and opacity, harmony proves to be lost forever. In Hradil’s novel problematizing gets the upper hand. However, it is the Slovenian author who succeeds to show the most humane behaviour, leading to true reconciliation.

Interkulturalni dijalog u svetlu politike različitosti Laslo Blašković i Laslo Vegel

Author(s): V. Todoreskov Dragana,Aleksandra Ðuric-Bosnic / Language(s): Bosnian,English / Issue: 3/2016

This paper studies the cultural, in this case literary (prose),communication between writers-representatives of different nations. After the determination of the term interculturality and function of culture in slowing the stigma, ghettoisation, passes to the analysis of literary and social activities of two writers,members of the same minority in Serbia - Laslо Vegеl and Laslo Blašković. In the case of different strategies (writing in their native or second language, orientation towards his national community, the relationship to the majority, according to a former state – Yugoslavia – and present, Serbia, treatment of political issues, etc.) Establishes their relationship to their own entity stronghold and possibilities of overcoming its possible oppression (the term Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak) or oppressiveness (termed Susan Stanford Friedman).

Književnost i umetnost u Jugoslaviji: (DIS)KONTINUITETI (1918 – 1992)

Author(s): Jana Gligorijevic / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 3/2016

Medkulturnost v romanu Maje Haderlap Engel des Vergessens / Angel pozabe in strategija prevoda v slovenščino

Author(s): Silvija Borovnik / Language(s): Polish,Slovenian / Issue: 1/2016

The article analyses the intercultural elements in Maja Haderlap’s novel Angel of Oblivion (orig. 2011, transl. 2012). The novel, based on familial autobographical foundations and discussing the suffering of Carinthian Slovenenes during the Second World War, is unique also because the author, herself a Carinthian Slovene, wrote it in German. This fact was harshly criticized by Florjan Lipuš in his novel Enquiry for the Name (2013). He labeled Haderlap’s book release as linguistic heresy. The novel was translated into Slovene by Štefan Vevar. In this article, his innovative translation solutions, with which he stressed the role of the Slovenian language in Haderlap’s novel, are presented. In his translation, he managed to preserve the bilingual, intercultural and even Carinthian dialectal elements of which the novel comprises and which make this novel Slovene. It belongs to the work of the authors that are marked by a double, intercultural identity.

O przekładzie tytułu (na przykładzie prozy słoweńskiej)

Author(s): Monika Gawlak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2015

The article concerns the issue of the interpreter’s freedom concerning the translations of the titles of prose works. The matter seems important not only because of the necessity of reserving the title’s essential functions (identification, information, pragmatic), and not only because of the need of the complex analysis of the original title — its working relationship, but also because of the ‘ambassadorial’ role of — this title in the secondary cultural space.

O sreći u savremenoj slovenačkoj poeziji

Author(s): Denis Poniž / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 264/1981

Parte prima - Ne znam da li je baš srećno odabran početak pisanja saopštenja o tome kako se sreća naselila (i kako se naseljava) u savremenoj slovenačkoj poeziji. I to ne samo zato što je slovenaoka poezija — zajedno sa slovenačkim kritičarima — zaokupljena turobnošću, žalošću i patetikom, što je postavljena na pijedestal ogranizma koji trpi i koji je ranjavan, čiji zadatak nije da otkriva radosti i uživanja ovog sveta, nego da govori o njegovoj prolaznosti i kraju. Ne znam, doduše, da li je poezija koja peva o sreći istovremeno i srećna poezija, ali su oni koji o sreći pevaju, uvek kada uopšte pevaju, svakako, srećni pesnici.

Obraz literatury polskiej na Słowacji w tłumaczeniach Jozefa Marušiaka

Author(s): Zuzana Pojezdalová / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2016

Jozef Marušiak is one of the most distinguished translators of Polish literature into Slovak. The scope of his work is extraordinarily wide. In this paper his most important translations and translation areas are presented in order to show how the picture of the Polish literature in Slovakia has been affected and formed by his work.

Osobna imena u Kinchu oszebuinom szlavnoga orszaga horvatczkoga Petra Berkea

Author(s): Andela Francic / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 1(2)/2007

In the introduction of the paper the author gives a short overview of the life of Petar Berke and of the content and structure of his work Kinch oſzebuini ſzlavnoga Orſzaga Horvatczkoga, the oldest monograph on Marija Bistrica, the oldest parish fête sight. The central part of the paper consists of the list and analysis of personal names mentioned in the work. They are analyzed according to the sex of the named person, word formation and the origin of names. The characteristics are considered and explained in the context of the Croatian anthroponimy of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Prešernovi soneti in pesniška samorefleksija

Author(s): Marko Juvan / Language(s): Slovenian / Issue: 1-4/2000

France Prešeren made the sonnet fashionable in Slovenian literature as a representative poetic form and at the same time he revived it as a storehouse of cultural functions the influence of which could be felt up to postmodernism. Prešeren armed with the aesthetic postulate of the Schlegel brothers considered the sonnet a poetical form capable of cultivating the Slovenian poetical language and in this way raising it to the canons of classical and modern literature. In the time of Romanticism poetics belonged to the fundamental values and therefore became an integral part in discussions concerning the questions of poetic creation. Prešeren wrote a lot of poems whose main topic is self-reflexion, eg. his sonnets with the most important one in them: The Wreath of Sonnets. Prešeren in these sonnets grouped the contexts, goals, structures and situations pointing out their critical reception, highlighting his own modern Petrarcism. He gave reasons for his choice of style, topic and language, showed the difference between pragmatic and poetic manifestation, revealed the common roots of his personal life and his poems (making a clearcut difference between the biographical and poetical ego) mythicized his own poetic and national mission. Finally we outline the developing stages of Prešeren’s autoreflexive sonnets connected with him in an intertextual way in the time of modernism and postmodernism.

Prostori erotičkog govora (O Poeziji Ive Svetine)

Author(s): Branimir Bošnjak / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 261/1980

Poezija Ive Svetiiine je mietafora. Metafora jedne moći koja se neprestaino prliiziva i pokušava uvući u pisanje, pisanje koje se, uosltalom, »podrazumlijeva« — onako kao što se podrazumijeva disanije, glad, seks. Ta metafora obuhvata dva osnovna područja umjetniakog djelovanja eovjeka i zajedno s pisanjem čini, po mruogima, najvažnije kreativne atribute homo sapiensa. Kod Svetinje su to prizivanja slike (» .. Daj mi moć, sliko, da /lispišem bijieile lisfove za Botticellija/ da iznova nalrišem svijet.«) ;i glazbe (»Lijepa Botticellijeva glava sva je u bijelosti glazbe, mokra Venerina sjenia..«)/ Ove naznake se mnogostruko ponavljaju u Svetininim pjiesničkim skicama, tako da navedeno služi vllše kao podsjeitnik pri citanju, mogućnost otkrivanja modela koji se, konačno, i ne sakriijva.

Rola Instytutu Mikołowskiego w upowszechnianiu przekładów literatury słoweńskiej w Polsce w ostatnich latach

Author(s): Monika Gawlak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2016

This article focuses on the dissemination of Slovenian literature in Polish by the Rafał Wojaczek’s Institute in Mikołów between 2012 and 2015. The author approaches the role of publishers in promoting literatures that are viewed from the Polish perspective as marginal using Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of social fields. She points to the mechanisms and motivations of both the publisher and the translators, addresses issues related to graphic design, and examines the impact of paratextuality.

Slovenačka lirika 1950- 1980.

Author(s): Janko Kos / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 292-293/1983

Kad je Anton Vodnik pripremao antologiju pod naslovom Slovenačka savremena lirika, koja je objavljena 1933. godine, uvrstio je u nju većinom pesme nastale između 1900. i 1930. godine. Pola veka kasnije, nama se pojam savremene slovenačke lirike, kakav u to vreme postoji, čini manje ili više identičan sa lirskom poezijom u poslednjih 30 godina, tj. od 1950. do 1980. Tako vremenski označena, »savremenost« je svakako tačnije određena, godine je istorijski omeđuju, raščlanjuju iznutra i spolja, možda je čak i zasnivaju. Tako se savremena slovenačka lirika hoćeš-nećeš ispoljava kao vremenski ograničeni period i zauzima posebno mesto u razvoju dosadašnje slovenačke poezije; razlikuje se i od onog što je bilo pre nje, ali i od onog što će doći posle nje.

Slovene-Friulian-Italian Literary Connections at the Beginning of the 20th Century: The Case of Alojz Gradnik and Select Friulian and Italian authors

Author(s): Ana Toroš / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2017

Based on the case of Alojz Gradnik (1882–1967), this article deals with previously unresearched Slovene-Friulian-Italian literary connections that occurred during the last years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the first years after WWI along the border of today’s Slovenia (Goriška Brda) and Italy (the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia: the Provinces of Gorizia, Udine and Trieste). The article highlights the parallels in motifs, themes, ideas and form, as well as the connections between Alojz Gradnik and select Friulian and Italian authors from this region. These links are the consequence of living in a joint cultural space and Gradnik’s Friulian family ties, especially with his cousin Maria Samer. The research uncovers certain differences in motifs, themes and ideas stemming from different national identities. Gradnik’s poetry is closest to Friulian lyrical poetry in their descriptions and experiences of a rural setting, predominantly the deep bond felt between the farming people and native land coupled with their terrible social strife. Gradnik and his contemporary Friulian authors also coincide in works with a nationalist theme – on the threshold of WWI both Slovene and Friulian authors infused their work with their personal vision for the future of their own community. They shared a negative literary depiction of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the wish to secure a better economic future, to protect and solidify their cultural heritage. Gradnik’s poetry and that of the contemporary Italian (irredentist) authors share a similar literary technique that depicted the national identities of today’s border between Italy and Slovenia; they were ideologically opposed however: while the Italians depicted the Italian view of the region, Gradnik highlights the presence of a Slavic element within the region.

SLOVENSKA LJUDSKA PRAVLJICA DEKLICA IN PISKRČEK (MOJCA POKRAJCULJA, ATU 283C*) IN NJENE LITERARNE PRIREDBE

Author(s): Milena Mileva Blažic / Language(s): Slovenian / Issue: 1/2017

Vinko  Moderndorfer  (1894-1958)  firstly  published  the  Carinthian  folk  tale  Mojca Pokrajculja in 1924 in the collection National Tales from Mežica Valley. In the next (extended) editions of the Carinthian Folk Tales (1937, 1946, 1957 and 1972) he published similar tales Deklica veka [The Girl is Crying]  and Mojca Pokrajculja. Although both well-known, the place in the Slovenian Primary School Curriculum  for 1  grade (2011)  has text  Mojca Pokrajculja , which is also better known. On the basis of the international classification (Uther  2004, 2011) Monika Kropej  (2012, 2015)  suggested for this tale classification under the number ATU 283C*. The basic type  can include the motifs of folktale types  ATU 15 (The Theft of Food by Playing Godfather ), ATU 283B* (The House of the Fly) and  ATU 480A (Girl and Devil in a Strange House),  and even the type ATU 123 (The Wolf and the Kids) or ATU 333 (Little Red Riding Hood). In literarure can be find intertextual reminiscences (Juvan 2000) with the  Grimm folktale Wedding of Mrs Fox (KHM 38, ATU 65 The She-Fax's Suitors). Due to intertextuality Mojca Pokrajculja can be classified also as Formula Tale or  Chain Tale, based on the sequence of animals (chains  based of numbers, objects, animals, names, death, eating and other events).