A Literary “Picture of the World” as a Criticism of Society in Slovenian Biedermeier Literature

Author(s): Andrejka Žejn / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

The relationship between developments in a “real” society and the portrayal of this society in literature can be studied by analyzing the linguistic picture of the world using the componential analysis method. The concept of the linguistic picture of the world has been developed by various interdisciplinary directions in Europe and the US, relying on the ideas of Wilhelm von Humboldt, who conceived of language as a specific manifestation of culture. The linguistic picture of the world is an interpretation, conceptualization, and presentation of the world conveyed through language. A componential analysis was conducted to compare the semantic components of the concept of early-nineteenth-century society and the components of the same concept in a literary work of the Slovenian Biedermeier (i.e., the first original Slovenian narrative). The results of this analysis showed differences in the concept’s content that can be identified as criticism of the real society and an alternative reading option.

A X-a ediţie a festivalului internaţional „Zile şi nopţi de literatură”

Author(s): Irina Ionescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2013

Conference-Report: A X-a ediţie a festivalului internaţional „Zile şi nopţi de literatură” (Irina Ionescu)

Autobiograficzne czytanie powieści Drwiące żądze Draga Jančara

Author(s): Marta Cmiel-Bażant / Language(s): Polish Issue: 19/2022

The novel Mocking Desire was published in 1993, when Drago Jančar was already a wellknown author, who had received some important literary awards. This hybrid and multifaceted literary work describes the Slovenian writer’s stay in New Orleans and in New York. Because Jančar visited the United States on a Fulbright Fellowship in 1985, his novel is read as an autobiography, although the author has not established an autobiographical pact with the reader (Lejeune). The aim of this study is to consider the autobiographical writing as a literary genre, the figure of reading, and the play with convention, in order to answer the question what provokes the autobiographical reading of Mocking Desire.

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.

BETON - Kulturno propagandni komplet br. 196, god. XIII, Beograd, utorak, 19. jun 2018.

Author(s): Svetlana Slapšak,Selvedin Avdić,Lejla Kalamujić / Language(s): Serbian

UMESTO UVODNE REČI; Svetlana Slapšak: Kosovski mit; Selvedin Avdić: Autobusne bilješke; Lejla Kalamujić: Mozart protiv Mozarta

Biblical Apocrypha in South-Eastern Europe and Related Areas

Author(s): Ekaterina Todorova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 43/2021

Brijuni

Author(s): Drago Jančar / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 05+06/2004

Župnik u Vodnjanu posjetitelju rado pokazuje »najveće blago Istre« što ga čuvaju u crkvi Svetoga Blaža, posjetitelju se ono čini svakako najneobičnijim: nogu svete Barbare, jezik Marije Egipatske i ostatke svetoga Sebastijana. Sebastijanovi su ostaci impozantni: neraspadnuta glava, dio kralježnice, pleća i sačuvani mišići koji su ostali tamo nakon što su u rimskoj tamnici svetom čovjeku iščupali glavu iz tijela. Župnik objašnjava da ni jedna egzaktna znanost ne može objasniti zašto se ta tijela ne raspadaju. Posjetitelj upita postoji li kakva pisana dokumentacija da ti veliki komadi tijela, što počivaju u loše osvijetljenom relikvij ariju, doista pripadaju baš tim sveticama i tom svecu? Na upit ne dobiva odgovor, kasnije spoznaje da su relikvije, prije nego što su se našle u Vodnjanu, bile u posjedu mletačkog slikara Grezlera Sakrio ih je pred Francuzima, koji su godine 1806. ukinuli mletačke samostane a njihove kuće i crkve podržavili. Posjetitelj više ne postavi ni jedno pitanje. A i što da naposljetku ovdje rade pisana dokumentacija kao i egzaktna znanost, koja ne može utvrditi zašto se ti komadi mesa, mišića i kosti ne raspadaju, kad pred njim leže corpi santi. Sveta se tijela ne raspadaju upravo zato što su sveta.

Cijeli život

Author(s): Andreja Zelinka / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 3-4/2019

Drama “Cijeli život” napisana je 2007. godine i bila izvođena u koprodukciji KUD Intergali, Gledališča Glej i Mestnega gledališča Ljubljana.

Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum

Frequency: 1 issues / Country: Bulgaria

Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum is published by Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski and edited by the literary scholars of the Balkan Studies Masters and Doctoral Studies Program (Department of General, Indo-European, and Balkan Linguistics with the Faculty of Slavic Studies). This journal aims to encourage the study of Comparative Literature. The similarities and overlaps between less popular literatures and the well-researched canonical phenomena remain rather unexplored. Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum wants to give priority to such issues; to reconsider the clichéd notions of centres and peripheries, of one-way influences, temporary delays and topic deficiencies. It makes sense to seek the meaning of common affinities and trends, in other words – to look at what is positive, stimulating, and creative about the communication between literary and cultural phenomena. In fact, the Balkans are home to just a small share of the less researched literatures in the field of Comparative Literature. In Europe, we often know too little about our neighbours, unless they happen to be the French, German or British literatures.

Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum expresses itself in three languages: Bulgarian, French and English. It provides new opportunities for communication between scholars of Comparative Literature with the aim of a complete, conceptual and terminological understanding of new ideas within our field of research.

Comparative Literary Studies in Slovakia – Status and Perspectives

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

COMPARISON OF GRAPHIC AND TEXTUAL BIOGRAPHIES IN SLOVENIAN LITERATURE

Author(s): Ana Toplak / Language(s): English Issue: 21/2022

The paper compares two graphic biographies with traditional biographies of the same authors – renowned Slovenian writers Alma Karlin and Ivan Cankar. It compares the manner in which graphical and text-only biographies present the characters, the character’s emotions and expressions, which life events they emphasize, and how they address the criterion of objectivity. The results suggest that the biographies in the two Slovenian graphics are less objective than textual biographies due to the pictorial material. Textual biographies present more information about the subject, while graphic biographies focus more on individual events, statements, and emotions, and present them more appealingly.

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.

Drama

Author(s): Dušan Jovanović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1-2/2019

Drama written by Dušan Jovanović: Egzibicionist.

Drama

Author(s): Matjaž Zupančič / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1-2/2019

Drama written by Matjaž Zupančič: Vladimir.

Drama

Author(s): Rok Vilčnik / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1-2/2019

Drama written by Rok Vilčnik: Narodni demokratski cirkus Sakešvili.

Drama

Author(s): Evald Flisar / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1-2/2019

Drama written by Evald Flisar: Nora Nora.

Drama

Author(s): Vinko Möderndorfer / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1-2/2019

Drama written by Vinko Möderndorfer: Romeo i Julija su bili bjegunci.

Drama

Author(s): Dragica Potočnjak / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1-2/2019

Drama written by Dragica Potočnjak: Za naše mlade dame.

Drama

Author(s): Simona Semenič / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1-2/2019

Drama written by Simona Semenič: tisućudevetstoosamdesetprva.

Drama. Savremena slovenska drama između intime i društvene kritike (priredila: Mateja Pezdirc Bartol)

Author(s): Mateja Pezdirc Bartol / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1-2/2019

Savremena slovenska drama nije zaokružena i jedinstvena pojava sa očiglednim karakteristikama, već splet različitih tematskih, motivskih i idejnih elemenata, jezičkih varijanti, žanrovskih modela i dramaturških istraživanja, zato možemo u nastavku njene elemente označiti samo u obrisima, koji ne mogu sadržati sve varijante njenih poetika. Najprije, pak, pogledajmo ko su dramatičari i dramatičarke koji stvaraju u vremenu od osamostaljenja Slovenije 1991. pa do danas, te kakav je njihov društveni status i položaj unutar slovenskih pozorišta.