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Martin Kacur
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Martin Kacur

The novel Martin Kačur, which dates from 1907, tells the engrossing story of a young schoolteacher who moves from one provincial Slovene town to the next, trying to enlighten his countrymen and countrywomen but instead receiving only the mistrust and scorn of the traditional-minded and petty population. The novel is ruthless in its analysis and self-analysis of the failure of this abstract idealist. Brilliant descriptions of Slovenia’s natural beauty alternate with the haze of alcoholic despair, rural violence, marital alienation, and the death of a young and beloved child. The Slovene prose writer, poet, and dramatist Cankar’s characterizations of duplicitous political and religious leaders (the village priest, the mayor, other teachers, doctors, etc.) and the treacherous social scene are remarkable in their engaging clarity. No doubt the raw emotional impact of Martin Kačur derives partly from Cankar’s portrayal of the way society isolates people, denying them sympathy and solidarity. Cankar's style here owes a debt both to naturalism and to symbolism and contains, in its sometimes frantic pace and associative interior monologues, hints of early expressionism.

Glasbeni barok na Slovenskem in evropska glasba
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Glasbeni barok na Slovenskem in evropska glasba

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997-01-01
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  • Publisher: Založba ZRC

V zborniku so zbrane razprave, ki so bile predstavljene na mednarodnem simpoziju, posvečenem spominu na akademika Dragotina Cvetka (1911–1993). Poglavitna pozornost je veljala slovenskemu glasbenemu baroku, ki se je razvijal vzporedno s takrat napredno evropsko glasbo. To problematiko uvajata prispevka o estetski normiranosti in posebej o zgodnjebaročni problematiki (M. Bergamo, B. Bujič). Teme osrednjega dela zbornika segajo od razvojnih značilnosti baročnega obdobja s periodizacijo (I. Klemenčič) do ustvarjalnih prispevkov posameznih skladateljev (M. Kokole, B. Šinigoj, T. Faganel). Posebej je osvetljena problematika glasbenega poustvarjanja (J. Sivec, K. Bedina, E. Škulj). Interdisciplinarni vidik zajema področji slovenske literature in umetnostne zgodovine (J. Faganel, D. Prelovšek), mednarodni sega zlasti k bližnjim srednjeevropskim glasbenim kulturam (R. Flotzinger, J. Sehnal, K. Kos, S. Tuksar).

Editing the Nation’s Memory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 317

Editing the Nation’s Memory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-07-14
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Europe’s nation-states emerged from a complex of nineteenth-century developments in which cultural consciousness-raising played a formative role. The nineteenth-century reflection on Europe’s national identities involved a re-inventory and revalorisation of the vernacular cultural past and, above all, the nation’s literary heritage. Everywhere in Europe, foundational texts (including medieval epics and romances, ancient laws and chronicles) were retrieved from their obscure repositories. In new, printed editions, prepared according to the emerging academic standards of textual scholarship, they were appropriated, contested and canonised as public symbols of the nation’s permanence in history. This often neglected, but crucially important Europe-wide process of ‘editing the nation’s memory’ involved old states and emerging nations, large and small countries, metropolitan and peripheral regions; it straddled politics, the academic professionalization of textual scholarship and of the human sciences, and literary taste. This collection of studies by outstanding specialists offers a comparative synopsis on exemplary cases from all corners of the European continent.

Slovenia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Slovenia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book examines Slovenia's transition from a collection of provinces in the south of the Habsburg Empire, to a republic within Yugoslavia, to an independent state. It also analyses political and economic developments since 1991.

Historical Dictionary of Slovenia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 746

Historical Dictionary of Slovenia

The expanded third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Slovenia covers personalities and events that have made a mark on Slovenia in the more than a decade since the last edition. This includes new entries related to Slovenia’s first 13 years as a member of NATO and the EU, changing diplomatic relations with its neighbors and other global states and institutions, a new crop of politicians who have upended the political status quo, entries related to Slovenia’s worst 21st century recession (2008-2013), nationwide protests against corruption, and many other developments. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Slovenia contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Slovenia.

The A to Z of Slovenia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 620

The A to Z of Slovenia

For more than 1,300 years Slovenes had lived in Eastern Europe without having a separate Slovene state, but in December of 1990, they voted for independence, or, put more appropriately, for "disassociation" from Yugoslavia. Unfortunately, Slovenia had to fight for its independence, which it did not fully achieve until 1995 after its bloody disintegration with Yugoslavia was over. Since independence, however, Slovenia has prospered; its economy is far ahead of other former communist states and in 2004 Slovenia acceded to both NATO and the European Union, the only republic of former Yugoslavia to do so. The A to Z of Slovenia covers the history of Slovenia and its struggle to gain independence from communism. This is done through a detailed chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on some of the more significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets.

Handicrafts of Slovenia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 315

Handicrafts of Slovenia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Interpretation of the Bible
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1914

The Interpretation of the Bible

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999-10-01
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

This unique volume, nearly 2000 pages in length and handsomely printed on Bible paper, is perhaps the most comprehensive scholarly work of our time on the translation and interpretation of the Bible. At its core are papers presented to an international symposium in Ljubljana in September 1996 to mark the publication of the new Slovenian version of the Bible, a landmark in Slovene identity and cultural life. In addition, its distinguished editor, Joze Krasovec, has commissioned a wide range of contributions devoted to translations of the Bible in many languages, including the Slavonic languages, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish and the Scandinavian languages. The 82 chapters in this work, m...

France Prešeren – kultura – Evropa
  • Language: sl
  • Pages: 412

France Prešeren – kultura – Evropa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-12-03
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  • Publisher: Založba ZRC

France Prešeren ostaja tudi na prelomu tisočletij vodilna slovenska pesniška osebnost. V svojem času je sintetiziral umetniško, zgodovinsko in kulturno izročilo na Slovenskem in ga utiril v osrednji tok evropske kulturne ustvarjalnosti. Dosedanja raziskovanja so glede tega sicer preverila in predstavila dovolj prepričljivega gradiva, čeprav je bilo v raziskovalni vnemi čutiti čudenje nad genijem, izhajajoče iz domnevnega občutka ne-toliko-vrednosti, na drugi strani pa poudarjanje kompenziranja slovenskega samo-po-sebi-umevnega zamudništva. V zborniku so predstavljena vabljena predavanja na mednarodnem simpoziju ob dvestoletnici rojstva našega najpomembnejšega pesnika. Avtorji so kot delovno izhodišče postavili tezo, da more prav Prešernovo ustvarjalno bogastvo samo utrjevati slovensko kulturno prepoznavnost v Evropi in hkrati dopolnjevati njen kulturni mozaik z vrednotami, na katerih temelji ideja združevanja evropskih narodov.

Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-09-16
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The Habsburg Empire often features in scholarship as a historical example of how language diversity and linguistic competence were essential to the functioning of the imperial state. Focusing critically on the urban-rural divide, on the importance of status for multilingual competence, on local governments, schools, the army and the urban public sphere, and on linguistic policies and practices in transition, this collective volume provides further evidence for both the merits of how language diversity was managed in Austria-Hungary and the problems and contradictions that surrounded those practices. The book includes contributions by Pieter M. Judson, Marta Verginella, Rok Stergar, Anamarija Lukić, Carl Bethke, Irina Marin, Ágoston Berecz, Csilla Fedinec, István Csernicskó, Matthäus Wehowski, Jan Fellerer, and Jeroen van Drunen.