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Mere Chances
Mere Chances collects some of Veronika Simoniti's most singular and strange stories. A linguistic experimentalist in the tradition of Julio Cortazar, Simoniti populates her tales with homeless and nomadic characters struggling to fashion or to maintain their identities as they cross physical and linguistic borders. Whether compelled to communicate in codes not their own or grappling with the loss of language itself, her characters' struggles to forge stable identities point to the way human language, while fundamental to the formation of the self, is often an unreliable and imperfect tool.
Longing, Weakness and Temptation
The themes of longing, weakness and temptation are relevant to every human and are interwoven with all fundamental ideals and values of the created, rational being. Temptation is all the more dramatic, the broader the perspective of recognition, the power of human longing and the sense of the difference between good and evil. This book is a summary of a study which compares and contrasts Slovenian and European literary works created under the influence of biblical source texts (Adam and Eve, Joseph from Egypt, Samson and Dalilah, etc.) and the works of other known and unknown origins (Homer’s Iliad, Goethe’s Faust, various versions of the myth of the Fair Vida, etc.). The ascribing of a ...
The Reception of Jane Austen in Europe
This volume of international research provides a wide-ranging account of Jane Austen's reception across the length and breadth of Europe, from Russia and Finland in the North to Italy and Spain in the South. In historical terms, the survey ranges from the near-contemporary - since Austen's novels were available in French very soon after their original publication - to modern times, in those countries which for various reasons, linguistic, historical or ideological, have taken up the novels only in recent years. For many, Austen's novels are valued for their romantic content, as love stories, but increasingly they are being perceived as sophisticated, ironic narratives. In this, the quality of translation has been a significant factor and the many film and television adaptations have played an important part in establishing Austen's reputation amongst the public at large. It will be seen from this that across Europe Austen's 'reception history' is far from uniform and has been shaped by a complex of extra-literary forces.
National Poets, Cultural Saints: Canonization and Commemorative Cults of Writers in Europe
In National Poets, Cultural Saints Marijan Dović and Jón Karl Helgason explore the ways in which certain artists, writers, and poets in Europe have become major figures of cultural memory, emulating the symbolic role formerly played by state rulers and religious saints. The authors develop the concept of cultural sainthood in the context of nationalism as a form of invisible religion, identify major shifts in canonization practices from antiquity to the nationally-motivated commemoration of the nineteenth century, and explore the afterlives of two national poets, Slovenia's France Prešeren and Iceland's Jónas Hallgrímsson. The book presents a useful analytical model of canonization for further studies on cultural sainthood and opens up fruitful perspectives for the understanding of national movements.
History and Poetics of Intertextuality
The poetics of intertextuality proposed in this book, based mainly on semiotics, elucidates factors determining the socio-historically elusive border between general intertextuality and citationality, and explores modes of intertextual representation.
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Symbols and Models in the Mediterranean
This collection spans a vast chronology and territory, ranging from Old Kingdom Egypt to modern-day Slovenia and moving geographically from the centres to the peripheries of the Mediterranean and back again, including Antinoë, Calabria, Belgrade, and Paris. While this volume can be situated well within the context of Mediterranean studies, each essay serves as a micro-study that demonstrates one of the many ways in which Mediterranean communities have co-opted, appropriated, and adapted symbols from one another. As a result, this interdisciplinary volume adds something unique to each discipline represented within it (including history, anthropology, art history, literature, and philosophy, among others) while contributing to the greater discourse of Mediterranean studies. Furthermore, the essays collectively illustrate how symbols were distributed widely among Mediterranean communities and, consequently, further a dialogue about what “Mediterranean” might mean. Overall, the original content and its accessibility make the volume valuable to academics, graduate and undergraduate students, and general audiences alike.
Antika za tretje tisočletje
Zbornik vsebuje petnajst razprav, ki z različnih zornih kotov osvetljujejo vprašanje, kakšno vlogo imajo antične študije v Sloveniji danes, ko tudi politično znova postajamo del Evrope, torej prostora, v katerem smo nastali kot narod z lastno kulturno identiteto. Namen zbornika je soočiti mnenja vidnih slovenskih raziskovalcev, ki se znanstveno udejstvujejo na različnih področjih, ki zadevajo antiko in srednji vek, ter jih predstaviti v njihovi skladnosti in razlikah.
Izbrane pesmi
"The thousand years of Slovene cultural history have witnessed three great miracles: the Freising Manuscripts, Primoz Trubar, and France Preseren, whose creative output in the period of High Romanticism, specially between the years 1824 and 1849, managed to trenscend the scope of the national and markedly provincial literary heritage, which thus rose among the crowning achievements of the European literary tradition. The principal ail of this book is precisely to facilitate the apprehension of Slovenia's first and foremost poet by presenting only the best translations of his poems into English. Several have been introduced before in various publications, whereas some were commissioned exclusively for this occasion."--Book cover.
Zgodovina historične misli [druga izdaja]
V knjigah je zajeta več kot dve in pol tisočletji dolga doba nastajanja zgodovinopisja in njegovega razvoja. Na skoraj devetsto straneh komentarjev in novih prevodov temeljnih del zahodne historične misli je mogoče najti natančen opis razvoja zgodovinopisja v grški in rimski antiki, obsežen pregled srednjeveških avtorjev s posebnim poudarkom na bizantinskem in renesančnem zgodovinopisju, premišljen izbor zgodnjenovoveških in modernih avtorjev z odlomki iz njihovih najvplivnejših razmišljanj o pomenih zgodovinopisja, opredelitev razsvetljenskega zgodovinopisja, soočenje z nacionalnim in pozitivističnim načinom interpretacije preteklosti, predstavitev izvorov tako imenovanega novega zgodovinopisja, oceno vpliva postmodernizma na razvoj zgodovinopisja v zadnjih desetletjih 20. stoletja in oblikovanje nove kulturne zgodovine, s katero smo vstopili v 21. stoletje.
