Svetski književni sistem i savremena komparativna književnost – slovenačke perspektive
World literary system and contemporary comparative literature - Slovenian perspective

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to show some of the theoretical and practical foundations of Slovenian literary (theoretical) discourse. The theory of world literary system by Franco Moretti, as one of the most significant attempts of transforming the literary studies in the nineties of the 20th century, has to some extent influenced the research, fields of interest, and methods of Slovenian literary studies – the Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies (ZRC SAZU) in its publications and research gave an applicative value and validity to the conception of the world literary system. However, this text is an attempt to modify the very discourse on (systemic-transnational) comparative literary studies. On the one hand, through a brief review of contemporary Slovenian literary research, it tries to question the adequacy of the comparative approach in the research of transnational literary field, since a national literature is not an invariable cultural and historical formation, but above all a dynamic system of relations in the international context. But at the same time, as a practical example of metodologically varied, systemic, transnational, pluralistic and comparative research, the paper presents the three studies of Slovenian literary field, its genealogy, nationalization and autonomization. To modify modernist and centralist-based literary studies – not just professed striving for openness, transnational, and intercultural research – the literary discourse requires the establishment of a platform (between the centre and periphery) to migrate and move in all directions.

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