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The aim of this text is to show the historical intersections of the cooperation between Slovenians and Bulgarians in the field of drama and theater, including translations, staging, guest appearances, as well as receptive and imaging aspects. The reasons that provoked the theatrical contacts between us as well as the prospects for future cultural dialogue are clarified.
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It is the theoretical background of the linguistic image of the world that serves as a base to the author to present Slovenian and Slovak magic formulae as the archaic strata of the language. She has chosen texts of the same type from the scope of Slovenian and Slovak peasants’ way of healing. The Slovak texts were collected by the author at the end of the 20th century, while the Slovenian texts which were set down earlier are quoted from Vinko Möderndorfer’s work. Apart from the common Central European attitude, the author also points out the unique, national, and linguistic features, all reflected by the linguistic image of the world.
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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.
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Matija Valjavec can be considered one of the most important collectors of literary folklore in Slovenia and kaikavian Croatia. The rules of fieldwork which he followed could withstand, to a large extent, even contemporary professional critique. The purpose of this article is to present systematically Matija Valjavec's contribution to Slovenian and Croatian literary folkloristics. We should become aware of a task we still have in relation to Valjavec: to gather the folklore material which he published in various journals and other publications, and to republish it in a single volume in order to make his work more easily accessible to professionals, as well as to wider readership.
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The review of: Mira Delavec, Moč vesti. Josipina Turnograjska, prva slovenska pesnica, pisateljica in skladateljica. Založba Primus, Brežice, Ljubljana, 2009, 389 str., ilustr.
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The author emphasises the influence that Oton Župančič had on the members of the Preporodovci movement, a national radical group named after the newspaper called Preporod (Renaissance). This movement was active before World War I, especially among pupils and students. The author especially focuses on the poem Kovaška (The Blacksmiths' Song), published for the first time 100 years ago and chosen as a motto of the aforementioned group in the Preporod newspaper. It is interesting that the influence of this poem can also be felt in the symbolism connected to this movement and in the names for its key members ("kovači" and "kladivarji"). The author also establishes that the Kovaška poem is an example of socially conscious literature, similarly as certain other Župančič's poems from that period.
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Simpozij "Prežihov Vorane - Lovro Kuhar: pisatelj / politik / patriot", Dunaj 19. - 20. april 2007
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The article examines current trends in the development of South Slavic comparative literary studies. The discussion revolves around the reviewing of the notion of a South Slavic literary community and a unified South Slavic literary process. Interpretation focuses on the comparison of the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav literary contexts. Reference is made to the affiliation of South Slavic literatures to various cultural regions. The author comes to the conclusion that there is a need for a reviewing of South Slavic literatures as an open construction and a dynamic field of identities.
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The review of: Marija Stanonik: Slovensko pesništvo pod tujimi zastavami. Pesnjenje slovenskih prisilnih mobilizirancev v nemško vojsko v drugi svetovni vojni od 1941-1945. Zveza društev mobiliziranih Slovencev v nemško vojsko 1941-1945, Celje 1999, 352 strani, ilustr.
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The review of: Marija Stanonik: Iz kaosa kozmos. Kontekstualnost in žanrski sistem slovenskega odporniškega pesništva 1941-1945. Društvo za proučevanje zgodovine, literature in antropologije, Ljubljana 1995, 400 strani. (Borec; Ecce homo. 538-539.)
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The review of: Slovensko pesništvo upora 1941—1945 (Izbral in uredil Boris Paternu; sodelovali: Marija Stanonik in Irena Novak-Popov). Ljubljana, Mladinska knjiga, Partizanska knjiga 1987. Knjiga 1: Partizanske. 1987. 566 str.
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The review of: Emil Cesar, Boj brez puške, Založba Borec, Ljubljana 1984, 259 str., ilustr.
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Razpravo Iz boja slovenskega učiteljstva za neodvisnost (v letih 1926—1930) je Jože Pahor napisal leta 1960. Rokopis je ponudil s pismom z dne 2, maja 1962 Cankarjevi založbi. Ta mu je predlagala, da snov obdela obširneje, nakar je delo predložil Inštitutu za zgodovino delavskega gibanja. Tu je obležalo — iz nepotrebnih obzirov do avtorjevih sodobnikov. Vtem je umrl (1. septembra 1964). Na pobudo prof. Venčeslava Čopiča in podpisanega se je uredništvo Prispevkov za zgodovino delavskega gibanja odločilo za natis v tem letniku. Oba recenzenta sta opozorila na verodostojnost Pahorjevega prispevka in na njegov pomen za zgodovino slovenskega učiteljstva oziroma novejšo slovensko zgodovino sploh. [...]
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Slovenska književnost je v vseh svojih obdobjih — razen v času rekatolizadje in katoliškega baroka — izražala napredne družbene težnje. Ponovno je spodbujala k boju za pravičnejšo veljavo ljudstva. Njeni najpogumnejši predstavniki, so se znova in znova spopadali z nazadnjaštvom in omahljivci v boju. — Še posebej velja to za Ivana Cankarja in za obdobje med obema vojnama, ko so prav književne revije bile žarišče razprav o položaju in pobud o zahtevah slovenskega naroda. [...]
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Since the Age of Enlightenment, mountains have gradually changed from a predominantly geological category to an aesthetic one. The new, essentially spiritualized and aestheticized experience of the mountain landscape has found increasing appeal in both the visual arts (especially painting) and literature (especially poetry). Moreover, in the course of the long nineteenth century, mountains often became an object of nationalist appropriation. Such a development was also characteristic of Slovenian culture. This article deals with early Slovenian poetry and its relationship to mountains. It shows that Baron Sigmund Zois and the poet Valentin Vodnik already recognized the national and poetic potential of Mount Triglav with Lake Bohinj and Savica Falls. Their ideas found an echo in the Slovenian poetry of the period before 1848, but it was the great Romantic poet France Prešeren that added a historical-mythological layer to them in his Baptism on the Savica (1836). A brief overview demonstrates that Slovenian poetry from Valentin Vodnik to Simon Gregorčič manifestly contributed to making the mountains a sacred and mythical national place.
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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.
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Review of: Erika Džonson Debeljak: Devica, kraljica, udovica, kurva, prevela sa slovenačkog Nina Gugleta, Arete, Beograd, 2023.
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Janez Trdina (1830–1905) is one of the most remarkable figures of Slovenian literature in the second half of the nineteenth century. His eclectic concept of literature, quarrelsome character, and radical political views—republicanism, anticlericalism, and above all (Slavic) nationalism—led to constant conflicts that were detrimental to his teaching and writing career. The two episodes in which Trdina most troubled the Slovenian public were more than thirty years apart. The first was in 1850 and 1851, when Trdina, still a student in Vienna, published “The Tale of the Golden Pear“ and “The Assessment of Slovenian Poets“, thoroughly shaking the cultural elite of the so-called old-Slovenians. The second followed in the 1880s, when the retired high school professor published “Fables and Tales of the Gorjanci“ and “Croatian Memoirs“ in the literary journals of Ljubljana. With his literary texts, which transcended genres and into which he wove his socially critical views, Trdina irritated many contemporaries: first the old-Slovenian notables from the circle of Janez Bleiweis, later above all the nobility, the Krainer Germans with their Slovenian allies, moralists and clerics. Trdina’s criticism did not remain on the abstract or principled level, but attacked directly, ad hominem (albeit in literary disguise): Trdina defamed the most prominent personalities without hesitation, and problems were imminent. If one disregards the ban on Ljubljanski zvon for students, Trdina’s texts were not subject to explicit censorship—but they were nevertheless affected by repressive mechanisms that can be described as soft censorship. After the first affair, Trdina remained virtually silent as a writer for three decades, while the second affair contributed decisively to the resignation of Fran Levec, the editor of Ljubljanski zvon, and the discontinuation of the liberal journal Slovan.
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The contribution presents the image of the Roma in the Slovenian folk (especially poetic) tradition, which consists of imaginative descriptions and stories that attribute an ominous character but also an irresistible, mysterious attraction to the members of the Roma ethnic group. It also contains information on the various aspects of these people’s everyday life. In the 19th century, from which most of the examined folk literature originates, the Slovenian intellectuals and historians Ivan Steklasa and Janez Trdina studied and wrote about the Roma as a separate ethnic and social group. Their observations partly coincided and partly diverged from those that had emerged among the common people.
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The article aims to explore the status of the Slovene language and literature, as well as Slovene culture during the Romantic period in the context of historical events which informed them as a result of the creation of the alphabet by Adam Bohorič in the 16th century. During the 19th century, in Slovenia an “orthographic war” was being waged. Its goal was to establish the one and correct version of the alphabet and the definitive spelling rules for the Slovene language. The debate about language erupted between the group under the leadership of Matia Čop (of which France Prešeren was a member) and the followers of Jernej Kopitar. The dispute involved a number of issues connected to Slovene literature and culture, and the status of Slovenia in Europe. Arguments in the debate were exchanged via publications, (e.g. Slovenska abecedna vojska), poetry (Satirical Sonnets and epigrams) and engaged a wide spectrum of topics such as the dialects of the Slovene language or literary criticism.
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