1. Conceiving literary sexualities : the imagination of Ivan Cankar's sexuality in the works of Lojze KraigherDarko Ilin, 2023, published scientific conference contribution abstract Abstract: Finally, Darko Ilin will examine the sexuality discourse within the texts of literary history and artistic biography in his paper “Conceiving literary sexualities: the imagination of Ivan Cankar's sexuality in the works of Lojze Kraigher”. This paper examines the discourse of masculinity and sexuality in relation to Ivan Cankar in the artistic biography/biographical study of Cankar written by Lojze Kraigher. Based on Kraigher's biographical account of the author's life and work, the study analyses how the discourse of sexuality helped shape the understanding of Ivan Cankar as a canonical figure in the Slovenian literary system. Through close readings of key passages and their analysis, it examines how Cankar's biography imagines masculinity and sexuality and how these imaginaries reflect broader cultural and historical contexts. By constructing the contrast between the writer's irresistible artistic power and weak sexual capacity, Lojze Kraigher establishes the premise of Cankar's sublimation of sexual desire in art. The essay demonstrates that Cankar's sexuality was often the focus of critical and biographical discourse. By examining these issues in the context of literary-artistic biography, this paper contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the complexity of sexuality discourse and its impact on literary history.
Keywords: sexualities, biographical criticism, literary study
Published in RUNG: 02.10.2023; Views: 623; Downloads: 2
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2. Augmented Reality as a Medium for Connecting Real and Literary SpacesAleš Vaupotič, Narvika Bovcon, 2022, unpublished conference contribution Abstract: At the border between Slovenia and Italy there are two cities, Gorizia and Nova Gorica, connected and functioning as one, or separated by conflict in different times in history. The literatures in Slovenian, Italian, German and Friulian languages have described the complex issues that have tailored the life of people of various nationalities in this region in the 20th century. In 2018 we have participated in the EDUKA 2 project that had the goal of gathering the literary works that address the problem of coexistence in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region. Excerpts from these works were published in two text books for secondary schools, translated in all three languages. Our part in the project was building an augmented reality literary itinerary in the provinces of Trieste and Gorizia, that connected the literary works with related geolocations. The paper will present, how the existence of people of different nationalities at the same place is articulated in literature: selected examples of poetry and novels (Pahor, Madieri, Tomizza, Rilke, Pasolini, Gradnik, ...) will be discussed. The experiences described in literature were interpreted and translated into a visual form, virtual 3-D models were built and placed at selected geolocated spots. The translation between the literary and visual form will be discussed. The user experience of our literary itinerary will be compared to the existing literary itineraries in Gorizia and Trieste, there are many, and all contain historical data, images, videos and texts related to the complexities of coexistence. Finally the medium of augmented reality will be presented considering its different types that involve the user, the space, the camera of a mobile device and a projected image on the screen in different ways. This is relevant in the time, when spatial restrictions have surfaced in an unexpected way: due to the pandemic the spaces have been separated again and the virtual messages in augmented reality are considered either as intruders in a private space in the tele-communication, or as real presences in the real space that cannot be visited.
Keywords: augmented reality, literary itineraries, literature on the border, EDUKA2 project
Published in RUNG: 12.07.2023; Views: 724; Downloads: 3
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4. Minority literature and collective trauma : the case of Slovene Triestine literatureAna Toroš, 2021, original scientific article Abstract: The study focuses on the relationship between minority literature and collective trauma.
Drawing on the theory of trauma, psychoanalysis, memory studies, and literary representations
of memory, we argue that the trauma resulting from the suppression of Slovene
identity in Trieste during fascism is transmitted into literary discourse through two
channels. Firstly, through the normative model of remembering the trauma in question –
namely through literary works that can be described as fictions of memory. Secondly, we
paid attention to the manifestations of trauma that (unconsciously) enter the narrative
structure, regardless of the time and events, which are not necessarily tied to the period
of fascism and to concrete events and places of memory. In this context, we illuminated
Keywords: collective trauma, collective memory, minority literature, Trieste, literary
representations
Published in RUNG: 01.07.2021; Views: 2102; Downloads: 0
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5. Írás fénnyel: Balázs Béla a forgatókönyv megjelenésérőlEszter Polonyi, 2020, original scientific article Abstract: Film was fast becoming the dominant form of narrative discourse by the time of the establishment of the great European film studios in the 1940s. While many writers regarded film as undercutting other systems of narrative delivery, namely print, others discerned potential in the new industry for a form of authorship that possessed attributes of the prior, literary regime of writing. This piece considers the case made for literary authorship in and through film by the Hungarian film theorist and film scenarist, Bela Balazs. Balazs’s bases his claim regarding the return of literature on the scenario. While the scenario is habitually defined as the verbal projection of a film, Balazs also locates its effects at the level of the photographic image, so that film is read as symptomatic of the language of the scenario. Tying developments in the conventions of film editing to the writing techniques of the scenarist, Balazs describes the authorship of the scenarist as both palpable and yet non-visible, which this piece argues explains the obscurity into which historic „film authors” have fallen, including Balazs himself. Although Balazs makes every effort to recognize the scenario, when it comes to acknowledging the scenarist, there is a distinct inability and unwillingness to designate them as the scenario’s author.
Keywords: film studies, film theory, industrial design, Soviet studies, literary theory
Published in RUNG: 10.12.2020; Views: 2369; Downloads: 0
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6. Teaching minority literature: the case of TriesteAna Toroš, 2019, original scientific article Abstract: The paper presents the guidelines for teaching minority literature in the Trieste area, namely at the Slovenian and Italian high schools in Trieste. The teaching method proposed was created as a result of the need for new approaches in teaching literature due to the increasing heterogeneity of the population of high school students. The method takes into account the specific factors characteristic of the Triestine literary system, which affect the production and reception of literature in the Trieste area, that is the turbulent history of this territory during the 20th century and thus also the presence of various traumatic collective memories and postmemories present in this area. Considering these facts, the new teaching method is based on memory studies and literary imagology. In terms of the selection of literary texts it shifts from the nationally prescribed literature curriculum towards regional comparative literature.
Keywords: Trieste, Istria, minority literature, collective trauma, postmemory, literary imagology
Published in RUNG: 06.01.2020; Views: 2696; Downloads: 0
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7. Augmented Reality and Chronotopicality : Literary Itineraries in Gorizia, Trieste and DuinoNarvika Bovcon, Aleš Vaupotič, unpublished conference contribution Abstract: The reality-virtuality continuum (Paul Milgram et al., 1994) establishes a foundational
mixed reality as a spectrum of intermediate options. The ICT based databases are
increasingly superimposed on and integrated in our life-world. The new media art –
and contemporary media in general – can be seen through two points of view: the
technical aspect where the reality is supplemented by (3-D, networked) computerbased
data. Secondly, the augmented reality can be construed as a real
superimposition of different realities, that is foregrounded using Mikhail Bakhtin’s
notion of chronotopicality.
The MAST symposium (18. & 19.11.2019, ex-Daimond (xD), Nova Gorica, Slovenia), Pixxelpoint 2019.
Keywords: augmented reality, literary history, literatures in contact, EDUKA2
Published in RUNG: 18.11.2019; Views: 3250; Downloads: 0
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8. Teaching women writers with NEWW Virtual Research EnvironmentKatja Mihurko, Narvika Bovcon, Marie Nedregotten Sørbø, Viola Parente-Čapková, Amelia Sanz, Suzan Van Dijk, Aleš Vaupotič, 2018, published scientific conference contribution abstract Abstract: The underrepresentation of women in cultural historiography has challenged a number of feminist responses in the form of supplementary female canons since the 1970s. The DARIAH Working Group Women Writers in History (https://www.dariah.eu/activities/working-groups/women-writers-in-history/) takes this task a step further, and investigates historical sources until 1930 to find out whether female authors were read in the past. The objective of the DARIAH Working Group WWIH is: to carry out research about female authorship in history, the international reception of women’s writing and the connections between women authors. Evidence of readership, translations and commentary is contained in the digital repository NEWW VRE (Virtual Research Environment) http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/womenwriters, which serves as a collaborative research tool for the above mentioned working group.
Keywords: digital humanities, literary history, women writers
Published in RUNG: 15.04.2019; Views: 3787; Downloads: 115
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9. THE ROLE OF MIGRATIONS AND CULTURAL HYBRIDITY IN LITERARY SYSTEMS: STUDYING THE CASE OF ALOJZ GRADNIK IN ARGENTINAAna Toroš, 2018, original scientific article Abstract: This article attempts to reconstruct the literary and familial ties between the descendants of the Friulian Godeas family, one of these descendants being Alojz Gradnik. The article‘s methodological approach stems from the interpretation of the personal correspondence between the Godeas family descendants (from Trieste, Zagreb and Rosario). Based on all this, the second part of the article offers a few prompts for research on Gradnik‘s reception in Argentina, based on systemic approach to literature. We come to the conclusion that Gradnik‘s cultural hybridity allowed him to access the Argentine literary space through two cultural groups: the Slovene and Argentine.
Keywords: Alojz Gradnik, Eduardo A. Dughera, Maria Samer, Friulians, literary translation, migrant literature
Published in RUNG: 16.08.2018; Views: 3405; Downloads: 0
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10. The Problem of the Representation of Women Authors in Slovenian Secondary School Literature TextbooksZoran Božič, 2016, original scientific article Abstract: This paper is based on empirical research on the share of women authors in Slovenian secondary school literature textbooks between 1850 and 2000. The highest share (about 15%) of women
authors was achieved after the Second World War and in contemporary textbooks. However, this share occurred in only one of three competing books, one which offers a considerably larger
selection of authors than that required by the curriculum. The research showed that the share of
women authors depends on the scope of the approach: the fewer authors that are included, the smaller is the likelihood of women authors being represented. With a very strict selection of
nationally representative authors, the female gender is not represented at all. The gender of the selector(s) may influence the inclusion of women authors, but not necessarily: a textbookʼs editor may be a woman, yet still fail to include a single woman author. A comparison between textbooks and literary-historical selections shows that women authors in textbooks are less represented (due to limitations of the scope as determined by the included literary texts), and the selection criteria may also differ.
Keywords: Canonization, Didactics, Women authors, Literary history, Slovenian secondary school textbooks
Published in RUNG: 17.11.2016; Views: 4637; Downloads: 216
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