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Slovenia as a locale in contemporary Australian verse
Authors: Maver Igor
Published: August 2018

Despite the fact that the writer Patrick White had worked on his novels for a short while also at Lake Bled in Slovenia at Hotel "Toplice", just like Agatha Christie did at Lake Bohinj, Slovenia has only recently come to feature in mainstream Australian literature, more precisely in contemporary Australian poetry. It should be stressed that Slovenia is thus no longer present only in Slovene migrant poetry written in Australia as has so far been the case: it entered the major contemporary Australian anthologies. This testifies to the fact that Slovenia no longer belongs to the uncharted part of Central Europe on the geographical and consequently also on the Australian literary map. Rather than that Slovenia increasingly makes part of an average Australian 'Grand Tour' travel itinerary in Europe; it has thus become present in the Australian cultural consciousness. In this light two recent Australian poems with Slovenia as a literary locale are discussed, Andrew Taylor's "Morning in Ljubljana" I and Susan Hampton's poem "Yugoslav Story".
Le merveilleux dans Huon de Bordeaux
Authors: Prosenc Irena
Published: August 2018

L' article present se propose d' analyser le merveilleux dan s la chanson de geste Huan de Bordeaux. Precedee par une definition theorique du merveilleux, l'analyse commence par un repertoire des manifestations du merveilleux dans le poeme qui sont illustrees par des exemples textuels. Les chapitres suivants offrent une comparaison entre les origines profanes et les origines chretiennes du merveilleux, avec une reflexion sur la signification du merveilleux dans Huan de Bordeaux.
A letter of Marcus Antonius Kappus to Eusebius Franciscus Kino (Sonora in 1690) : appendix: facsimile
Authors: Nabergoj Tomaž
Published: August 2018

An article with the above title was published in the last number of Acta Neophilologica (XXXI/1998, pp. 65-80), on a letter written by the Slovene Jesuit missionary, Marcus Antonius Kappus (1657-1717), in 1690, in Sonora in north-western Mexico to his superior, Eusebius Franciscus Kino. The letter is kept in Archivo Histórico de la Hacienda in Mexico City, legajo 279, expediente 19. Unfortunately, the facsimile of the published letter was ommitted during the preparation of the 1998 volume of Acta Neophilologica. Since this reproduction is an integral part of the article and is now for the first time that one Kappus' letter is preserved in original, we publish the facsimile of this letter in the present appendix.
Linguistic change: the grammatical environment of participial non-finite clauses in Old English and in present-day English
Authors: Trobevšek Drobnak Frančiška
Published: August 2018

The following paper reports on the final results 1 of the author's study of the use of participial nonfinite clauses and dependent clauses in Old English (OE) and in present-day English (PE), in relation to the nature of their respective grammatical environment. It ensues from the research into the early stages of syntactic change, which started as team work at the universities of Ljubljana and Maribor in 1986, under the guidance and coordination of Janez Orešnik.
La traduzione dei petrarchisti
Authors: Avirović Ljiljana
Published: August 2018

In occasione del convegno internazionale dal titolo Tasso e i croati, svoltosi a Dubrovnik nel dicembre 1995, Tomasovié ha presentato il suo: Torquato Tasso: ljuvene rane/Le piaghe d'amore , un'antologia, con testo originale a fronte, delle migliori traduzioni in croato del vasto opus tassiano dal1580 ai giorni nostri in cui figurano traduttori (che sono a loro volta poeti, scrittori e teorici della letteratura) come Dominko Zlatarié, Ivan Gundulié, August Senoa, Ivan Mazuranié, Vladimir Nazor, Frano Cale, Ivan Slaming, Nikola Milicevié, Luko Paljetak e lo stesso Tomasovié. Si tratta di un volume in cui l'autore ha inteso raccogliere il fior fiore della traduzione croata, il cui fervore, a detta di Tomasovié, non conosce equivalenti in Europa.
"Einmal in der Woche, am Sonntag, war Österreich." : Joseph Roth (1894-1939), österreichischer Dichter und Journalist
Authors: Miladinović Zalaznik Mira
Published: August 2018

Meine zwangsläufig fragmentarischen Ausführungen zum dichterischen und journalistischen Schaffen Joseph Roths habe ich mit dem wunderschönen Satz betitelt: "Einmal in der Woche, am Sonntag, war Österreich." Dies sind die Worte, die wir gegen den Schluß von Radetzkymarsch, einem der großartigsten Romane von Joseph Roth, dem Österreichischen Dichter des Habsburgischen Mythos, lesen. In dem Augenblick, als er sie festlegte, stimmten sie auch, ungeachtet der Tatsache, daß bei Joseph Roth die Phantasie und Wirklichkeit oft nahtlos ineinander übergehen.
Eugénie Grandet d'Honoré de Balzac : l'histoire secrète d'une écriture romanesque
Authors: Marinčič Katarina
Published: August 2018

Selon le témoignage de Mme Surville, l'histoire d'Eugénie Grandet est tirée, détails financiers y compris, d'une gazette provinciale. Le chef-d'oeuvre de Balzac s'inscrit donc a la liste des romans français du XIXe siècle, inspirés par des 'faits divers'. Il s'agit d'une histoire qui, à part les millions, présente peu de fantastique: une jeune fille de province mène une vie humble, presque misérable, dans la maison de son père tyranique et avare; jusqu'à l'ouverture du testament, elle ignore le fait qu'elle est héritière d'une immense fortune; or, en ce moment, il est déjà trop tard: l'homme qu'Eugénie aime passionnément va se marier avec une autre; ironie atroce, il avait choisi cette autre - et trahi la petite provinciale qu'il avait présumée pauvre - afin d'augmenter sa fortune ... Une histoire typiquement balzacienne donc: ce que l'écrivain définit, dans un autre chef-d'oeuvre, comme un dénouement atroce, réel et vrai. Par son intrigue, ses personnages et le milieu dans lequel il se déroule, le roman appartient à la partie 'réaliste' de l'oeuvre de Balzac. Comme tel, il a été le sujet de nombreuses études sur le réalisme balzacien. Or, son intérêt historique et sociologique est plutôt dans le détail que dans la totalité.
Contemporary Australian writers and Europe
Authors: Maver Igor
Published: August 2018

It is amazing to see just how much travel writing, writing which does not exclusively belong to the travel sub-genre of "creative non-fiction", and also how many non-Australian locales, with emphasis on European and Asian ones, there are in the recent contemporary Australian writing since the 1960s. This perhaps speaks about a certain preoccupation or downright trait in the Australian national character. Perhaps, it is a reflection of a particular condition of being "down under", itself derived from "a tradition of colonialism and post-colonialism; from geographical location, both a deterrent and a spur; from post-Romantic literary tradition, coinciding with the early years of white settlement; and from the universal lure of ideas of travel, never more flourishing than at the present" (Hergenhan, Petersson xiii). Tourism is an increasingly global phenomenon to some extent shaping the physical reality as well as the spiritual world of the people involved in it. Within this globalization process, with the prospect of "cyber" travel, there is, however, always an individual "national" experience of the country of destination that a literary traveller puts into words, an experience which is typical and conditioned by specific socio-political and cultural circumstances.
The function of female characters in Steinbeck's fiction : the portrait of Curley's wife in Of mice and men
Authors: Čerče Danica
Published: August 2018

"Preferably a writer should die at about 28. Then he has a chance of being discovered. If he lives much longer he can only be revalued. I prefer discovery." So quipped the Nobel prize-winning American novelist John Steinbeck (1902-1968) to the British journalist Herbert Kretzmer in 1965. Steinbeck died at the age of 66, however, as many critics have noted, there is still a lot about him to be discovered. It must be borne in mind that Steinbeck's reputation as the impersonal, objective reporter of striking farm workers and dispossessed migrants, or as the escapist popularizer of primitive folk, has needlessly obscured his intellectual background, imaginative power and artistic methods. Of course, to think of Steinbeck simply as a naive realist in inspiration and a straightforward journalist while his achievement as a writer extends well beyond the modes and methods of traditional realism or documentary presentation is to disregard the complexities of his art. For this reason, new readings and modern critical approaches constantly shed light on new sources of value in Steinbeck's work.
Katherine Mansfield in Slovene translations
Authors: Podbrežnik Andrej
Published: August 2018

During her short life Katherine Mansfield wrote numerous short stories, which place her among the best authors of this genre in world literature. The au thor of this paper tries to establish the reception of Mansfield's work and the critics' response in Slovenia. First translations of her stories were published in various Slovene magazines and reviews after the Second World War. However, the most complete and artistically successful presentation of her work was prepared in 1963 when Jože Udovič published twenty-eight short stories written by this author under the title Katherine Mansfield: The Garden Party. Udovič also contributed the introduction about the author and her work. The book was very well received in Slovenia not only by the reading public, but also by critics, who praised Mansfield and Udovič's translation as well. After that more than twenty years passed, before Katarina Mahnič translated Katherine Mansfield's short story "The Singing Lesson" in 1988. We can conclude that hopefully some new translations of Katherine Mansfield's stories will appear soon.
L' inspiration thomiste dans les cinq grandes odes de Paul Claudel
Authors: Turk Boštjan Marko
Published: August 2018

L'étude présente s'applique á mettre en relief l'unité ontologique dominant l'ecriture de Claudel. C'êst l'unité thomiste, l'etre en ouvre, "la bienheurese harmonie" que les Cinq grandes Odes reproduisent fidèlement. Mais il ne s'sagit pas, de loin, dans cette grande poésie, d'un ouvrage laborieux qui sentirait l'effort, incarnant pesamment une idée abstraite. Nous tâchons de montrer que la synthèse est "flagrante" et le thomisme claudélien parfaitement spontané, sans en rien gréver la substance poétique. Il évolue grâcieusement jusqu'aux derniers horizons de l'art "profane", jusque'á la danse et á son érotisme voilé. La danse touche la fusion de l'âme et du corps,glorifiant in extenso la première. C'est dans cette rencoontre que l'étude voit l'essentiel de l'inspiration thomiste dans les Cinq grandes Odes.
Pundonor calderoniano en Hispanoámerica : (con ilustración en Crónica de una muerte anunciada de García Márquez)
Authors: Zimic Stanislav
Published: August 2018

El tema del artículo es atemporal, fuera de cualquier límite del tiempo, porque trata el concepto de honor en el mundo hispánico, ilustrandolo con ejemplos literarios. El autor dedica su especial atención a la novela de Gabriel García Marquez, Crónica de una muerte  anunciada, cuyo tema principal es justamente el concepto de honor en el mundo hispanoamericano. Zimic se acerca al dicho tema desde la perspectiva historica buscando las raíces en el Siglo de Oro espanol, sobre todo en la obra Calderón de la Barca.
Janez Stanonik - octogenarian
Authors: Jurak Mirko
Published: August 2018

On January 2, 2002, the former editor of Acta Neophilologica, Professor Janez Stanonik, Member of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts, celebrated his eightieth birthday. He founded the review in 1968 and very successfully edited it for thirty-two years. Under his editorship Acta·Neophilologica published 205 articles written by 89 authors.
Centennial reflections on Steinbeck's reputation in Slovenia
Authors: Čerče Danica
Published: August 2018

Since the late 1920s and his first novel, Cup of Gold (1929), there has been little consensus about John Steinbeck's work, and he has often been praised or dismissed for the wrong reasons. In the wake of the novels with the sweeping reach and social consciousness of In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), and The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and despite the prodigious and startlingly diverse output of his career, Steinbeck was generally regarded as one of America's foremost engaged artists. However, the truth is that be was as much a postmodernist and a modernist, as a traditional proletarian writer. And though be made a significant contribution to the perception of the problems of his time by writing with empathy, clarity and a strong sense of justice about the downtrodden, the exploited, and the defenseless, which contributed to his immense public success, Steinbeck's novels lose none of their richness and power when removed from their historical context. With the human dilemmas on many levels of personal, philosophical, and socio-economic existence, and their deep humanistic, philosophical and ecological message, conveyed through numerous Biblical, Arthurian, and literary allusions, his works are as relevant today as they were when they were written.Appropriate enough, and given that this year marks the centennial of John Steinbeck's birth, celebrated with a year-long series of events taking place throughout the United States and paying tribute to the winner of the 0. Henry Short Story Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize for Literature by examining his legacy in American literature, film, theatre and journalism, and providing new information about the enduring value of his writing, this paper aims to capture the writer's reputation in Slovenia. The plan is to briefly analyse the most illustrative examples of Steinbeck criticism accompanying Slovene publications of his works; then to loosen the hold of deeply entrenched positions of Slovene reviewers, and to highlight the importance of considering Steinbeck's texts from new, insightful and politically unbiased perspectives of contemporary critical engagement. And last but not least, this discussion might hopefully induce Slovene publishers to new printings and translations of Steinbeck's works.
Alain Chartier and the death of lyric language
Authors: Swift Helen J.
Published: August 2018

The fifteenth-century poet Alain Chartier uses the courtly contexts of his lyric, narrative and debate poems as enabling fictions to support his interrogation of the validity of courtly language and his metapoetic questioning of the rhetoric of his own, inherited poetic discourse. This mise en question  is performed through several, interacting ironic strategies, which may most fruitfully be elucidated in terms of Linda Hutcheon's theory and politics of irony expounded in Irony's Edge (1994). Thus 'meta-ironically functioning signals', together with intertextual, 'relational' irony and the 'oppositional' irony constituted by his Belle Dame sans mercy's pro-ferninist discourse, articu­late Chartier's  esprit critique  regarding 'la,parole'  as both the general unit of human communica­tion and the specific resource of poetic creativity. A satirical reading of his ouvre enables us to appreciate how the rhetorical play in which Chartier engages functions as an indictment of the courtly code's hermeneutic disintegration: its obsolescence results from a divorce between ethics and aesthetics as its language has lost the capacity to mean.
Montaigne : Einführung in Ouvre und Geist
Authors: Barcha Jamil George
Published: August 2018

Dieser Beitrag will eine kurze Einführung in Michel de Montaignes Essais geben, gleichzeitig versucht er eine Antwort auf Montaignes historische und heutige Bedeutung anzubieten, die sich auf mehreren Ebenen manifestiert, beispielsweise literarisch, literaturwissenschaftlich, historisch, philosophisch und nicht zuletzt ideengeschichtlich. Naturgemäß kann darauf nicht in extenso eingegangen werden, schon gar nicht in diesem Rahmen; eher will der Beitrag Impulse für die Weiterbeschäftigung mit dem französischen citoyen du monde liefern.
Don Quijote y Hamlet
Authors: Osterc Lúdovik B.
Published: August 2018

El autor del ensayo compara los dos personajes y trata descubrir quién es mayor. Su base de investigación es el contenido de las dos obras, porque en cuanto la forma, las dos obras están más o menos en el mismo nivel artístico. Con Shakespeare le impresiona su senorío de la expresión justa, el dialogo de Ofelia, lenguaje teatral, verso y la riqueza de su estilo. Con Cervantes le gusta su prosa narrativa (oro derretido), que consiste la complejidad y los distintos aspectos de Don Quijote que se reflejan en su léxico, la polifonía de la novela, su riqueza de-estilo y las diversas funciones de los procedimientos del autor. Despues pasa al cumbre de las obras y se pone questión qué representan los dos protagonistas.Hamlet está loco, es un alucinado que duda de sus propios sentidos. Para él existe sólo un lado negro de la existencia, su único objeto es llegar más pronto al descubrimiento del crimen. Es egocentrico, ne cree en nada, eternamente mira en su interior, se alimenta en su desprecio de sí mismo y su sufrimiento es mucho más doloroso.que aquel de Don Quijote. Don Quijote, al contrario, cree en el hombre y su futuro. Su ideal es implantar por la fuerza, la verdad, el bien y la justicia en la tierra. Para servir a su ideal, está dispuesto a sufrir todas las posibles privaciones. Representa la fe en la verdad. Es ridículo y quizás el más cómico tipo disenado jamás por un literato. Hamlet es el hijo del rey muerte, mientras que Don Quijote está pobre. Se hace los enemigos imaginarios y lucha contra ellos, mientras que Hamlet no cree en las ilusiones (siempre duda), y tampoco no combatiría si supiera que son sinónimos de opresores. Continua con la examinación de la actitud del pueblo o sus representantes hacia Don Quijote y Hamlet y viceversa. Polonia es el representante de las multitudes populares ante Hamlet, Sancho lo es ante su senor. El primero es de sano pensamiento y al mismo tiempo un viejo charalatán. Para él Hamlet no es tanto un loco como un nino y le parece inútil para la sociedad. Sancho Pansa está persuadido de que su senor está loco, pero le está leal hasta la muerte. Don Quijote simpatiza profundamente con el pueblo, pero la única persona con la que se entiende verdaderamente es Sancho Pansa (uno no puede vivir sin otro). La actitud de Hamlet es completamente diferente, él desprecia las multitudes populares, porque también desprecia a sí mismo. social: el tedio, el hastío, el descontento de la vida, desorientación espiritual y la eclipse de la fe, miéntras que Don Quijote encarna el mundo libre, bien estar y la felicidad de los seres humanos. Por eso y porque es un ideal el más humano, generoso, noble y elevado, el autor del ensayo decide que Don Quijote es la máxima creación de las letras universales de todos los tiempos y todos los pueblos.
Unser Kulturgut Sprache : Reminiszenzen an Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803)
Authors: Heusinger Siegfried
Published: August 2018

Der Beitrag erinnert anlässlich des 200 Todestages (18. 12. lß03) an den Geschichts- und Religionsphilosophen, an den Sprach- und Kunsttheoretiker Johann Gottfried Herder. Im Zentrum der Abhandlung stehen seine Ideen und Erkenntnisse zu Wesen und Leistung der Sprache, zur Herausbildung der menschlichen Vernunft durch Sprache. Sie ist für jedes Volk ererbtes Gut,Kulturgut. Deshalb sind wir in besonders hohem Maße für ihre Pflege und nützliche Entwicklung verantwortlich.
Canons littéraires, horizon d'attente : l'histoire d'une idée
Authors: Malita Ramona
Published: August 2018

Le canon se définit en tant que liste d'auteurs qui ont la force créatrice d'influencer toute une littérature à venir, formulant la loi esthétique d'une époque dont chacune comporte une liste canonique qui la particularise. Située à mi-chemin entre la tradition et l'innovation, entre l'avantgarde et l'arrière-garde, l'idée de bataille canonique gagne de la perspective historique et désigne la conceptualisation de la dynamique évolutive qui caractérise tout espace culturel. Le canon est le cadre de références d'autorité pour l'enseignement, vu son statut de modèle normatif à grande valeur de généralité. Le présent article porte sur les aléas du processus canonique, en tâchant de surprendre ses mécanismes intrinsèques.
Linguistic variation and change: Middle English infinitive
Authors: Trobevšek Drobnak Frančiška
Published: August 2018

In Middle English the old inflected infinitive lost its supine function and gradually replaced the uninflected infinitive in all positions, except in the complementation of moal and a limited number of other verbs. According to most linguists, the choice between the to infinitive and the bare infinitive was either lexically or structurally conditioned. The theory of linguistic change as the assertion of weaker or stronger linguistic variants postulates the affinity of stronger variants for more complex, i. e. functionally marked grammaticall environment. The author tests the validity of the theory against the assertion of the English to infinitive at the expanse of the bare infinitive after the Norman Conquest. The results confirm the initial hypothesist that the degree of formal marked­ ness of the infinitive concurred with the degree of the functional markedness of grammatical pa­ rameters.
Responses to the works of John Updike in Slovenia
Authors: Klanjšček Tamara
Published: August 2018

Since the beginning of his writing career, John Updike has been considered by many as one of the most prominent American authors of our time and his language and subject matter have attracted many readers world wide. Notwithstanding, it appears that the Slovenes have failed to notice his literary merits as there has never been a real critical response to him or his work and as only a few works have been rendered into Slovene. One of the reasons which could account for the scarcity of translations and critical material is Updike's employment of extratextual information which is specific to the American milieu and thus to the Slovene society. Thiarticle offers an overview of the translations and critical material on Updike in Slovenia and highlights Updike's references to the USA on the examples taken from the translations of Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux.
Two 17th century Jesuit plays in Ljubljana inspired by English literature
Authors: Grošelj Nada
Published: August 2018

Jesuit teachers, whose members came to Ljubljana in the late 16th century, placed great emphasis on the production and staging of the school drama. Despite the domination of religious themes, the range of its subject matter was wide and varied. The article discusses two plays which derived their subject matter from English literature, namely from Bede's Ecclesiastical History  of the English People and Holinshed's Historie of Britain.The texts themselves are lost, but in the case of the Holinshed-inspired  work (a version of the King Lear story), a detailed synopsis has been preserved. The article examines the synopsis and the extant manuscript reports about the plays, the original English sources, and the treatment of the two works in contemporary scholarly treatises.
Reviewer response to Pinter's "The caretaker"
Authors: Onič Tomaž
Published: August 2018

The Caretaker is one of Harald Pinter's early plays. It was an immediate success, and it drew the attention of many critics, who started judging this contemporary British playwright's works from a new perspective. Therefore, many scholars consider The Caretaker an important turning point in the reception of Pinter's works. The play has seen many stagings all over the world, two of them in Slovenia. This article sets out its most prominent productions, analyses and comments on their critical reviews, and compares these to the response to Pinter in Slovene cultural space.
Das Werk Friedrichs von Gagern in literaturgeschichtlicher Betrachtung
Authors: Janko Anton
Published: August 2018

Friedrich Freiherr von Gagern (1882-1947) war Zeit seines Lebens ein bekannter, wenn auch nicht berühmter Schriftsteller. Er entstammt einem alten Adelsgeschlecht, das ursprünglich im deutschen Norden (Insel Rügen) beheimatet war; unter seinen Vorfahren sind Politiker und politische Schriftsteller zu finden, mütterlicherseits war er mit Anastasius Grün (Anton Alexander Graf Auersperg, (1806-1876), verwandt. Im vierten Band der Deutsch-Österreichischen Literaturgeschichte von Nagl und Zeidler wird er als "einer der bedeutendsten Erzähler unserer Zeit" bezeichnet.
Vergil und die westliche Überlieferung
Authors: Snoj Vid
Published: August 2018

Der Artikel befasst sich mit dem Stellenwert der Vergilschen Dichtung in der westlichen Überlieferung. Vergilbezieht sich in der berühmten Vierten Ekloge auf den Mythos vom goldenen Geschlecht, der in der Dichtung erstmals bei Hesiod bezeugt wird. Als erster in der griechisch-römischen Überlieferung dichtet er über Rückkehr des Goldenen Zeitalters, die er zugleich mit der Geburt und Wachstum des Göttlichen Knaben bzw. des kindlichen Erlösers vorhersagt. Sein Dichten erhält damit eine messianisch-eschatologische Dimension, wodurch es sich von der griechisch-römischen hin zur jüdischen Überlieferung bewegt. Es ist jedoch Vergil selbst, der die messianisch-eschatologische Kunde seines Frühwerkes säkularisiert. Im sechsten Gesang der Aeneis erkennt er nämlich nachträglich im Göttlichen Knaben den Kaiser Augustus und trägt so im Rahmen der römischen Aneignung des trojanischen Erbes maßgebend zu der Übersiedlung der Macht bzw. des Imperiums von Osten nach Westen bei.
Discourse function of nominalization : a case study of English and Slovene newspaper articles
Authors: Plemenitaš Katja
Published: August 2018

The article deals with nominalization as a linguistic form with a universal discourse function. lt offers an explanation ofthe discourse function of nominalization as a topicalization mechanism. From this stems the assumption that the use of nominalization is associated with specific text types, which is supported by a comparative study ofnominalizations carried out on a sample of English and Slovene newspaper articles from two different periods. The study tests some predictions with regard to the use and frequency of nominalizations in the sample, which are based on general assumptions about the function ofnominalizations and some previous obseniations about nominizing tendencies in English and Slovene. The results of this study show that both English and Slovene newspaper articles yield similar global patterns in the distribution of nominalization in connection with the text type.
Lúdovik Osterc : obituary
Authors: Stanonik Janez
Published: August 2018

Ludovik Osterc lived in his early youth in Bezigrad, a northern section of the town of Ljubljana. Here he completed primary school. In 1938, after the completion, also in Ljubljana, of the secondary school (Vegova gimnazija), he enrolled at the Ljubljana Faculty of Philosophy to study Romance philology. This he concluded in 1941 with a diploma in French language and literature as his main subject.
Harry Potter book series - trivial or not?
Authors: Pavšič Brigita
Published: August 2018

The article explores  the extcnt to which the features  of trivial literature appear in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling.This is done in comparison with another popular children's series, The Famous Five by Enid Blyton, which was analysed  by Igor Saksida. The main focus of the analysis is on the schematic representation of plot, characters and the exotic nature of the setting and time of the stories.
Re-reading Northrop Frye : images of culture and the Canadian context
Authors: Potocco Marcello
Published: August 2018

Responding  to a prevailing critique of Northrop Frye's studies of Canadian culture, the author of the paper combines Frye's Canadian essays with his general theory in order to demonstrate that Frye's use of the term imagination, similarly to Iser's notion of "imaginary", allows a differentiation of the social imaginary and the fictive. Frye has provided a background for treatment of the fictive as aesthetic structure  and has employed the study of Canadian culture primarily as a specific tool to describe literature with a disturbed aesthetic structure.
Dynamics beetween 'old' and 'new' ethnicities and multiple identities in Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo
Authors: Kalogjera Branka
Published: August 2018

The paper takes Candra Cisneros'  epic semi-biographical novel Caramelo asa literary insight into dynamics  between generations  within  a single ethnic (Chicano)  community,  and compares  it against classics  of the genre in its shifting  definition  of one's  ethnic identity;  here the postmodern approach of entwining fiction and fact and awarding them equallegitimacy mirrors the possibility of embracing multiple identities, as exemplified by the novel's protagonist.
L'ironie dans l'allégorie chez Rutebeuf
Authors: Žakelj Špela
Published: August 2018

Occupant une place très importante parmi les auteurs français du XIII siècle, Rutebeuf se sert dans sa poésie morale et satirique de l'allégorie, figure rhétorique typique pour le Moyen Age, dans la poésie liée surtout à la thématique du voyage. Dans les suvres de Rutebeuf l'allégorie est jointe le plus souvent à la satire, genre de prédiléction du discours ironique. Se dressant de manière symbolique contre l'écroulement des valeurs traditionnelles l'auteur prend pour l'objet de son ironie la corruption de la société contemporaine, surtout celle des ordres mendinats, coupables selon lui pour l'emprise des vices sur l'humanité. Pour éviter la généralization avec laquelle le systeme allégorique des personifications empreint perspective satirique et ironique Rutebeuf combine les modèles allégoriques différents, créant ainsi une situation a priori dramatique dont témoignent par exemple ses suvres Le débat du croisé et du décroisé, la Leçon sur Hypocrisie et Humilité ou Le dit du mensonge.
Bernard Hickey : (1931-2007) : in memoriam
Authors: Jurak Mirko
Published: August 2018

In the mid-1970s the Australian government began to stimulate departments of English at various European  universities to include in their curricula  the teaching of Australian literature. Literature Board of the Australia Council helped organize vari­ ous seminars and conferences, it provided some basic text-books and literary  works, and also financially supported Australian university professors to give lectures at these institutions. The Department of English at the University of Ljubljana showed interest in developing these relations and Bernard Hickey was one of the first Australian guests at our university.
Jakob Kelemina on Shakespeare's plays
Authors: Jurak Mirko
Published: August 2018

Among Slovene scholars in English and German studies Jakob Kelemina (19 July 1882- 14 May 1957) has a very important  place. Janez Stanonik justly places him among the founding fathers of the University of Ljubljana (Stanonik 1966: 332). From 1920 Kelemina was professor of Germanic philology and between 1920 and 1957 he was also the Chair of the Deparment ofGermanic Languages and Literatures at the Faculty of Arts of this university. The major part of Kelemina's research was devoted to German and Austrian literatures,  German  philology, German-Slovene cultural relations, and literary theory; his work in these fields has already been discussed  by severa! Slovene scholars. However, in the first two decades of the twentieth century Kelemina also wrote severa! book reviews of Slovene and Croatian translations of Shakespeare's plays as well as three introductory essays to Slovene translations  of Shakespeare's plays. They are considered  as the first serious studies on Shakespeare in Slovenia (Moravec 1974: 437), and have not been analysed yet. Therefore this topic presents the core of my study, together with an evaluation  of Kelemina's contribution  to Slovene translations  of Shakespeare's plays done by Oton Župančič (1878-1949) during the first half of the twentieth century. Župančič's translations  became the criterion  for all further translations  of Shakespeare's dramatic works in Slovene. Župančič is stili one of our most important  poets and translators of this time and Kelemina's advice and criticism undoubtedly  also helped him to achieve such a high standard in his translations. In the central part of my study I also include some new material (e.g. Kelernina's letters), which is relevant for our understanding  of his co-operation with Oton Župančič  and other Slovene authors and critics. In order to put Kelemina's work into a historical perspective I present at the beginning of my study a brief survey of the development of drama and theatre in Slovenia, particularly as regards pro­ ductions and early attempts oftranslating Shakespeare's plays into Slovene. This information,  which may be particularly  relevant for foreign readers, ends with the year 1922, when Kelemina's last writ­ing about Shakespeare's plays appeared. In 2007 we commemorate the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of Kelemina's birth and fiftieth anniversary of his death, which is another reason why his work on Shakespeare should be finally researched and evaluated. This study should also help expand our knowledge about Jakob Kelemina's contribution regarding translations of Shakespeare's plays for the Slovene theatre and for Slovene culture generally.
Marcus Antonius Kappus : a reevaluation
Authors: Stanonik Janez
Published: August 2018

In the first part of my study I investigate the background in which Marcus Kappus had lived in his youth, before his departure for America. I consider that analysis of these early European formative years of a person who later had a visible role in his part of America can be a useful contribution to American studies. To this I add a brief summary of our present knowledge of Kappus' life in Sonora, and a survey of Slovene studies on him.
The first translations of Leatherstocking tales in Slovene
Authors: Mazi-Leskovar Darja
Published: August 2018

The Leatherstocking Tales represent what is probably the most valuable contribution of James Fenimore Cooper to the development of American literature. This article surveys briefly the first translation of the series, by highlighting the domestication and the foreignization procedures which were applied to make the books accessible for the target audience. Secondly, it discusses the interplay of domestication and foreignization with regard to the forms and functions of proper names.
Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
Authors: Vukelić Tatjana
Published: August 2018

The work of Zora Neale Hurston, in particular, the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, has been the object of more than a decade of critical attention. But, in addition to the critical consideration of Hurston's writings, her work has received the level of institutional support necessary for Hurston to enter the American literary mainstream. The article addresses the issue of black women literary tradition and the search for freedom and identity in the white American social and cultural environment.
Slovene reactions to William Faulkner's writing
Authors: Intihar Klančar Nataša
Published: August 2018

The article deals with Slovene reactions to William Faulkner's writing: a lot of critical attention was given to the author twice, namely after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature  in 1949 and after his death in 1962. The articles and reviews published  in Slovene magazines  and newspapers focused on themes, characterization, style and structure of his novels. Thus the Slovene reading public got the chance to get to know one of the greatest novelists of 20th century, his troubled, decaying, socially, racially, religiously and historically challenged American South and through it themselves and their attitude toward the world and its problems. Faulkner also had a strong influence on some of the Slovene writers of 1950s and 1960s: they adopted his themes and writing techniques, namely a cyclic structure of the novel and stream-of-consciousness technique,  thus forging the new Slovene modernist fiction that started to emerge from the late 1960s onwards.
Prosaauflösung der Willehalm - trilogie : gewalt im religiösen kontext
Authors: Gumilar Anita
Published: August 2018

Angesichts der Tatsache, dass das frlihneuhochdeutsche Werk eines anonymen Prosabearbeiters der urnfangreichen rnittelalterlichen Willehalm-Trilogie sowohl in der friihneuhochdeutschen als auch in der gegenwiirtigen Rezeption und Iiterarischen Forschung nur in "Randbemerkungen" seine Erwahnung fand, wird im vorliegenden Beitrag der Versuch unternommen, dem bisher noch unerforschten  Feld von literarischer Darstellung der Gewalt im religičisen Kontext in der Hystoria von dem wirdigen ritter sant Wilhelm wenigstens eine Abhilfe zu leisten. Ausgehend  von der am Anfang nur "skizzenhaft" entworfenen  Problematik  des kausalen  Zusammenhangs von Religion  und Gewalt wird im Beitrag die Aufmerksamkeit  auf die literarische Gestaltung von religiös motivierter Gewaltauslibung  in dem frnhd. Werk gelenkt, wobei die Gewaltphanomene sowie deren Funktion zur Diskussion stehen.
La gravure Triumphe de la mort de Janez Vajkard Valvasor
Authors: Germ Martin
Published: August 2018

Le rôle que le grand historien et fondateur de l'art graphique en Carniole a eu dans le développement de l'art et de la culture est bien connu du fait que Valvasor, lui-même artiste-amateur des techniques graphiques, a mis la main à la pâte et produit une gravure intéressante figurant à l'introduction de son suvre Theatrum mortis humanae tripartitum, qui, en dépit de son aspect graphique très riche, n'a pas attiré beaucoup d'attention des historiens de l'art. Il s'agit pourtant d'une śuvre importante intégrant les grandscourants dela production artistique traversant l 'Europe contemporaine qui thématisent, dans les arts plastiques et dans la littérature, la fugacité de la vie humaine et la mort.
La première traduction slave de Molière et la naissance du théâtre slovène
Authors: Turk Boštjan Marko
Published: August 2018

Trois ans après sa première représentation à Versailles, Georges Dandin de Molière a fait l 'objet d'une traduction partielle en slovène réalisée par Franjo Krsto Frankopan. Cette traduction des trois premières scènes peut être objectivement considérée comme l'un des défis les plus ardus de l'histoire littéraire contemporaine. La recherche slovène et internationale l'a tantôt ignoré, tantôt considéré comme lettre morte. La raison en est que, dans ce fragment, Frankopan aurait utilisé le slovène comme langue servant à ridiculiser, comme l'ayaient fait les dramaturges italiens de la Renaissance avec les dialectes slaves. Or, rien n'est plus éloigné de la vérité. Le texte est intégralement écrit en slovène, langue de la mère de Frankopan. Du reste, comme le montre ne serait-ce que l'analyse bergsonienne du comique, Georges Dandin n'est pas un texte comique. Il convient, par contre, de voir le lien entre la traduction du fragment de la pièce de Molière et l'action de Frankopan contre la monarchie habsbourgeoise. Par l'intermédiaire de la diplomatie viennoise, ce dernier cherchait en effet des appuis à la cour du .roi Louis XIV dont l'auteur dramatique comique en titre était précisément Molière. En conclusion, il convient de souligner que le fragment traduit par Frankopan, en tant que premier texte dramatique en langue slovène, invite à remettre en question la datation des débuts du théâtre slovène proposée par les historiens de la littérature.
Responses to August Strindberg's Miss Julie in Slovenia
Authors: Gustinčič Pahor Mita
Published: August 2018

Miss Julie (Froken Julie) is one of August Strindberg's most popular and well-known plays. Today, almost 120 years after its first appearance, what Strindberg called the "first naturalistic tragedy in Swedish  drama"  is stili being staged  worldwide,  with Slovenia  being  no exception. This article examines the critical response to Miss Julie staged in Slovene professional theatres from its first ap­ pearance in 1921 to its !atest in 2008. It aims to establish  to what extent critics'  attitude towards the play and the author have changed over a time span of ninety years.
Autonomous Aboriginal communities in Australia : besieged by scandal and corruption, how can they move forward?
Authors: Wimmer Adi
Published: August 2018

Discourses of Australian Aboriginal culture have all too often relied on the "noble savage" trope, in Australia as in Europe. There were practical outcomesof such views, most notably the creation of over a hundred self-governed indigenous communities in the 1980s, most of them in the Northern territories. The architect of the plan was Nuggett Coombs, a top Canberra administrator and advisor to Whitlam and Hawke. His idea was to allow Aborigines a "pre-contact" lifestyle and to shield them from all evil "white" influences. Neither worked. On the contrary, it has now emerged that the leftist, liberal consensus on how to "empower" Aboriginal culture has resulted in the exact opposite, in degradation, alcoholism, and sexual violence. This is not only due to passivity in indigenous communities but also to a decade-long denial of their dysfunctionality by the white courts, academics, and lawmakers.
"[...] in un giardino d'armida : Il racconto d'autunno di Landolfi. Esempio di metamorfosi novecentesca del fantastico
Authors: Farinelli Patrizia
Published: August 2018

Tommaso Landolfi (1908-1979) e uno dei narratori italiani novecenteschi piu coscienti dei limiti del linguaggio; la sua poetica poggia, infatti, sul postulato che ogni narrare commette un tradimento nei confronti del suo referente per la natura stessa della parola, che muta l'oggetto del dire, mentre lo dice, e non c'e scritto in cui egli non ritomi su questo punto. II suo opus, le cui prime prove risalgono alla seconda meta degli anni Trenta, e rappresentato soprattutto da racconti brevi, costruiti intomo a storie d'impianto non verosimile, e da opere di genere diaristico o piuttosto pseudo­ diaristico, considerato che il discorso autobiografico vi risulta sempre intersecato da elementi di finzione.
Ambiguïtés génériques dans une si longue lettre de Marima Bâ
Authors: Gacoin-Marks Florence
Published: August 2018

La presente contribution a pour objectif de replacer Une si longue lettre de la romanciere senegalaise Mariama Bâ dans le contexte du genre epistolaire, d'une part, en montrant son caractere hybride sur le plan forme! (ce roman peut etre envisage a la fois comme une lettre, un joumal intime et un roman a la premiere personne) et, d'autre part, en determinant comment le choix de ce genre specifique, qui implique l'existence d'un narrataire (destinataire de la lettre), contribue a la transmission du lllesage ideolgique (feministe) au coeur du project romanesque de Mariama Bâ.
Gothic elements in contemporary detective story : Matthew Gregory Lewis and Minette Walters compared
Authors: Marinko Vesna
Published: August 2018

One of the most shocking Gothic novels was written by Matthew Gregory Lewis in 1796. His Gothic novel The Monk contains all the typical Gothic elements such as a ruined castle, aggressive villain, women in distress, the atmosphere of terror and horror and a lot more. This article analyses and compares to what extent the Gothic elements of the late 18th century survived in the contemporary detective story The Ice House (1993) written by Minette Walters and how these elements have changed.
Using network analysis to analyse the complex interaction of factors causing the failure of small-scale water infrastructure (SWI) in the rural areas of South Africa
Authors: Sambo DC , Senzanje A , Dhavu K
Published: August 2018

Some parts of the rural areas of South Africa are receiving water services below the legislative standards stipulated in the Water Services Act (1997) of South Africa. This is because small-scale water infrastructures (SWI), including standpipes, handpumps and windmills, are failing to supply adequate water in rural communities for various activities that enhance their livelihoods. This is due to technical, community, institutional, and environmental factors. Literature indicates that these factors are complex in nature. However, research on their complex interactions has been limited. Therefore, the complex interactions of the factors causing SWI failure were investigated and analysed in this study. A qualitative research approach was employed to investigate the factors that cause failure of SWI. The network approach combined with graph theory and the community structure method were used to generate a theme and domain network that allowed for a systematic analysis and interpretation of the causes of SWI failure in the study area. The major causes of failure identified include: (i) the use of a top-down approach to implement water projects in rural communities without consultation, (ii) sharing of SWI in high numbers due to the limited number of SWI available/functional, resulting in overloading and increased breakdowns, and (iii) drying up of water sources due to poor siting leading to vandalism of SWI. Overall, the causes of SWI failure are as a result of the complex interactions of different categories of factors. The theme and domain network is a powerful tool that can be used represent and analyse the complex interactions. It is therefore imperative for interventions aiming to improve rural water supply to analyse the complex interactions of the causes of SWI failure to understand the underlying problems at a level of a system, in order to propose suitable solutions.
Assessing the performance of regional flood frequency analysis methods in South Africa
Authors: Nathanael JJ , Smithers JC , Horan MJC
Published: August 2018

In engineering and flood hydrology, the estimation of a design flood associates the magnitude of a flood with a level of exceedance, or return period, for a given site. The use of a regional flood frequency analysis (RFFA) approach improves the accuracy and reliability of estimates of design floods. However, no RFFA method is currently widely used in South Africa, despite a number of RFFA studies having been undertaken in Africa and which include South Africa in their study areas. Hence, the performance of the current RFFA approaches needs to be assessed in order to determine the best approaches to use and to determine if a new RFFA approach needs to be developed for use in South Africa. Through a review of the relevant literature it was found that the Meigh et al. (1997) method, the Mkhandi et al. (2000) method, the Görgens (2007) Joint Peak-Volume (JPV) method and the Haile (2011) method are available for application in a nationwide study. The results of the study show that the Haile method generally performs better than the other RFFA methods; however, it also consistently underestimates design floods. Due to the poor overall performance of the RFFA methods assessed, it is recommended that a new RFFA method be developed for application in design flood practice in South Africa.