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Das Bild Sloweniens in der österreichischen Literatur : Anmerkungen zum Werk von Joseph Roth, Ingeborg Bachmann und Peter Handke
Authors: Wallas Armin A. 
Published: August 2018

Das »Eigene« und das »Fremde« - ein (scheinbarer?) Gegensatz als (be­liebter) literarischer Topos. Im Bild des - geographisch, zeitlich, sozial etc.- »Anderen« offenbaren sich Ängste, aber auch Wünsche und Hoffnungen. Das »Andere« kann zur Projektion eigener Unzuläglichkeit und geheimgehaltener, auch verdrängter Wünsche werden, aber auch zur Projektion utopischen Denkens. In der Ambivalenz zwischen der Tradierung von Stereotypen (nicht selten von Vorurteilen) und dem Bemühen um die intellektuelle Erfassung fremder Lebenswelten, aber auch in der Ambivalenz zwischen der Sehnsucht nach einer Gegen-Welt und der konkreten Auseinandersetzung mit der historischen Tradition, Sprache, Kultur und Lebensform des »Anderen« bewegt sich die Konstruktion literarischer Bilder. Diese Konstruktion ist auch ein Akt der Selbstreflexion: im Bild, das man sich vom »Anderen« macht, ist man selbst mit-enthalten. Das literarische Bild des »Anderen« ist zugleich Selbst­ Interpretation, es sagt oft mehr über den Interpreten, als über den Gegen­ stand der Interpretation aus. Das »Andere« wird zum Objekt, zum »image«, das aus der Perspektive des Betrachters, der zugleich Gestalter ist, gedeutet vird, aber auch zum Spiegel des Beobachter-lnterpreten, der darin - je nach Standort (und im Extremfall) - die Fratze seines Vorurteils oder das Ideal seiner utopischen Sehnsucht sehen kann (oder zu finden vermeint).
Rinconete y Cortadillo en busca de la picaresca
Authors: Zimic Stanislav 
Published: August 2018

La relación de Cervantes con la literatura picaresca ha sido siempre objeto de animadas polémicas. Con referencia específica a Rinconete y Cortadillo se afirma que es novela picaresca; que no lo es en absoluto; que sólo lo es en parte; que sólo »roza motivos picarescos«; que es »una novela de pícaros, que se encuentra a enorme lejanía de la novela -picaresca«; que representa »una picaresca diversa ..., en que los elementos picarescos adquieren una forma personalísima ... que supera una visíon unilateral ..., cuadro de género picaresco«, etc. En un estudio reciente se nos advierte cuán aventu­ rada es toda opinión sobre lo »picaresco« en Cervantes, cuando ni hay un monolítico género picaresco que pueda abarcarse con una definición satisfactoria. Más lógica y -prometedora sería así la consideración de Rinconete y Cortadillo en sus relaoiones específicas con obras consideradas tradicionalmente como »picarescas«, para destacar, en en cada caso, semejanzas, diferencias, nuevas funcínes del prestamo, etc.
La vorágine de la desconfianza en la Novela del curioso impertinente (D. Quijote, I, caps. 32-35)
Authors: Zimic Stanislav 
Published: August 2018

"Bien - dijo el Cura - me parece esta novela, pero no me puedo persuadir que esto sea verdad; y si es fingido, fingió mal el autor, porque no se puede imaginar que haya marido tan necio que quiera hacer tan costosa experiencia como Anselmo ... , algo tie ne de lo imposible" ( 1195). Esprobable que allector moderno, "moderately acquainted with novels, films, and plays," no le choque un"case like Anselmo", que consideraría sencillamente como "psychiatric", pero, ello no obstante, permanecería muy perplejo frente a la razón especffica de la extraña "experiencia ... , fuera del uso común", como la caracteriza el propio Anselmo (1174), que éste hace con Camila, su esposa.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Penetrometer tests on 109 pit latrines in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya
Authors: Seal D , Bown RT , Parker AH 
Published: August 2018

Pit latrine contents can have varying consistencies that make the pits challenging to empty. It has been assumed that solids sink to the bottom of the pit with a more liquid layer above this and a scum on the top. This implies that it would be possible to remove the uppermost layers with a pump. However, recent studies have found alternative sludge profiles, including a thick crust on the top. This paper presents penetrometer data from a large number (109) of pit latrines in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya. The penetrometer consists of a weight, dropped onto an anvil that drives a cone into the pit. The depth of penetration following each impact was measured. This was converted into plots of depth in the pits against penetration. Each pit was analysed using Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient, and categorised into positive or negative correlation, significant or non-significant. Significant, negative correlation was assumed to correspond to pits where the solids had sunk to the bottom. 38% of pits were classified in this way, which suggested that while it is common that the number of impacts required to penetrate the sludge increases with depth in the pit, this is not always the case. Pit emptiers should be prepared to deal with pits with a variety of sludge profiles, including those with a solids layer at the top.
Exploring ways to increase public investments in agricultural water management and irrigation for improved agricultural productivity in Southern Africa
Authors: Nhemachena Charles , Matchaya Greenwell , Nhlengethwa Sibusiso , Nhemachena Charity R 
Published: August 2018

This paper explores ways to increase public investments in agricultural water management and irrigation for improved agricultural productivity in Southern Africa, with a specific focus on Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. The analysis was based on a critical review of literature and assessment of the national agricultural investment plans and agricultural/water policies in the study countries. Despite the potential to improve agricultural productivity, irrigation does not currently play a significant role in Southern African agriculture. There have been efforts and formal commitments at the continental, regional and countrylevels to promote investments in agricultural water management and irrigation to improve and sustain agricultural productivity. However, despite these commitments, actual implementation has been a challenge and the first 5 years of national agricultural investment plans have passed or are now coming to an end without much progress having been made regarding actual investments. Lack of adequate resources and institutional capacity have been some of the challenges affecting implementation of the investment plans to meet commitments in sustainable land and water management. Overall, as countries plan for the second phase of the CAADP programme, there are opportunities to ensure that investments in agricultural water management and irrigation and complementary technologies are prioritised and allocated adequate resources for implementation.
Effects of different mulch types on soil moisture content in potted shrubs
Authors: Stelli S , Hoy L , Hendrick R , Taylor M 
Published: August 2018

South Africa is classified as a semi-arid environment with limited natural water resources and variable rainfall. It is also described as water scarce, with many of its water resources already fully exploited. Gardening is one of the principal methods that people use to experience nature, and gardens can also be a public demonstration of personal value, a source of satisfaction, and part of a connection to the community. However, gardens are also one of the top users of water, accounting for approximately 31–50% of potable water supplied for domestic and urban use. In order to reduce the amount of water used in gardens, water conservation strategies such as mulching need to be employed. In view of South Africa’s water situation, it is Rand Water’s aim to promote the wise use of water, in all aspects of water consumption. It is anticipated that this study will provide information useful to water saving in urban gardens and landscapes, and will promote the use of mulch amongst gardeners, landscapers and the general public. Mulching potted plants with various organic and inorganic mulch was found to conserve an average of 35% more soil water content over approximately 6 weeks of no irrigation than plants with no mulch. Mulch was shown to increase plant health and vitality, as indicated by stomatal conductance, by an average of 44% than plants with no mulch. The recommended mulch type for use in gardens is bark chips in both summer and winter seasons.