LOVE, TOWN AND WAR. AN ANALYSIS OF THE MICROSTRUCTURE (CLOSE READING) IN DRAGO JANČAR’S WAR NOVELS
The paper focuses on the micro-structural analysis, i.e., close-reading, of the selected literary ...texts. Close-reading is the opposite of distant reading that generally connotes analysis of a much larger corpus. Close-reading is an acceptable strategy for textual interpretation. This strategy includes, at first glance, some banal issues, such as the relationship between historically documented events and their literary (fictional) presentations, spatial data (in this case Maribor and its topography), and temporal data (linear or recursive). Furthermore, this procedure enables identification of a given genre, for example a cycle or some kind of a supra-text (in this case a novelistic trilogy). The analysis will show how the fundamental paradox embedded in Maribor, its Slovene-German past, is reflected in Jančar’s novels. Special emphasis is placed on processes, motifs, images, characters, events and even micro-texts present in Jančar’s short prose that later reappear in his novels in a new context. Jančar’s text that are studied are Severni sij (Northern Lights, 1984), To noč sem jo videl (I Saw Her That Night, 2010) and In ljubezen tudi (And Love Itself, 2017).
The paper focuses on the micro-structural analysis, i.e., close-reading, of the selected literary texts. Close-reading is the opposite of distant reading that generally connotes analysis of a much ...larger corpus. Close-reading is an acceptable strategy for textual interpretation. This strategy includes, at first glance, some banal issues, such as the relationship between historically documented events and their literary (fictional) presentations, spatial data (in this case Maribor and its topography), and temporal data (linear or recursive). Furthermore, this procedure enables identification of a given genre, for example a cycle or some kind of a supra-text (in this case a novelistic trilogy). The analysis will show how the fundamental paradox embedded in Maribor, its Slovene-German past, is reflected in Jančar’s novels. Special emphasis is placed on processes, motifs, images, characters, events and even micro-texts present in Jančar’s short prose that later reappear in his novels in a new context. Jančar’s text that are studied are Severni sij (Northern Lights, 1984), To noč sem jo videl (I Saw Her That Night, 2010) and In ljubezen tudi (And Love Itself, 2017).
Vilém Flusser (1920-1991) is known as one of the most important media theoreticians after Marshall McLuhan. As a kind of cosmopolitan scholar he worked in numerous media-related fields and other ...studies (i.e., philosophy, linguistics, photography and film, education, information studies, telematics, anthropology and so forth). Flusser's work is located, so to speak, at an extreme edge of the "Gutenberg Galaxy"; he tried to point out paths beyond its borders. Although he died in the early 1990s, he developed some interesting visions about the nascent new age of the internet and mobile computing.
Lipid s prispevkom o romanu ? pismih Viktorja Sklovskega Zoo alipisma ne o Ijube^ni, leto pozneje objavljenim pod naslovom »Ljubezenska pisma med teorijo in literatura« ? posebni stevilki PKn, ki sta ...jo uredila Marko Juvan in Jelka Kernev Strajn. Poleg intertekstualnosti ? monumentalnem osrednjem delu Greberjeve Textile Texte (2002) stopita ? fokus nj enega interesa se tekstualnost, prikazana ob metaforiki organskega in floralnega rast ja, in koncept ruskega pletenìe sloves'oz. provansalskega entrebescar los mot%. Kot urednica in soavtorica pomembnih edicij (med njimi dveh jubile) - nih zbornikov, posvecenih prof. dr. Renate Lachmann) je Erika Greber sledila povsem novim in izvirnim vidikom primerjalne literarne vede, ki jih je predstavljala na osrednjih znanstvenih simpozijih z referati, kot sta »Vprasanje medialnosti pisave« in »O medijski teoriji literarne vede in o medialnih transformacijah sonetne oblike«.
This essay provides an overview of the changes and shifts in the use of “literary life” and other terms related to sociological and economic aspects of literary communication. Originally published in ...1989, it now has a preface by Tomáš Pavlíček (pp 518-520).
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