In the years 1899–1901, Karel Štrekelj (1859–1912) held a course on Slovenian literature at the University of Graz. These are the first university lectures on Slovenian literature in the Slovenian ...language, published in two volumes. However, Štrekelj's history is more than this: it is a monumental, classically balanced synthesis of all the former knowledge of Slovenian literature, given against rich historical, social, and linguistic backgrounds.It is the first series of university lectures in the Slovenian language on the topic of Slovenian literature. The volumes of manuscript contain a complete overview of Slovenian literature from Brižinski spomeniki (The Freising Manuscripts) to Gregorčič. Štrekelj’s lectures are a landmark in the development of Slovenian studies, both from the point of view of university teaching and from the perspective of the fundamental works of Slovenian literary history.
Some non-traditional topes are also planned for the chapter on "Processing": "Canonization" ("Editing critical editions", e.g., The Collected Works of Slovene Poets and Writers, "Anthologies," ..."Prizes," "Reprints," "Celebrations," "Jubilees," "Conferences," "Symposia," "Museums," "Memorial markers and rooms," "Literary trails," "Digitalization," "Collections of texts"); "Institutions" (schools, institutes, academies, Slovene studies abroad); "Use of literature in philosophy, sociology, history, psychology, ethnology, musicology, cultural studies"; "Literature in advertising, graffiti, obituaries, personal anniversaries and other social occasions"; "Literature in other arts" (painting, sculpture, architecture, music); "Literature and reality" (fictiveness, roman à clef, thematization of recent historical events); "Literature and (cultural) history"; "Literature and the law (censorship, responsibility, ethics)"; "Literature and politics" (court poet, inmate, people's tribunal)"; "Literature and culture" (national, intellectual)"; "Literature and economics"; "Literature and space: geomapping, spatial representations"; "Literature and media competition"; "Literature and the Slovene Academy of Sciences"; "Literature in the schools: textbook selection, academic plan, primary school, middle school, higher education, mandatory schooling, recreational reading."
This article applies Hayden White's theory of tropes as presented Metahistory: the historiological imagination in nineteenth-century Europe (1973) to select major works of Slovene literary history in ...order to elucidate their ideological stance. White's theory is an obvious if underutilized tool for clarifying the ideological implications of historical writing, which have received increased scrutiny in this decade. Based upon the arrangement of materials in the example of Zgodovina slovenskega slovstva (1968-1970) by Jože Pogačnik and Franc Zadravec, the article proposes that the work has a conservative outlook (i.e. telological view favoring the status quo) that is seemingly shared with other prominent histories of Slovene literature.
Članek na primeru dvojezične pesnice Luize Pesjak problematizira pristop tradicionalne, nacionalno in lingvistično orientirane literarne zgodovine, ki je kot kultura naroda in literatura postala ...prostor konstituiranja narodne identitete, a pri tem večkrat pozabila na procese v književnosti, ki so bili kompleksnejši. Temu sledi umestitev dela nemškega književnega opusa Luize Pesjak v okvir slovenske literarne zgodovine kot komplementarnega pola njenega slovenskega pisanja. Umestitev je prestop v tradicionalni vedi prevladujočega jezikovnega kriterija in naglasitev književnih procesov, ki niso bili vedno nacionalno "čisti". Analiza in interpretacija pesmi opozarja na nekaj najbolj izstopajočih vsebinskih, motivno-tematskih in formalno-stilnih potez ter jim odmerja mesto v literarnem življenju.
Slovenska literarna veda je bila ob ustanovitvi univerze personalno in po raziskovalnih šolah zelo razvejana. Izbira kandidatov za dve razpisani univerzitetni mesti ni bila enostavna, vendar pa je ...mogoče ugotoviti, da sta bila predloga pripravljena izrazito strokovno. F. Kidrič in I. Prijatelj sta bila namreč znanstveni paradigmi, ki sta bila na ravni aktualnega časa in v središču razvoja raziskovalne discipline.