Matija Bravnicar claimed that no special libretto was needed for an opera because anything could be set to music, even the Pythagorean theorem. However, statistical analysis of the cuts & phonic & ...semantic alternations introduced by Bravnicar in his adaptation of Ivan Cankar's drama for the farcical opera Pohujsanje v dolini sentflorjanski (1930) shows a planned & musically motivated edition. Six major divergencies between the drama & libretto are identified: (1) minor characters were given more emphasis, (2) Act II of the play was seriously abridged, (3) the symmetry between acts was intensified with regard to the number of utterances in an act but destroyed with regard to the length of the acts, (4) the contrast between verse & prose in Cankar's dialogue was obscured, (5) the comic & critical parts that did not reflect Bravnicar's viewpoints were eliminated, & (6) the drama's intrigue was downgraded into a series of coincidences. Modified HA
Stefka Bulovec's Bibliografija slovenskih bibliografij (A bibliography of Slovene bibliographies 1976) systematically presents bibliographies published in Slovenia between 1561 and 1973. Since then, ...there has not been a similarly concise accounting of bibliographic activities, at least in book form. There are, however, the annual bibliographic lists that the library journal Knjiznica publishes and makes available on the Internet using the same methodology. Scholarship has the urgent task of concisely presenting (in book form or on the Internet) the post-1974 bibliographies. This would seem to be a very necessary aid, although it takes but a few moments to ascertain on the Internet whether a bibliography has been published on a particular field or person. The Bibliografija slovenskih bibliografij contains the most varied kinds of bibliographies that have been done or are yet being compiled in Slovenia. The theoretical systematization of bibliographies is found in Janez Logar's Uvod v bibliografijo (Introduction to bibliography 1970); Maks Veselko's handbook, Osnove bibliologije in bibliografije (The fundamentals of bibliology and bibliography); Joze Munda's Knjiga (The book 1983); and Miran Hladnik's Prakticni spisovnik ali sola strokovnega ubesedovanja (A practical manual of style or a course in scholarly writing 2002). At different times there have been national and regional bibliographies, bibliographic periodical indices, scholarly bibliographies, bibliographies of publishing houses, genre and sub-genres, translations, and so forth. Bibliographies for individuals are abundant. Bibliographic indices of scholarly and academic serial publications in Slovene studies are useful for orienting oneself in the scholarship. A bibliographic index for the journal Slavisticna revija for 1948 to 1977 was published in the journal in 1977 (compiled by Joze Munda), and in 1993, one was published for the period 1978-92 (compiled by Martin Grum). There is no longer a burning need for a post-1993 bibliographic index, because since then the journal has been digitalized and its archive is accessible from Digitalna knjiznica Slovenije (dLib, The Digital Library of Slovenia). In 1985, on the thirtieth anniversary of the journal Jezik in slovstvo (1955/56-84/85), there was a special issue with an index (compiled by Joze Munda), and in 1995, there was a special issue with an index for the years 1985/86-94/95 (compiled by Alenka Logar Plesko). Jezik in slovstvo has also been digitalized. Advanced internal text searches of these journals is not yet possible. The two journals are the main repositories for individual bibliographies of literary historians, which have appeared on important anniversaries (although some have appeared elsewhere, such as in the journal Primerjalna knjizevnost). The literary historians are France Bernik, Marja Borsnik, Darko Dolinar, Helga Glusic, Matjaz Kmecl, France Koblar, Gregor Kocijan, Joze Koruza, Janko Kos, Dusan Moravec, Boris Paternu, Dusan Pirjevec, Joze Pogacnik, Tone Pretnar, and Franc Zadravec. They are especially useful for the period before Cobiss became operational, when there was no accurate capture of bibliographic data on literary studies publications scattered through periodicals yet. Literary studies in the context of library science have seen bibliometric research using bibliographic data, sometimes in Slovene studies as well (Jamborovic et al. 1999, Hladnik 2000, Mocnik 2005, Dukic 2009 and 2011, Perko 2010, Maja Perinovic 2012). New are bibliographies that constantly update on the Internet, such as the bibliography for the research project "The Space of Slovene Literary Culture," 2011- 13, directed by Marko Juvan. The project is based on and combines collections of biographic, geographic, and bibliographic data. There is also the Seznam digitaliziranega leposlovja (List of digitalized fiction), containing 2,000 titles and links to full texts (Hladnik and Mihael Simonic 2012). Most of the texts are in the project Slovenska leposlovna klasika (Slovene classic fiction) on Wikisource (2007-), which is responsible for correcting scanned texts from dLib, the Internet Archive portal, and other Internet locations. The Ministry of Culture financed the project for five years in a row. Texts from other Internet collections are also included, such as eZISS, AHLib, Digitalna knjiznica IMP, Zbirka slovenskih leposlovnih besedil, Beseda, and Nova beseda. Currently, old bibliographies are only in form of unsearchable digital images: Franc Simonic, Slovenska bibliografija (1550-1900) (A Slovene bibliography 1550-1900), Janko Slebinger, Slovenska bibliografija za l. 1907-1912 (A Slovene bibliography for the years 1907-12), and Niko Kuret, Slovenska knjiga: Seznam po stanju v prodaji dne 30. junija 1939 (The Slovene book: A list based on stock for sale, 30 June 1939). The use of bibliographic collections on the Internet in literary studies is in its infancy. Still needed is a webization of the catalog of literary terminology at ZRC SAZU (The Academic Research Center of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts), of a catalog of acronyms and pseudonyms at NUK (National and University Library), ongoing registration in Cobiss of new dLib digital works, and bibliographic handling of metadata for articles in scanned periodicals. Indices of original fiction in periodicals, especially long fiction, are developed in the context of seminar and baccalaureate theses, and are immediately accessible on Wikisource. Cobiss is an indispensible tool for literary history; therefore, its interface ought to be adapted or plainly written user guides provided, so that the literary historian need not seek assistance for every search from the few library experts familiar with the search criteria. Among the most frequent queries are, for example, a listing of the production in a given genre or period-let us say, of original Slovene novels of the last year for the Kresnik Prize competition (Hladnik 2010), or production in a particular language or region (Hladnik 2010b). The Cobiss listings of most read books (Najbolj brane knjige, Knjiznicno nadomestilo), which give evidence on the borrowing of books by 17,000 live authors, are aids for contextualizing contemporary Slovene literature.
Jakobson's contributions to the journal, translations of Jakobson's papers & book fragments, & papers & translations of papers on Jakobson's linguistic & philological positions that were published in ...Slavisticna Revija are chronologically enumerated & quantitatively specified. Z. Dubiel
