The conception of & attitude toward language by Slovene writers who are active in reformation, romanticism, symbolism, & modernism are surveyed to determine the relationship between a literary period ...& the view of language held by its most representative writers. It is found that the faith in language & the power of the word increased in reformation & romanticism, motivated theologically in the former & aesthetically & patriotically in the latter. The subjectivism & transcendence of symbolism were conducive to the intensification of the faith in language in symbolism, but in this period a reverse development marked by deep doubt in language was also very active. This dualism intensified in modernism leading to the complete loss of faith in language, & creation against, instead of with, language. Z. Dubiel
The work of the greatest Slovenian poet of mid-19th-century Romanticism, France Preseren, is described as an impetus for the institutionalization of the Slovene language. In contrast to the Slovene ...linguists of the era, who considered the peasant's language an ideal basis for general education, Preseren argued that a mother-tongue language must be improved to attract the educated population. The aesthetically sophisticated poetry in the Slovene language was assigned the task of competing with all genres of the Western European tradition, especially its Romance poetic forms, eg, sonnets. The political aspects of Preseren's struggle for Slovenian autonomy were apparent in his 1848 participation in the peasants' movement against Austrian authorities, for which he, as lawyer, drafted a list of demands that included local autonomy, education in the Slovene language, & establishment of a Slovene university. A. Devic
Paper presented at the meeting of the Slavicists of the Us of Ljubljana & Klagenfurt/Celovec, Ljubljana, 16-18 May 1985. S. Kosovel's constructivism - the most advanced phase of Slovene poetic ...modernism in the 1920s - contains strongly marked destruction of traditional poetics & strong integrating tendencies linking his poetry to tradition, & to the Romantic classics. The concept of "paradox" as the basic principle of Kosovel's poetics restricts his modernism within the limits of still well-controlled ambivalences & to still logical relationships between the linguistic & paralinguistic means of expression. HA
C. Kosmac's prose is a striking example of integrating archaic narrative structures with modern ones. The integration takes place in all the components of his fiction: time, space, characters, ...events, composition, & lang. The long short story Pomladni dan (no gloss provided, 1953) is merely a special sort of this integration, signifying also an evolutionary split from post-WWII realism into a new, subjectivized type of prose. HA
