COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF IDEAS AND CULTURES Doctoral program (third cycle)

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1 COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF IDEAS AND CULTURES Doctoral program (third cycle) LITERATURE IN CONTEXT Module coordinator: Prof. Marko Juvan, PhD Module description The module Literature in Context comprises general and topical lectures and students work on term papers, and familiarizes students with the findings and methods tested in the research practice of the ZRC SAZU Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies. The institute has an international profile in the systematic and interdisciplinary study of literature. It uses modern methods and digital humanities techniques to collect, explore, and publish literary sources, historically interprets older Slovenian literature, analyzes nineteenth- and twentieth-century Slovenian literature from a comparative literature and spatial studies perspective, develops innovative approaches to literary theory (conceptions of the literary system, discourse, genre, and narrative), and reflects on the history and methods of literary studies. The module s point of departure is the concept of literature as a discourse with special social functions. Its elective courses tackle literature conceived in this way from a theoretical, textology, historical, and comparative perspective within various contexts, such as: The system of producing, transmitting, receiving, and processing texts; The media system (manuscripts, newspapers and periodicals, books, and digital media); Literary institutions (publishing, societies, libraries, literary studies, the literary canon, and so on); Sociocultural relations and discourse (religion, economics, politics, arts, philosophy, and so on); The social and natural geographical space; Relations between literatures (regional and global). Instructors use a wide range of research methods, such as those typical of textology and philology, digital humanities, conceptual and cultural history, hermeneutics, structural form studies, social semiotics, systemics, comparative aesthetics, and dialogical comparatistics. They use these methods in lectures and seminars to discuss Slovenian authors, texts, practices, conceptual currents, styles, and genres from the Reformation to the present. Students are included in the institute s current research projects and other activities. Visiting instructors from abroad add to the program with their expertise and methodological approaches, while enabling students to compare Slovenian achievements in the discipline with those from abroad. 1

2 General electives 69. European literatures and nationalisms 70. Literary geography 71. Literature and the visual arts 72. Modernism and the avant-garde 73. Narratology 74. Slovenian Baroque literature between the Reformation and the Enlightenment 75. Sociology of the (Slovenian) literary institution 76. World systems and Slovenian literary discourse 77. Textology and digital humanities 78. Discourse theory and literature 79. History of books and censorship 80. Life writing: autobiography, biography, memoirs, diaries, and letters General elective courses European literatures and nationalisms Program code: 69 Course coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Marijan Dović, PhD Instructors (in addition to the course coordinator): Prof. Marko Juvan, PhD, Assist. Prof. Luka Vidmar, PhD Students familiarize themselves with the research tools for studying the relations between European literary cultures and national movements. In the process, they are introduced to relevant Slovenian and international study literature: theoretical literature, especially general theories of nationalism and cultural nationalism, and interdisciplinary and transnational historical studies, such as Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe, which is required to conduct this type of research. In addition, through their work on term papers as part of the seminar they actively prepare themselves to conduct independent research in this area. This course discusses the basic theoretical and methodological tools for studying the relations between emerging national literatures, cultural nationalisms, and national political movements. The emphasis is on central and southeast Europe from the mid-eighteenth-century expansion of Enlightenment ideas to the end of the long nineteenth century (until the First World War). The central role in the national movements that spread across Europe like an epidemic (often as part of multinational political entities) was assumed by language and literature. The main social systems that developed and spread new ideas are presented, including the Enlightenment-era Republic of Letters. Within the institutional and political contexts, the typical tendencies of this period are discussed, such as the interest in language and folk 2

3 music, publishing old texts, historiography and literary history, customs and mythology, writing national art music, patriotic poetry, and historical prose, and holding commemorations and festivals. Special attention is dedicated to the role of literary discourse in these processes and to the canonization of cultural saints, especially national poets. Anderson, Benedict. Zamišljene skupnosti: o izvoru in širjenju nacionalizma. Transl. Alja Brglez Uranjek and Andrej Kurillo, foreword by Jože Vogrinc. New revised ed. Ljubljana: Studia humanitatis, Dović, Marijan. Kulturni nacionalizem, literatura in Enciklopedija romantičnega nacionalizma v Evropi. Slavistika v regijah Nova Gorica. Ed. Boža Krakar Vogel. Ljubljana: Slavistično društvo Slovenije, Even-Zohar, Itamar. The Role of Literature in the Making of the Nations of Europe. Applied Semiotics / Sémiotique appliguée 1.1 (1996): Goodman, Dena. The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment. Ithaca: Cornell UP. Helgason, Jón Karl. The Role of Cultural Saints in European Nation States. Culture Contacts and the Making of Cultures. Ed. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy and Gideon Toury. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, Hobsbawm, Eric J. Nacije in nacionalizem po letu 1780: program, mit in resničnost. Transl. Katarina Rotar. Ljubljana: Založba /*cf., Hroch, Miroslav. From National Movement to the Fully Formed Nation. The Nation Building Process in Europe. New Left Review I/198 (1993): Juvan, Marko. Prešernovska struktura in svetovni literarni sistem. Ljubljana: LUD Literatura, Leerssen, Joep. National Thought in Europe. A Cultural History. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, Leerssen, Joep. Nationalism and the Cultivation of Culture. Nations and Nationalism 12.4 (2006): Neubauer, John. Figures of National Poets. Introduction. History of the Literary Cultures of East- Central Europe. Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries. (Vol. 4.) Ed. Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, Quinault, Roland. The Cult of the Centenary, c Historical Research (1998): Vidmar, Luka. Zoisova literarna republika. Vloga pisma v narodnih prerodih Slovencev in Slovanov. Ljubljana: ZRC, Literary geography Course code: 70 Course coordinator: Prof. Marko Juvan, PhD Instructor (in addition to the course coordinator): Marjan Dolgan, PhD 3

4 Students are introduced to the role of the spatial turn in paradigm changes and the modern humanities, and learn what makes the new conceptions of the relationship between spaces and cultural practices important for (national and comparative) literary history. They familiarize themselves with the history of interactions between geographical space and literature as a spatial practice, the history of literary cartography, and the structure of thematic maps, and they learn to use GIS in literary system analyses. This course explains the history, social context, and importance of the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences. According to modern conceptions, spaces are ontologically multilayered, dynamic, and socially produced. This perspective forms the basis for outlining the history of the relationships between geography and literary studies, including the development of literary maps. The main part of the lectures focuses on literary geography and cartography (especially using geographic information systems) as an analytical method for the historical treatment of topics, forms, genres, and the social life of literatures, as well as relations between literatures. Research on the Slovenian literature environment is presented in greater detail. Bodenhamer, David. J., John Corrigan, and Trevor M. Harris, eds. The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship. Bloomington: Indiana UP, Dear, Michael, Jim Ketchum, Sarah Luria, and Douglas Richardson, eds. Geohumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place. London: Routledge, Dolgan, Marjan, Jerneja Fridl, and Manca Volk. Literarni atlas Ljubljane. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, Döring, Jörg, and Tristan Thielmann, eds. Spatial Turn. Das Raumparadigma in den Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften. Bielefeld: Transcript, Dović, Marijan, Jernej Habjan, and Marko Juvan, eds. Prostorski obrat v literarni vedi / The Spatial Turn in Literary Studies = Primerjalna književnost 36.2 (2013). Harvey, David. Kozmopolitstvo in geografije svobode. Transl. Polona Petek. Ljubljana: Sophia, Juvan, Marko. From Spatial Turn to GIS-Mapping of Literary Cultures. European Review 23.1 (2015): Juvan, Marko, ed. Prostori slovenske književnosti. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC, Moretti, Franco. Grafi, zemljevidi, drevesa in drugi spisi o svetovni literaturi. Selected, translated, and foreword by Jernej Habjan. Ljubljana: Studia humanitatis, Perenič, Urška, ed. Prostor v literaturi in literatura v prostoru = Slavistična revija 60.3 (2012). Tally, Robert T. Spatiality. London: Routledge,

5 Literature and the visual arts Module: : Literature in context Course code: 71 Course coordinator: Assist. Prof. Luka Vidmar, PhD Instructor (in addition to the course coordinator): Marjan Dolgan, PhD Students identify various modes of interaction between literary art and the visual arts, thereby improving their understanding of the role of artistic creativity in human society. In the process, they are introduced to the interdisciplinary methodological procedures required for studying this issue. This course analyzes the complex relationship between literary art and the visual arts that is, between literature on the one hand and architecture, sculpture, and painting on the other. It begins by showing how the relationship between these types of art has developed since Antiquity and how it has been influenced by various statuses of individual arts: literature and architecture already held a traditionally high status in the Middle Ages, whereas the status of painting and sculpture was only elevated as late as the Modern Age. The course continues by presenting the main methods in which writers used visual-art topics and the main methods in which visual artists used literary-art topics. This type of historical and genre overview reveals the meeting points of literary art and visual arts that are essential for the artistic nature of literary or visual works of art. Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. Paris: Seuil, Burke, Peter. Eyewitnessing. The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence. London: Reaktion Books, Guieu, Jean-Max, and Alison Hilton, eds. Emile Zola and the Arts. Washington: Georgetown University Press, Sitzia, Emilia. Art in Literature, Literature in Art in 19th Century France. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Vidmar Luka. Likovnoumetnostna tematika v romanu S poti Izidorja Cankarja. Primerjalna književnost 30.2 (2007): Vidmar, Luka. Ljubljana kot novi Rim. Akademija operozov in baročna Italija. Ljubljana: SAZU (Biblioteka 15), Wagner, Peter: Reading Iconotexts. From Swift to the French Revolution. London: Reaktion Books, Wagner, Peter, ed. Icons, Texts, Iconotexts. Essays on Ekphrasis and Intermediality. Berlin: de Gruyter,

6 Active participation in lecture and seminars. Modernism and the avant-garde Course code: 72 Course coordinator: Prof. Marko Juvan, PhD Instructors (in addition to the course coordinator): Assoc. Prof. Marijan Dović, PhD, Jola Škulj, MA, Andraž Jež, PhD Students are introduced to the historical bases for distinguishing between the concepts of the Moderne, modernity, modernism, and avant-garde. They learn about the poetics and philosophical grounds of modernist works in poetry, prose, and drama, and become acquainted with the linguistic-cultural and historical versions of modernism in Europe and elsewhere. They are familiarized with the role of avant-garde practices in Slovenia and southeast Europe, and learn the techniques of reading and analyzing modernist and avant-garde texts. The aim of the lectures is to provide a consistent explanation and historical poetics of the discursive formation of modernism and its conception of the truth. The historical concept of modernism is explained from the perspective of comparative literary studies, linguistics, and philosophy. The complexity of modernist strategies, which is included in the period logic together with its contradictory systemic nature, can validly reveal its specific stipulations only by delineating the concepts of modernism and the Moderne, and modernism and the avant-garde. Dilemmas regarding the establishment of the concept of modernism in individual European literatures result from modernist heterogeneity and planetarity. The lectures discuss the crisis of consciousness and the logic of the modernist shift, the modernist responsibility of form, the historical avant-garde in southeast Europe, and the connections between modernism and avant-gardism on the one hand and other artistic practices on the other. Slovenian material is included in the comparative contexts. Berg, Christian, et al., eds. The Turn of the Century: Modernism and Modernity in Literature and the Arts. Berlin: de Gruyter, Bradbury, Malcolm, and James McFarlane, eds. Modernism, Harmondsworth: Penguin, Bru, Sascha, et al., eds. Europa! Europa? The Avant-Garde, Modernism and the Fate of a Continent. Berlin: de Gruyter,

7 Bürger, Peter. Theory of the Avant-Garde. Transl. Michael Shaw. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, Calinescu, Matei. Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism. Durham: Duke UP, Caughie, Pamela, ed. Disciplining Modernism. New York: Palgrave, Dović, Marijan. Slovenska zgodovinska avantgarda med kozmopolitizmom in perifernostjo. Svetovne književnosti in obrobja. Ed. Marko Juvan. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, Eysteinsson, Ástráður. The Concept of Modernism. Cornell UP, Eysteinsson, Ástráður, and Vivian Liska, eds. Modernism 1 2. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, Fokkema, Douwe W. Literary History, Modernism and Postmodernism. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, Giles, Steve, ed. Theorizing Modernism. Essays in Critical Theory. London: Routledge, Husserl, Edmund. Kriza evropskega človeštva in filozofija. Transl. Tine Hribar. Maribor: Obzorja, Juvan, Marko. Kosovel in hibridnost modernizma. Primerjalna književnost 28. special issue (2005): Juvan, Marko. Modernistična estetika emocij in lirski diskurz. Slavistična revija 58.1 (2010): Nicholls, Peter. Modernisms. A Literary Guide. Berkeley: U of California P, Ross, Stephen, ed. Modernism and Theory: A Critical Debate. Abingdon (Oxon): Routledge Škulj, Jola. Paul de Man in pojem modernizem. Primerjalna književnost 14.2 (1991): Škulj, Jola. Modernost in modernizem. Primerjalna književnost 18.2 (1995): Škulj, Jola. Dialogizem kot nefinalizirani koncept resnice: Literatura 20. stoletja in njena logika inkonkluzivnosti. Primerjalna književnost 19.2 (1996): Škulj, Jola. Modernizem in poteze v lirski, narativni in dramski formi. Primerjalna književnost 21.2 (1998): Whitworth, Michael H., ed. Modernism. Oxford: Blackwell, Narratology Course code: 73 Course coordinator: Assist. Prof. Alenka Koron, PhD Students become acquainted with a brief history of narratology from Antiquity until the present and understand the specifics of the narratological approach compared to contextual ones. They are introduced to the broader and narrower concept of narrative and its role in the constitution of the self. They are familiarized with the concept of the narrative turn and understand its role in modern social 7

8 sciences and the humanities. They are acquainted with the analytical-descriptive approach to narration and various narrative techniques, and learn to use basic instruments for analyzing verbal narratives. This course presents the history of narratology from Antiquity until the modern postclassical phase, and the relationship between narratological and contextual narrative research. According to the modern conception, narratives are not only literary phenomenon, but also broader media and cultural phenomenon, whose epistemological structure helps give meaning to the self and the world, which is why narratology or the theory of narrative can also be viewed as an attempt to elucidate and strengthen narrative competence. From this perspective, the concept of the narrative turn, which has recently taken hold in the humanities and social sciences, is explained. The main part of the lectures is dedicated to the analytical-descriptive method of studying narrative (the elements of narrative structure and narrative techniques), with the main focus on verbal narratives. Alber, Jan, and Monika Fludernik. Postclassical Narratology: Approaches and Analysis. Columbus: Ohio State University, Fludernik, Monika. An Introduction to Narratology. London: Routledge, Herman, David, Manfred Jahn, and Marie-Laure Ryan, eds. Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. London: Routledge, Herman, David, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Kindt, Tom, and Hans-Harald Müller, eds. What is Narratology? Questions and Answers Regarding the Status of a Theory. Berlin: De Gruyter, Koron, Alenka. Sodobne teorije pripovedi. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, Koron, Alenka. Pripovedni prostor v Idini kocki Suzane Tratnik. Prostori slovenske književnosti. Ed. Marko Juvan. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, Phelan, James. Living to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Phelan, James, and Peter J. Rabinowicz, eds. A Companion to Narrative Theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell, Zupan Sosič, Alojzija. Postklasična teorija pripovedi. Slavistična revija 61.3 (2013) Slovenian Baroque literature during the Reformation and the Enlightenment Course code: 74 Course coordinator: Assist. Prof. Matija Ogrin, PhD Instructors (in addition to the course coordinator): Assist. Prof. Luka Vidmar, PhD, Monika Deželak Trojar, PhD 8

9 Students develop an understanding of and gain insight into the transformations of literary genres and forms during the period after the Reformation and until the emergence of modern nineteenth-century aesthetic literature. They understand the reception reasons and mechanisms that have made some seventeenth- and eighteenth-century works extremely well known and left others completely unknown. They are able to independently assess which areas or material they can use for further research on aspects of older Slovenian literature that to date have not been explored at all or have remained largely unexplored. This course presents a synthesis of recent findings on Slovenian Baroque literature as a complex process of spiritual and literary culture transformations between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. In connection with these changes and in the light of new material discovered in recent years, the course presents an overview of writers, genres, and literary forms used in both religious and secular works in Slovenian and other languages (especially German and Latin). Special attention is dedicated to the concluding stage of the Late Baroque and its tenacity in certain layers of literary culture that extended late into the Enlightenment or even beyond. The conflict between Baroque and Enlightenment culture is presented, reflected in the extended existence of Baroque manuscript culture or the increased role of manuscripts as mediators of literary texts. The issue of literary genres is elucidated, especially lesserknown sermons and meditative prose (by Franciscan, Jesuit, and Capuchin writers), and the influence of rhetoric, which played the role of poetics in this literature. The course presents recent findings on early Slovenian drama, especially passion plays (the Škofja Loka and Eisenkappel Passion Plays), and issues connected with the textual transmission of Slovenian songs in the process of their transformation from melodies towards independent poetry. Deželak Trojar, Monika. Skalarjev rokopis 1643: Editio princeps. Znanstvenokritična izdaja. Celje: Celjska Mohorjeva družba; Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovensko literaturo in literarne vede ZRC SAZU, Juvan, Marko. Baročne pridige in citatno povzemanje izročila. Vezi Besedila. Študije o slovenski književnosti in medbesedilnosti. Ljubljana: Literarno-umetniško društvo Literatura, Ogrin Matija, ed. Register slovenskih rokopisov 17. in 18. stoletja. Neznani rokopisi slovenskega slovstva (NRSS), 2011 < Ogrin, Matija, et al. Škofjeloški pasijon: znanstvenokritična izdaja. Celje: Celjska Mohorjeva družba; Ljubljana: Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti; ZRC SAZU, Pogačnik, Jože, and Jože Faganel, eds. Zbornik o Janezu Svetokriškem: prispevki s simpozija v Vipavskem Križu, aprila Ljubljana: Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, Pogačnik, Jože, Kajetan Gantar, and Jože Faganel. Palmarium empyreum: spremne študije. Ljubljana: Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, Prunč, Erich, and Ogrin, Matija, eds. Kapelski pasijon. Editio princeps. Znanstvenokritična izdaja. ZRC SAZU, Vidmar, Luka. Ljubljanski škofijski duhovniki kot pisci latinskih in nemških del v dobi baroka in 9

10 razsvetljenstva. Ljubljanska škofija : 550 let. Ljubljana: Nadškofija Ljubljana, Sociology of the (Slovenian) literary institution Course code: 75 Course coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Marijan Dović, PhD Instructors (in addition to the course coordinator): Assist. Prof. Jernej Habjan, PhD The objective of this course is to introduce students to the importance of literary institutions for the operation of literary systems in general, to outline their historical development (from a sociological perspective), and analyze their types and forms in detail. Special attention is dedicated to the concept of the canon and the opposition between the national canon and the world literature canon. Students are acquainted with relevant Slovenian and international study literature (especially theoretical literature) and actively prepare for independent research by writing a term paper. Various forms and types of literary institutions are discussed from the perspective of systemic-empirical literary sociology: from the operating roles within the literary system (producer, mediator, recipient, and processor), mediating institutions (journals, publishers, etc.), and literary awards to the literary canon. Special attention is dedicated to canonization institutions and practices or the development of the national literary canon as the key material basis of cultural memory. This will be covered from a historical perspective (using Slovenian material) and comparative perspective (within the European context). Bourdieu, Pierre. Les règles de l art: genèse et structure du champ littéraire. Paris: Seuil, Dović, Marijan. Sistemske in empirične obravnave literature. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, Dović, Marijan. Slovenski pisatelj (= Studia litteraria). Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, Dović, Marijan, Jernej Habjan, and Aleš Vaupotič, eds. Kdo izbere? Literatura in literarno posredništvo / Who Chooses? Literature and Literary Mediation. Primerjalna književnost 33.2 (2010). Dović, Marijan, Jernej Habjan, and Marko Juvan, eds. The Book and the Economy of Cultural Spaces. Primerjalna književnost 35.1 (2012). 10

11 Habjan, Jernej. Literatura med dekonstrukcijo in teorijo. Ljubljana: Založba /*cf., Močnik, Rastko. Julija Primic v slovenski književni vedi. Ljubljana: Sophia, Perenič, Urška. Empirija v literarni vedi. Ljubljana: ZIFF, Schmidt, Siegfried J. Die Selbstorganisation des Sozialsystems Literatur im 18. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, World systems and Slovenian literary discourse Course code: 76 Course coordinator: Prof. Marko Juvan, PhD Instructors (in addition to the course coordinator): Assist. Prof. Jernej Habjan, PhD Students are introduced to and test the analytical value of the world-systems approach to cultural production. They are acquainted with the history of the concept and practices of world literature from the early nineteenth century (the British cycle in the development of the global economy) to today s globalization and its crisis (the decline of the American cycle). They discover the role of translation and publishing in the international circulation and supranational canonization of literature, and learn about the role of (semi-)peripheral literary systems, such as the Slovenian system, in the framework of systemic asymmetries. The difference between premodern and modern interliterarity is explained against the backdrop of globalization and world systems theories. From the eighteenth century onwards, the exchanges between literatures in various languages known since pre-antiquity have been determined by asymmetrical (and marketing) relationships between cores and peripheries in the emerging world literary system. The course presents whether and how the world literary system agrees with the systems of economy and politics. In the second part of the lectures, students learn how from the eighteenth century onwards Slovenian literature, conceived as an aesthetic and nation-building practice, has been established in relation to the world literary system and its regional subsystems. The focus is on poetry and novels. D haen, Theo, César Domínguez, and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, eds. World Literature: A Reader. London: Routledge, D haen, Theo. The Routledge Concise History of World Literature. London: Routledge,

12 Damrosch, David. What Is World Literature? Princeton: Princeton UP, Ďurišin, Dionýz. Čo je svetová literatúra. Bratislava: Obzor, Frank, André Gunder, and Barry K. Gills. The Five Thousand Year World System: An Interdisciplinary Introduction. Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 18.1 (1992): Juvan, Marko, ed. Svetovne književnosti in obrobja. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, Juvan, Marko, ed. World Literatures from the 19th to the 21st Century = CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 15.5 (2013). Juvan, Marko. Prešernovska struktura in svetovni literarni sistem. Ljubljana: LUD Literatura, Moretti, Franco. Grafi, zemljevidi, drevesa in drugi spisi o svetovni literaturi. Selected, translated, and foreword by Jernej Habjan. Ljubljana: Studia humanitatis, Virk, Tomo. Primerjalna književnost na prelomu tisočletja: kritični pregled. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, Textology and digital humanities Course code: 77 Course coordinator: Assist. Prof. Matija Ogrin, PhD Instructors (in addition to the course coordinator): Assist. Prof. Luka Vidmar, PhD, Monika Deželak Trojar, PhD Students understand the key theoretical concepts of computer-assisted text analysis. They are acquainted with the practical procedures and internationally established standards for electronic text encoding, analysis, and representation. Based on this and with an advisor s help, they are able to conceive, produce, and publish online their own electronic scholarly texts at a more demanding digital humanities level, such as text corpora, dictionaries, or critical editions. This course presents the starting points of modern textology and their practical technological application in digital humanities. The distinction between documents as historical artefacts or text carriers on the one hand and texts as human intellectual creations on the other is explained as the key principle. The great difference in the ontological modus of one and the other provides the basis for various orientations in editing techniques and related scholarly text publication. In this regard, the course explains in greater detail how traditional philological methods are used or developed in modern digital technologies adapted for electronic text collections, linguistic corpora and dictionaries, manuscript 12

13 analysis, and the preparation of critical editions. Electronic text processing procedures in the humanities are presented (the guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative consortium) as well as the corresponding tools and online services that provide users with better opportunities for independent work, especially concerning the preparation of electronic editions, stylometry, and corpus analyses. Burnard, Lou. Encoding Standards for the Electronic Edition. Znanstvene izdaje in elektronski medij. Ed. Matija Ogrin. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, < Burnard, Lou, Katherine O Brien O Keefe, and John Unsworth, eds. Electronic Textual Editing. New York: MLA, E-publication: < Erjavec, Tomaž, Matija Ogrin. E-Slomšek: elektronska znanstvenokritična izdaja retorske proze 19. stoletja po standardu XML TEI. Jezikovne tehnologij: zbornik 7. mednarodne multi-konference Informacijska družba IS 2004, Ljubljana: Institut Jožef Stefan, Fraistat, Neil, and Flanders Julia, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship. New York: Cambridge University Press, Greetham, David C. Textual Scholarship: An Introduction. New York: Garland Publishing, Greetham David C., ed. Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research. New York: Modern Language Association of America, Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich: The Powers of Philology: Dynamics of Textual Scholarship. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, Robinson, Peter. Current Issues in Making Digital Editions of Medieval Texts Or, Do Electronic Scholarly Editions Have a Future? Digital Medievalist 1.1 (2005) < Tanselle, G. Thomas. A Rationale of Textual Criticism. U of Pennsylvania P, Tanselle, G. Thomas. The Varieties of Scholarly Editing. Scholarly Editing. A Guide to Research. New York: MLA, TEI Consortium, ed. Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. Version September 16th, TEI Consortium. < Discourse theory and literature Course code: 78 Course coordinator: Asisst. Prof. Jernej Habjan, PhD Instructors (in addition to the course coordinator): Prof. Marko Juvan, PhD, Assist. Prof. Alenka Koron, PhD Students are acquainted with the general features of discourse theory and, within this framework, 13

14 primarily with speech act theory and its reception in modern continental philosophy and literary theory. Based on this, they develop skills in discourse analysis, literary interpretation, and critical reflection on performative practices. This course deals with the conceptions of literature in discourse theories, in which the role of literature in speech act theories from John L. Austin via Jacques Derrida to Judith Butler is at the forefront. It outlines the process leading from Austin s constitutive exclusion of aesthetic statements from the multitude of speech acts to Judith Butler s substantiation of speech acts based precisely on aesthetic statements. Literature thus proves to be a discourse that is painfully banished by Austin s nomothetic, critical science of the performative on the one hand and that is just as painfully glorified by the idiographic and topic expert knowledge of Judith Butler on the other. This literature-committed continental reception of Austin s analytical philosophy serves as the basis for presenting modern literary-studies treatments of literature as a discourse. Austin, John L. Kako napravimo kaj z besedami. Transl. Bogdan Lešnik. Ljubljana: ŠKUC and ZIFF, Butler, Judith. O lingvistični ranljivosti. Transl. Peter Klepec. Problemi (2011): Cavell, Stanley. Kaj je Derrida hotel od Austina? Transl. Jernej Habjan. Problemi (2011): Derrida, Jacques. Signatura dogodek kontekst. Transl. Simona Perpar and Uroš Grilc. Sodobna literarna teorija. Ed. Aleš Pogačnik. Ljubljana: Krtina, Gorman, David. The Use and Abuse of Speech-Act Theory in Criticism. Poetics Today 20.1 (1999): Habjan, Jernej. Literatura med dekonstrukcijo in teorijo. Ljubljana: Založba /*cf., Juvan, Marko. Literarna veda v rekonstrukciji. Ljubljana: LUD Literatura, [29 54.] Koron, Alenka. Teorija/teorije diskurza in literarna veda (1. del). Primerjalna književnost 27.2 (2004): Miller, J. Hillis. Performativity as Performance / Performativity as Speech Act. South Atlantic Quarterly (2007): Močnik, Rastko. Didaktičen načrt. Transl. Janko Zlodre. Problemi Razprave (1986): History of books and censorship Course code: 79 Course coordinator: Asst. Prof. Luka Vidmar, PhD Instructors (in addition to the course coordinator): Assoc. Prof. Marijan Dović, PhD, Marjan Dolgan, PhD 14

15 Students are acquainted with the importance of books and their knowledge transfer, and ultimately the importance of blocking this knowledge in various periods and history in general. They master the basic Slovenian and international literature on this topic and the main methodological procedures for studying it. This course presents the history of books in particular, the ways in which various cultures from Antiquity to the present have created, disseminated, transmitted, and received texts. The overview includes various material, cultural, and theoretical carriers, aspects, and forms of books, including manuscripts, printed books, and digital books. The presentation of each historical period includes an outline of the social, economic, and cultural conditions that determined the book form and content. In addition, the main elements of book culture are analyzed for each period; for example, the author s, editor s, publisher s, and printer s position, the methods of publishing and selling books, library types, the canonization process, literacy scope, the reading public s horizon, and so on. Special attention is dedicated to various forms of book censorship up to the beginning of the twenty-first century, including book burning, forbidden book indexes, and self-censorship. Chartier, Roger. Red knjig: bralci, avtorji in knjižnice v Evropi med 14. in 18. stoletjem. Transl. Saša Jerele. Forward by Maja Breznik. Ljubljana: Sophia, Darnton, Robert. The Literary Underground of the Old Regime. Cambridge: Harvard UP, Dolgan, Marjan, Jerneja Fridl, and Manca Volk. Literarni atlas Ljubljane. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, Dović, Marijan, ed. Literatura in cenzura: Kdo se boji resnice literature? / Literature and Censorship: Who Is Afraid of the Truth of Literature? = Primerjalna književnost 31 (2008). Dović, Marijan, Jernej Habjan, and Marko Juvan, eds. The Book and the Economy of Cultural Spaces. Primerjalna književnost 35.1 (2012). Howard, Nicole. The Book. The Life Story of a Technology. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, Juvan, Marko. Kulturni obtok in knjiga: književnost, vednost, prostor in ekonomija (uvodni zaris) = Cultural Circulation and the Book: Literature, Knowledge, Space, and Economy (An Introduction). Primerjalna književnost (2012): Lærke, Mogens, ed. The Use of Censorship in the Enlightenment. Leiden: Brill, Pettegree, Andrew: The Book in the Renaissance. New Haven: Yale UP, Vidmar, Luka. Prepovedane knjige na Kranjskem od indeksa Pavla IV. (1559) do indeksa Pija VI. (1786). Svetovne književnosti in obrobja. Ed. Marko Juvan. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC (Studia litteraria),

16 Life writing: autobiography, biography, memoirs, diaries, and letters Course code: 80 Course coordinator: Assist. Prof. Alenka Koron, PhD Students are familiarized with the modern terminology used in life narratives and with the phenomenology of genres, and understand the distinctions between them. They are introduced to modern life writing theory and the new relationship between literary studies and modern biographical practices, especially in the light of the autobiography s role in the memory construction of individual and collective identities. They are also acquainted with the history of autobiographical discourse in Slovenia from its early beginnings to modern manifestations. According to the modern conception, life writing as a subfield of life narratives includes a multitude of literary, semi-literary, and non-literary genres, such as autobiography, biography, memoirs, diaries, and letters. Modern life writing theory and practice are presented from the perspective of literary studies. The central genre-related concepts of modern life writing and distinctions between them are elucidated in detail, and the role of life writing in the memory reconstruction of individual and collective identities is explained. Special attention is dedicated to autobiographical discourse in Slovenia from its early manifestation to the present. Anderson, Linda. Autobiography. London: Routledge, Bandelj, David. V iskanju jaza: Teorija in praksa dnevniške književnosti. Koper: Univerza na Primorskem, Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče, Univerzitetna založba Annales, Jensen, Meg, and Jane Jordan. Life Writing: The Spirit of the Age and the State of the Art. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Koron, Alenka, and Andrej Leben, eds. Avtobiografski diskurz: Teorija in praksa avtobiografije v literarni vedi. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, Lee, Hermione. Biography: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Leben, Andrej. O avtobiografiji z vidika sodobne genologije in sistemske teorije. Primerjalna književnost, 30.1 (2007) Marcus, Laura. Autobiographical Discourse: Theory, Criticism, Practice. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Olney, James, ed. Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Ricœr, Paul. Sebe kot drugega. Transl. Nastja Skrušny Babin. Ljubljana: KUD Apokalipsa, Smith, Sidonie, and Julia Watson. Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives. 2nd ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,

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