Literature at the Crossroads of Cultures

Students understand basic literary-historical concepts related to the works of Slovenian authors in Italy and Austria. They are able to take a critical approach to literary periods, intercultural and transnational relations, and the issue of the literary field in connection with minority literatures.

There are no enrolment or degree requirements for the course.

Reflection on concepts: Border and Transborder Literature, Small and Minority Literature, National Literary History, Regional Comparative Literature.
- Slovenians in Italy: historical and spatial framework,
- Literature of Slovenians in Venetian Slovenia and Resia (selection of authors and works),
- Literature of Slovenians in the Gorizia region (selection of authors and works),
- Literature of Slovenians in Trieste (selection of authors and works),
- Comparative Approach to Literature in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region (Gorizia, Udine area) (Italy) and the Goriška Region (Slovenia): literature of Slovenians in Gorizia and Udine and comparison with selected works in Friulian, Italian, and German from the same temporal-spatial framework,
- Trieste literature and "letteratura triestina",
- Comparative analysis of Slovenian and Italian poetry in Trieste in the first half of the 20th Century, Imagology.

Optional excursions are planned to Trieste, Gorizia, Slavia Veneta, Resia, Austrian Carinthia, and the Slovenian as well as the Croatian Istria (one excursion per academic year), focusing on the literary output of the Slovenian minority in Italy and Austria and the Italian minority in Istria.

• The student enhances their knowledge of literary history regarding Slovenian literature.
• The student gains a more comprehensive understanding of the Slovenian cultural space.
• They acquire a deeper understanding of literary multilingualism in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region (Italy), Slovenian Istria, and the Goriška region (Slovenia).
• They acquire skills for constructive and respectful intercultural collaboration.

Basic

• Roberto Dapit, 2003: Nastajanje krajevnih knjižnih jezikov med Slovenci v Furlaniji. Slovenski knjižni jezik ‒ aktualna vprašanja in zgodovinske izkušnje: ob 450. obletnici izida prve slovenske knjige / Mednarodni simpozij Obdobja ‒ metode in zvrsti, Ljubljana 5.‒7. december 2001. Ur. A. Vidovič Muha. Ljubljana: Center za slovenščino kot drugi/tuji jezik pri Oddelku za slovenistiko Filozofske fakultete. 301-312. Catalogue
• Roberto Dapit, 2008: Gradnikova Brda in odnosi s furlanskim svetom. F. Ferluga-Petronio (ur.): Alojz Gradnik: pesnik Goriških brd: zbornik z mednarodnega simpozija na Univerzi v Vidmu (19.‒20. aprila 2007): ob 125. obletnici rojstva in 40. obletnici pesnikove smrti. Trst: ZTT = EST, 102‒113. Catalogue
• Alenka Koron in Andrej Leben (ur.), 2020: Literarna večjezičnost v slovenskem in avstrijskem kontekstu. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC. (Izbor člankov) Catalogue E-version
• Irena Novak-Popov, 2015: Senjam beneške piesmi kot dejavnik prenove narečne poezije v Slovenski Benečiji. Primerjalna književnost 2 (2015). 157–174. E-version
• Janez Strutz, 2006: Dialogue, polyphony, and system: on the issue of a history od the “small literatures” in the Alps-Adriatic region. – D. Dolinar, et al., eds., Writing literary history: selected perspectives from Central Europe. Frankfurt am Main, P. Lang, 237‒263.Catalogue
• Ana Toroš, 2016: Slovenska literatura na stičišču kultur. Slovanski jeziki na stičišču kultur [Elektronski vir]: konferenčni e-zbornik, 2016. 15–26, 27–39. E-gradivo
• Ana Toroš. Slovene-Friulian-Italian literary connections at the beginning of the 20th century : the case of Alojz Gradnik and select Friulian and Italian authors. Interlitteraria, ISSN 1406-0701, 2017, vol. 22, no. 2, str. 386-396, doi: 10.12697/IL.2017.22.2.15. [COBISS.SI-ID 5026299] . E-version
• Ana Toroš, 2017: Minority writing : the case of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Italy), Goriška and Coastal-Karst regions (Slovenia). Slavia Centralis, ISSN 1855-6302. [Tiskana izd.], 2017, letn. 10, št. 2, str. 50-65. [COBISS.SI-ID 4983547] E-version
• Boris Paternu, 1994: Šest tržaških pesnikov. Pirjevec, Marija (ur.): Kar naprej trajati. Trieste: Založba Devin. 6–35.
• Marija Pirjevec, 2001: Tržaška zgodba. M. Pirjevec (ur.): Tržaška knjiga: pesmi, zgodbe, pričevanja. Ljubljana: Slovenska matica. 374–403. Catalogue
• Katia Pizzi, 2005: "Quale tristinità?": glasovi in odmevi iz italijanskega Trsta = 'Quale triestinità?': voices and echoes from Italian Trieste. Primerjalna književnost. 239–249. E-version
• Ana Toroš, 2011: Podoba Trsta in Tržaškega v slovenski in italijanski poeziji prve polovice 20. stoletja. Nova Gorica: Univerza. Catalogue
• Ana Toroš, 2014: Triestinità and tržaškost: common points and differences. Slovene studies. 39‒54.
• Vilma Purič, 2020: Sodobne tržaške pesnice. Trst: Mladika. (Izbor) Catalogue
• Daniel-Henri Pageaux: Imagološke razprave. Ur. Tone Smolej. Ljubljana: Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Fakulteta za podiplomski humanistični študij (Knjižna zbirka Documenta; 17). 17–52. (Izbor) Catalogue
• Janez Strutz, 1996: Istrska polifonija – večjezičnost in literatura. Annales: anali Koprskega primorja in bližnjih pokrajin = annali del Litorale capodistriano e delle regioni vicine. 187–196. E-version
• Janez Strutz, 2020: Regionalne jezikovne igre: za komparativistiko regije Alpe-Jadran. Literarna večjezičnost v slovenskem in avstrijskem kontekstu. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC. 221–232. Catalogue E-version

II. Annual selection of literary authors and works determined by the course coordinator

• Active participation during lectures and in the seminar 20 %
• Oral exam 80 %

Assoc. Prof. dr. Ana Toroš is employed at the Faculty of Humanities and at the Research Center for the Humanities of the University of Nova Gorica (UNG). In addition to pedagogical and research work, she is the director of the study program Humanities III. degree, which operates within the Faculty of Postgraduate Studies of UNG. Her research is focused on the field of regional comparative literature and literary imagology, and she is interested in multilingual literature in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region (Italy) and in the Goriška and Obalno-kraška regions.

Selected Bibliography:

• TOROŠ, Ana. O zemlja sladka: kamen, zrno, sok: Alojz Gradnik ter romanski in germanski svet, (Razprave in eseji, 65). Ljubljana: Slovenska matica, 2013. 186 str., ilustr. ISBN 978-961-213-239-2. [COBISS.SI-ID 271853056] / nagrada: Nagrada Občine Brda, prejeta leta 2014
• TOROŠ, Ana (avtor, prevajalec). Podoba Trsta in Tržaškega v slovenski in italijanski poeziji prve polovice 20. stoletja, (Humanistika). V Novi Gorici: Univerza, 2011. 131 str., ilustr. ISBN 978-961-6311-67-0. [COBISS.SI-ID 255205888] / nagrada: Nagrada Urada Vlade RS za Slovence v zamejstvu in po svetu (USZS), prejeta 2011
• TOROŠ, Ana. The role of migrations and cultural hybridity in literary systems : studying the case of Alojz Gradnik in Argentina. Annales : anali za istrske in mediteranske študije, Series historia et sociologia, ISSN 1408-5348. [Tiskana izd.], 2018, letn. 28, št. 1, str. 65-76, ilustr. http://zdjp.si/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ASHS_28-2018-1_TOROS.pdf, doi: 10.19233/ASHS.2018.06. [COBISS.SI-ID 5187067]
• TOROŠ, Ana. Slovene-Friulian-Italian literary connections at the beginning of the 20th century : the case of Alojz Gradnik and select Friulian and Italian authors. Interlitteraria, ISSN 1406-0701, 2017, vol. 22, no. 2, str. 386-396, doi: 10.12697/IL.2017.22.2.15. [COBISS.SI-ID 5026299]
• TOROŠ, Ana. Minority writing : the case of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Italy), Goriška and Coastal-Karst regions (Slovenia). Slavia Centralis, ISSN 1855-6302. [Tiskana izd.], 2017, letn. 10, št. 2, str. 50-65. [COBISS.SI-ID 4983547]
• TOROŠ, Ana. Auto-stereotypes and hetero-stereotypes in Slovene and Italian poetry about Trieste from the first half of the 20th century. Interlitteraria, ISSN 1406-0701, 2016, vol. 21, no. 2, str. 290-304, doi: 10.12697/IL.2016.21.2.10. [COBISS.SI-ID 4712699]
• TOROŠ, Ana. Alojz Gradnik and the Slovenian community in Italy from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. Slovene studies, ISSN 0193-1075, 2015, vol. 37, no. 1/2, str. 25-44. [COBISS.SI-ID 61113442]
• TOROŠ, Ana. Le figure femminili nella poesia slovena e italiana su Trieste della prima metà del XX secolo. Quaderni d'italianistica, Toronto, ISSN 0226-8043, 2014, vol. 35, no. 1, str. 135-148. [COBISS.SI-ID 3705083]
• TOROŠ, Ana. Triestinità and tržaškost : common points and differences. Slovene studies, ISSN 0193-1075, 2014, vol. 36, no. 1, str. 39-54. [COBISS.SI-ID 3914491]
• TOROŠ, Ana. The "other" in contemporary Slovene literature from the Trieste region : a case study of national stereotypes in minority literatures. V: ROSENTHAL, Caroline (ur.). Disrespected neighbo(u)rs : cultural stereotypes in literature and film. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. 2018, str. 223-233. [COBISS.SI-ID 5238523]