Transformations of Poetry

Students are capable of critically comparing and analyzing poetry from different literary periods. Their reflection, analysis, and argumentation are based on contextualizing poetic transformations within political, social, and cultural-historical changes.

There are not enrolment or degree requirements for the course.

The course provides a comparative insight into different periods of Slovenian (including minority) and foreign poetry, during times of national and ideological upheavals and other societal turning points, within which poets sought innovative poetic expression that would encompass individual and collective experiences as effectively as possible on linguistic and formal levels (romanticism, realism, symbolism, decadence, futurism, expressionism, modernism, etc.).

Knowledge and Understanding:
- Students are familiar with, understand, and can use fundamental theoretical and periodization concepts related to poetry.
- Students are capable of conducting in-depth comparative analyses and interpretations of poetic texts.

Skills:
- Students enhance their ability to approach poetic discourse analytically within the context of social (ideological) constructs.

• Janko Kos, 2001: Primerjalna zgodovina slovenske literature. Ljubljana: MK. Catalogue
• Darja Pavlič, 2005: Slovenska poezija v dobi globalizacije: k vprašanju lirskega subjekta. Ljubljana: Slavistično društvo Slovenije. 107–112. E-version
• Fran Zadravec (ur.), 1966: Pot skozi noč: izbor iz slovenske futuristične in ekspresionistične lirike. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga. Catalogue
• Boris A. Novak, 1997: Simbolistična lirika. Ljubljana: DZS. Catalogue
• Ana Toroš, 2013: O zemlja sladka: kamen, zrno, sok: Alojz Gradnik ter romanski in germanski svet. Ljubljana: Slovenska matica.
• Ana Toroš, 2022: The coded literary discourse of the Senjam Song Festival of Benečija. Razprave in version: revija za narodnostna vprašanja = Treatises and documents: journal of ethnic studies. (No. 88, 2022, str. 49-66) E-version
• Jelnikar Ana, 2016: Universalist hopes in India and Europe: the worlds of Rabindranath Tagore and Srečko Kosovel. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• Kristina Pranjić, 2016: Logika zaumnega jezika ruske avantgarde. Slavistična revija: časopis za jezikoslovje in literarne vede = journal for linguistics and literary studies. - (Letn. 64, št. 3, sep.-okt. 2016, str. 325-339). E-version
• Alen Albin Širca, 2023: Želo pesmi: študije o slovenski poeziji. Ljubljana: Literarno-umetniško društvo Literatura, 2023. Izbor.
• Hugo Friedrich, 1972: Struktura moderne lirike: od srede devetnajstega do srede dvajsetega stoletja. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba. Catalogue

Oral exam 80 %

Active participation in lectures and in the seminar 20 %

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]