Drama and Digital Turn

The main goal of the course is to provide students with an overview of the development of Slovene and world drama and to place it in relation to European literary trends and to acquaint them with the basic form and content characteristics of Slovene drama in historical perspective and to train them for independent analysis and interpretation of drama. The course also aims to train students to understand the development of new approaches in drama research in digital humanities.

Competences: students expand and deepen their knowledge of the history and theory of drama and become acquainted with new approaches in the research of drama that have emerged in the digital age. They are able to argue the advantages of individual methods and approaches, to connect their similarities and differences.

There are no enrolment or degree requirements for the course.

Basic concepts and concepts in drama theory.
Literary-historical review of Slovene drama from the beginnings to the present: periods and literary currents.
Genre section of Slovenian drama.
Slovenian drama and the European dramatic context.
Interpretation of a dramatic text.
Typology of Slovene drama: bourgeois drama, historical drama, poetic drama, political drama.
Digital approaches in the interpretation of drama.

Students master basic literary-historical concepts related to drama. They are able to problematically deal with literary periods, directions, currents and other literary phenomena and to think critically about the relationship between these phenomena.
The student is acquainted with the new approaches that have been developed in the field of digital humanities in connection with the research of drama.

• Silvija Borovnik: Slovenska dramatika v drugi polovici 20. stoletja. Ljubljana: Slovenska matica 2005. Catalogue
• Jože Koruza: Slovenska dramatika od začetkov do sodobnosti. 1997. Catalogue
• Benjamin Krautter: Quantitative microanalysis? Different methods of digital drama analysis in comparison. In: Book of Abstracts, DH 2018. Mexico-City, Mexico, pp. 225–228. (2018). E-version
• Martin Mueller: Digital Shakespeare, or towards a literary informatics. Shakespeare 4, 284–301 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1080/17450910802295179
• Jože Pogačnik idr., 2001: Slovenska književnost III. Ljubljana: DZS. Catalogue
• Malina Schmidt Snoj: Tokovi slovenske dramatike: od začetkov do sodobnosti. Ljubljana: Slovenski gledališki muzej, 2010.

Written exam 100 %.

Assistant professor Dr. Ivana Zajc deals with digital humanities, especially with distant reading of literary texts, and with literary theoretical questions. She researches Slovene literary history from the point of view of the work of women writers and the history of emotions. She is the author of the scientific monograpf What is literary competence and how we test it with the matura essay. Her scientific articles have been published in many Slovene and foreign journals.

Selected references:

• ZAJC, Ivana. Elementi monodrame in avtobiografskosti v besedilih Simone Semenič: vidik računalniške stilometrije. Amfiteater: revija za teorijo scenskih umetnosti. 2019, letn. 7, št. 2, str. 80–98.
• MANDIĆ, Lucija in ZAJC, Ivana. Stilometrična analiza avtorskega sloga Jurčič-Kersnikovega romana Rokovnjači. V: POTEKO, Ina (ur.): Slovansko jezikovno in literarno povezovanje ter zgodovinski kontekst: Mednarodni študentski simpozij Slovan Slovanu Slovan. Ljubljana: Študentska organizacija Filozofske fakultete, 2020. Str. 7–13.
• ILIN, Darko, MIHURKO PONIŽ, Katja, ZAJC, Ivana in MARINKOVIĆ, Mila. Shaping the electronic collection LETTERS : discovering epistolary exchange and navigating correspondence metadata. V: HABJAN, Jernej (ur.), MANDIĆ, Lucija (ur.), ZAJC, Ivana (ur.). Big data, small literatures: international conference : conference programme and book of abstracts: 3-4 November 2023, Ljubljana = Masovni podatki, male literature. Nova Gorica: Raziskovalni center za humanistiko Univerze v Novi Gorici: = Research Center for the Humanities at the University of Nova Gorica, 2023. str. 10–11.
• ZAJC, Ivana. Stylometric analysis of 90 Slovenian novels and the works of Ivan Cankar. V: HABJAN, Jernej (ur.), MANDIĆ, Lucija (ur.), ZAJC, Ivana (ur.). Big data, small literatures: international conference: conference programme and book of abstracts: 3-4 November 2023, Ljubljana = Masovni podatki, male literature: mednarodna konferenca: program konference in zbornik povzetkov: 3.–4. november 2023, Ljubljana. Nova Gorica: Raziskovalni center za humanistiko Univerze v Novi Gorici: = Research Center for the Humanities at the University of Nova Gorica, 2023. str. 7.
• ZAJC, Ivana. Dela Simone Semenič še me dej, Jaz, žrtev in drugič med monodramo in performansom. V: ŠORLI, Maja (ur.), ČEPELJNIK, Mihael (ur.). Amfiteatrov simpozij na temo Simona Semenič: Vsak cuka svojo delicijo. Ljubljana: Slovenski gledališki inštitut, 2018. str. 6.
• ZAJC, Ivana. Mislej, Hrvatin, Semenič, Mirčevska : sledi kapitalizma v sodobnih dramskih delih avtoric. V: JEŽ, Andraž (ur.). Slovenska literatura in umetnost v družbenih kontekstih. 1. natis. Ljubljana: Založba Univerze, 2023. Str. 231-238. Zbirka Obdobja, 42.
• ZAJC, Ivana. Subjektivnost, pripovednost, kršenje pravil : nove didaskalije za novo dramatiko. V: POGOREVC, Petra (ur.), TOPORIŠIČ, Tomaž (ur.). Drama, tekst, pisava 2. Ljubljana: Mestno gledališče ljubljansko, 2021. Str. 183-201, ilustr. Knjižnica Mestnega gledališča ljubljanskega, zv. 178.
• ZAJC, Ivana. Sodobne slovenske dramatičarke: tematsko-formalne novosti in primera sodobnih dramskih besedil za osnovno in srednjo šolo. V: ŽBOGAR, Alenka (ur.). Ustvarjalke v slovenskem jeziku, literaturi in kulturi: 57. seminar slovenskega jezika, literature in kulture: 5. –16. 7. 2021. 1. natis. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, 2021. str. 106–109.
• ZAJC, Ivana. Konvencija didaskalij: zgodovinske oblike, tipologije, opredelitve in sodobne subverzije. Jezik in slovstvo. 2017, letn. 62, št. 1, str. 69–78, 120.
• ZAJC, Ivana. Sodobne spremembe didaskalij primer besedil Simone Semenič. Jezik in slovstvo. 2016, letn. 61, št. 3/4, str. 151–162, 168.
• ZAJC, Ivana. Posebnosti didaskalij v Grumovi drami Dogodek v mestu Gogi. V: REZONIČNIK, Lidija (ur.), ZAVAŠNIK, Nina (ur.). Slovanski jeziki v šolstvu, znanosti, literaturi in kulturi = Slavic languages in education, science, literature and culture: 5. Mednarodno znanstveno srečanje mladih humanistov: konferenčni zbornik. Ljubljana: Študentska sekcija Zveze društev Slavistično društvo Slovenije, 2019. str. 153–165.