Methodology of Literary Scholarship

The purpose of this course is to learn about the importance and functions of the methodology of literary research, about modern disciplines of literary theory, and the development of new research methods to identify and critically evaluate different approaches in critical texts, as well as training in the use of different research methods.

The course continues the courses Introduction to the Study of Literature Including Literary Theory (1st year), An Overview of World Literature I, Slovene Literature I, and other courses on literature.

The analysis and evaluation of literary works and places of their author in literary history.
The emergence and development of the methodology of literary criticism from romanticism to the present.
Positivist and Geistesgeschichtliche methods, structuralist and post-structuralist method, psychoanalytical method and reader-response criticism method (founders, the main representatives and the links with other methods).
Newer methods of literary studies (women's studies, cultural materialism, intertextuality, new historicism, empirical literary science).
The methodological pluralism (author, social environment, language, consciousness, the reader).

Students will learn the basic methods of literary criticism. They can analyze and interpret a literary text in a multi-directional and multi-layered way.

• Kos, Janko: Stari in novi modeli literarne zgodovine, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana 2003.
• Kos, Janko: Metodološki in ideološki pluralizem v sodobni (postmoderni) literarni vedi, Razpotja slovenske literarne vede, ZRSŠ, Ljubljana 1998.
• Virk, Tomo: Moderne metode literarne vede in njihove filozofsko teoretske osnove: metodologija 1, FF, Ljubljana 2003. Catalogue
• Hladnik, Miran: Količinske in empirične raziskave literature, Slavistična revija 43/3, SDS, Ljubljana 1995. E-version
• Dovič, Marijan: Sistemske in empirične raziskave literature, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana 2004.

Successful completion of an oral examination. The paper presented in the seminar is a prerequisite for admission to the examination.

Assoc. Prof. Kristina Pranjić, PhD graduated in comparative literature, and Russian language and literature at the University of Ljubljana. She defended her doctoral thesis entitled Non-objective Sound and Image: Bely, Kruchenykh, Malevich at the same institution in 2018. She led the research project Yugoslav Avantgardes and Metropolitan Dada (1916–1927): A Multidirectional and Transnational Genealogy, financed by the Slovenian Research Agency (2019–2021). Currently she is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Humanities and the Academy of Arts of the University of Nova Gorica, where she leads the modules Theory and History of Art and Media, and Discourses in Practice. In her theoretical and research work, she focuses mainly on the historical avant-garde of the 20th century and the re-actualization of the avant-garde today. She has conducted research in the field of art and literature of historical avant-garde and new media art and aesthetics at the University of Konstanz, the University of Belgrade and the University of Paris 8.

Selection of articles:

PRANJIĆ, Kristina. Ljubomir Micić in Branko Ve Poljanski v reviji Maska : (1920/21). Borec : revija za zgodovino, literaturo in antropologijo. 2021, letn. 73, št. 793/795, str. 61-70.

PRANJIĆ, Kristina. The emergence and establishment of Yugoslav dada : from Prague to Zagreb : (1920-1922). Svět literatury. 2021, vol. 31, no. 64, str. 89-103.

PRANJIĆ, Kristina. Značaj ljubljanskog časopisa Maska (1920/21) u kontekstu jugoslovenskih avangardi. Zbornik radova Akademije umetnosti. 2021, br. 9, str. 111-121, ilustr.

PRANJIĆ, Kristina. Prispevek umetnosti in nedvojnosti k znanstvenemu raziskovanju prvoosebnega izkustva. Anthropos : časopis za psihologijo in filozofijo ter za sodelovanje humanističnih ved. 2020, letn. 52, št. 3/4, str. 131-143.

PRANJIĆ, Kristina. Zenitistični koncept barbarogenija kot kritika zahodnoevropske kulture. Primerjalna književnost. 2020, letn. 43, št. 3, str. 139-157.

GERMEK, Magdalena, PRANJIĆ, Kristina. Constructing new signifiers with aesthetic intervention : using coal in design. Zonemoda journal. 2020, vol. 10, iss. 1s, str. 121-132, ilustr.

PRANJIĆ, Kristina. Premagati silo gravitacije na presečišču umetnosti in tehnologije : primer ruskega konstruktivizma. Časopis za kritiko znanosti. 2019, letn. 47, št. 277, str. 102-116, ilustr.

PRANJIĆ, Kristina. Brezpredmetnost in ekonomičnost v poeziji = Objectlessness and economy in poetry. Slavica Tergestina. 2019, 22, str. 50-68, ilustr.

PRANJIĆ, Kristina. Formalne mistične prakse ruskega futurizma. Slavistična revija : časopis za jezikoslovje in literarne vede. 2019, letn. 67, št. 3, str. 479-486.

PRANJIĆ, Kristina. Vek perehoda ot videnija k probelu. Kommentarii. 2018, no. 32, str. 147-153.

PRANJIĆ, Kristina. Misliti v simbolih, ustvarjati avantgardno. Slavistična revija : časopis za jezikoslovje in literarne vede. 2018, letn. 66, št. 3, str. 299-314.

PRANJIĆ, Kristina. Zvočna destabilizacija jezika : zaum in glosolalija. Zbornik Matice srpske za slavistiku. 2018, 93, str. 231-247.