Literature of the Slovenians in Italy

Students will be able to practically use the knowledge of the literature of the Slovenians in Italy:
– literary micro system specifics;
– ability to recognise the themes and motifs and their evolution;
– understanding the literature in the frame of its Slovenian and Italian literary and historical context.

The courses Literature at cultural junctures and Slovenian literature I-III are prerequisites for attending this course. It is connected to other literary science courses on the same level.

– The questionable concept of "Literature of the Slovenians in Italy".

– Short historical overview:
• first manuscripts
• Reformation and Counter-Reformation
• Baroque, Classicism and Enlightenment.
– Regional specifics:
• 19th century in the Veneto, Goriška and Trieste region.
– 20th century:
• avantgarde
• interwar period.
– Contemporary literature of Slovenians in Italy:
• - poetry after the Second World War
• - prose after the Second World War
• - drama after the Second World War.
– Typological characteristics of the literature of Slovenians in Italy.

Students will be qualified to research the literature of Slovenians in Italy as a literary micro system.

– BANDELJ, David (ed.): Rod Lepe Vide: antologija sodobne poezije Slovencev v Italiji. Ljubljana: Študentska založba – Javni sklad RS za kulturne dejavnosti.
– BRATUŽ, Lojzka (ed.): Gorica v slovenski književnosti. Gorica: Goriška Mohorjeva Družba, 1996.
– BRATUŽ, Lojzka: Iz goriške preteklosti. Gorica: Goriška Mohorjeva Družba, 2001.
– DAPIT, Roberto: Sodobna slovstvena ustvarjalnost v Benečiji. Vilenica, 2005.
– KACIN WOHINZ, Milica – PIRJEVEC, Jože: Zgodovina Slovencev v Italiji 1866– 2000. Ljubljana. Nova revija, 2000.
– KOŠUTA, Miran: Krpanova sol. Književni liki in stiki na slovenskem zahodu. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 1996.
– KOŠUTA, Miran: Slovenica. Peripli letterari italo-sloveni. Trieste-Reggio Emilia: EST-Diabasis, 2005.
– KOŠUTA, Miran: E-mejli. Eseji o mejni literaturi. Maribor: Litera, 2008.
– TOROŠ, Ana: Podoba Trsta in Tržaškega v slovenski in italijanski poeziji prve polovice 20. stoletja, (Humanistika). V Novi Gorici: Univerza, 2011.

Written exam. In order to take the final exam, the students will be required to attend the seminar, take active participation in discussions and in the course’s continual work (presentation of the paper and discussion on it in the seminar).

Ana Toroš, Associate Professor, teaches literature at the School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica. Her research interests include the Slovenian poetry of the first half of the 20th century, especially in the context of Romance and Germanic literatures. Professor Toroš is specifically interested in the poetry and translation opus of the Slovene poet Alojz Gradnik and the Italian poetry of the Trieste region. She has published papers in internationally acclaimed journals such as Slavistična revija, Annales, Slovene studies, Jezik in slovstvo. She received a one-year international research fellowship CSIUT (Consorzio per lo Sviluppo Internazionale dell’Universita degli Studi di Trieste) and did her research work in Trieste in the 2009/10 academic year. Professor Toroš has focused on the image of Trieste and Trieste-related topics in Slovene and Italian poetry of the first half of the 20th century. In 2011, Professor Toroš received an award of the Republic of Slovenia Government for her research work done in Trieste.

1. TOROŠ, Ana. 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]
2. TOROŠ, Ana. Al poeta ed amico Alois Gradnik per le sue spighe di grano questi fili d'erba Alojz Gradnik in Ada Negri. Slavistična revija. [Tiskana izd.], jul.-sep. 2010, letn. 58, št. 3, str. 361-372. [COBISS.SI-ID 1606907]
3. TOROŠ, Ana. The role of language in constructing the other in Slovenian and Italian poetry of teh first half of the twentieth century : images of Trieste. Slov. stud., 2011, vol. 33, no. 1, str. 41-59. [COBISS.SI-ID 2110715]
4. TOROŠ, Ana. Processi di poetizzazione dell'altro a Trieste nella poesia slovena e italiana della prima metà del XX secolo. Eur. orient., 2012, letn. 31, str. 235-246. [COBISS.SI-ID 2761723]