Literarno primerjalne in literarno teoretske raziskave (Slovene)

Research programme is focused upon the main currents of the Slovenian, European and World Literature, analyzing either the formal connections among them or the ones appearing on the level of the history of ideas. Both directions of influence are considered, i.e. the process of amalgamation of the international literary movements with the Slovenian literature on one hand and the response that the Slovenian literature has gained abroad on the other. A parallel line of concern endeavors to fulfill the undiscovered spots on the chart of Slovenian literature i.e. to register, define describe and analyze the literary works that have not yet been introduced into Slovenian literary history for various reasons of discrimination (e.g. they were considered marginal since they did not succeed to reach the conditions of elitism or they were in their time supposed to lack theesthetic or ideological values). Analogically, literary works long since contained in the literary canon are evaluated again from the point of view of a changed critical paradigm. New methods of writing the literary history are tried out, endeavoring to substitute the traditional diachronic description of literary production and literary life for synchronic temporal or geographical nodes (such nodes being important historical events as for instance the French revolution as the the point around which the literary history is clustered; or important locations exerting influence onto production of national literature - in the time until the 2 nd World War for instance Vienna used to be such a location where a lot of Slovenian intellectuals were living, producing an atmosphere that influenced decidedly the forms and ideas of the contemporary Slovenian literature).