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Mirror of Reality and Dreams

Stories and Confessions by Ivan Cankar

By: Irena Avsenik Nabergoj

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Mirror of Reality and Dreams

Stories and Confessions by Ivan Cankar

By: Irena Avsenik Nabergoj

This book deals with the works of Ivan Cankar, the greatest Slovenian writer, focusing on his relation to existential, social, and moral reality as reflected in individuals and in society at large. The method of literary analysis shows a surprising harmony between personal confessions and a rich symbolism that reveals the writer's unconditional belief in the power of conscience, strong conviction of the sense of victims and the longing for the triumph of love and justice. A holistic interpretation yields the conclusion that most of Cankar's works are confessions that purport to be true to life. His inclination to self-disclosure in dreams alongside the objective disclosure of imperceptible reality indicates that expressive language and a lyrical style are of vital importance to him.

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Peter Lang

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3631578121

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9783631578124

Longing, Weakness and Temptation

From Myth to Artistic Creations

By: Irena Avsenik Nabergoj,Jason Blake

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Longing, Weakness and Temptation

From Myth to Artistic Creations

By: Irena Avsenik Nabergoj,Jason Blake

The themes of longing, weakness and temptation are relevant to every human and are interwoven with all fundamental ideals and values of the created, rational being. Temptation is all the more dramatic, the broader the perspective of recognition, the power of human longing and the sense of the difference between good and evil. This book is a summary of a study which compares and contrasts Slovenian and European literary works created under the influence of biblical source texts (Adam and Eve, Joseph from Egypt, Samson and Dalilah, etc.) and the works of other known and unknown origins (Homer’s Iliad, Goethe’s Faust, various versions of the myth of the Fair Vida, etc.). The ascribing of a text to a genre provides the interpreter of the text with a key intertextual framework and with a system of references to other books, other texts, other literary statements. The intertextual approach is obviously appropriate to the study of contents, symbols and forms of literary works. It shows how the source text continues to speak through the new work and how the new work forces new meanings from the source text. Later writers use important themes with a historical sense, when aiming toward a better understanding of authenticity of human existence.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443804282

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9781443804288

Mirror of Reality and Dreams

Stories and Confessions by Ivan Cankar

By: Irena Avsenik Nabergoj

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Stories and Confessions by Ivan Cankar

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Reality and Truth in Literature

From Ancient to Modern European Literary and Critical Discourse

By: Irena Avsenik Nabergoj

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Reality and Truth in Literature

From Ancient to Modern European Literary and Critical Discourse

By: Irena Avsenik Nabergoj

This study provides a critical survey of views on reality and truth in the realm of philosophy and literary theory. Its aim is to show how important it is to focus our critical attention on literature itself as a way of conveying a general view of totality of things, with special attention to human life and death, effort and suffering, success and failure. A work of literature and art does not characterize experience and knowledge as such, but rather the response of concrete characters to the problems of human existence and fate. The monograph deals with pre-modern philosophical reflection on reality and truth, with post-modern ways of representation of reality in myth, history, biography, autobiography and fiction, and with sublime perceptions of beauty, love and forgiveness. The views of the writers show that there are important differences in presenting reality and truth in relation to material and historical facts. But the most important distinction is in dealing with dimensions of true life of human persons in their ineffable feelings and ideas.

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3847100467

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9783847100461

Longing, Weakness and Temptation

From Myth to Artistic Creations

By: Irena Avsenik Nabergoj,Jason Blake

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From Myth to Artistic Creations

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The Power of Love and Guilt

Representations of the Mother and Woman in the Literature of Ivan Cankar

By: Irena Avsenik Nabergoj,Jason Blake

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The Power of Love and Guilt

Representations of the Mother and Woman in the Literature of Ivan Cankar

By: Irena Avsenik Nabergoj,Jason Blake

The Slovenian dramatist, poet, literary critic and essayist Ivan Cankar (1876-1918) was one of the greatest Slovenian writers and stylists, as well as the pioneer of modern Slovenian literature. This book, a follow-up to the author's study <I>Mirror of Reality and Dreams: Stories and Confessions of Ivan Cankar, is the second English-language monograph on Cankar's literary oeuvre. Whereas the first study focused on Cankar's social and moral criticism, this monograph sheds light on the mother and woman as portrayed in his works. Through the figure of the mother, Cankar reveals his delicate and subtle relation to weaker individuals in general; the figure of woman in his works illustrates his complicated, often two-fold, internally contradictory relation to love and sexuality.

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Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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3631622325

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9783631622322

Reality and Truth in Literature

From Ancient to Modern European Literary and Critical Discourse

By: Irena Avsenik Nabergoj

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From Ancient to Modern European Literary and Critical Discourse

By: Irena Avsenik Nabergoj

Die Frage der Wahrheit gehört zu den zentralen Problemen der Philosophie und der Kunst. Dieser Band nimmt eine häufige Kontrastierung kritisch in den Blick: Die Abgrenzung der ganzheitlichen Darstellung der Wirklichkeit und Wahrheit in der Kunst von abstrakten philosophischen Diskursen. Wirklichkeit des Daseins ist die Thematik menschlicher Existenz, die zur Frage nach Wahrheit aufrufen kann. Der Weg aus dem bedeutungsleeren philosophischen Wahrheitsbegriff führt daher über die Erkenntnis, dass Wahrheit als ein Wertbegriff des menschlichen Lebens und der menschlichen Gesellschaft zu verstehen ist. Goethe sieht in der Wahrheit den höchsten Wert für die Erkenntnis, den Glauben oder das Handeln. Im Begriff ›Wahrheit‹ dominiert ein ethischer Anspruch, der sich im geistigen Leben verabsolutiert und mit einer unverbindlichen Liebeserklärung endet. Der Wahrheitsanspruch eines Kunstwerkes in seinem in sich geschlossenen Ganzen sucht Innerlichkeit und Vision, die zur echten Wahrheit des Lebens helfen will.

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3847000462

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Longing, Weakness, and Temptation

From Myth to Artistic Creations

By: Irena Avsenik Nabergoj

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Book's by Irena Avsenik Nabergoj

Mirror of Reality and Dreams

Mirror of Reality and Dreams

Longing, Weakness and Temptation

Longing, Weakness and Temptation

Mirror of Reality and Dreams

Mirror of Reality and Dreams

Reality and Truth in Literature

Reality and Truth in Literature

Longing, Weakness and Temptation

Longing, Weakness and Temptation

The Power of Love and Guilt

The Power of Love and Guilt

Reality and Truth in Literature

Reality and Truth in Literature

Longing, Weakness, and Temptation

Longing, Weakness, and Temptation

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