Th e idea of presenting and comparing two works as diff erent in their genre1 as the novel Zone (2008), by Mathias Énard,2 and the collection of documentary prose La guerra in casa (1998), by the Italian journalist and novelist Luca Rastello,3 occurs not only because of a common theme, namely the Yugoslavian confl ict of the 1990s. Th e two works are also linked by the fact that they connect refl ecting on history with refl ecting on the identity of geographical areas. In both cases, the identity of places is redefi ned in the light of memories of the violence that was committed there.
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Departing from the thesis that literary texts, in addition to their capacity to provide description, also demonstrate potential for construing reality, this paper focuses on the selected narratives, or essayistic and poetological texts written by the canonical Croatian authors August Šenoa and Miroslav Krleža. The paper focuses on the demonstration and literary representation of various border phenomena in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Šenoa) and their gradual change in the post-imperial age following the Great War (Krleža). By challenging the imperial narrative about the Military Frontier, the image of the Ottomans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as well as the associated national and homogenizing discourses infused by the processes of Othering, the article analyses a number of variations in the understanding of the border and their ideological implications with special regard to the thesis that borders are construed as impossible endeavours aiming to separate the Self from the Other.
{"title":"We “were neither Croatians, nor Illyrians nor Slavs, but ‘imperial royal frontiersman’”. On the phenomenon of the border in August Šenoa and Miroslav Krleža","authors":"Milka Car","doi":"10.4312/ars.13.2.40-63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/ars.13.2.40-63","url":null,"abstract":"Departing from the thesis that literary texts, in addition to their capacity to provide description, also demonstrate potential for construing reality, this paper focuses on the selected narratives, or essayistic and poetological texts written by the canonical Croatian authors August Šenoa and Miroslav Krleža. The paper focuses on the demonstration and literary representation of various border phenomena in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Šenoa) and their gradual change in the post-imperial age following the Great War (Krleža). By challenging the imperial narrative about the Military Frontier, the image of the Ottomans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as well as the associated national and homogenizing discourses infused by the processes of Othering, the article analyses a number of variations in the understanding of the border and their ideological implications with special regard to the thesis that borders are construed as impossible endeavours aiming to separate the Self from the Other.","PeriodicalId":40773,"journal":{"name":"Ars & Humanitas","volume":"13 1","pages":"40-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47273849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-26DOI: 10.4312/ars.13.2.231-244
A. Bracic
Skozi zgodovino je človek oblikoval bogato besedišče, ki poimenuje posamezne geografske pojave in forme krajine, s katerimi je tisočletja živel in jih spoznaval. Ko si človek prisvoji naravno krajino, pa ta ne izgine, temveč postane nov habitat, grajeno tkivo, in tako ponuja drugačno paleto pojavov. S tvorjenjem novih izrazov za prostor ozaveščamo svojo urbano okolico ter jo pretvarjamo v zaznavno družbeno krajino. Bogastvo kompleksnega urbanega prostora in mejnih območij med naravnim in grajenim ostaja v veliki meri nepoimenovano. Cesta, ulica, avenija, stolpnica, trg – do sem naša jezikovna in kognitivna sposobnost še sežeta. Kaj pa vse majhne variacije, ki jih zaznamujejo in razločujejo med seboj? Kako bi ti označevalci vplivali na našo percepcijo prostora mesta? Članek s pomočjo analize načinov generiranja sodobne urbane krajine ter procesov poimenovanja prostora razišče prostorsko besedotvorje kot potencialno možnost vzgajanja pomenljive povezave med uporabnikom in mestom ter kot orodje reapropriacije mestnega prostora.
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Razprava je posvečena vprašanju razumevanja besedilnega in zunajbesedilnega prostora v konceptu peterburškega teksta ruske literature (V. N. Toporov), ki ga razumemo kot izvirno rusko (pozno)strukturalistično različico prostorskega obrata. V primerjavi s poudarjanjem zunajbesedilnega prostora ter odmikom od tekstualizma, ki je značilen za zahodno prostorsko literarno vedo, je zunajbesedilni prostor v konceptu peterburškega nadteksta ohranil zavest o svoji znakovnosti, iz literature pa je geografski/kulturni/opomenjeni prostor prevzel tudi zavedanje o svoji transgresivni naravi, kar je bila v strukturalni poetiki ena od ključnih značilnosti literarnega besedilnega prostora. V soočenju z nekaterimi sodobnimi zahodnimi in ruskimi prostorskimi pristopi v literarni vedi nato osvetljujemo problem širšega osmišljanja zunajbesedilnega prostora kot kulturnega fenomena, ki ga je – podobno kot tekst – mogoče osmišljati v dveh različnih sferah znakovnosti, ter izpostavljamo, da bi morala sodobna literarna veda odpirati tudi prostor za drugačen prostor.
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Pub Date : 2019-08-20DOI: 10.4312/ars.13.1.123-150
Luka Ručigaj, M. Trojar, Anja Dular, Sonja Svoljsak
The extent, contents and cultural- and scientific significance of the Auersperg family‘s Ljubljana library, which was at its peak at the of the brothers Wolf Engelbert (1610–1673) and Joannes Weickhard (1615–1677), is only known from individual catalogues, inventories and censuses, as the collection has been dispersed. Until recently, only the 1668 catalogue, and its transcription from 1762, have been known, but in the course of researches in the Auersperg family archives in Vienna five additional library catalogues and inventories from the 17th and the 18th centuries were discovered. The article presents basic information about the already known, as well as the newly discovered, early catalogues and inventories, which reveal the continuity and characteristics of this comprehensive collection’s development through time. It also presents both catalogues from London auctions in the 1980s, where more than 800 of the Auersperg library’s books were sold.
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Pub Date : 2019-08-20DOI: 10.4312/ars.13.1.318-338
Sazan Kryeziu
Being is given many designations in Hölderlin’s poetry, but we will focus on the question of Being as the holy. Being as the holy bespeaks the poet in a message to which he responds by articulating the address in words. Following Heidegger’s thought that poetry (poiesis) is the essence of language and of all arts, and juxtaposing it with Wittgenstein’s view of language, we will find out that to trace the mystery of language back to its origin means placing ourselves outside of the world, passing thus into the realm of silence. Drawing an analogy between Hölderlin’s idea of the holy as the immediate and Wittgenstein’s conception of the mystical, my thesis assumes that language is precisely what poetry cannot name.
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Pub Date : 2019-08-20DOI: 10.4312/ars.13.1.219-233
R. Jereb
The evolution of Idrija, the oldest mining town in Slovenia, has always been affiliated with the extraction of mercury-rich ore, which is why the settlement was shaped as an agglomeration alongside the mining shafts and objects. The extraction of mercury also brought about the flow of knowledge. Knowledge, as well as attitudes towards it, gained great importance in the town, being considered a technological capital, and one of the founding characteristics of the Idrija habitus, which also encompasses a wide spectrum of the town’s imaginarium. Parts of this are definitely the heritage of mining, architectural heritage, and non-material (living) heritage, represented primarily by Idrija lace, the Miners’ Brass Band, and culinary specialties (žlikrofi). The characteristics and achievements of the mining activity, local culture and community are all listed on the UNESCO world heritage list. The most important places of the imaginarium of the town are the restored individual important objects and machinery, and certain places which held an important historical memory and thus became the founding identity of the network. Everything that was left out, and remained unrestored, dislocated from the visual field, is slowly fading from the consciousness of the community, despite the fact that some of these places held an important historical value, and thus they are losing an identifying role and symbolic meaning to the community. The image of the town has, for centuries, been dual: the mining and bourgeois bottom of the valley and the miners’ dwellings in the margins. Such a memory of the town is slowly fading away, although individual exceptional buildings and devices, in which the heritage of the town and mining are concentrated, still stand out.
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Pub Date : 2019-08-20DOI: 10.4312/ars.13.1.111-122
Zala Pavšič
This article on the Yugoslavian version of the board game Monopoly is based on the assumption that things make people. In accordance with this a concept, the contribution begins with a historical overview of the development of this game in the United States, from its origins when it spreads around the country as a popular game, to the current day, when Monopoly is marketed a leading corporation in the field of board games, Hasbro. The popularity of the game is also evident from its presence in the public space in the form of metaphors: because of its emphasis on trading, it is sometimes referred to “greed”, and in the Balkans it can also serve as a metaphor for the nation state.In the memories of my interlocutors who helped me with their testimonies, the Yugoslav version of Monopoly is associated with pleasant memories: especially of childhood, youth and relatives or friends with whom they used to play the game. In my interviews I focused on two topics which did not play such a significant role in the testimonies of the interlocutors, but were, however, common in the testimonies of interviewees who got acquainted with the game as children: to the question of the supposed superiority of Slovenia, as Bled and Bohinj were the most expensive properties, and the presumption that Monopoly is a game which can reproduce cultural memory, in this case knowing the geography of the former common state. The thesis on Slovene superiority proved to rely on generations to which my interviewees belonged, since it appeared especially in the answers of the interlocutors who were born in the late 1980s. Hence, I assume that this thesis was more likely a projection of the outside reality of my interlocutors into the game than vice versa.Analysing the answers of my interlocutors more thoroughly, I reached the conclusion that Monopoly often appeared as the first reference through which they heard about a certain resort in the regions of the former Yugoslavia. This means that Monopoly contained traces of cultural memory which other sources of our everyday lives, education and upbringing ceased to transmit.
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