Syllabus
In the lectures I would like to present to the students the comparative research of female authors at the beginning of Slovene modernism. The lectures consist of thirteen themes.I would like to put into focus forgotten Slovene female authors from this period, thus offering a critical view into the creations of Slovene female authors of the “moderna” era (with reference to the broader fin-de- siècle period). The interdisciplinary research extends to the field of cultural studies and history, complemented by feminist literary studies and methods of contextualisation. The research of ego- documents provides a great help in the research of the context. The analysis of their literary work also reveal their creation in a broader context, since the literary texts of female authors cannot be researched outside of the cultural-historical context. As such I would like to present also the reception of their literary works by their contemporaries, which, in the patriarchal environment of the Slovene society of that period, was restrictive and unfair to their unique voices.
The lectures focus on the literary work of four key Slovene female authors of the “moderna” period: on the female prose writer and feminist Zofka Kveder (1878–1926), on the poets: Vida Jeraj (1875–1932), Ljudmila Poljanec (1874–1948) and Lili Novy (1885–1958). 1. Slovene “moderna” (modernism) and Czech “moderna”. Slovene women writers. 2. Slovene-Croat writer Zofka Kveder. 3. The influence of Czech writers and intellectuals on the literary work of Zofka Kveder. 4. Czech motifs in the literature work by Zofka Kveder. 5. Intercultural and interlingual dialog in the literary work by Zofka Kveder. 6. Female desire in the literary work by Zofka Kveder and by Serbian writer Julka Chlapec Djordjević. 7. New woman and the writer’s circle around the newspaper Slovenka (Slovene woman). 8. Male censorship of Slovene women writers at the end of the 19th century in the Slovene culture. 9. Slovene female poet Vida Jeraj and her lyrical voice. 10. Decadence and impressionism in her poetry. 11. The first Slovenian lesbian female poet Ljudmila Poljanec and her poetry. 12. The crisis of identity : doppelgängers in the poetry of Slovene-German poet Lily Novy. 13. Conclusion.