Slovenski roman v literarni vedi po letu 2000

Abstract

The number of novels and critical publications about them rose dramatically in Slovenia after 2000. For the sake of completeness, I have taken into account the place of publicationŽ that is, leading Slovene and foreign scholarly journals, monographs, and collectionsŽand, in close analysis of individual publications, the criterion of scholarly insight, which in addition to standard scholarly measures comprises synthesis, systematicness, complexity, and creativity or innovativeness. From a quite long bibliographic list of critical analyses of the novel I selected and comparatively analyzed anarrower, group of eleven, including the collections Slovenski roman (The Slovene novel) and Sodobna slovenska književnost 1980-2010) (Contemporary Slovene literature 1980-2010), Alojzija Zupan Sosičʼs books Zavetje zgodbe: Sodobni slovenski roman ob koncu stoletja (The harbor of story: The contemporary Slovene novel at the end of the century), Robovi mreže, robovi jaza: Sodobni slovenski roman (Social margins, margins of self: The contemporary Slovene novel), Na pomolu sodobnosti ali o slovenski književnostiin romanu (On the quay of contemporaneity, or Slovene literature and the novel), Silvija Borovnikʼs Književne študije: O vlogi ženske v slovenski književnosti, o sodobni prozi in o slovenski književnosti v Avstriji(Literary studies: On the role of women in Slovene literature, on contemporary prose and Slovene literature in Austria), Miran Hladnikʼs Slovenski zgodovinski roman (The Slovene historical novel), and four articles that appeared in leading scholarly journals.