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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt
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 Mirror of...
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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 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 subt
Cover; Preface and Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Abbreviations of Cankar's Edited Works; Works by Ivan Cankar Examined; Poetry Collections and Cycles; Poems, Sonnets; Major Narrative Works: Novels, Collections of Novellas, Sketches and Stories, etc.; Drama; Literary Sketches, Stories, Novellas, Essays, and Articles; Introduction; Social and Political Relations in Cankar's Times; The Cultural Surroundings in the Slovenian Provinces,in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and in the Broader European Context; Ivan Cankar's Oeuvre and the Infl uence of Slovenian and Foreign Writers on his Work
The Aesthetic Foundations of, and Literary History behind, Cankar's Literature HistoryPart one: ANCIENT ANDMODERN VIEWS OF LOVE; Beauty, Love and Inspiration in Some Key Sources From Antiquity to Modernity; 1. Beauty, Aesthetics and Ethics; 2. Love and Inspiration; 3. Love and Justifi cation of Forgiveness; Cankar's Representations of Love towards the Mother in the Light of Modern Views; 1. A Psychoanalytical Perspective on the Mother-Son Relationship in Cankar's Literature; 1.1 A Sexual Anthropological Perspective on the Figure of the Mother and Woman in Cankar's Works
1.2 Ivan Cankar's Search for his Mother's Face2. The Figure of the Deceased or Absent Mother in the Victorian Novel and in Ivan Cankar's Works; 3. Marian Iconography in the Works of Ivan Cankar; 3.1 The Figure of Dying Girls as Brides of Christ - Symbols of Mary - in Ivan Cankar and Gerhart Hauptmann; 3.1.1 The Figures of Young Girls as Brides of Christ in Cankar's Novel Th e Ward of Our Lady of Mercy (1901/1902); 3.1.2 The Figure of a Dying Girl as the Bride of Christ in Hauptmann's Hannele (1896); 3.2 Other Marian Figures in Cankar's Literature
4. Maternal Representations in Ivan Cankar's Works - Between Intimate Experience of Motherhood and its Cultural Signifi cance4.1 The Image of the "Good" and the "Bad" Mother in Literature and Society; 4.2 The Contradictory, Anxiety-Ridden Image of Motherhood in Ivan Cankar's Literature; 4.2.1 The Image of the Abandoned and Sacrificial Mother in the Novel On the Hill (1901/1902); 4.2.2 The Figure of the "Bad" Unmarried Mother in The Death and Burial of Jakob Nesreča; 4.2.3 The Figure of "Bad," Immoral and "Good" but Powerless Mothers in the Novel The Ward of Our Lady of Mercy
4.3 The Writer's Truncated Personal Identity and his Search for a Substitute Mother after the Death of his MotherIntimate Confessions of Love in Ivan Cankar's Literature, in his Love Correspondence and in Memories of his Fiancée; 1. Intimate Confessions of Love in Ivan Cankar's Literature; 2. Ivan Cankar's Love Correspondence; 2.1 Cankar's Correspondence with Ana Lušin; 3. Memories of Cankar's Life in Ottakring; 3.1 The Recollections of Cankar's Ottakring Cohabitants and Neighbours; 3.2 The Memories of Cankar's Fiancée Steffi Löffler; Part two: CANKAR'S CONFESSIONS OF LOVE FOR HIS MOTHER
