Short Biography

Born in Maribor, September 17th 1930. B.A. in 1959 at the University of Ljubljana: Comparative literature and Literary Theory. Ph.D. in 1978 at the University of Ljubljana; his thesis was Kraigher's Late Fiction and European Naturalism. He worked at Slovene government department for culture and education. Since 1963 he works at the Comparative Literature Department. In 1987 he became Associate Professor and is currently head of Comparative Literature Department.

Research Fields

Theory and History of Comparative Literature;

Genetic Connections and Tipological Analogies between Slovene and Other European literatures;

Realism and Naturalism in Slovene and Other European Literatures;

Literary Rhetorics;

Theory of Verse.

Short Bibliography

• Govekar, Zola in V krvi (Govekar, Zola and "In Blood"), Slavisticna revija 1973.
• Vprasanja ob periodizaciji slovenskega in evropskega naturalizma (The Problems of Periodisation of Slovene and European Naturalism), Primerjalna knjizevnost 1979.
• Anticni mit in slovenska zgodovina (Antic Myth and Slovene History), In: Obdobje socialnega realizma v slovenskem jeziku, knjizevnosti in kulturi (The Period of the Social Realism in Slovene Language, Literature and Culture), Ljubljana 1986.
• O prevajanju pesniskih podob, (On Translation of Poetic Metaphors) In: XXVII. seminar slovenskega jezika, literature in kulture (XXVII. Seminar of Slovene Language, Literature and Culture), Ljubljana 1991.
• Antigone dans la litterature slovène: situation ou héroine?, Acta neophilologica 25/1992.

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