Short Biography

Born in Ljubljana, March 9th 1931. B.A. in 1956 at the University of Ljubljana: Comparative literature and Literary Theory. Ph.D. in 1969 at the University of Ljubljana; his thesis was Preseren and European Romantics. He worked as dramaturgist in Lutkovno gledalisce (Puppet Theatre) of Ljubljana from 1959 to 1963. In 1963 he began teaching Slovene language and world literature at VIIth College of Ljubljana. In 1970 he started lecturing at the Faculty of Arts, where he was habilitated Professor of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory in 1975. In 1977 he became a corresponding member of Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts, in 1983 a full member. For many years, he was head of Comparative Literature Department.

Research Fields

In the years 1950-60 he devoted himself mainly to the problems of literary theory, esthetic and philosophy.

After 1960 he began researching literary history and theory with different methods of comparative literature and a combination of Gestesgeschichte and other philosophical, historical and empirical methods.

His many works treat such subjects as Slovene literature from 18th to 20th century, Slovene poet Preseren, history and theory of European novel, philosophy of art and literary theory, methodology of literary studies and research of modernism and postmodernism.

Short Bibliography

• Preseren in evropska romantika (Preseren and European Romanticism), Ljubljana 1970.
• Pregled slovenskega slovstva (An Overview of Slovene Literature), Ljubljana 1974.
• Literatura (Literature), Literarni leksikon 2, Ljubljana 1978.
• Pregled svetovne knjizevnosti (An Overview of World Literature), Ljubljana 1979.
• Romantika (Romanticism), Literarni leksikon 6, Ljubljana 1980.
• Morfologija literarnega dela (Morphology of Literary Work), Literarni leksikon 15, Ljubljana 1981.
• Begriff der Klasik in marxistischer Sicht, In: Klassische Modelle in der Literatur, Innsbruck 1981.
• Ocrt literarne teorije (An Overview of Literary Theory), Ljubljana 1983.
• Moderna misel in slovenska knjizevnost ( Modern Thought and Slovene Literature), Ljubljana 1983.
• Marksizem in problemi literarnega vrednotenja ( Marxism and the Problem of Literary Axiology), Ljubljana 1983.
• Roman (Novel), Literarni leksikon 20, Ljubljana 1983.
• Razsvetljenstvo (Enlightenment), Literarni leksikon 28, 1986.
• Primerjalna zgodovina slovenske literature (Comparative History of Slovene Literature), Ljubljana 1987.
• Slovenische Literatur und historische Avantgarde, In: Europäische Avantgarde, Frankfurt 1987.
• Literarne tipologije (Literary Typologies), Literarni leksikon 34, Ljubljana 1989.
• Preseren in njegova doba (Preseren and his Age), Koper 1991.
• Lirika (Poetry), Literarni leksikon 39, Ljubljana 1993.
• Postmodernizem (Postmodernism), Literarni leksikon 43, Ljubljana 1995.
• Na poti v postmoderno (On The Way to the Postmodern Age), Ljubljana 1995.

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