Short Biography

Born in Ljubljana, April 9th 1946. B.A. in 1965 at the Univesity of Ljubljana: Comparative literature and Literary Theory. Ph.D. in 1986 with a thesis on Slovene Avantgarde and Zenithism. Since 1978 he works at the Comparative Literature department as assistant professor. In 1991, he became Lecturer.

Research Fields

European Poetics from Aristotel to Brecht;

Slovene Avantgarde and its Relations to Zenithism, Futurism and Constructivism;

Theory and History of European poetry since Boudelaire;

Theory of Tragedy and Tragic.

Short Bibliography

• Pomen Aristotelove Poetike za razumevanje moderne umetnosti (The Importance of Aristotel's Poetics for Understanding Modern Art), Nasi razgledi 1978.
• Begriff und Erscheinung der Avantgarde, In: Soobstoj avantgard (Coexistence of Avantgardes), Ljubljana 1986.
• Srecko Kosovel, slovenska zgodovinska avantgarda in zenitizem (Srecko Kosovel, Slovene Avantgarde and Zenithism), Maribor 1986.
• Die Kons-Gedichte von Srecko Kosovel, In: Sprachkunst 20, Wienna 1989.
• Ep in tragedija (Epos and Tragedy), Maribor 1994.

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