Modernism and Postmodernism in Poetry

The course provides a theoretical introduction to traditional and modern poetry, elucidating the content and history of such concepts as Fin de Siecle, modernism, Post-fin-de-siecle, postmodernism, the traditional, the contemporary. The historical part traces the beginnings of modern poetry in Slovene (Murn, Kosovel, Podbevšek), the interbellum development of modernism, its distinctive features and radicalisation, and finally its transition to postmodernism in the later 20th century. Slovene authors are treated in the context of literary history watersheds and of poetological metamorphoses within the poetry of Europe and the world. The conclusion provides a survey of the current poetic production as well as a critical, analytical examination of various interpretive models and of theoretical and philosophical explications of modernist and postmodernist poetry.

- Mario Andreotti, Die Struktur der modernen Literatur. Bern in Stuttgart 1990 (2. izd.). 275 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 349282
- Hans Bertens, The Idea of the Postmodern. A History. London in New York 1995. 284 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 38614017
- Hugo Friedrich, Struktura moderne lirike. Ljubljana 1972. 380 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 7428865
- Niko Grafenauer, Odisej v labirintu. Eseji o slovenskem pesništvu. Ljubljana 2001. 519 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 115887872
- Janko Kos, Primerjalna zgodovina slovenske literature. Ljubljana 2001. 417 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 109315328
- Matevž Kos, Prevzetnost in pristranost. Ljubljana 1996. 222 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 55550976
- Matevž Kos, Fragmenti o celoti: poskusi s slovenskim pesništvom, (Zbirka Novi pristopi). Ljubljana: Literarno-umetniško društvo Literatura, 2007. 289 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 236858880
- Matevž Kos, The modern adaptation of the Orpheus myth in the poetry of Veno Taufer. Interlitteraria, 2008, 13, vol. 2, str. 344–355. COBISS.SI-ID - 37855074
- Matevž Kos, Vprašanje o Podbevškovem "pesniškem molku". Jez. slovst., 2009, letn. 54, št. 5, str. 3–¬13. COBISS.SI-ID - 41460834
- Brian McHale, Constructing Postmodernism. London in New York 1992. 342 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 74082
- Boris Paternu, Obdobja in slogi v slovenski književnosti. Ljubljana 1989. 237 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 8243712
- Dušan Pirjevec, Vprašanje o poeziji / Vprašanje naroda. Maribor 1978. 139 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 4329984

Priporočena literatura:
- Rainer Emig, Modernism in Poetry. Motivations, Structures and Limits. London in New York 1995. 270 str.