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Military vocabulary in the translation of J. Littell’s novel Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones) into slovene: between tradition and innovation

Linguistica, 2018
Military vocabulary and the vocabulary of war are part of specialized as well as general lexicon. Such language was present in Slovene even before the creation of the Slovene army in 1991.
Mojca Schlamberger Brezar
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Washington Irving in Slovene

Acta Neophilologica, 2005
Washington Irving played a crucial role in the development of the American short story. His tales featuring American characters and American settings represented a giant step forward in the development of an independent American literature.
Jerneja Petrič
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Slovene critical responses to the works of Pearl S. Buck

Acta Neophilologica, 2003
At the beginning of her writing career, in the 1930's and 40's, Pearl S. Buck achieved great success that reached its pinnacle with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.
Alenka Blake
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Auto-stereotypes and Hetero-stereotypes in Slovene and Italian Poetry About Trieste From the First Half of the 20th Century

Interlitteraria, 2016
This article brings to light the socio-political conditions in the Triestine region, at the end of the 19th century and in the fi rst half of the 20th century.
Ana Toroš
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Margaret Atwood, World-Famous but Yet to Be Discovered by Many Slovene Readers

Acta Neophilologica, 2020
Margaret Atwood is the only Canadian author whose 80th birthday in 2019 was celebrated by the global academic community. This is not surprising, as she is the most famous Canadian writer, popular also outside literary circles.
Tomaž Onič, Michelle Gadpaille, Jason Blake, Tjaša Mohar   +3 more
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Calling the Bluff: A Critique of English-language Literary Curriculum in the Slovene Secondary Education

Vestnik za Tuje Jezike, 2009
Literature has enjoyed a long and colourful tradition as a part of the English curriculum in Slovene secondary education. After almost half a century of excerpt-based literary curriculum, the reform of 1994 established a holistic study of English ...
Sašo Podobnik
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The Role of Sergio Bonazza in Italian Slavic Studies

Studi Slavistici, 2022
This contribution aims to give a scholarly and human profile of the Italian Slavist Sergio Bonazza (1938-2021), recently passed away. Bonazza was born in a Slovene-speaking village nearby Triest to a mixed family.
Stefano Aloe
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The panorama of translations of Brazilian and Portuguese literature into the Slovene language (1991–2018)

Matraga, 2018
The first translations from Portuguese into Slovene appeared in the twentieth century. Most of the translations were published after the Second World War when Slovenia was still part of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia and was integrated ...
Mojca Medvedsek, Blažka Müller Pograjc
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Material Semiotic Narratives of Finnishness Through a Mundane Object: The Case of the Plastic Bucket

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores how Finnishness is constructed in media texts with and through plastic buckets. By so doing, the article contributes to research on materiality and nationalism through examining the role of a mundane object instead of official national symbols.
Alma Onali
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European Identity and the Euro in Kosovo

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How can nationalist leaders stand for political independence and monetary sovereignty while embracing the use of a supra‐national currency? At first sight, unilateral euroisation—the de facto adoption of the euro instead of a national currency—seems inconsistent with the goals of nationalism and independence.
Nicola Nones
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