Mountaineering Literature: Slovenia and Beyond. Intertextuality, Intersubjectivity, Internationality
Principal Investigator at ZRC SAZU
Jernej Habjan, PhD-
Original Title
Alpinistična literatura: Slovenija in onkraj. Intertekstualnost, intersubjektivnost, internacionalnost
Project Team
Marijan Dović, PhD, Andraž Jež, PhD, Alenka Koron, PhD, Assoc. Prof. Johann Georg Lughofer, Assoc. Prof. Peter Mikša, Assist. Prof. Lidija Šumah, Prof. Tomo Virk-
Project ID
J6-1808
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Duration
1 July 2019–30 June 2022 -
SICRIS
Mountaineering Literature -
Financial Source
Slovenian Research Agency
Partners
Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
‘Mountaineering Literature’ is a research project that proposes a pioneering collaborative scholarly account of literature written by mountaineers. As literary scholars generally privilege thematisations of mountains by canonical authors, while non-fiction writers tend to prefer the non-scholarly dimensions of literature written by mountaineers, this literature remains a lacuna in literary studies. In literary studies, then, mountains remain mainly a theme, instead of becoming a form-giving element: the focus is on canonical writers and their thematisation of mountains, not on mountaineers and their autobiographical informing of experience. This begs the question, Can the mountaineers speak? In other words, How can we theorise the very fact that a genre as established and popular as mountaineering literature has hardly been theorised? Can this have anything to do with the fact that mountaineering literature engenders not only new mountaineering literature, but also new mountaineers? Finally, what kind of community is imagined in these books about the sport that may be both more lethal and more literary than all the other sports combined?
Habjan, Jernej (ed.). Writing the Himalaya in Polish and Slovenian (= Slavica TerGestina 28 [2022]).
Habjan, Jernej (ed.). Knjige in gore / Books and Mountains (= Primerjalna književnost 45.1 [2022]: 1–132).
Mikša, Peter, and Kornelija Ajlec. Slovensko planinstvo skozi čas. Ljubljana: Planinska zveza Slovenije, 2022.
Habjan, Jernej. Himalajski plezalci pišejo brez rokavic: osemtisočaki v knjigah slovenskih alpinistov. Katalog ob razstavi / Himalayan Climbers Write with the Gloves Off: 8000ers in Books by Slovenian Mountaineers. Exhibition catalogue. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2022.
Habjan, Jernej. Slovenske alpinistične knjige: osemtisočaki (časovni trak). Ljubljana, 2022.
Dovič, Marijan. The Portrayal of Mountains in Nineteenth-century Slovenian Poetry. Literaturna mis''l 63.2 (2022): 52–71.
Mikša, Peter, and Jure Čokl. Slovensko osvajanje osemtisočakov (1975–1995). Zgodovinski časopis 76.3–4 (2022): 510–32.
Dović, Marijan. Slovenske gore: rojstvo mitskega kraja iz duha poezije. In: Obdobja 40: slovenska poezija. Ed. Darja Pavlič. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, 2021. 247–57.
Lughofer, Johann Georg. Cultural Diversity vs. National-Socialist Positions: Paula von Preradović. Acta Histriae 27.3 (2019): 495–512.
Čokl, Jure, and Peter Mikša. ‘Smer že ne more biti preveč težka, če jo je preplezala baba’: slovenski (ženski) alpinizem v času fizkulturnega kolektivizma (1945–1955). Retrospektive 2.2–3 (2020): 10–46.
Habjan, Jernej. Od bedaka do junaka: alpinist. In: Močni, modri in dobri: junaki v slovenski folklori. Ed. Božidar Jezernik and Ingrid Slavec Gradišnik. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, 2019. 249–61.