Literary Repertoire and Interference Among Literatures
Keywords:
national literature, literary canon, literary interferences, Slovene literature, Prešeren, FranceAbstract
The article uses concepts of polysystem theory, especially the notion of literary repertoire, to analyze mechanisms which take place when a particular (national) literary system adopts and makes use of elements of other systems’ repertoires and in this way maintains its systemic optimum. An obvious model for these processes can be observed in Slovenian literature with reference to the work of a romantic poet, France Prešeren, who introduced models and repertoires from other literary traditions in a systematic and original fashion. Later, these elements became a constitutive part of – by that time still underdeveloped and weak –the Slovenian literary repertoire.References
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