Representation of the ‘Aufklärung’ in the Carniolian German Cultural Journals in the Pre-March Period

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Pages: 91-102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/CKXE5405

Abstract:

The accent in the representation of the ‘Aufklärung’ (German Enlightenment) in selected German-speaking cultural newspapers of Carniola during the Pre-March-Periode consists in discoursivation of particularities of regional nature and culture, appearing in German- and Slovenian-speaking works of Valentin Vodnik and Anton Tomaž Linhart, both canonized representatives of the Carniolan Enlightenment. Their works from the fields of literature and essayistic enjoyed till 1848 the status of universal ideological and cultural axiom. Together with selective mediatization of literature of the ‘Aufklärung’, represented by G. E. Lessing, the Carniolan Enlightenment serves during the 1840s the purpose of progressive Europeanisation of Slovenian scientific and literary discourse, predominantly of the romantic literature of the Slovenian ‘national poet’ France Prešeren, whose Europeanisation was taking place alongside with positioning of his poetry in German- and – within Panslavic and Illyrist ideological discourse – increasingly also in Slavic-speaking cultural spaces.

Keywords:

Pre-March-Period; Krain; German Cultural press; representation of the Enlightenment; ideal and cultural axiomatism; international autonomy and positioning of Slovenian literature

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