1919 the establishment of the University of Ljubljana; the problems of comparative literature are included in literary-historical lectures on Slavonic languages and partly in other philological courses 1925	the beginning of lectures and seminars on comparative
literature at the Department of Slavonic Languages 1930	comparative literature, with literary theory, becomes a
special subject
1945	the Department of Comparative Lliterature and Lliterary
Theory is created; it is possible to study it as a single subject or in combination with other humanistic disciplines
1948	establishment of the Institute for Literature at the
Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts, the present Institute for Slovene Literature and Literary Science; its work includes comparative literature and literary theory; faster development from 1965, reorganization in 1972 1973	founding of the Slovene Association for Comparative
Literature, which has been organizing regular lectures by Slovene and foreign experts and Slovene writers, and occasional symposiums on individual topics 1993/94 the Slovene Association for Comparative Literature joins International Comparative Literature Association
Scholars
Predecessors
Matija Čop (1797-1835), a teacher and librarian in Rijeka, Lvov and Ljubljana; philologist, literary critic, theorist and historian
Matija Murko (1861-1952), professor of Slavonic philology in Graz, Leipzig and Prague; literary and cultural historian, ethnologist
Ivan Prijatelj (1875-1937), librarian in Vienna, professor of Slovene literature in Ljubljana; literary and cultural historian, theorist, essayist, editor
Avgust Žigon (1877-1941), librarian in Ljubljana; philologist, literary historian and theorist
France Kidrič (1880-1950), librarian in Vienna, professor of Slovene literature in Ljubljana; literary and cultural historian
Ivan Grafenauer (1880-1964), teacher, a researcher in Ljubljana; literary historian, philologist, ethnologist
LOGICAL
OUTLINE
Anton Ocvirk (1907-80), professor of comparative literature and literary theory in Ljubljana; literary historian, theorist, critic, essayist, editor Dušan Pirjevec (1921-77), professor of comparative literature and literary theoiy in Ljubljana; literary historian, theorist, critic, philosophical essayist, editor Janko Kos (b. 1931), professor of comparative literature and literary theory in Ljubljana; literary historian, theorist, critic, essayist, editor
Selected publications
(Original Slovene titles are translated into English; the titles of publications that were published in foreign languages are given in the original)
Monographs and collected papers: thematic selection of topics
1897	M. Murko: Deutsche Einfliisse auf die Anfange der
slavischcn Romantik. 1. Die bohmische Romantik 1921	I. Prijatelj: Predecessors and Theoretical Founders of
Russian Realism
—	I. Prijatelj: Psychological Profiles of the Slovene Revival Generation (1. published in a periodical; 2. in a book, 1935)
1930	F. Kidrič: Dobrovsky and the Slovene Revival of His
Period
1936	A. Ocvirk: Theory of Comparative Literary History
(reprint 1975)
1963	D. Moravec: Links Between Slovene and Czech Drama
1964	D. Pirjevec: Ivan Cankar and European Literature
1970	J. Kos: Prešeren and European Romanticism
—	L. Krakar: Goethe in Slowenien (Slovene version in 1972)
1972	M. Zupančič: The Juvenilia of A. T. Linhart
1977	A. Ocvirk: The European Novel (selected studies)
1979	D. Pirjevec: The Question of Poetry. The Question of the
Nation
1978-79 A. Ocvirk: The Literary Work of Art Between History and Theory, 1-2 (selected studies)
1979	D. Pirjevec: The European Novel (selected studies)
1982	D. Poniž: Numerical Aesthetics and Slovene Literary
Studies
1983	J. Kos: Modem Thought and Slovenc Literature (selected
essays)
—	Š. Barbarič: Turgeniev and Slovenc Realism
1986	J. Vrečko: Srečko Kosovel, The Slovene Historical Avantgarde and the Zenith Movement
1987	J. Kos: A Comparative History of Slovene Literature
1991	D. Piijevec: Philosophy and Art and Other Essays
—	J. Kos: Prešeren and His Period (selected studies)
—	T. Virk: Postmodernism and Young Slovene Prose
Literary Lexicon
Series of monographs; published by the Institute for Slovene Literature and Literary Science. Editors: A. Ocvirk (1978-80), Editorial Board (1981-1994): J. Kos (chief editor), D. Dolinar, M. Stanovnik, D. Šega
1978	1. A. Ocvirk: Literary Theory
—	2. J. Kos: Literature
—	3. K. Gantar: Helenism
—	4. D. Ludvik: Medieval and	Old Germanic Verse Forms
—	5. D. Dolinar: Positivism	in	Literary Science
1980	6. J. Kos: Romanticism
7. K. Gantar: Classical Lyric Forms and Verse Patterns
8. M. Stanovnik: Anglo-American Movements in the 20th Century
—	9.-10. A. Ocvirk: European Verse	Systems and Slovene
Verse
1981	11. A. Ocvirk: The Literary Work and Linguistic Means
of Expression
—	12. D. Pirjevec: Structural Poetics. Cybernetics, Com-
munication, Information
—	13. N. Kuret: The Spiritual Drama
—	14. A. Berger: Dadaism. Surrealism
—	15. J. Kos: Morphology of the Literary Work
1982	16. A. Ocvirk: The Poetic Image
17. D. Ludvik: Alliteration and Alliterative Verse
—	18. D. Rupel: The Sociology of Literature
—	19. V. Pacheiner-Klander: Ancient Indian Poetics
1983	20. J. Kos: The Novel
—	21. M. Hladnik: Trivial Literature
—	22. J. Munda: The Book
1984	23. D. Poniž: Concrete Poetry
—	24. M. Vasič: Existentialism and Literature
—	25. K. Bogataj-Gradišnik: The Sentimental Novel
1985	26. K. Gantar: Classical Poetics
—	27.	D.	Bajt:	Russian	Avantgardism:	Futurism,	Con-
structivism, Absurdism
1986	28.	J.	Kos: Enlightenment
—	29.	A.	Inkret: Dramatic Literature and Theatre
—	30.	L.	Kralj: Expressionism
1987	31.	J.	Kos: Preromanticism
—	32.	M.	Terseglav: Folk Poetry
1989	33.	D.	Poniž: The Essay
—	34.	J.	Kos: Literary Typologies
—	35.	T.	Virk: Geistesgeschichte and Literary Scholarship
1991	36.	M.	Hladnik: The Tale
—	37.	D.	Dolinar: Hermeneutics and Literary Criticism
—	38.	K.	Bogataj-Gradišnik: The Tale of Terror
1993	39.	J.	Kos: The Lyric
—	40.	V.	Troha: Futurism
Monographs Including Comparative Chapters and Fragments
1925	A. Žigon: France Prešeren — Poet and Artist
1929-38 F. Kidrič: A History of Slovene Literature, from the Beginnings to 1819
1936	I. Grafenauer: Carolingian Catechesis and the Origin of
the Freising Manuscripts
1938-40 I. Prijatelj: A Slovene Cultural-political and Literary History, 1848-1895 (2nd expanded edition with comments, 1955-1985)
1977	P. Simoniti: Humanism in Slovenia and Slovene Humanists from the Mid-16th century
1978	J. Pogačnik: Parameters and Parallels (selected papers)
1979	J. Kos: Matija Čop
1989	J. Pogačnik: Differenzen und Interferenzen (selected papers)
1990	M. Juvan: Imaginarium of the Preseren’s Epic “Baptism” in Slovene Literature — the Intertextuality of Reception
1991	J. Koruza: Literary Studies (selected essays)
1992	M. Pirjevec: The Encounter of Two Literatures (Slovene and Italian)
1993	F. Bernik: Studies on Slovene Poetry
1994	J. Vrečko: Epic and Tragedy
Essays and Articles
1901	I. Prijatelj: Pushkin in Slovene Translation
1906	I. Prijatelj: Perspectives
1915-19	A. Žigon: A Study
1917	I.	Prijatelj: Poets and Citizens
1919	I.	Prijatelj: Literary History (opening lecture	at the
Ljubljana university; published in 1952)
1924	I.	Prijatelj: “Young Slovenes” and “Young Europe”
1933	A. Ocvirk: Paul Hazard on Comparative literature
—	A.	Ocvirk: Levstik’s Psyche
1934	A.	Ocvirk: La pensee europeenne du 16e	au	18e siecle et
la litterature Slovene
1938	F. Kidrič: Bases for Kollar’s Influence on Slovenes up to 1852
—	A. Ocvirk: Historicism in Literary History and its Opponents
1939	F. Kidrič: Slovenes and the French Revolution
1949	D. Moravec: Shakespeare among the Slovenes
1951	A. Ocvirk: New Views on Poetic Style
1955	D. Pirjevec: On the Lyric in Slovene Modernism
1956	A. Ocvirk: Slovene Modernism and European Symbolism
1959	A.	Ocvirk: Paul Hazard and Comparative	Literature
1960	J. Koruza: Reflections on Gram’s Prose
1961	A. Ocvirk: Slovene Literature and Realism
1961-62 D. Voglar: Vodnik’s Reading of Horace
1963	E. Koren: Govekar, Zola and the Novel “In blood”
1964	M. Kramberger: “The Chronicle of Visoko”, A Literary-historical Interpretation
1964-76	introductory studies to the collection “One Hundred
Novels”. Editor: A. Ocvirk; the major part of the studies were contributed by comparatists
1965	A. Ocvirk: The Poetic Art and Literary Theory (a lecture; published 1978)
1966	A. Ocvirk: Srečko Kosovel and Constructivism
1967	A. Ocvirk: Stylistic Shifts in Cankar’s Early Prose into Decadence and Impressionism
1968	D. Piijevec: An Introduction to the Question of Scientific Research into Art
1970	A. Ocvirk: Stylistic Shifts in Cankar’s Early Prose into Symbolism
—	D. Pirjevec: Scientific Research into Art
—	L. Kralj: The Literature of Slavko Gram
—	M.	Stanovnik: Oscar Wilde in the Slovene Press to 1914
1971	D.	Dolinar: Thomas Mann and the Slovene Public
1972	D.	Pirjevec: An Introduction to the Question of Criticism
1973	D.	Piijevec: Structural Poetics and Literary Studies
1978	J. Kos: The Theory and Practice of Slovene Comparative Literature
1979	E. Koren: The Question of Periodisation of Slovene and French Naturalism
1983	F. Buttolo: Vodnik’s and Rilke’s Symbolism
1983-84 J. Kos: Annotations to Slovene Cultural Development 1945-1980
1984	J. Pogačnik: The Basis, Significance and Problems of
Yugoslav Comparative Studies
1986	J. Kos: A Tentative Typology of Southern Slavonic Literatures
—	E. Koren: Ancient Myth and Slovene History
1987	J. Kos: Slowenische Literatur und historische Avantgarde
1988	J. Kos: The End of Modernism
—	E. Koren: Comparative Literature in Slovenia
1989	J. Kos: Slovene Literature after Modernism
1990	E. Koren: Comparative Literature and Literary Scholar-
V	ship
—	M. Juvan: Influence and Intertextuality
1991	J. Škulj: The Conccpt of Modernism as a Historical Period
1992	J. Škulj: Cultural Identity as Dialogism
1992-93	B. A. Novak: Alexandrine
1993	Poststructuralism - Deconstruction (symposium papers)
Magazine
1978	the Slovene Association for Comparative Literature begins issuing a bi-annual magazine called “Comparative literature” (“Primerjalna književnost”); bibliographic index for annual volumes 1-10 published in volume 11, 1988, No. 1)