Femme Fragile in Slovene Literature at the Turn of the 20th Century
Abstract
The present paper focuses on the literary type called femme fragile at the turn of the 20th century. In this period, the femme fragile both in visual arts and in literature experiences a rich development and some changes. She is shaped in accordance with the aesthetic guidelines of decadence, the secession and symbolism; she echoes medical and other discourses about femininity, male views of the female and the fear of increasing female independence. The analysis of the femme fragile in selected works of Slovene modernism reveals that the authors adjusted her also to social circumstances. The Slovene femme fragile is not a representative of the aristocracy. She originates from the bourgeois, or even rural, environment, and her origins might reach as far as to the folklore Fair or Lepa Vida.
Downloads
References
Anton BONAVENTURA, 1910: Ženinom in nevestam. Pouk za srečen zakon. V Ljubljani. https://www.dlib.si (14. 5. 2023).
Silvija BOROVNIK, 2020: Slovenska književnost v srednjeevropskem prostoru in položaj drugega. Slavia Centralis 13/2, 134‒148.
Ivan CANKAR, 1967: Helena. Erotika. Zbrano delo. Prva knjiga. Knjigo pripravil in opombe napisal France Bernik. Ljubljana: DZS. 11‒28.
Ivan CANKAR, 1967a: Romantične duše. Dramatična slika v treh dejanjih. Zbrano delo. Tretja knjiga. Knjigo pripravil in opombe napisal Dušan Moravec. Ljubljana: DZS. 7‒83.
Ivan CANKAR, 1969: Tisti lepi večeri. Vinjete. Zbrano delo. Sedma knjiga. Knjigo pripravil in opombe napisal Janko Kos. Ljubljana: DZS. 7‒13.
Ivan CANKAR, 1974: Tičnica. Moja njiva. Zbrano delo. Enaindvajseta knjiga. Knjigo pripravil in opombe napisal Janko Kos. Ljubljana: DZS. 46‒48.
Izidor CANKAR, 1986: S poti. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga.
Stephani CATANI, 2005: Das fiktive Geschlecht. Weiblichkeit in anthropologischen Entwürfen und literarischen Texten zwischen 1885 in 1925. Würzburg: Verlag Königshausen & Neumann GmbH.
Jožica ČEH STEGER, 2018: Kratka proza. Ivan Cankar, literarni revolucionar. Ur. Aljoša Harlamov. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba. 88‒114.
Jožica ČEH STEGER, 2022: Metaforični koncepti ljubezni in ženske v pesniških prvencih slovenske moderne. Slavia Centralis 15/2, 129‒142.
Pavel GOLIA, 1921: Pesmi o zlatolaskah. Ljubljana: Slovenska matica.
Fran GOVEKAR, 1966: V krvi. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga.
Urte HELDUSER, 2005: Geschlechterprogramme. Konzepte der literarischen Moderne um 1900. Köln, Weimar, Wien: Böhlau Verlag.
Alenka JENSTERLE DOLEŽAL, 2021: Podobe ljubezni v poeziji prve slovenske lezbične pesnice Ljudmile Poljanec: »Kdor bol ljubezni dotrpi, ‒ na veke se ne pogubi«. Slovenska poezija. (Obdobja, 40). Ur. Darja Pavlič. Ljubljana: Univerza v Ljubljani.
Filozofska fakulteta. 69‒76.
Alojz KRAIGHER, 1978: Kontrolor Škrobar. Zbrano delo. Tretja knjiga. Ljubljana: DZS.
Dagmar LORENZ, 2007: Wiener Moderne. Stuttgart, Weimar: Verlag J. B. Metzler.
Katrin MAX, 2014: Fiebrige Leidenschaft. Die gesteigerte Libido der Tuberkolösen als epochenübergreifende Metapher in der Literatur des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Epoche und Metapher. Systematik und Geschichte kultureller Bildlichkeit. Ur. Benjamin Specht. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. 255‒279.
Katja MIHURKO PONIŽ, 2014: Zapisano z njenim peresom: prelomi zgodnjih slovenskih književnic s paradigmo nacionalne literature. Nova Gorica: Založba Univerze v Novi Gorici.
Dušan MORAVEC, 1990: Lojz Kraigher. V Ljubljani: DZS.
Jože POGAČNIK, 1988: Slovenska Lepa Vida ali Hoja za rožo čudotvorno. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba.
Denis PONIŽ, 2009: Cankarjeva Vida (drama Lepa Vida) in Kraigherjeva Pepina (drama Školjka) kot primera femme fragile in femme fatale v slovenski dramatiki na prelomu stoletja. Annales 19/1, 1‒8.
Isabelle STAUFFER, 2008: Weibliche Dandys, blickmächtige Femmes fragiles: Ironische Inszenierungen des Geschlechts im Fin de siècle. Köln, Böhlau.
Ariane THOMALLA, 1972: Die femme fragile. Ein literarischer Frauentypus der Jahrhundertwende. Düsseldorf: Bertelsmann Universitätsverlag.
Nike WAGNER. 1981: Geist und Geschlecht. Karl Kraus und die Erotik der Wiener Moderne. Frankfurt am Main: Surkamp Verlag.
Alojzija ZUPAN SOSIČ, 2020: Deset romanov Ivana Cankarja in sodobna definicija romana. Slavia Centralis 13/1, 136‒152.
Alojzija ZUPAN SOSIČ, 2021: Cankarjev roman Milan in Milena, prvi slovenski pravljični roman. Slavia Centralis 14/1, 159‒173.
Alojzija ZUPAN SOSIČ, 2023: Ženske v Cankarjevih romanih in nedokončani roman Marta. Slavia Centralis 16/1, 89‒109.
Oton ŽUPANČIČ, 1956: Čaša opojnosti. Zbrano delo. Prva knjiga. Ljubljana: DZS.
Copyright (c) 2023 University of Maribor Press
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Copyrights
Authors of accepted manuscripts will retain copyright in their work, but will assign to Slavia Centralis the permanent right to electronically distribute their article. Authors may republish their work (in print and/or electronic format) as long as they acknowledge Slavia Centralis as the original publisher. Authors may also share the published version on their own websites, departmental webpages, or institutional repositories.
Plagiarism Policy
Slavia Centralis is a non-commercial, open access, electronic research journal. As such it pledges to uphold certain ethical principles regarding confidentiality, originality and intellectual fair play. Slavia Centralis takes copyright infringement and plagiarism very seriously and all submissions may be checked with duplication detection software.
Authors must:
- Ensure that all work submitted is original, fully referenced and that all authors are represented accurately. The submission must be exclusive and not under consideration elsewhere.
- Obtain all permissions from copyright owners for 3rd party material (e.g. quotations, illustrations, tables, etc.).