ACTA NEOPHILOLOGICA 35. 1-2 (2002) Ljubljana MIRKOJURAK JANEZ STANONIK- OCTOGENARIAN IGORMAVER SLOVENE MIGRANT LITERATURE IN AUSTRALIA JANEZ GORENC W. B. YEATS IN THE SLOVENE CULTURAL SPACE MATEJA SLUNJSKI THE PLAYS OF L. HELLMAN, C. ODETS AND W. INGE ON SLOVENE STAGES DANICA CERCE CENTENNIAL REFLECTIONS ON STEINBECK'S REPUTATION IN SLOVENIA HELEN J. SWIFT ALAIN CHARTIER AND THE DEATH OF LYRIC LANGUAGE JAMIL GEORGE BARCHA MICHEL DE MONTAIGNES ESSAJS ROSALIND SILVESTER COMMUNICATION WITH THE OTHER IN JEAN PAUL SARTRE'S L'AGE DE RA/SON LUDOVIK B. OSTERC DON QUIJOTE Y HAMLET NADA GROSELJ ENJAMBMENT AND ITS REALISATION(S) IN SPEECH NADASABEC SECOND PERSON PRONOUNS AS MARKERS OF (IN)EQUALITY GASPERILC DISCURSIVE ROLE OF PAST TENSES FRANCISKA LIPOVSEK THE USE OF POSSESSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN ENGLISH AND SLOVENE ACTA NEOPHILOLOGICA 35. 1-2 (2002) Ljubljana MIRKOJURAK JANEZ STANONIK - OCTOGENARIAN ...... .................................................................... 3 IGORMAVER SLOVENE MIGRANT LITERATURE IN AUSTRALIA ................................ ....................... 5 • JANEZ GORENC W. B. YEATS IN THE SLOVENE CULTURAL SPACE .................................. ........ ...... .... .... 13 • MATEJA SLUNJSKI THE PLAYS OF L. HELLMAN, C. ODETS AND W. INGE ON SLOVENE STAGES .................. 29 • DANICA CERCE CENTENNIAL REFLECTIONS ON STEINBECK'S REPUTATION IN SLOVENIA ................... 45 HELEN J. SWIFT ALAIN CHARTIER AND THE DEATH OF LYRIC LANGUAGE .............. .............. ............... 57 JAMIL GEORGE BARCHA MICHEL DE MONTAIGNES ESSAIS ................................... , ............' ·............................... 67 ROSALIND SILVESTER COMMUNICATION WITH THE OTHER IN JEAN PAUL SARTRE'S L'AGE DE RAISON .......... 77 LUDOVIK B. OSTERC DON QUIJOTE Y HAMLET .................................................................. ,....................... 91 NADA GROSELJ ENJAMBMENT AND ITS REALISATION(S) IN SPEECH .............. .... .. ...... .... .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. ... 101 NADASABEC SECOND PERSON PRONOUNS AS MARKERS OF (IN)EQUALITY ..................................... 115 GASPERILC DISCURSIVE ROLE OF PAST TENSES ........................................................................... 127 FRANCISKA LIPOVSEK THE USE OF POSSESSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN ENGLISH AND SLOVENE ...... ...... .... .. .. .. 137 ACTA NEOPHILOLOGICA SLO ISSN 0567-784X University of Ljubljana- Univerza v Ljubljani Slovenia - Slovenija Editor (Urednik): Mirko Jurak Associate Editor (Pomocnik urednika): lgor Maver Editorial Board - Members (Uredniski odbor - clani): Anton Janko, Jerneja Petric, Miha Pintaric, Franciska Trobevsek - Drobnak Advisory Committee (Svet revije): Sonja Basic (Zagreb), Henry R. Cooper, Jr. (Bloomington, Ind.), Renzo Crivelli (Trieste), Kajetan Gantar (Ljubljana), Karl Heinz Goller (Regensburg), Meta Grosman (Ljubljana), Bernard Hickey (Lecce), Angelika Hribar (Ljubljana), Branka Kalenic (Ljubljana), Mirko Krizman (Maribor), Franz Kuna (Klagenfurt), Rado L. Lencek (New York), Tom Lozar (Montreal), Mira Miladinovic - Zalaznik (Ljubljana), Tom M. S. Priestley (Edmonton, Alb.), Janez Stanonik (Ljubljana), Neva Slibar (Ljubljana), Atilij Rakar (Ljubljana), Wolfgang Zach (Innsbruck). Acta Neophilologica is published by the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, with the support of Ministry of Science, Schooling and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia. The review is primarily oriented in promoting scholarly articles on English and American literature, on other literatures written in English as well as on German and Romance literatures. The Editorial Board also welcomes scholarly articles in related areas (as e.g. cross-cultural studies, ethnic studies, comparative literature, linguistics). All articles as refereed before being accepted or rejcted. The views expressed in articles should in no way be construed as reflecting the views of the publisher. Articles submitted for consideration should be sent in two computed-printed copies (double spaced), an abstract of no more than 60 words (in English) together with a diskette. Articles should be of no more than 5,000 words, and book-reviews of 1,000 words. For format and style authors should follow the MLA Handbook (fourth ed., 1995). Articles and suggestions for exchange journals and books for reviews should be sent to Mirko Jurak, Department of English, Filozofska fakulteta, Askerceva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. ©Acta Neophilologica. All rights reserved. Printed by Birografika BORI, d.o.o., Ljubljana. UDK 929 Stanonik J. JANEZ STANONIK -OCTOGENARIAN On January 2, 2002, the former editor of Acta Neophilologica, Professor Janez Stanonik, Member of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts, celebrated his eightieth birthday. He founded the review in 1968 and very successfully edited it for thirty-two years. Under his editorship Acta· Neophilologica published 205 articles written by 89 authors. Thus we can say that the review opened the possibility for Slovene and other scholars to present their research on Western European literatures and languages as well as on literatures written in English (particularly American, Canadian and Australian) to literary historians and critics throughout the world. As an account of Professor Stanonik's literary achievements was published two years ago (Acta Neophilologica 33. 1-2 (2000): 3-5) it need not be repeated here; let me only add that Professor Janez Stanonik is still full of energy and mentally very active, as is best proven by articles he still publishes yearly. On behalf of the contributors to Acta Neophilologica, members of the Editorial Board and myself I wish him a lot of good health, happiness and new scholarly achievements in the years to come. Mirko Jurak, Editor 3 4 UDK 821.163.6(94).09:314.743(94=163.6) SLOVENE MIGRANT LITERATURE IN AUSTRALIA IgorMaver Abstract This article on the literary creativity of Slovene migrants in Australia after the Second World War, including the most recent publications, discusses only the most artistically accomplished auth­ ors and addresses those works that have received the most enthusiastic reception by the critics and readers alike. Of course, those who are not mentioned are also important to the preservation of Slovene culture and identity among the Slovene migrants in Australia from a documentary, histori­ cal, or ethnological points of _view. However, the genres featur(!d here include the explicitly literary, the.semi-literary fictionalized biography, the memoir and documentary fiction, and the literary journalistic text- all those fields and genres that nowadays straddle the division line between 'high' literature and so-called 'creative fiction'. Artistic merit cannot be and is not the sole criterion in discussing migrant writ­ ing; however, it is only artistic relevance that has the power to reach readers beyond a work's context of origin and that guarantees the text in question a lasting value and a secure place in a literary culture (of readers and publishers), in Slovenia and Australia. As to the literary genres in Slovene migrant writing, (confessional) poetry is by far predominant, followed by short fiction, biographical and documentarist fiction and, more recently, several novels. Literary critics that have so far mostly written about Slovene migrant writing produced in Australia are Mirko Jurak~ Barbara Susa and the author of this article. Slovene migrant literature in Australia, despite its relatively short existence in comparison with that in the U.S.A., but due to its swift growth and artistic quality, definitely deserves special mention and research. Quite a few of its literati have by the beginning of the new millenium published independently their collections of poems or prose work,s in Australia as well as in Slovenia, and have seen a warm reception. On the other hand, the most productive and successful a~ong them justifiably ask them­ selves why they have not yet been included in the most significant Slovene literary anthologies and histories, in light of the publicly proclaimed artistic merit of their literary work. They do not wish to be pushed, in Slovenia too, into a kind of ghetto, in which many migrant writers nevertheless still nowadays find themselves in the Aus­ tralian 'multicultural' environment. 5 It goes without saying that within the Slovene migrant community there emerges also the problem of the language, English, which is mastered fully by the second generation of authors (Michelle Leber, Irena Birsa) and by some representatives of the first generation of migrants to Australia (Bert Pribac, Pavla Gruden, Danijela Hlis, etc ). The most important body of migrant writings is, of course, still published in the Slovene language, although works by the Slovene migrants written in English (or bi­ lingually), one may claim, also belong within the framework of Slovene literary sensi­ bility and creativity, a phenomenon that can be found also with some other migrant­ emitive European nations. Bilingualism (e.g. collections of poems in English and Slovene) results from a longstanding physical and spiritual displacement, whereby many migrants artistically and intimately increasingly experience Australia as their new or 'second homeland'. Slovene migrant experience has recently seen its first ma­ jor literary expression (and film version) outside the Slovene diaspora, in the novel by the Tasmanian writer Richard Flanagan, The Sound of One Hand Clapping from 1998 (Jurak 1999). Flanagan took as the basis of his book the tragic life story of his wife Sonja, a Slovene