Imagining the not Imaginable : Slovenian Women Poetry in the Fin-De-Siècle Period and the Beginning of the 20th Century
Abstract
The topic of our paper deals with the poetics of two Slovenian women poets Vida Jeraj (1875-1934) and Ljudmila Poljanec (1874-1948)). Both two of them established distinguished poetics, rooted in the impressionist and symbolist style.
They wrote about nature, their eelings and erotic. Poljanec was also the first lesbian author in Slovene literature.
Use of topoi that were typical for modernist literature, such as the flaneur or the femme fatale speaks to their relevance not only within Slovenian literature but in the wider European literary context as well. We also research the "breaking out" of the generation of the first Slovenian female lyricists, we discuss their place in the society and the reception of their books.
The starting point for the new Slovenian generation of women writers was the appearance of the newspaper Slovenka in Trieste. Later they were excluded from the patriarchal and heterosexual literary society of that time.