Justice and Redemption: Anthropological Realities and Literary Visions by Ivan Cankar

Neuwertiges Buch - fresh, clean copy. - Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations of Cankar's Edited Works -- Works of Ivan Cankar Discussed -- Introduction -- 1) Social, Political and Literary Events at the Turn -- of the 19th Century in Europe -- 2) The Development of Literary, Artistic, Intellectual and -- Cultural Streams in Slovenia and the Important Role -- of Ivan Cankar -- 3) Ivan Cankar and European Literature -- 4) The Intellectual-Historical, Aesthetic and Personal -- Values in Ivan Cankar's Literature -- 1. The Experience of Sin, Guilt, Punishment and Forgiveness -- in Ivan Cankar -- 1.1 Cankar's Dialogue within the Central European -- Literary-Cultural Realm -- 1.2 Expressiveness and Symbolism in Cankar's Literature -- of the Vienna Period -- 1.3 Guilt and Remorse in Cankar's Confessions of Love -- for His Mother -- 1.4 Longing and Guilt in Cankar's Experiencing of Love -- towards a Woman -- 1.5 Guilt, Punishment and Forgiveness in Cankar's -- Relationship to His Fellow Man and Society -- 1.6 Guilt, Punishment and Forgiveness in Relationship -- to God in Cankar's Literature -- 2. Expressions of Longing for Eternal Life and Beauty -- in Cankar's Works -- 3. The Question of Religiosity in Ivan Cankar's Writings -- 3.1 The Question of Religiosity in Cankar's Letters -- to His Brother Karlo Cankar (Priest) -- 3.2 The Question of Religiosity in Cankar's Memorial -- Article on the Slovenian Poet Dragotin Kette --12 Irena AVSENIK NABERGOJ � JUSTICE AND REDEMPTION -- 4. Humility and Guilt in the Sacred Poetry of Cankar's Youth 84 -- 5. Religious Elements in Cankar's Youth Confessions 89 -- 6. Mystical Elements in the Novel On the Hill (1902) 92 -- 7. Longing for Justice, and the Question of Forgiveness -- in Cankar's play The King of Betajnova (1902); -- Parallels with Shakespeare, Tolstoy and Ibsen 95 -- 7.1 Longing for Justice in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Parallels -- with Cankar's The King of Betajnova 97 -- 7.1.1 Hamlet's and Maks's Relationship to the World -- and to People 99 -- 7.1.2 Uncovering Crime, and the Workings of Conscience -- in Hamlet and The King of Betajnova 102 -- 7.1.3 The Theme of Love in Shakespeare's Hamlet -- and Cankar's The King of Betajnova 105 -- 7.1.4 Shakespeare's Hamlet and Cankar's Maks in -- a Passionate Search for Truth, and the Motif -- of the Punishment through Conscience 110 -- 7.2 Guilt, Remorse and Forgiveness in Tolstoy's Play -- The Power of Darkness and Cankar's The King of Betajnova 113 -- 7.3 Crime and the Question of Repentance in Dostoyevsky's -- Crime and Punishment (1866) and in Cankar's -- The King of Betajnova 118 -- 7.4 Guilt, Repentance and the Discovery of Truth in Ibsen's -- Plays The Pillars of Society (1877) and The Wild Duck -- (1884), and in Cankar's The King of Betajnova 123 -- 7.5 A Synthetic Comparison of Selected Works from -- the Perspective of Good and Evil 127 -- 8. Religious Elements in the Novel The Cross on the Hill (1904) 130 -- 9. "Dead Homes" and Longing for Salvation: The Suffering -- and Death of Innocent Girls as Salvation from the Evils of the -- World in Works by Cankar, Dostoyevsky and Hauptmann 133 -- 9.1 The Girls' Longing for Death and for Heaven as Salvation -- from the Physical, from Sin and from Evil in Cankar's -- The Ward of Our Lady of Mercy (1904) 133 ISBN 9783631646182