CANKAR, IVAN

ēvänˈ tsänˈkär, 1876–1918, Slovenian poet. Considered one of the great Slovenian literary figures, he was influential in the development of modern satire, symbolic drama, and the psychological novel. The struggle of the outcast poor is a theme of his satirical novel Yerney's Justice (1907, tr. 1926) and many other works. Cankar also wrote satires on politics and culture.

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Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism
Book by Richard Frucht; Garland Pub., 2000
Subjects: Europe, Eastern--Encyclopedias
C Cankar, Ivan (1876 1918) Prominent Slovene writer...Ljubljana, 1976. Ozbalt, Irma. Ivan Cankar, in Dictionary of Literary Biography...Detroit, 1995. Slodnjak, Anton. Ivan Cankar in Slovene and World Literature. Slavonic...
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Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature
Book by Horatio Smith; Columbia university press, 1947
Subjects: Authors, European--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, European Literature--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography, European Literature--Dictionaries
Cankar, Ivan 1876-1918, Slovene novelist, dramatist, and poet , was born in the...idealistically youthful until his end. From the primary school at Vrhnika, Cankar was sent to the technical high school at Ljubljana, where he graduated...
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Yugoslavia: A History of Its Demise
Book by Viktor Meier; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Former Yugoslav Republics, Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Causes, Yugoslavia--History--1980-1992
...134 , 154 Bor, Matej 58 Borstner, Ivan 66 , 68 -9 Botteri, Robert 66...George 218 Buxhovi, Jusuf 97 c Cankar, Ivan 52 Carnojevic, Patriarch Arsenije...2 Chatelais, Michel 217 Cicak, Ivan Zvonimir 144 Cingrija, Pero 127...
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Rooting Multiculturalism: The Work of Louis Adamic
Book by Dan Shiffman; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003
Subjects: Adamic, Louis--1899-1951, Adamic, Louis--1899-1951--Political And Social Views, Historians--United States--Biography, Immigrants--United States--Biography, Immigrants--United States--Social Conditions--20th Century, Pluralism (Social Sciences)--United States--History--20th Century, Slovene Americans--Biography, Social Reformers--United States--Biography, United States--Ethnic Relations, United States--Social Conditions--20th Century
Cankar, Ivan. Yerneys Justice. Translated by Louis...Neophilogica 20 (1987): 63 67. Cizmic, Ivan. The Natives Return: Its Impact. In Louis...Bobbs Merrill Company, 1937. Dolenc, Ivan. Reactions to The Bohunks by Louis Adamic...
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Stage Design throughout the World since 1935
Book by Jean Cocteau, Kenneth Rae; George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1956
Subjects: Theater--Pictorial Works, Theaters--Stage-Setting And Scenery
...70 CAMUS, Albert Caligula. Josef Muller- Brockmann 116 CAMUS, Albert LEtat de Siege. Baltus 84 State of Siege. CANKAR, Ivan Pohujsanje v dolini Sentflo- rijanski. Viktor Molka 134 Scandal in the Valley of St. Florian.
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journal articles on: Cankar Ivan  - 3 results

 
 
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Section 1 Arts and Cities: Sculpted Landscapes: Art & Place in Cleveland's Cultural Gardens, 1916-2006
Journal article by Mark Tebeau; Journal of Social History, Vol. 44, 2010
Subjects: Cleveland, Ohio--History, Cleveland, Ohio--Social aspects, Landscape architecture--Appreciation, Landscape architecture--Social aspects, Public art--Social aspects, Sculpture gardens--Appreciation, Sculpture gardens--Social aspects
...busts of Ukrainian nationalist poets Taras Shevchenko and Ivan Franko that take a subtly different approach to monumental...Hungarian dominance of Slovakia. The poetry of Petar Njegos, Ivan Cankar, and Taras Shevchenko defined national revival among...
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A Dialogue on Legal Theory between a European Legal Philosopher and His American Friend
Journal article by Marijan Pavcnik, Louis E. Wolcher; Texas International Law Journal, Vol. 35, 2000
Subjects: Decision making, Europe, Language, Law, Law schools, Philosophy, Theory, United States
...that your "viewing or having a view" is dynamic; you place it into the "arena of life" (as the Slovenian writer, Ivan Cankar," once described his activity), and this is far from using the "road" leading to a "destination" as if the road...
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Typology of Slovenian Drama in the Period between the Two World Wars
Journal article by Kristof Jacek Kozak; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 41, 1999
Subjects: Drama, History, History & criticism, Literary criticism, Slovenia, Slovenian literature, World War I, World War II
...of this type of conflict was set by I. Cankar.9 This large division is further split...already left its mark in the plays by I. Cankar (1876-1918). Such a paradigmatic work...lowest class and poorest populace, whereas Ivan/i6 is a symbolic personification of the...


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magazine articles on: Cankar Ivan  - 2 results

 
 
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Adopt a Theatre: When Theatres Appreciate Their Communities and Communities Appreciate Theatres, Good Things Happen
Magazine article by Eliza Bent; American Theatre, Vol. 28, October 2011
Subjects: Community relations--Appreciation, Performing arts festivals--Planning, Theaters--Social aspects
...both that play and Jakob Ruda, by major Slovene writer Ivan Cankar (1876-1918). The latter is produced by Preseren Theatre...daughters future instead. Director Vito Taufer also brings a Cankar production to the competition: Scandal in the Valley...
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Contemporary Slovene Literature
Magazine article by Lea Flis; Contemporary Review, Vol. 284, April 2004
Subjects: Literature--Criticism and interpretation, Slovenia--Social aspects, Slovenian culture--Criticism and interpretation
...1918, predominantly belonging to the literary movement known as the New Romanticism--Dragotin Kette, Josip Murn, Ivan Cankar and Oton Zupancic), a whole new generation of literary artists, whose works were free of the sentiments of repressive...


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encyclopedia articles on: Cankar Ivan  - 2 results

 
 
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Cankar, Ivan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CANKAR, IVAN evan tsan kar, 1876 1918, Slovenian poet. Considered one of the great...satirical novel Yerneys Justice (1907, tr. 1926) and many other works. Cankar also wrote satires on politics and culture...
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Yugoslav Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...apogee in Osman, the Croatian epic by Ivan Gundulic , and in the plays of Marin...Vraz (1810 51), and the Croatian Ivan Mazuranic (1814 90) whose epic The...greatest of all Slovenian writers, Ivan Cankar (1876 1918). The late 19th cent...


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