Acta Neophilologica  

Andrejka Obidic

The paper analyzes Margaret Atwood’s postcolonial and postmodern feminist novels from the psychological perspective of Carl Gustav Jung’s theory of archetypes and from the perspective of Robert Graves’s mythological figures of the triple goddess presented... see more

Wojciech Klepuszewski

Part of what is usually labelled as drink/ing studies comprises literature and the way drink is rendered in literary works. In many cases such works are written by writers who themselves are drink-dependent. This article focuses on such fiction an such wr... see more

Elisabetta Marino

This essay sets out to explore the image of the black Madonna in Italian American artistic and literary expressions, providing thought-provoking examples of how this holy icon of universal motherhood has been persistently associated with the articulation ... see more

Igor Maver

The article examines the classicism of the poet A.D. Hope, especially in relation to his fascination with the work of Lord Byron, notably Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and its sections set in Italy in Rome. Hope’s insistence on the European source of Austral... see more

Polona Zajec

The xenophobic violence and discrimination that greets African migrants in post-apartheid South Africa highlights a social and political issue that threatens the idea(l) of the open pan-African society. The article looks at this xenophobia through the len... see more

Ali Shehzad Zaidi

This essay examines representative stories of the American Western genre in both film and literature in light of various literary influences, including The Bible and classical epics such as Gilgamesh, The Iliad, and The Odyssey. These stories relate the d... see more

Irena Avsenik Nabergoj

This article deals with literary depictions of social, political, cultural and religious circumstances in which children who have lost one or both parents at birth or at a later age have found themselves. The weakest members of society, the children looke... see more

Darja Mazi – Leskovar

This article presents three English translations of the Slovenian tale Martin Krpan z Vrha (1858) by Fran Levstik and focuses on the translation of personal and geographical names with the aim of examining the application of domestication and foreignizati... see more

Tanja Žigon

The present paper addresses the essay sketches entitled Ljubljanske slike by the publicist, playwright and satirist Jakob Alešovec (1842–1901). It deals with the issue whether the texts in question are (self)translations from German into Slovenian or whet... see more

Špela Virant

The article tries to read the plays by George Tabori from an intercultural point of view. The focus is on his play Mein Kampf, in which he uses irony to oppose the threatening mythologization of Hitler. It was first staged in 1987 in Vienna, when the stat... see more

Tadeja Dermastja

The Article consider some elements of fantastic in medieval writing on Beatrix, which has been integrated in French epic cycle about Crusades and Author compares it with English medieval Poem, which has the same Title. The main Question is, why was the Th... see more