Justice and Redemption

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the book
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• This eBook can be cited
• Table of Contents
• 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
• 4. Humility and Guilt in the Sacred Poetry of Cankar’s Youth
• 5. Religious Elements in Cankar’s Youth Confessions
• 6. Mystical Elements in the Novel On the Hill (1902)
• 7. Longing for Justice, and the Question of Forgiveness in Cankar’s play The King of Betajnova (1902); Parallels with Shakespeare, Tolstoy and Ibsen
• 7.1 Longing for Justice in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Parallels with Cankar’s The King of Betajnova
• 7.1.1 Hamlet’s and Maks’s Relationship to the World and to People
• 7.1.2 Uncovering Crime, and the Workings of Conscience in Hamlet and The King of Betajnova
• 7.1.3 The Theme of Love in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Cankar’s The King of Betajnova
• 7.1.4 Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Cankar’s Maks in a Passionate Search for Truth, and the Motif of the Punishment through Conscience
• 7.2 Guilt, Remorse and Forgiveness in Tolstoy’s Play The Power of Darkness and Cankar’s The King of Betajnova
• 7.3 Crime and the Question of Repentance in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment (1866) and in Cankar’s The King of Betajnova
• 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
• 7.5 A Synthetic Comparison of Selected Works from the Perspective of Good and Evil
• 8. Religious Elements in the Novel The Cross on the Hill (1904)
• 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
• 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)
• 9.1.1 The Contrast between the Sullied Life “Outside” and the Pure Life “Inside” the Hospital
• 9.1.2 The Symbolism of Angels and Premonitions of the Hereafter
• 9.1.3 The Sick Girls' Flight from Tainted People and Desecrated Gifts; Their Longing for a More Beautiful Life
• 9.1.4 The Dying Girls' Tranquil Journey from the Valley of “Night and Suffering” to “Light and Love”
• 9.2 The Value of Suffering, the Death of the Girl Nellie in Dostoyevsky’s Novel The Insulted and Injured (1861)
• 9.2.1 Violence and Sexual Molestation of the Illegitimate Child Nellie, and Nellie’s Longing for Redemption
• 9.2.2 The Romantic Idealism of the “Insulted and Injured” - The Main Characters in the Novel
• 9.2.3 The Significance of Forgiveness in The Insulted and Injured
• 9.2.4 The Theme of Dying and the Death of Nellie and a Comparison with Cankar’s Novel
• 9.3 The Suffering and Death of an Illegitimate Child in Hauptmann’s Dream Poem Hannele
• 9.3.1 Violence against the Fourteen-Year-Old Hannele, and Her Desperate Suicide Attempt
• 9.3.2 Hannele’s Fear of Her Violent Father; Her Longing for Heaven and for Her Deceased Mother
• 9.3.3 Hannele’s Death, Her Prayers to Jesus and Her Contact with Angels
• 9.3.4 Death Beatifies Hannele and Elevates Her Body
• 9.3.5 Hannele’s Death and Its Effect on Her Violent Father: Suicide
• 9.3.6 “The Stranger” Has Mercy on Hannele’s Soul and the “Dust and Pain,” and Raises Her “Above the Stars of God”
• 9.4 A Comparison of Selected Works by Cankar, Dostoyevsky and Hauptmann
• 10. Searching for a “God of Justice” in the Novel The Bailiff Yerney and His Rights (1907)
• 10.1 Yerney’s Faith in a Just God: Parallels with Old Testament Psalms
• 10.2 Yerney’s Revenge: A comparison with the Tale of David and Abigail (1 Sam 25)
• 11. Confessional Elements in Cankar’s Novel New Life (1908)
• 12. Religious Thought and Emotional Elements in Poetry Written between 1908 and 1909
• 13. An Impenitent Sinner’s Confession in the Sketch “Idyll at the Spring” (1909)
• 14. Searching for God of Justice and Redemption in the Collection Behind the Cross (1909)
• 14.1 Suffering, the Consequences of a Judgement and Redemption in the Sketch “Behind the Cross”
• 14.2 The Suffering of the Illegitimate Child and His Vision of Heaven in the Novella “Jure”
• 14.3 A Brother and Sister’s Longing and a Drunken Widower in the Novella “The Altar Boy Jokec”
• 14.4 Guilt and Conscience in the Novella “Pavliček’s Crown”
• 14.5 The Suffering and Despair of the Hunchback in “The Hunchback Martinec”
• 14.6 Crime and Punishment in the Novella “Damjan the Smith”
• 14.7 Admiration for the Criminal in Cankar and Dostoyevsky
• 14.8 The Revenge of People from “Underground”
• 14.9 A Child’s Revenge in the Sketch “Zdenko Petersilka”
• 14.10 Suffering and Death in Foreign LandsAbbreviations of Cankar’s Edited Works
• 15. The Power of Longing in the Short Prose of the Ljubljana Period (1909–1918)Works of Ivan Cankar Discussed
• 15.1 On Childhood Experiencing of Religious HolidaysIntroduction
• 15.2 Confessions about the Causes of Distancing Himself from Godth Century in Europe
• 16. Faith and Doubt in the Mother Sketches from the Ljubljana Period (1909–1918)
• 16.1 The Mother’s Faith and Recommending Prayer in the Sketch “The Walk to School”
• 16.2 Prayer in the Cycle “At the Holy Grave”
• 17. Renouncing God in the Autobiographical Narrative My Life (1914; 1920)The Experience of Sin, Guilt, Punishment and Forgiveness in Ivan Cankar
• 17.1 Reality and Fiction in Autobiography of Ivan Cankar and of His Literary Predecessors and Contemporaries
• 17.2 Reality and Fiction in Autobiography of Augustine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• 17.3 Reality and the Fiction in the Autobiographies My Life by Janez Trdina and by Ivan Cankar
• 18. Admission of a Childhood Theft in the Autobiographical Tale The Sinner Lenart (1913/1914; 1921)
• 18.1 Delinquents' Conscience in Cankar and Dostoyevsky
• 19. The Experience of War and the Call to Purify One’s Heart in Dream Visions (1917)
• 19.1 Repenting on Account of Individualism and Confession of Love for OthersExpressions of Longing for Eternal Life and Beauty in Cankar’s Works
• 19.2 The Image of Hell and the Last JudgementThe Question of Religiosity in Ivan Cankar’s Writings
• 19.3 Admission of Sinfulness
• 19.4 Figures of Death and a Premonition of Heaven
• 19.5 Longing for Resurrection and Redemption in Cankar’s Dream VisionsHumility and Guilt in the Sacred Poetry of Cankar’s Youth
• 20. The Role of Conscience in Cankar’s LiteratureReligious Elements in Cankar’s Youth Confessions
• 20.1 Meanings of Sin and Guilt in Cankar’s LiteratureMystical Elements in the Novel On the Hill (1902)
• 20.2 Between External and Internal Punishment for InjusticeLonging for Justice, and the Question of Forgiveness in Cankar’s play The King of Betajnova (1902); Parallels with Shakespeare, Tolstoy and Ibsen
• 20.3 Revenge and Forgiveness in Cankar’s LiteratureHamlet and Parallels with Cankar’s The King of Betajnova
• 20.4 The Promise of Redemption and Triumph of Justice
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Povzetek
• Bibliography
• Index and Description of Pictures
• Index of Subjects
• Index of Names and Authors