The thesis deals with ecocritical reading of contemporary Slovene mountaineering literature published from 2015 to 2020. The main discussion of the thesis addresses issues related to the representation of ecological connectivity and the environmental crisis, the critique of human domination over the inhuman and the critique of colonialism, through the analysis of the following literary works: Najvišji vrhovi celin (2018) by Viki Grošelj, Alpinist (2018) by Silvo Karo, Igra in biseri: kako sem hčerki z alpinizmom razložil življenje (2018) by Bogdan Biščak, Skozi trave oblakov (2019) by Milan Romih, Vprašaj goro (2019) by Jože Mihelič, Tista lepa leta – spomini Rada Kočevarja (2019) by Mojca Volkar Trobevšek and Rado Kočevar, and Objem na vrhu sveta (2020) by Marija and Andrej Štremfelj. These findings are followed by a comparison of the American genre of nature writing and mountaineering literature, which is a new contribution to research of Slovenian ecocriticism.
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