In my master’s thesis, I examine the history of the literary minimalism studies, with a particular focus on the Slovenian literary context. I discuss the label of literary minimalism in both a narrower and a broader sense and indentify Andreja Perić Jezernik’s typology of minimalization as a suitable framework for extending the analysis to all three major literary genres: prose, drama and poetry.
This perspective subsequently enables a comparison of seemingly disparate literary works and ultimately leads me to consider the close interconnectedness of two extreme creative principles, minimalism and maximalism. Rather than necessarily being opposed to one another, these principles can, and often do, complement and supplement each other, both in the analysis of literature and in the process of its creation.
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