In my master's thesis I deal with contemporary Slovenian lesbian writing. Starting from the premise that the literary work of lesbians and their lives in general is marked by a minority position both in the literary system and in society, in the first part of the thesis, for a better understanding, I first present the complexity of the definition of modern lesbian identity, then go on to outline the problem of positioning and defining Western lesbian writing as a literary phenomenon, and then finally to the contemporary Slovenian lesbian writing through which I make a connection, which I analyse with the help of empirical literary science. In the second, literary-theoretical and literary-analytical part, I introduce natural narratology and hermeneutic narrative ethics as the central tools of literary analysis, which I then use to investigate to what extent narrativity in the selected collections depends on the experiential representation of events and the representation of consciousness, and if and how this dimension of narrative has an ethical impact on the reader.
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