1. Literarni leksikon (Literary Lexicon), ZRC SAZU and DZS, Ljubljana. Vols. 1 (1978) - 43 (1995)

A collection of organised monographs on major issues relating to literary science, published in separate volumes. Selected ideas, phenomena and problems are presented in terms of international historical developments, with special attention given to their acceptance, various transformations and role in Slovenian literature. Studies which have been published to date cover a variety of subject areas:

1. General ideas, methods
2. Periods, movements, trends
3. Types, genres, forms, areas
4. Poetics, literary style, verse.

The collection is ongoing.

2. Critical editions

Brižinski spomeniki. Znanstvenokritična izdaja (The Freising Manuscripts. A Critical Edition). Issued by SAZU and ZRC SAZU, published by Slovenska Knjiga, Ljubljana, 1992 (collectors' edition). Second, revised edition, issued and published by SAZU and ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 1993 (Dela SAZU, II. razred, 39 - study edition)

This book is devoted to the oldest preserved Slovenian and, at the same time, Slavonic text in the Latin alphabet, a landmark denoting the beginning of Slovenian literary and cultural history. The edition contains facsimiles of the monument, a description of the code of monument conservation, a diplomatic, critical and phonetic transcription of the original text, translations into modern Slovenian, Latin, German and English, a dictionary of the language used, and finally an outline of the research to date and a selected bibliography of works on the Freising Manuscripts.

The book received a varied but predominantly favourable reaction from the public in Slovenia and elsewhere, stirring up lively argument in Italian newspapers in Trieste. It indirectly contributed to a similar Italian edition, which adopted a number of essential parts from the Slovenian publication (Janko Jež: Monumenta Frisingensia. Brižinski Spomeniki. La prima presentazione in Italia dei monumenti letterari Sloveni ... Edited by A. Tasso-Jasbiz, P. G. Parovel, Mladika, Trieste; Vallechi Editore, Florence, 1994).

Pisma slovenskih protestantov (Letters by Slovenian Protestants). Edited by Jože Rajhman, SAZU and ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 1997 (Correspondence by prominent Slovenians, 11)

This book, which supplements Pisma Primoža Trubarja (Letters by Primož Trubar, SAZU, Ljubljana, 1986), brings together the correspondence of other Protestant writers, various documents and the introduction to the Bible by J. Dalmatin (a total of more than 50 texts). This body of work has not yet been compiled and fully presented. Original texts are printed in German and Latin, accompanied by Slovenian translations, notes and an introductory study. The correspondence represents a significant source for literary and cultural history, particularly for issues relating to the Slovenian Protestant church and schools; owing to close links between the Slovenian and German reformations, it is also relevant to the study of 16th century European history.

3. Slovenski biografski leksikon (The Slovenian Biographical Lexicon - SBL), Vol. 15, SAZU and ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 1991

This is the latest volume of the basic encyclopaedic work, the first volume of which appeared in 1925. The SBL deals with important figures from Slovenian history using the bio-bibliographical method and gives a synthetic assessment of their work and significance. From the perspective of individuals and their works it also gives a number of possible insights into Slovenian culture, science and other areas of public life. It therefore helps to reinforce an awareness of national and cultural identity and to widen the possibilities for its presentation outside areas populated by Slovenians. The SBL is one of the obligatory points of departure for further research in the humanities and offers support to other encyclopaedic and reference editions.

4. Monographs and proceedings

Balantičev in Hribovškov zbornik (Proceedings of the Symposium on Balantič and Hribovšek), ZRC SAZU and Mohorjeva Družba, Ljubljana/Celje, 1994

The proceedings include papers and summaries of discussions which took place at the 'Poetry of France Balantič and Ivan Hribovšek in the Slovenian Cultural Environment’ symposium. The aim of the symposium and the proceedings was to shed light on the literary works of the two poets, who were, for ideological reasons, treated as undesirables in Slovenia after the Second World War, and to analyse various aspects of their poetry in terms of ideas and form, thus assigning their place in literary history, and to present a number of commemorative and documentary aspects of their lives. Twenty-five literary historians, critics, journalists and philosophers of various generations were involved in the analysis of the works of the two poets. The variety of views enriched our knowledge of their work.

Zbornik Brižinski spomeniki (Proceedings on the Freising Manuscripts), SAZU and ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 1996 (Dela SAZU, II. razred, 45)

This book presents the results of an international symposium held in Ljubljana in 1994. On the basis of the new critical edition, the symposium examined the issue of the Freising Manuscripts from the various aspects of the humanities and their interdisciplinary links. The Proceedings include 42 monograph studies, subdivided into the following subject areas:

1. History, archaeology, codicology, palaeography
2. Genealogy, theology
3. Linguistics
4. Literary style, literature, literary themes
5. Reception, translation
6. Miscellaneous.

The studies (in several languages with summaries, tables, pictures and schemata) are a result of research into the Freising Manuscripts, which continue to attract the attention of international and national specialists and remain an elite research area. Arguments against the Slovenian origin of the manuscripts no longer have much weight, since experts consider them almost unanimously to be a part of the cultural heritage of Slovenia. The proceedings are methodologically pluralistic, using both classic and contemporary research methods.

F. Bernik: Ivan Cankar. Ein slowenischer Schriftsteller des europäischen Symbolismus, Slavica Verlag, Dr Anton Kovač, Munich, 1997.

The first monograph on Ivan Cankar to be published in German, it analyses his work in the light of European literary trends and currents at the turn of the 19th century (Decadence, Impressionism, Symbolism). It follows his literary development from his initial lyrical phase to maturity, in which drama and prose predominated. In his late works the traditional patterns dissolved and more daring forms appeared, stemming primarily from his Symbolist conception of the world. Several genres (primarily the sketches), their style and typically interwoven themes and ideas (the artist, social criticism and satire, rebellion, resignation, eroticism, longing) are given particular emphasis; all confirm Cankar’s unique place in Slovenian literature.

M. Dolgan: Tri ekspresionistične podobe sveta - Pregelj, Grum, Jarc (Three Expressionist Images of the World - Pregelj, Grum and Jarc), ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 1996 (Zbirka ZRC, 13)

Zbornik ob sedemdesetletnici Franceta Bernika (An Anthology on the Occasion of France Bernik’s Seventieth Birthday), ZRC SAZU, 1997