Ljubljana je že od svojega nastanka povezana s književnostjo; nastanek Emone, ki po mitskem izročilu sega v 13. stoletje pr. n. št., je npr. povezan z mitom o Argonavtih, Jazonu in iskanju zlatega ...runa. V procesu literarne recepcije je antični mit postal tudi pravljični tip ATU 513A po H.-J. Utherjevem motivnem indeksu pravljic. Motiv zlatega runa je prek mitskega pomena živali (zlata volna) postal nadčasovni simbol iskanja (nedosegljivega) v slovenski (J. V. Valvasor, A. T. Linhart, F. Prešeren, R. Rehar, J. Olaj, J. Kastelic, M. Jesih, J. Rode) in slovenski mladinski književnosti (npr. J. Jalen: Bobri), predvsem v slikaniški knjižni obliki (D. Zajc: Argonavti, A. Komat: Vila Jezerka, D. Muck: Kokoš velikanka), z različnimi pomeni in v kombinaciji z različnimi mitskimi, pravljičnimi in realističnimi simboli živali.
In her article "Children's Literature in South East Europe" Milena Mileva Blai? begins with an introduction to Maria Nikolajeva's 2000 book From Mythic to Linear: Time in Children's Literature in ...which a theoretical framework of thematics is defined, systematized, and categorized. Nikolajeva's framework for children's literature suggests attention to characteristics through which the maturation process of becoming adult is accomplished. Following the introduction and application of Nikolajeva's concepts, Blai? first applies the frame to selected texts published in South-East Europe, followed by lists of children's book published in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia.
In her article "A Survey of Slovenian Women Fairy Tale Writers" Milena Mileva Blai? begins with an introduction to the Slovenian fairy tale writing tradition dating back nearly 150 years. While male ...authors published collections of tales, women writers published only individual fairy tales and owing to their biographies giving birth to children and caring for their families gained less, if any, recognition in literary history. Blai?'s overview of Slovenian women writers of fairy tales and scholarship about the genre includes the related genre of youth literature. Blai?'s survey is placed in the context of West European fairy tale writing and she presents the literary history of women's fairy tale writing in Slovenian from the nineteenth- to the twenty-first century.
The article presents the city as motif of Slovenian youth literature in four different periods, beginning in the first period of original Slovenian youth literature in the second half of the 19th ...century, second period in the first half of the 20th century, third period in the second half of the 20th century and after 1950, when significant books were produced in the field of short modern stories, emphasising on picture books and realistic narrative prose, and the fourth period after 1990. A discernable shift can be observed in the thirties of the 20th century, during the times of socialist realism. The most significant change occurred after 1960, when massive migration from rural to urban environments caused by industrialisation began. The motif of urban environment especially marked modern realistic narrative, coined problematic narrative after 1990, with its focus on issues of growing up in such environments. The city as motif or theme doesn’t appear only in realistic narrative, but since the early 20th century also in fantastic narrative, thus it dichotomically presents the image of real world in Slovenian youth realistic narrative.
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