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.
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 "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.