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.
The article presents the literary works foryouth by Lojze Kovačič (1928-2004) who mostly wrote for adults.He was born in Basel, Switzerland, but before the Second World War, the author's family had ...to leave Switzerland and they emigrated to the then Kingdom of Yugoslavia, to the birthplace of his father. As early as 1947, he began publishing in Slovene in the student newspaper “Mi mladi” (We Young). After 1950, he wrote short modern fairy tales for children with modernist elements typical of adult literature. This deliberate modernity already heralds a top author who, for example, translated Kafka for children. In his initial phase, he collaborated with illustrators (e.g., Milan Bizovičar), created comics with avant-garde art elements and wrote science fiction. The most famous is the collection of short contemporary fairy tales “Zgodbe iz mesta Rič-Rač” (Stories from the City of Rič-Rač, 1962- ) which has been reprinted several times and represents only a third of the author's oeuvre. Two-thirds are unpublished, scattered through various radio shows and magazines. The editor of Pionirski list, Marija Kovačič Vida, published texts by a whole generation of authors in the 1950s and 1960s. In the most famous anthologies, entitled “Za celo leto: priročnik iger in deklamacij” (For the Whole Year: A Handbook of Games and Declamations, 1960) and “Praznični koledar: pesmi, črtice in igre za šolske prireditve” (Holiday Calendar: Poems, Literary Sketches, and Games for School Events, 1976), she made an outstanding review of literary creativity intended for children and youth. Based on the study of the author's oeuvre for youth, we can easily conclude that the author is a pronounced modernist, as he used avant-garde approaches, elements of art deco, Bauhaus, camera obscura, puppets, mundus inversus, commercials, etc. He translated picturesque visual images into modernist texts for young people. At the end of the article, suggestions are given for a scientific-critical monograph dealing with the author's literary opus for youth which is characterized by translation of visual into verbal and vice versa (e.g., puppets, comics), as well as between other media. It is paradoxical that L. Kovačič in his literary worksintended for adults was rather critical of the socialist system in his second homeland (1945-1991), but he nevertheless published the most literary units for youth during this very period, and his work was also regularly included in the curricula (1984, 1998) and readers in schools, while in the latest curriculum from 2019 he is completely overlooked and omitted. Based on his writing, L. Kovačič is a truely European author. He died on 1 May 2004, the day Slovenia became a member of the EU and the intense oblivion of history began. L. Kovačič was one ofthe victims of this process.Keywords: Lojze Kovačič, youth opus, art deco, avant-garde, Bauhaus, topsy-turvy world, camera obscura, puppets, radio, commercials.
The article presents a comparative analysis of selected fairy tales from the Tipical Index of Slovene Folk Tales, 2015, by Monika Kropej Telban, and the collection of Bulgarian fairy tales by Ljudmil ...Dimitrov, entitled The Short tailed Rooster, 2018, which includes twenty-five fairy tales about animals. The method of literary analysis of Max Lüthi was used in the process.Keywords: ATU index; Hans Jörg Uther; Max Lüthi; Monika Kropej Telban; fairy tales; fairy tales about animals.
The collection of twenty-two Macedonian folktales translated into Slovenian was a part of a student project in 2006 under a meaningful title The Sun’s Sister. The collection includes the following ...tales (in alphabetical order): About sons and money, Goodness for goodness, Logger who understood the language of animals, Mara the Cinderella, Shepherd and three fairies, Sun’s sister, The apple and two wives, The lost empress, The mole is a priest’s son, The three commandments that the father gave to his son, Three sisters, Three weavers, Tower of human heads, Three Fates and a child, Emperor and three sons, Emperor with three sons and three apples, Emperors daughter and drum, The Emperor’s daughter who refused to marry, The snake that was ungrateful to the shepherd and the shepherd who was ungrateful to the fox, Wisdom and happiness, Young man who wanted to learn about woman cunning, and The wolf. The collection represents an important contribution to the reception of Macedonian literature in Slovenia.Keywords: The Sun’s Sister, ATU 311, Hans Jorg er, Max Lüthi, Jack Zipes, interculturality.
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