Secondary abstract: |
The first part of graduation thesis presents fairytale as a whole – its significance, exploring through history and classification of fairytales.
Exploring of folk tales as well as their models and specific characteristics after Alenka Goljevšček, Bruno Bettelheim, Max Lüthi, Jck Zipes, Clarissa Pinkola Estés and Vladimir Propp are described in detail.
The central part of thesis is devoted to Propp’s work Morphology of the Folktale.
Propp’s model consists of the initial state which is followed by a limited number of characters’ features – thirty-one altogether. Although all folk tales do not include all the features, the sequence is always the same and the features are permanent and invariable.
Afterwards, the life and work of the late Slovenian youth writer, poet and playwright Lea Fatur as well as her manuscript legacy titled Fairytales (-15) kept at the Department of Manuscripts of the National and University Library in Ljubljana are presented. Works included in this collection haven't been published or presented to the public yet.
Miraculous tales from the legacy of Lea Fatur are then analyzed according to Propp's theory. In addition, three fairy tales which have been published in various magazines between 1928 and 1935 are also analyzed. Other works transcribed from this manuscript legacy are only introduced because it turned out through examination that they cannot be classified as miraculous tales due to their characteristics and thus cannot be analyzed according to Propp’s model.
This pay respects to excellent writer Lea Fatur and retain a part of her effort and creativity, which were unfortunately ignored too many times in the past. |