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Stárnou pohádkové bytosti v současné české literární tvorbě pro děti a mládež?

Title in English Do the Fairytale Creatures Grow Old in the Contemporary Czech Literature for Children and Youth?
Authors

SALHIOVÁ Martina

Year of publication 2016
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Slavica Wratislaviensia
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Mass media, audiovision
Keywords literary fairy tale; prose with a child hero; old age; death; rebirth
Description The literary creation for children and youth does not avoid the literary realizations of attitudes towards the old age. In this article, we will introduce three diverse ways to capture the aging process, but also the rejuvenation of the mythical creatures. In the prose with a child hero Dračí polévka, the Vietnamese grandfather was reborn as a lush dragon, in the fairy tale Lichožrouti, three different fairytale creatures are preparing for the end of their lives and in the book for children František z kaštanu, Anežka ze slunečnic, it is used a metaphor of autumn describing the cyclicality of the life in nature. Although the mentioned books are dissimilar, the description of old or aging persons is carried in the positive note, they become a pattern for little readers.
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