Original scientific paper

Popeljuha Zavaljuha: a stylistic interpretation of a Cinderella folk tale

Eni Buljubašić orcid.org/0000-0002-9992-9818 ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Split, Croatia

Abstract

The paper gives a stylistic interpretation of a “local Cinderella.” This northern Čakavian oral fairytale was first documented in 1876. A stylistic analysis of the text of an oral fairytale requires a complex methodology: factors to be considered are: the nature of an oral fairytale genre, the local idiom, a contemporary reader’s diachronic
distance to the text, the context of artistic creation, implicit understanding of what stylistic interpretation is, but also the need to recognize contemporary interpretative positions and interdisciplinarity implicated. In relation to the definition of the female
subject adopted from feminist criticism, the author performs a stylistic analysis of the fairytale. In the process, the relationship between the limits of the genre and the methodology used is explored.

Keywords

folk fairy tale; Čakavian; feminist criticism; stylistic interpretation; oral literature; Cinderella

Hrčak ID:

136253

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/136253

Publication date:

10.3.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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