Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31192/np.16.2.4
Symbolic and Meaning functions of flora in Tales of Long Ago by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
Vanda Babić
orcid.org/0000-0002-7191-2133
; Department of Croatian and Slavic Studies at the University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
Denis Vekić
; Department of Croatian and Slavic Studies at the University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
Abstract
Texts with the elements of mythic language are often those in which symbolic values are found and the transcribed and hidden meanings in everything which seems quite commonly and daily. The motives in artistic and folk fairy tales are often attributed with means of one dimensionality, but in the selective use of these motifs there are hidden values and significance which can be interpreted through detailed research and understanding the meaning context of fairy tales. This paper is based on the idea that the author of the Story of Long Ago in her fairy tales used motifs and meanings spectrum which is applied to the flora of Slavic mythology. The use of specific specimens of flora carries symbolic and meaningful functions within which that can be detected by studying the corpus of mythical motifs and elements that were inherited in Slavic mythology and ethnobotanics.
Keywords
flora; symbols; Tales of Long Ago; motifs; analysis
Hrčak ID:
203374
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Publication date:
10.7.2018.
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