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The European Context of Nazor's Children's Stories on the Theme of Crossing Over the Worlds

This article compares the motifs and themes common to Croatian writer Vladimir Nazor (1876–1949) and European writers from Romanticism to the turn of 19th to 20th century (fin de siècle). First, Nazor’s stories are analyzed between themselves with regard to the crossing over from one world to another (land into the sea world, human into the animal/forest world, immortal into the human world). Then, each story is compared with the corresponding stories of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Oscar Wilde. Similarities and differences in the presentation of the particular motifs, characters, and situations are established. The features of modern style in the description of the characters, plant, animal, and mineral world and emphasized Neo-Romantic longing for the contents from the folklore heritage and fairytale antiquity are observed. The concluding thesis of the article is that Nazor was preoccupied with motifs and characters from the fairytales of the famous European writers, but he approached them in his own, individual way, connecting them with the Croatian maritime climate and the heritage of oral literature and mythology of the Croatian nation.

tales; fairytales; crossing over the worlds; romanticism; modern style stylization; neo-romanticism

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