Prvé podoby autorskej rozprávky na Slovensku
First forms of the Slovak autorial fairy tales

Summary/Abstract: The Slovak authorial fairy tales published before 1930s are nowadays often seen as works without real artistic character. The literary research and theoretical sources about authorial fairy tale development describe this period only in some (even contradictory) general information. Our interpretation of the historical resources (books published in the period from 1877 to 1928) shows the initial inclination towards contamination of genres and the didactic purpose. First steps of the genre foundation can be found in the didactic (Christian-didactic) works written by J. D. Čipka and A. H. Škultéty modelling a child character. The first concept of the authorial fairy tale genre in Slovakia is formed in Kristina Royova´s animal fairy tale. In the period 1910–1930 the main tendencies in the works labelled as fairy tales are modelling a child hero; didactism: the stories based on a didactic purpose seen in reward or punishment of the main character; imitating a play of children, and working with the elements of dreaming.

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