A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FAIRY TALES AND FAIRY TALE WRITERS WITH AN EMPHASIS ON TINA WAJTAWA, THE ‘LITTLE FLOWER’ FROM RESIA

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https://doi.org/10.58885/ijllis.v14i2.23mb

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fairy tales, fairy tale writers, fairy tale tellers, ATU 425, Tina Wajtawa, Resia.

Abstract

The paper deals with the comparative analysis of the fairy-tale motif of the animal groom/bride, which in H. J. Uther's international index of fairy-tale types is marked with numbers from 400 to 459, or the Beauty and the Beast motif, which is marked with the number ATU 425C. The fairy tale type is known from ancient literature, from Apuleius' tale of Amor and Psyche (2nd century), through many versions of European fairy tales, from the French précieuses of M. De Beaumont (Beauty and the Beast), to the golden age of fairy tales and variants by Dorothea Viehmann (The Singing, Springing Lark, 1815), Laura Gonzenbach (Zafarana, 1870), and the variant by Tina Wajtawa (1900–1984), the fairy tale writer from Resia, entitled Dekle, ki je hotela rožico (The Girl Who Wanted a Flower). The results of the comparative analysis show that the fairy tales are similar and different at the same time. The essential similarity of the variants by the Resia fairy tale writer Tina TinaWajtawa, who told the motif of the animal groom/bride three times (Benjamina, The Girl Who Wanted a Flower and Žabica [The Little Frog]), shows that Tina Wajtawa related to the antiquity and the Romanesque tradition, while at the same time she added specific cultural elements from Rhesia as well as modern elements; in addition to the attribute of beauty, she attributedted the attribute of subjectivization (thinking) to her heroines.

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Arburim Iseni, University of Tetova "Fadil Sulejmani" - Tetova, North Macedonia

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arburim Iseni is proud to be working as an English Morphology and Academic Writing Professor at the University of Tetova since 1999. He is an experienced editor of many international journals with a demonstrated history of working in the research industry. He has published extensively in many peer-reviewed journals including those indexed in WoS and Scopus-Q1. He is very skillful in Intercultural Communication, Translation, Foreign Languages, Lecturing, and Editing. He is a person with charisma, multidimensional, performance driven that likes challenges and thrives for responsibilities. He is skillful with the impatience, hardworking, motivator with deep knowledge about people, their personalities and what motivates them. He is also careful to details and able to develop new procedures and system abilities, in computer basis and manual basis.  He is also a strong media and communication professional. He has two PhDs, one in Applied Linguistics: Second Language Acquisition obtained from Southeast European University, Tetovo, North Macedonia (2013) and the second one in English Literature obtained from the Saints Cyril and Methodius University. Faculty of Philology “Blazhe Koneski”, Skopje (2018).

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Milena Mileva Blažić, Kasilda Bedenk, & Iseni, A. (2025). A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FAIRY TALES AND FAIRY TALE WRITERS WITH AN EMPHASIS ON TINA WAJTAWA, THE ‘LITTLE FLOWER’ FROM RESIA. ANGLISTICUM. Journal of the Association-Institute for English Language and American Studies, 14(2), 23–36. https://doi.org/10.58885/ijllis.v14i2.23mb

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