The role of a girl in modern youth literature

V diplomskem delu je predstavljeno raziskovanje spolnih vlog v sodobni mladinski književnosti, s poudarkom na motivu deklice. V teoretičnem delu je obravnavana opredelitev mladinske književnosti in pravljice, kot pomembnega pedagoškega sredstva. Poudarek je na stereotipih in stereotipnih spolnih vlogah ter na njihovem pojavljanju v mladinski literaturi. V drugem delu diplomske naloge je predstavljena interpretacija del sodobne mladinske književnosti. Zastavljen cilj je bil s pomočjo opisa in orisa deklice kot glavnega literarnega lika v besedilu ugotoviti, kakšen je motiv deklic v sodobni mladinski književnosti. Z namenom, da bi bila dela za interpretacijo kakovostna, so ta izbrana iz Priročnikov za branje kakovostnih mladinskih knjig, ki ga vsako leto izdaja Mestna knjižnica Ljubljana. S pomočjo preglednic je bilo interpretiranih šest del, v katerih ima deklica osrednjo vlogo. Motiv deklice je bil nato na podlagi opisa in orisa opredeljen kot tradicionalen, sodoben ali med sodobnim in tradicionalnim. Od šestih obravnavanih besedil, so bili trije literarni liki opredeljeni kot sodobni, dva kot tradicionalna, eden pa je bil uvrščen v kategorijo med sodobnim in tradicionalnim. Dejstvo, ki pri tem preseneča, je da so avtorji vseh besedil, uvrščenih med sodobne, pisatelji.Different gender roles in youth literature, especially the role of a girl, are considered in this thesis. In the theoretical part, the definition of young adult literature and the fairy tale as an important pedagogic tool is considered. Stereotypes and stereotypical gender roles are highlighted and later linked with their occurance in literature. In the second part of the thesis, an interpretation of modern young adult literary works is made. The goal was to find the motive behind the role of girls in such literature, whilst considering the description and the outline of a girl as a main literary character. In order to consider high quality literature, literary works in this part were selected from a manual for reading quality youth books, which is published annually by the Ljubljana City Library. Six literary works with a girl as the main literary character were interpreted using spreadsheets. Based on description and outline the main literary character was determined as either modern, traditional or a combination between modern and traditional. In three out of six considered literary works the main literary character was defined as modern, two were defined as traditional and one was defined as a mixture between modern and traditional. A surprising fact, which was discovered while defining the literary character is that the authors of all three literary works, where the main literary character was classified as modern, are male