Bajke Oscara Wildea u kontekstu dječje književnosti

Irski književnik Oscar Wilde, uz djela za odrasle, autor je i dviju zbirki bajki s naslovima Sretni princ i druge priče te Kuća mogranja. U radu se analiziraju odabrane bajke iz ovih zbirki uzimajući u obzir namijenjenost bajki djeci rane i predškolske dobi prema temi, formi, izrazu, zatim prisutnost kršćanskih motiva i njihove uloge u bajkama Oscara Wildea te prisutnost motiva Andersenovih bajki u bajkama Oscara Wildea. Cilj analize je odgovoriti na pitanje jesu li bajke Oscara Wildea, te u kojoj mjeri i obliku, primjerene djeci rane i predškolske dobi.The Irish author Oscar Wilde has, besides his adult-focused books, also written two collections of fairy tales entitled The Happy Prince and Other Tales and A House of Pomegranates. This paper analyzes selected fairy tales from these collections, considering e.g. the presence of Christian motifs and their role in the text, the appearance of motifs from stories by Hans Christian Andersen and Andersen's influence on Oscar Wilde's writing. The goal of this analysis is to answer the question whether Oscar Wilde's fairy tales are, and in which measure and form, appropriate for children in their early and preschool stages of development