Non-Human Animal in Josip Pavičić’s Children’s Prose

Svijet prirode te posebno suodnos čovjeka i životinje temeljna je sastavnica Pavičićevih kratkih proza i pripovijesti za djecu koje je objavljivao u periodici te okupio u brojnim svojim zbirkama. U tom smislu, te su proze poticajne za analizu iz motrišta književne animalistike kao relativno nove posthumanističke discipline, koja tek u posljednjim desetljećima postiže afirmaciju. Cilj je rada istražiti na koji su način prikazane neljudske životinje i koja je njihova uloga u odabranim književnim predlošcima. Analizom će se problematizirati i moralno-etička pitanja poput specizma i empatije, a sve to u širem kontekstu hrvatske dječje književnosti te interdisciplinarnih animalističkih spoznaja.The world of nature, and especially the relationship between man and animals, constitutes a basic component of Pavičić’s short and long narrative prose for children, published in children’s magazines and printed in his many story collections. In that sense, the mentioned short prose is encouraging for the analysis from the viewpoint of literary animal studies as a relatively new post-humanistic discipline, which has only in the recent decades achieved affirmation. The objective of the paper is to study the way of representation of non-human animals and their role in the selected narratives. The analysis will also include moral and ethical issues, such as speciesism and empathy, having in mind a wider context of Croatian children’s literature and interdisciplinary animalistic insights