Zoofolklori dhe Zoopoetika në Letërsi
Zoofolklore and Zoopoetics in Literature

Summary/Abstract: This article proceeds from general introduction on Slovenian folklore research in past and present and deliver the first insights in new scientific discipline zoofolkloristics. With the help of new concepts in folklore studies (zoofolklore, ecopoetics in literature) as well as including findings of ecocriticism (animal as nonhuman subjectivity) analyse folklore and literature that includes animals in a wide variety of contexts. It represents an effort to shape a network of animal images and various human-animal relations in Slovenian folklore (songs and narratives) and literature from authors such as Robert Burns, Charles Baudelaire, Mark Twain, Gregor Strniša and Jure Detela. The aim of the article is to explore and problematize relationship between human and non-human subjectivity and to rethink this relationship on the ecological and ethical basis.

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