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Heinrich Wolgast

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criticism of children’s literature

  • Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass
    In children’s literature: Heritage and fairy tales

    …him who roused an educator, Heinrich Wolgast, to publish in 1896 his explosive Das Elend unserer Jugendliteratur (“The Sad State of Our Children’s Literature”). The event was an important one. It advanced for the first time the express thesis that “Creative children’s literature must be a work of art”; Wolgast…

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