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    In children’s literature: Heritage and fairy tales

    …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 resolutely decried nationalistic and didactic deformations. He precipitated…

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