Children's Literature in Hitler's Germany : The Cultural Policy of National Socialism /
Between 1933 and 1945, National Socialists enacted a focused effort to propagandize children's literature by distorting existing German values and traditions with the aim of creating a homogenous "folk community." A vast censorship committee in Berlin oversaw the publication, revision...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- part I. Literary theory and cultural policy. The roots of children's folk literature in pre-Nazi Germany
- From book burning toward Gleichschaltung
- The Nazis' theory of volkish literature
- part II. The interpretation of children's literature. Folktale, Germandom, and race
- Norse mythology and the Nazi mythos
- Saga ethics and character training
- Fiction : from myth to mythmaking
- The role of the classics
- Picture books between continuity and change
- part III. The uses and adaptations of children's literature. Primers : the ABC's of folk education
- Readers : textbooks in ideology
- Puppets, plays, and politics
- Volkish rituals for children and youth
- part IV. Methods and limitations of control. The system of censorship
- Folklore and curricular reforms
- New directions for school libraries
- Children's reading interests
- Publishing trends.