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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kamenetsky, Christa, 1934- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [1984]
Temas:
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.