Published: 2020-07-31

The Unknown Fate of a Well-Known Book: About Rediscovering Heinrich Hoffmann’s Classic Work

Kamila Kowalczyk
Dzieciństwo. Literatura i Kultura
Section: Review articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.32798/dlk.531

Dybiec-Gajer, J. (2017). Złota różdżka – od książki dla dzieci po dreszczowiec raczej dla dorosłych. Kraków: Tertium.

Abstract

The review article discusses the book by Joanna Dybiec-Gajer, Złota różdżka – od książki dla dzieci po dreszczowiec raczej dla dorosłych [A Golden Wand – from a Children’s Book to a Thriller Rather for Adults] (2017). The text presents the structure, methodology, and the most important theses of the monograph on the already classic work by Heinrich Hoffmann (1845), as well as indicates the scholar’s original and valuable findings proving the sense of rediscovering texts belonging to the cultural canon. The article points out also to the productivity of creating a microhistory of a literary work, taking into consideration numerous contexts of its functioning, and refers to Dybiec-Gajer’s reflections on the ways of writing the text (including the structure, genre convention, adaptive mechanisms) and how to read it (including interpretation, reception), which is particularly interesting in the context of relations between the German Struwwelpeter and the Russian Stëpka‑Rastrëpka (1849), or the Polish Złota różdżka [A Golden Wand] (ca. 1858).

Keywords:

adaptation, critical-point analysis, Heinrich Hoffmann, Joanna Dybiec-Gajer, 19th-century literature, children’s literature, German literature, translation, reception, Stëpka-Rastrëpka, Struwwelpeter, struwwelpetriades, Złota różdżka [A Golden Wand]

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Kowalczyk, K. (2020). The Unknown Fate of a Well-Known Book: About Rediscovering Heinrich Hoffmann’s Classic Work: Dybiec-Gajer, J. (2017). Złota różdżka – od książki dla dzieci po dreszczowiec raczej dla dorosłych. Kraków: Tertium. Dzieciństwo. Literatura I Kultura, 2(1), 193–207. https://doi.org/10.32798/dlk.531

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