Original scientific paper

Why were the first Croatian picturebooks lost? Children’s literature between the book and the toy

Marijana Hameršak orcid.org/0000-0002-8102-6784 ; Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb

Abstract

This paper, from a dual perspective, that of the history of legal deposit copies and the history of the definition of children’s literature, tries to answer the question why almost all Croatian picturebooks published during the first two decades of production of the genre (1863 - 1885) are now lost. Instead as being seen as a problem, the lost picturebooks are approached as a stimulus for research on the relationship between games, children’s literature and material culture, in this case, books and toys, which is, as it was proposed by Robin Bernstein (2013) with a slightly different emphasis, the path to understanding literature as a complex and dynamic historical and cultural phenomenon, but also the opening for the research of children’s literature into the insights, approaches and perspectives from other disciplines.

Keywords

picturebooks; book history; history of legal deposit copy; Croatian children’s literature

Hrčak ID:

133471

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/133471

Publication date:

29.12.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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