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This chapter discusses the east-bound journey of Heinrich Hoffmann’s Struwwelpeter. It begins with a short overview of Polish-language editions of the classic to show the changing context of the translation and publication history, outlining a development from the concept of an invisible translator to a celebrity translator. The analysis of Polish-language editions shows that all of them make the narrator more audible than the original, to some extent framing the uncoventionally ambivalent text into a more familiar didactic exercise. As the classic under consideration is a picturebook, an analysis of text—image dynamics complements the discussion.
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Dybiec-Gajer, J. (2020). Mixing Moralizing with Enfreakment: Polish-Language Rewritings of Heinrich Hoffmann’s Classic Struwwelpeter (1845). In: Kérchy, A., Sundmark, B. (eds) Translating and Transmediating Children’s Literature. Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52527-9_4
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