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Children's Literature Classics in New Media

Literature value of certain classics of children’ s literature has been widely acknowledged, which justifies their place in the curriculum and textbooks. However, modern child, sadly, shows little interest for them. Frequently, it is exactly the features which lead to their appraisal (such as text structure, style and rich vocabulary), that also make them unappealing to contemporary child readers. Yet, there is a long tradition of conveying literature through other media (theatre, comics, film). Thus, classics are nowadays often presented in new media. Ivana Brlić Mažuranić is unanimously considered to be the greatest author of Croatian children’ s literature. Her Tales of Long Ago, which children tend to reject more and more often, have been presented in another medium, a CD ROM. The present study of children’ s reception of the stories in this new form has revealed the positive aspects of such a presentation of classics in terms of breaking the language barrier which obviously exists between the contemporary child and an old text. It has also been established that it contributes to acquainting children with their cultural heritage. It is nevertheless important to remember that new media frequently present only one possible interpretation of a literary work, which can, of course, never compete with the original.

Croatian tales of long ago; new media; story; reception; adaptation

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