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Author | : Maria Nikolajeva |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2005-05-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0810854260 |
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As undergraduate and graduate courses in children's literature become more established and numerous, there is an intense need for a textbook that offers aesthetic rather than educational approaches to children's literature. This work fills that void by providing students of children's literature with a comprehensible and easy-to-use analytical tool kit, showing through concrete demonstration how each tool might best be used. The chapters are organized around familiar and easily recognized features of literary texts (e.g. author, genre, character). Theoretical issues are illustrated by specific texts from the North American children's literature canon. The book explores the particular aesthetics of children's fiction and the ways critical theory may be applied to children's texts, while remaining accessible to a college readership without prior specialized knowledge of literary theory. Each chapter includes a short introduction to a specific theoretical approach (e.g. semiotics, feminist, psychoanalytic), an example of its application to a literary text, a number of activities (study questions, reading exercises), and suggestions for further explorations.
Author | : Maria Nikolajeva |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2015-08-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317358279 |
Download Children's Literature Comes of Age Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Originally published in 1996. A detailed analysis of the art of children's literature covering world literature for children, children's literature as a canonical art form, the history of children's literature from a semiotic perspective, and epic, polyphony, chronotope, intertextuality, and metafiction in children's literature.
Author | : Maria Nikolajeva |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-08-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317358287 |
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Originally published in 1996. A detailed analysis of the art of children's literature covering world literature for children, children's literature as a canonical art form, the history of children's literature from a semiotic perspective, and epic, polyphony, chronotope, intertextuality, and metafiction in children's literature.
Author | : K. Reynolds |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2007-04-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230206204 |
Download Radical Children's Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book reappraises the place of children's literature, showing it to be a creative space where writers and illustrators try out new ideas about books, society, and narratives in an age of instant communication and multi-media. It looks at the stories about the world and young people; the interaction with changing childhoods and new technologies.
Author | : Michael Cadden |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0803234090 |
Download Telling Children's Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The most accessible approach yet to children's literature and narrative theory,Telling Children's Storiesis a comprehensive collection of never-before-published essays by an international slate of scholars that offers a broad yet in-depth assessment of narrative strategies unique to children's literature. The volume is divided into four interrelated sections: "Genre Templates and Transformations," "Approaches to the Picture Book," "Narrators and Implied Readers," and "Narrative Time." Mike Cadden's introduction considers the links between the various essays and topics, as well as their connections with such issues as metafiction, narrative ethics, focalization, and plotting. Ranging in focus from picture books to novels such asTo Kill a Mockingbird, from detective fiction for children to historical tales, from new works such as the Lemony Snicket series to classics likeTom's Midnight Garden, these essays explore notions of montage and metaphor, perspective and subjectivity, identification and time. Together, they comprise a resource that will interest and instruct scholars of narrative theory and children's literature, and that will become critically important to the understanding and development of both fields.
Author | : Philip Nel |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0814758894 |
Download Keywords for Children's Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This text presents 49 original essays on the essential terms and concepts of children's literature.
Author | : Perry Nodelman |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 1990-08-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0820312711 |
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A pioneering study of a unique narrative form, Words about Pictures examines the special qualities of picture books--books intended to educate or tell stories to young children. Drawing from a number of aesthetic and literary sources, Perry Nodelman explores the ways in which the interplay of the verbal and visual aspects of picture books conveys more narrative information and stimulation than either medium could achieve alone. Moving from "baby" books, alphabet books, and word books to such well-known children's picture books as Nancy Ekholm Burkert's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Gerald McDermott's Arrow to the Sun, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, and Chris Van Allsburg's The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, Nodelman reveals how picture-book narrative is affected by the exclusively visual information of picture-book design and illustration as well as by the relationships between pictures and their complementary texts.
Author | : Nina Mikkelsen |
Publisher | : Teachers College Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780807745953 |
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Provides insight into children's responses to fantasy literature and ways adults can cultivate a children's positive experience with literature.
Author | : Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2011-10-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027283230 |
Download Emergent Literacy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This edited volume constitutes the first serious, sustained examination of the study of children’s books for children aged from 0 to 3 with contributions by scholars working in different domains and attempting to assess the recognition of the role and influence of children’s literature on the cognitive, linguistic, psychological and aesthetic development of young children. This collection achieves a balance between theoretical, empirical, historical and cross-cultural approaches by examining the broad range of children’s books for children under three years of age, ranging from early-concept books through wimmelbooks and ABC books for small children to picture books that support the young child’s acquisition of behavioral norms. Most importantly, the chapters proffer new insights into the strong relationship between children’s books for young children and emergent literacy, drawing on current research in children’s literature research, visual literacy, cognitive psychology, language acquisition, picture theory and pedagogy.
Author | : Katherine Wakely-Mulroney |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2017-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317045548 |
Download The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection gives sustained attention to the literary dimensions of children’s poetry from the eighteenth century to the present. While reasserting the importance of well-known voices, such as those of Isaac Watts, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, A. A. Milne, and Carol Ann Duffy, the contributors also reflect on the aesthetic significance of landmark works by less frequently celebrated figures such as Richard Johnson, Ann and Jane Taylor, Cecil Frances Alexander and Michael Rosen. Scholarly treatment of children’s poetry has tended to focus on its publication history rather than to explore what comprises – and why we delight in – its idiosyncratic pleasures. And yet arguments about how and why poetic language might appeal to the child are embroiled in the history of children’s poetry, whether in Isaac Watts emphasising the didactic efficacy of “like sounds,” William Blake and the Taylor sisters revelling in the beauty of semantic ambiguity, or the authors of nonsense verse jettisoning sense to thrill their readers with the sheer music of poetry. Alive to the ways in which recent debates both echo and repudiate those conducted in earlier periods, The Aesthetics of Children’s Poetry investigates the stylistic and formal means through which children’s poetry, in theory and in practice, negotiates the complicated demands we have made of it through the ages.