A Critical History of French Children's Literature
Author | : Penny Brown |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1135871949 |
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Author | : Penny Brown |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1135871949 |
Author | : Penelope E. Brown |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2011-01-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135871930 |
This two-volume critical history of French children’s literature from 1600 to the present helps bring awareness of the range, quality, and importance of French children’s literature to a wider audience. The works of a number of French writers, notably La Fontaine, Charles Perrault, Jules Verne, and Saint-Exupéry were, and continue to be, widely translated and adapted, and have influenced the development of the genre in other countries.
Author | : Penelope E. Brown |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2008-03-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135872007 |
These books are the first full-length, comprehensive study written in English of French children’s literature. They provide both an overview of developments from the seventeenth century to the present day and detailed discussion of texts that are representative, innovative, or influential best-sellers in their own time and beyond. French children’s literature is little known in the English-speaking world and, apart from a small number of writers and texts, has been relatively neglected in scholarly studies, despite the prominence of the study of children’s literature as a discipline. This project is groundbreaking in its coverage of a wide range of genres, tracing the evolution of children’s books in France from early courtesy books, fables and fairy tales, to eighteenth-century moral tales and educational drama, nineteenth-century novels of domestic realism and adventure stories and contemporary detective fiction and fantasy novels. The discussion traces the relationship between children’s literature and social change, revealing the extent to which children’s books were informed by pedagogical, moral, religious and political agenda and explores the implications of the dual imperatives of instruction and amusement which have underpinned writing for young readers throughout the centuries.
Author | : Penelope E. Brown |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2008-03-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135872015 |
This two-volume critical history of French children’s literature from 1600 to the present helps bring awareness of the range, quality and importance of French children’s literature to a wider audience.
Author | : Penelope E. Brown |
Publisher | : Children's Literature and Culture |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780415973267 |
This two volume critical history of French children's literature from 1600 onwards helps bring awareness of the range, quality and importance of French children's literature to a wider audience.
Author | : Emer O'Sullivan |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2010-11-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780810874961 |
The Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature relates the history of children's literature through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, books, and genres.
Author | : Feike Dietz |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2021-05-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3030696332 |
'This book presents a rigorous, hugely informative analysis of the early history of Dutch children’s literature, pedagogical developments and emerging family formations. Thoroughly researched, Dietz’s study will be essential for historians of eighteenth-century childhood, education and children’s books, both in the Dutch context and more widely.’ — Matthew Grenby, Newcastle University, UK. ‘A rich, informative, well-documented and effectively illustrated discussion of the ways Dutch eighteenth-century educators tried to transform youth into responsible readers. It does so in a wide international context and masterfully connects this process to the radical politicization and de-politicization of Dutch society in the revolutionary period.’ —Wijnand W. Mijnhardt, formerly of Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and the University of California at Los Angeles, USA. This book explores how children’s literature and literacy could at once regulate and empower young people in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic. Rather than presenting the history of childhood as a linear story of increasing agency, it suggests that we view it as a continuous struggle with the impossibility of full agency for young people. This volume demonstrates how this struggle informed the production of books in a historical context in which the development of independent youths was high on the political agenda. In close interaction with international children’s literature markets, Dutch authors developed new strategies to make the members of young generations into capable readers and writers, equipped to organize their own minds and bodies properly, and to support a supposedly declining fatherland.
Author | : Sofie Lachapelle |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2015-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113749297X |
Conjuring Science explores the history of magic shows and scientific entertainment. It follows the frictions and connections of magic and science as they occurred in the world of popular entertainment in France from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth century. It situates conjurers within the broader culture of science and argues that stage magic formed an important popular conduit for science and scientific enthusiasm during this period. From the scientific recreations of the fairs to the grand illusions of the theatre stage and the development of early cinema, conjurers used and were inspired by scientific and technological innovations to create illusions, provoke a sense of wonder, and often even instruct their audience. In their hands, science took on many meanings and served different purposes: it was a set of pleasant facts and recreational demonstrations upon which to draw; it was the knowledge presented in various scientific lectures accompanied by optical projections at magic shows; it was the techniques necessary to create illusions and effects on stage and later on at the cinema; and it was a way to separate conjuring from the deceit of mediums, mystical showmen and quacks in order to gain a better standing within an increasingly scientifically-minded society.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Children's literature, French |
ISBN | : |
Author | : M.O. Grenby |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2014-04-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748649077 |
Provides a thorough history of British and North American children's literature from the 17th century to the present dayNow fully revised and updated, this new edition includes: nbsp;a new chapter on illustrated and picture books (and includes 8 illustrations);nbsp;an expanded glossary; an updated further reading section.Children's Literature traces the development of the main genres of children's books one by one, including fables, fantasy, adventure stories, moral tales, family stories, school stories, children's poetry and illustrated and picture books. Grenby shows how these forms have evolved over 300 years and asks why most children's books, even today, continue to fall into one or other of these generic categories.Combining detailed analysis of particular key texts and a broad survey of hundreds of books written and illustrated for children, this volume considers both long forgotten and still famous titles, as well as the new classics of the genre all of them loved by children and adults alike, but also fascinating and challenging for the critic and cultural historian. Key Featuresnbsp;Broad historical rangenbsp;Coverage of neglected as well as well-known textsnbsp;Focus on the main genres of children's literaturenbsp;Thoroughly up-to-date in terms of primary texts and critical material