Fractures And Disruptions In Children S Literature

Author : Maria Teresa Cortez,Sandie Mourão,Ana Margarida Ramos
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527504264

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Fractures and Disruptions in Children's Literature by Maria Teresa Cortez,Sandie Mourão,Ana Margarida Ramos Pdf

In March 2015, the eleventh edition of The Child and the Book Conference was organized at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. The conference was related to the theme of fracture and disruption in children’s and young adult literature. This publication provides not only a synthesis of the main reflections, but also a starting point for understanding the issues of fracture and disruption within children’s and young adult literature. The volume gathers texts from consolidated figures within the field of research in Children’s Literature, as well as contributions from junior researchers, creating bridges and dialogue between both generations and critical and theoretical approaches. It includes chapters on violence, war, sexuality and politics, discussion around formal-stylistic perspectives, analysis of fringe works and hybrid literary forms as well as the issue of audience and the crossover universe. Special reference should be given to the inclusion of contributions from lesser-known countries and literatures such as Brazil, Italy, Norway, Poland, and Portugal. The volume will be of interest to children’s literature specialists, graduate and post-graduate students, librarians, and mediators of reading.

Author : Emer O'Sullivan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781538122921

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Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature by Emer O'Sullivan Pdf

History is constantly evolving, and the history of children’s literature is no exception. Since the original publication of Emer O’Sullivan’s Historical Dictionary of Children’s Literature in 2010, much has happened in the field of children’s literature. New authors have come into print, new books have won awards, and new ideas have entered the discourse within children’s literature studies. Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries. This book will be an excellent resource for students, scholars, researchers, and anyone interested in the field of children’s literature studies.

Author : Claudia Nelson,Elisabeth Wesseling,Andrea Mei-Ying Wu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000984521

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The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture by Claudia Nelson,Elisabeth Wesseling,Andrea Mei-Ying Wu Pdf

Focusing on significant and cutting-edge preoccupations within children’s literature scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature and Culture presents a comprehensive overview of print, digital, and electronic texts for children aged zero to thirteen as forms of world literature participating in a panoply of identity formations. Offering five distinct sections, this volume: Familiarizes students and beginning scholars with key concepts and methodological resources guiding contemporary inquiry into children’s literature Describes the major media formats and genres for texts expressly addressing children Considers the production, distribution, and valuing of children’s books from an assortment of historical and contemporary perspectives, highlighting context as a driver of content Maps how children’s texts have historically presumed and prescribed certain identities on the part of their readers, sometimes addressing readers who share some part of the author’s identity, sometimes seeking to educate the reader about a presumed “other,” and in recent decades increasingly foregrounding identities once lacking visibility and voice Explores the historical evolutions and trans-regional contacts and (inter)connections in the long process of the formation of global children’s literature, highlighting issues such as retranslation, transnationalism, transculturality, and new digital formats for considering cultural crossings and renegotiations in the production of children’s literature Methodically presented and contextualized, this volume is an engaging introduction to this expanding and multifaceted field.

Author : Åse Marie Ommundsen,Gunnar Haaland,Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000413748

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Exploring Challenging Picturebooks in Education by Åse Marie Ommundsen,Gunnar Haaland,Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer Pdf

What should children and students read? This volume explores challenging picturebooks as learning materials in early childhood education, primary and secondary school, and even universities. It addresses a wide range of thematic, cognitive, and aesthetic challenges and educational affordances of picturebooks in various languages and from different countries. Written by leading and emerging scholars in the field of picturebook studies and literacy research, the book discusses the impact of challenging picturebooks in a comprehensive manner and combines theoretical considerations, picturebook analyses, and empirical studies with children and students. It introduces stimulating picturebooks from all continents and how they are used or may be used in educational settings and contexts. The chapters touch on subjects like reading promotion, second-language acquisition, art education, interdisciplinary learning, empathy development, minority issues, and intercultural competence. Moreover, they consider relevant aspects of the educational environments, such as the inclusion of picturebooks in the curriculum, the significance of school libraries, and the impact of publishers. Exploring Challenging Picturebooks in Education sheds new light on the multiple dimensions relevant to investigating the impact of picturebooks on learning processes and the development of multimodal literacy competencies. It thus makes a significant contribution to the growing area of picturebook research and will be key reading for educators, researchers, and post-graduate students in the field of literacy studies, children’s literature, and education research.

Author : Andrea Schwenke Wyile,Teya Rosenberg
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781551116044

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Considering Children's Literature by Andrea Schwenke Wyile,Teya Rosenberg Pdf

“The study of children’s literature is not just about children and the books said to be for them; it is also about the societies and cultures from which the literature comes, and it is about the assumptions and ideas we hold about children and childhood. For adults, reading children’s literature is ultimately both an act of nostalgia and of self-examination. When we consider children’s literature, we must include ourselves in the equation: What kinds of readers are we? How do we relate to books and stories? To what degree should we impose our experience upon others? Reading children’s literature actively can lead to all kinds of remarkable (and sometimes unsettling) revelations about ourselves and our society.” — from the Introduction Considering Children’s Literature is a collection of previously published essays on a variety of topics that inform the study of children’s literature. Exploring issues such as censorship, the canon, the meanings of fairy tales, and the adaptation of children’s literature into film, the essays in this anthology are as diverse as they are illuminating. Along with authors like Natalie Babbitt and Margaret Mahy, teachers, scholars, and publishers of children’s books are also contributors. Accessible and comprehensive, this book will appeal to anyone interested in children’s literature.

Author : B.J. Epstein,Elizabeth Chapman
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785279867

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International LGBTQ+ Literature for Children and Young Adults by B.J. Epstein,Elizabeth Chapman Pdf

This edited collection explores LGBTQ+ literature for young readers around the world, and connects this literature to greater societal, political, linguistic, historical, and cultural concerns. It brings together contributions from across the academic and activist spectra, looking at picture books, middle-grade books and young adult novels to explore what is at stake when we write (or do not write) about LGBTQ+ topics for young readers. The topics include the representation of sexualities and gender identities; depictions of queer families; censorship; links between culture, language and sexuality/gender; translation of LGBTQ+ literature for young readers; and self-publishing. It is the first collection to expand the study of LGBTQ+ literature for young readers beyond the English-speaking world and to draw cross-cultural comparisons.

Author : Barbara Stoodt
Publisher : Macmillan Education AU
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : 0732940125

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Children's Literature by Barbara Stoodt Pdf

Author : Nina Goga,Lykke Guanio-Uluru,Bjørg Oddrun Hallås,Aslaug Nyrnes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319904979

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Ecocritical Perspectives on Children's Texts and Cultures by Nina Goga,Lykke Guanio-Uluru,Bjørg Oddrun Hallås,Aslaug Nyrnes Pdf

This volume presents key contributions to the study of ecocriticism in Nordic children’s and YA literary and cultural texts, in dialogue with international classics. It investigates the extent to which texts for children and young adults reflect current environmental concerns. The chapters are grouped into five thematic areas: Ethics and Aesthetics, Landscape, Vegetal, Animal, and Human, and together they explore Nordic representations and a Nordic conception, or feeling, of nature. The textual analyses are complemented with the lived experiences of outdoor learning practices in preschools and schools captured through children’s own statements. The volume highlights the growing influence of posthumanist theory and the continuing traces of anthropocentric concerns within contemporary children’s literature and culture, and a non-dualistic understanding of nature-culture interaction is reflected in the conceptual tool of the volume: The Nature in Culture Matrix.

Author : Fiona M. Collins,Jeremy Ridgman
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 3039102559

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Turning the Page by Fiona M. Collins,Jeremy Ridgman Pdf

Since the nineteenth century, children's literature has been adapted for both the stage and the screen. As the twentieth century progressed, children's books provided the material for an increasing range of new media, from radio to computer games, from television to cinema blockbuster. Although such adaptations are now recognised as a significant part of the culture of childhood and popular culture in general, little has been written about the range of products and experiences that they generate. This book brings together writers whose work offers contrasting perspectives on the process of adaptation and the varying transformations - social, historical and ideological - that take place when a text moves from the page to another medium. Linking all these contributions is an interest in the changing definition of children's literature and its target audience within an increasingly media-rich society.

Author : Rebecca J. Lukens
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788153204

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A Critical Handbook of Children's Literature by Rebecca J. Lukens Pdf

A Critical Handbook of Children's Literature, Ninth Edition, gives future teachers, practicing teachers, librarians, and parents many examples of quality children's literature to guide them in choosing the best books for the classroom, library, or home. The Handbook analyzes children's books that showcase positive examples of the literary elements, formats, and genres that are the focus in the field of children's literature. The books are noteworthy children's books, from classics to favorites to just-published titles, all selected as thought-provoking, important, or motivating choices. The authors suggest that readers examine the Handbook and then apply the literary concepts to additional reading from today's ever-expanding selection of children's books.

Author : Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak,Irena Barbara Kalla
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030677008

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Children’s Literature and Intergenerational Relationships by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak,Irena Barbara Kalla Pdf

Children’s Literature and Intergenerational Relationships: Encounters of the Playful Kind explores ways in which children’s literature becomes the object and catalyst of play that brings younger and older generations closer to one another. Providing examples from diverse cultural and historical contexts, this collection argues that children’s texts promote intergenerational play through the use of literary devices and graphic formats and that they may prompt joint play practices in the real world. The book offers a distinctive contribution to children’s literature scholarship by shifting critical attention away from the difference and conflict between children and adults to the exploration of inter-age interdependencies as equally crucial aspects of human life, presenting a new perspective for all who research and work with children’s culture in times of global aging.

Author : Sandra Stadler-Heer,Amos Paran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781350268548

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Taking Literature and Language Learning Online by Sandra Stadler-Heer,Amos Paran Pdf

The use of literary texts in language classrooms is firmly established, but new questions arise with the transfer to remote teaching and learning. How do we teach literature online? How do learners react to being taught literature online? Will new genres emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic? Is the literary canon changing? This volume celebrates the vitality of literary and pedagogic responses to the pandemic and presents research into the phenomena observed in this evolving field. One strand of the book discusses literary outputs stimulated by the pandemic as well as past pandemics. Another strand looks at the pedagogy of engaging learners with literature online, examining learners of different ages and of different proficiency levels and different educational backgrounds, including teacher education. Finally, a third strand looks at the affordances of various technologies for teaching online and the way they interact with literature and with language learning. The contributions in this volume take literature teaching online away from static lecturing strategies, present numerous options for online teaching, and provide research-based grounding for the implementation of these pedagogies.

Author : Anna Wing-bo Tso,Scarlett Lee
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476637242

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Reading the Short Story by Anna Wing-bo Tso,Scarlett Lee Pdf

Beginning with a brief history and evolution of the short story genre, alongside an overview of the key short story writers, and an explanatory chapter of literary criticism, this book aims to give readers insight into the works by canonical British, Irish, and American authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, and more. Applying close reading skills and critical literary approaches to twelve selected short stories in English, this work conducts comparative analyses to reveal the interrelationships between the texts, the authors, the readers, and the sociocultural contexts. Developed and tested in literature classes at university over several semesters, this book addresses key issues, topics and trends in the short story genre.

Author : Antonio Sanna
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031022579

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Alice in Wonderland in Film and Popular Culture by Antonio Sanna Pdf

This book examines the many reincarnations of Carroll’s texts, illuminating how the meaning of the original books has been re-negotiated through adaptations, appropriations, and transmediality. The volume is an edited collection of eighteen essays and is divided into three sections that examine the re-interpretations of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass in literature, film, and other media (including the branches of commerce, music videos, videogames, and madness studies). This collection is an addition to the existing work on Alice in Wonderland and its sequels, adaptations, and appropriations, and helps readers to have a more comprehensive view of the extent to which the Alice story world is vast and always growing.

Author : Susan Deacy,José Malheiro Magalhães,Jean Zacharski Menzies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350099227

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Revisiting Rape in Antiquity by Susan Deacy,José Malheiro Magalhães,Jean Zacharski Menzies Pdf

How did the Greeks and Romans perceive rape? How seriously was it taken, and who were seen as its main victims? These are two central questions that Rape in Antiquity: Sexual Violence in the Greek and Roman Worlds (1997), edited by Susan Deacy and Karen F. Pierce, aimed to approach in twelve chapters. Setting out to understand if the ancients had a concept of rape and how it was understood through different angles – including legal, social, cultural and historiographical – Rape in Antiquity made an invaluable contribution to the scholarship on sexual violence in the ancient world, impacting upon the development of new approaches in the decades that followed its publication. Revisiting Rape in Antiquity: Sexualised Violence in Greek and Roman Worlds maps out the influence of Rape in Antiquity while exploring how far cultural changes since the 1990s have reshaped the scholarly landscape. This collection, comprising chapters by established scholars and early career researchers from many countries, provides a new window into sexual – and sexualized – violence. Covering a long chronology, this book journeys from Homer to Byzantium, to modern receptions, to the analysis of wartime rape, ancient Greek tragedy, classical myth, how stories involving rape are retold for children, ancient law and rhetoric, classical art, Ovid, Late Antiquity, modern literature, comic books and cinema. This book is the culmination of a rich scholarly inheritance, setting out new perspectives that will hopefully inspire researchers for decades to come.