Politics And Ideology In Children S Literature

Author : Marian Keyes,Áine McGillicuddy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : 1846825261

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Politics and Ideology in Children's Literature by Marian Keyes,Áine McGillicuddy Pdf

This volume examines how children's books retain the ability to transform, activate, indoctrinate, or empower their readers. From utopian and dystopian voices to children's literature written in response to war situations to critiques of misogynistic assumptions that normalize or eroticize violence, these essays demonstrate the potential of children's literature to radically challenge cultural norms. Contents include: national identity in The Hunger Games * aspects of socio-political transformation in children's literature * the figure of the child in WWI children's literature * echoes of the past, aspirations for the future in the teenage novels of Eilis Dillon * portraits and paratexts in the work of Mrs. S.C. Hall * Catherine Breillat's cinematic perspective on Bluebeard * identity and ideology in the work of O.R. Melling * eco-critical perspectives on the life and works of Beatrix Potter * sexualized violence and rape myths in contemporary young adult fiction * the emergence of the gallant Fascist in Italian children's literature of the inter-war period. *** "It may seem odd to think of literature for children as containing political and ideological themes and ideas, but in fact, many theorists believe that such messages are quite prevalent in these stories and novels. The contributors do a nice job of addressing both modern and classic literature....a worthy addition to the resources on children's literature. Recommended." - Choice, July 2015, Vol. 52, No. 11 (Series: Studies in Children's Literature - Vol. 7) [Subject: Literary Criticism]

Author : John Stephens
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015029245167

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Language and Ideology in Children's Fiction by John Stephens Pdf

When children read fiction they are exposed to the beliefs which inform and structure their society. The books encourage child readers to internalise particular ways of seeing the world and help shape their development as individuals. Although this process forms a key part of their education, it remains largely invisible. As well as a story, fictions impart a significance to readers - often without revealing its presence or ground - and therefore have considerable potential to socialize their audience. John Stephens analyses this process and shows how fictions can work to constrain or liberate audience responses. He explores picture books as well as historical, realistic and fantastic fictions to show how both a character within the narrative and the implied reader are positioned within ideology. The author considers areas of ideology not previously examined and offers new perspectives on realism and fantasy. The book will be of interest to linguists and teachers as well as to the general reader.

Author : Vanessa Leonardi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030477493

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Ideological Manipulation of Children’s Literature Through Translation and Rewriting by Vanessa Leonardi Pdf

This book explores the topic of ideological manipulation in the translation of children’s literature by addressing several crucial questions, including how target language norms and conventions affect the quality of a translation, how translations are selected on the basis of what is culturally accepted, who is involved in the selection of what should be translated for children in the target culture, and how this process takes place. The author presents different ways of looking at the translation of children’s books, focusing particularly on the practices of intralingual and interlingual translations as a form of rewriting across a selection of European languages. This book will be of interest to Translation Studies and children's literature scholars, as well as those with a wider interest in the impact of ideology on culture.

Author : Philip Nel,Lissa Paul
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814758540

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Keywords for Children’s Literature by Philip Nel,Lissa Paul Pdf

49 original essays on the essential terms and concepts in children's literature

Author : Laura Joffe Numeroff
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780063229631

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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff Pdf

If a hungry little traveler shows up at your house, you might want to give him a cookie. If you give him a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk. He'll want to look in a mirror to make sure he doesn't have a milk mustache, and then he'll ask for a pair of scissors to give himself a trim.... The consequences of giving a cookie to this energetic mouse run the young host ragged, but young readers will come away smiling at the antics that tumble like dominoes through the pages of this delightful picture book.

Author : Pat Pinsent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134091027

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Childrens Literature and the Politics of Equality by Pat Pinsent Pdf

First published in 1997. In this book the author intends to explore some of the many questions which arise as a result of increasing awareness in our society about equality issues. Can the attempt to make books for children consistent with contemporary views about equality go too far? In any case, are children really as much influenced by books and other material as some educationalists would claim? What can or should we do about the 'classics' Of the past? And are today's children's writers so much better at avoiding giving offence to minorities? How much are children affected by the kind of prejudices and preconceptions that we all grow up with but don't always succeed in acknowledging in later life?

Author : Çak?rta?, Önder
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781522594468

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Language, Power, and Ideology in Political Writing: Emerging Research and Opportunities by Çak?rta?, Önder Pdf

Politics and political literature studies have emerged as one of the most dynamic areas of scrutiny. Relying on ideological as well as socio-political theories, politics have contributed to cultural studies in many ways, especially within written texts such as literary works. As few critics have investigated the intersections of politics and literature, there is a tremendous need for material that does just this. Language, Power, and Ideology in Political Writing: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential reference book that focuses on the use of narrative and writing to communicate political ideologies. This publication explores literature spurring from politics, the disadvantages of political or highly ideological writing, writers’ awareness of the outside world during the composition process, and how they take advantage of political writing. Featuring a wide range of topics such as gender politics, indigenous literature, and censorship, this book is ideal for academicians, librarians, researchers, and students, specifically those who study politics, international relations, cultural studies, women’s studies, gender studies, and political and ideological studies.

Author : Shelby Wolf,Karen Coats,Patricia A. Enciso,Christine Jenkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1253 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136913563

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Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature by Shelby Wolf,Karen Coats,Patricia A. Enciso,Christine Jenkins Pdf

This landmark volume is the first to bring together leading scholarship on children’s and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education, English, and Library and Information Science. Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach, it describes and analyzes the different aspects of literary reading, texts, and contexts to illuminate how the book is transformed within and across different academic figurations of reading and interpreting children’s literature. Part one considers perspectives on readers and reading literature in home, school, library, and community settings. Part two introduces analytic frames for studying young adult novels, picturebooks, indigenous literature, graphic novels, and other genres. Chapters include commentary on literary experiences and creative production from renowned authors and illustrators. Part three focuses on the social contexts of literary study, with chapters on censorship, awards, marketing, and literary museums. The singular contribution of this Handbook is to lay the groundwork for colleagues across disciplines to redraw the map of their separately figured worlds, thus to enlarge the scope of scholarship and dialogue as well as push ahead into uncharted territory.

Author : Peter W. Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1501742574

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Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth by Peter W. Rose Pdf

In this ambitious and venturesome book, Peter W. Rose applies the insights of Marxist theory to a number of central Greek literary and philosophical texts. He explores major points in the trajectory from Homer to Plato where the ideology of inherited excellence--beliefs about descent from gods or heroes--is elaborated and challenged. Rose offers subtle and penetrating new readings of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Pindar's Tenth Pythian Ode, Aeschylus's Oresteia, Sophokles' Philoktetes, and Plato's Republic. Rose rejects the view of art as a mere reflection of social and political reality--a view that is characteristic not only of most Marxist but of most historically oriented treatments of classical literature. He applies instead a Marxian hermeneutic derived from the work of the Frankfurt School and Fredric Jameson. His readings focus on illuminating a politics of form within the text, while responding to historically specific social, political, and economic realities. Each work, he asserts, both reflects contemporary conflicts over wealth, power, and gender roles and constitutes an attempt to transcend the status quo by projecting an ideal community. Following Marx, Rose maintains that critical engagement with the limitations of the utopian dreams of the past is the only means to the realization of freedom in the present. Classicists and their students, literary theorists, philosophers, comparatists, and Marxist critics will find Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth challenging reading.

Author : John Stephens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317676065

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The Routledge Companion to International Children’s Literature by John Stephens Pdf

Demonstrating the aesthetic, cultural, political and intellectual diversity of children’s literature across the globe, The Routledge Companion to International Children’s Literature is the first volume of its kind to focus on the undervisited regions of the world. With particular focus on Asia, Africa and Latin America, the collection raises awareness of children’s literature and related media as they exist in large regions of the world to which ‘mainstream’ European and North American scholarship pays very little attention. Sections cover: • Concepts and theories • Historical contexts and national identity • Cultural forms and children’s texts • Traditional story and adaptation • Picture books across the majority world • Trends in children’s and young adult literatures. Exposition of the literary, cultural and historical contexts in which children’s literature is produced, together with an exploration of intersections between these literatures and more extensively researched areas, will enhance access and understanding for a large range of international readers. The essays offer an ideal introduction for those newly approaching literature for children in specific areas, looking for new insights and interdisciplinary perspectives, or interested in directions for future scholarship.

Author : Peter Hollindale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Children
ISBN : 9629834693

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Ideology and the Children's Book by Peter Hollindale Pdf

Author : Ian Wojik-Andrews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135576608

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Children's Films by Ian Wojik-Andrews Pdf

This study examines children's films from various critical perspectives, including those provided by classical and current film theory.

Author : Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian,Nādirah Shalhūb-Kīfūrkiyān
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108429870

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Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian,Nādirah Shalhūb-Kīfūrkiyān Pdf

Advances theorization of childhood in contexts of racialized settler-colonial political violence while acknowledging children's power to interrupt it.

Author : Julia L. Mickenberg,Philip Nel
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814757208

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Tales for Little Rebels by Julia L. Mickenberg,Philip Nel Pdf

A rarely discussed aspect of children's literature--the politics behind a book's creation--has been thoroughly explored in this intelligent, enlightening, and fascinating account.

Author : Jan Van Coillie,Jack McMartin
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789462702226

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Children’s Literature in Translation by Jan Van Coillie,Jack McMartin Pdf

For many of us, our earliest and most meaningful experiences with literature occur through the medium of a translated children’s book. This volume focuses on the complex interplay that happens between text and context when works of children’s literature are translated: what contexts of production and reception account for how translated children’s books come to be made and read as they are? How are translated children’s books adapted to suit the context of a new culture? Spanning the disciplines of Children’s Literature Studies and Translation Studies, this book brings together established and emerging voices to provide an overview of the analytical, empirical and geographic richness of current research in this field and to identify and reflect on common insights, analytical perspectives and trajectories for future interdisciplinary research. This volume will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students in Translation Studies and Children’s Literature Studies and related disciplines. It has a broad geographic and cultural scope, with contributions dealing with translated children’s literature in the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, Spain, France, Brazil, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary, China, the former Yugoslavia, Sweden, Germany, and Belgium.