The Gothic In Children S Literature

Author : Anna Jackson,Roderick McGillis,Karen Coats
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135902810

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The Gothic in Children's Literature by Anna Jackson,Roderick McGillis,Karen Coats Pdf

From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode of entertainment for young readers. The last two decades have seen an enormous growth in the critical study of two very different genres, the Gothic and children’s literature. The Gothic, concerned with the perverse and the forbidden, with adult sexuality and religious or metaphysical doubts and heresies, seems to represent everything that children’s literature, as a genre, was designed to keep out. Indeed, this does seem to be very much the way that children’s literature was marketed in the late eighteenth century, at exactly the same time that the Gothic was really taking off, written by the same women novelists who were responsible for the promotion of a safe and segregated children’s literature. This collection examines the early intersection of the Gothic and children’s literature and the contemporary manifestations of the gothic impulse, revealing that Gothic elements can, in fact, be traced in children’s literature for as long as children have been reading.

Author : Anna Jackson,Roderick McGillis,Karen Coats
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135902803

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The Gothic in Children's Literature by Anna Jackson,Roderick McGillis,Karen Coats Pdf

From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode of entertainment for young readers. The last two decades have seen an enormous growth in the critical study of two very different genres, the Gothic and children’s literature. The Gothic, concerned with the perverse and the forbidden, with adult sexuality and religious or metaphysical doubts and heresies, seems to represent everything that children’s literature, as a genre, was designed to keep out. Indeed, this does seem to be very much the way that children’s literature was marketed in the late eighteenth century, at exactly the same time that the Gothic was really taking off, written by the same women novelists who were responsible for the promotion of a safe and segregated children’s literature. This collection examines the early intersection of the Gothic and children’s literature and the contemporary manifestations of the gothic impulse, revealing that Gothic elements can, in fact, be traced in children’s literature for as long as children have been reading.

Author : Margarita Georgieva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137306074

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The Gothic Child by Margarita Georgieva Pdf

Fascination with the dark and death threats are now accepted features of contemporary fantasy and fantastic fictions for young readers. These go back to the early gothic genre in which child characters were extensively used by authors. The aim of this book is to rediscover the children in their work.

Author : Anna Jackson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317444244

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New Directions in Children’s Gothic by Anna Jackson Pdf

Children’s literature today is dominated by the gothic mode, and it is in children’s gothic fictions that we find the implications of cultural change most radically questioned and explored. This collection of essays looks at what is happening in the children’s Gothic now when traditional monsters have become the heroes, when new monsters have come into play, when globalisation brings Harry Potter into China and yaoguai into the children’s Gothic, and when childhood itself and children’s literature as a genre can no longer be thought of as an uncontested space apart from the debates and power struggles of an adult domain. We look in detail at series such as The Mortal Instruments, Twilight, Chaos Walking, The Power of Five, Skulduggery Pleasant, and Cirque du Freak; at novels about witches and novels about changelings; at the Gothic in China, Japan and Oceania; and at authors including Celia Rees, Frances Hardinge, Alan Garner and Laini Taylor amongst many others. At a time when the energies and anxieties of children’s novels can barely be contained anymore within the genre of children’s literature, spilling over into YA and adult literature, we need to pay attention. Weird things are happening and they matter.

Author : Jessica R. McCort
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496806451

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Reading in the Dark by Jessica R. McCort Pdf

Dark novels, shows, and films targeted toward children and young adults are proliferating wildly. It is even more crucial now to understand the methods by which such texts have traditionally operated and how those methods have been challenged, abandoned, and appropriated. Reading in the Dark fills a gap in criticism devoted to children's popular culture by concentrating on horror, an often-neglected genre. These scholars explore the intersection between horror, popular culture, and children's cultural productions, including picture books, fairy tales, young adult literature, television, and monster movies. Reading in the Dark looks at horror texts for children with deserved respect, weighing the multitude of benefits they can provide for young readers and viewers. Refusing to write off the horror genre as campy, trite, or deforming, these essays instead recognize many of the texts and films categorized as "scary" as among those most widely consumed by children and young adults. In addition, scholars consider how adult horror has been domesticated by children's literature and culture, with authors and screenwriters turning that which was once horrifying into safe, funny, and delightful books and films. Scholars likewise examine the impetus behind such re-envisioning of the adult horror novel or film as something appropriate for the young. The collection investigates both the constructive and the troublesome aspects of scary books, movies, and television shows targeted toward children and young adults. It considers the complex mechanisms by which these texts communicate overt messages and hidden agendas, and it treats as well the readers' experiences of such mechanisms.

Author : Chloe Germaine Buckley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474430203

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Twenty-First-Century Children's Gothic by Chloe Germaine Buckley Pdf

Brings Ben Jonson to the twenty-first century by reading Volpone through psychoanalysis, poststructuralism and Marxism

Author : Suzanne Manizza Roszak
Publisher : Gothic Literary Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Children in literature
ISBN : 1786838664

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Uncanny Youth by Suzanne Manizza Roszak Pdf

A literary study of childhood in the American Gothic. Childhood in Gothic literature has often served colonialist, white supremacist, and patriarchal ideologies, but in Uncanny Youth, Suzanne Manizza Roszak highlights hemispheric American writers who subvert these scripts. In the hands of authors ranging from Octavio Paz and Maryse Condé to N. Scott Momaday and Tracey Baptiste, Gothic conventions critique systems of power in the Americas. As fictional children confront shifting configurations of imperialism and patterns of gendered, anti-queer violence, their uncanny stories call on readers to reckon with intersecting forms of injustice.

Author : Jenni Spangler
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Children's UK
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781471190377

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The Vanishing Trick by Jenni Spangler Pdf

'A thrilling, original, evocative and eerie tale - I adored it!’ Michelle Harrison, author of A Pinch of Magic 'A thrilling page-turner. Madame Pinchbeck is a gloriously Dickensian villain’ Abi Elphinstone, author of Sky Song 'Ghosts, gadgets, likeable villains and unlikely heroes: The Vanishing Trick is a dark and dazzling adventure’ Emma Carroll, author of Letters from the Lighthouse 'A completely enthralling tale, oozing with atmosphere and originality’ Catherine Doyle, author of The Storm Keeper's Island 'Jenni Spangler is the next big voice in children’s magical history novels’ Lucy Powrie, author of The Paper & Hearts Society 'Deliciously dark and atmospheric … I couldn’t get enough' Nizrana Farook, author of The Girl Who Stole An Elephant 'A spectacular heart-stopping adventure in a dark and dangerous Victorian world' Tamsin Winter, author of Jemima Small Versus the Universe 'An eventful gothic adventure full of secrets and surprises' Sunday Times Book of The Week? Step into a world of secrets, folklore and illusions, where nothing is as it seems and magic is at play… Madame Augustina Pinchbeck, travels the country conjuring the spirits of dearly departed loved ones... for a price. Whilst her ability to contact ghosts is a game of smoke and mirrors, there is real magic behind her tricks too - if you know where to look. Through a magical trade, she persuades children to part with precious objects, promising to use her powers to help them. But Pinchbeck is a deceiver, instead turning their items into enchanted Cabinets that bind the children to her and into which she can vanish and summon them at will. When Pinchbeck captures orphan Leander, events are set into motion that see him and his new friends Charlotte and Felix, in a race against time to break Pinchbeck’s spell, before one of them vanishes forever… #TheVanishingTrick A historical adventure with a magical twist from an outstanding debut talent. Perfect for fans of Michelle Harrison, Sophie Anderson and Emma Carroll.

Author : Andrea Schwenke Wyile,Teya Rosenberg
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Joseph Abbruscato,Tanya Jones
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476617251

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The Gothic Fairy Tale in Young Adult Literature by Joseph Abbruscato,Tanya Jones Pdf

Rooted in the oral traditions of cultures worldwide, fairy tales have long played an integral part in children’s upbringing. Filled with gothic and fantastical elements like monsters, dragons, evil step-parents and fairy godmothers, fairy tales remain important tools for teaching children about themselves, and the dangers and joys of the world around them. In this collection of new essays, literary scholars examine gothic elements in more recent entries into the fairy tale genre—for instance, David Almond’s Skellig, Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book and Coraline and Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events—exploring such themes as surviving incest, and the capture and consumption of children. Although children’s literature has seen an increase in reality-based stories that allow children no room for escape from their everyday lives, these essays demonstrate the continuing importance of fairy tales in helping them live well-rounded lives.

Author : Margaret Mahy
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0613192486

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The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy Pdf

While gathered together for the Christmas holiday, a large New Zealand family and their various guests and hangers-on find their lives suddenly invaded by three fascinating but rather sinister brothers and by New Year nothing is the same again.

Author : Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107117143

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The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Pdf

This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.

Author : Frances Hardinge
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781613128992

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The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge Pdf

Costa Book of the Year: This novel of science, magic, murder, and a determined Victorian-era teenager is a “heady concoction . . . absolutely unforgettable” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Faith Sunderly leads a double life. To most people, she is modest and well mannered—a proper young lady who knows her place. But inside, Faith is burning with questions and curiosity. She keeps sharp watch of her surroundings and, therefore, knows secrets no one suspects her of knowing—like the real reason her family fled to the close-knit island of Vane. And that her father’s death was no accident. In pursuit of revenge and justice for the father she idolizes, Faith hunts through his possessions, where she discovers a strange tree. A tree that bears fruit only when she whispers a lie to it. The fruit, in turn, delivers a hidden truth. The tree might hold the key to her father’s murder. Or, it might lure the murderer directly to Faith herself, for lies—like fires, wild and crackling—quickly take on a life of their own. “Frances Hardinge has joined the ranks of those writers of young-adult fiction, like Philip Pullman, whose approach to fantasy proves so compelling that they quickly develop an adult following, and The Lie Tree is a good demonstration of why this is so . . . [a] page-turner.” —Locus “The time is nineteenth-century England just after Darwin’s theory of evolution has thrown the scientific world into turmoil; the setting is the fictional island of Vane, between land and sea; the main character is a fourteen-year-old girl caught between society’s expectations and her fierce desire to be a scientist. . . . A stunner.” —The Horn Book (starred review) “A murder mystery that dazzles at every level, shimmering all the more brightly the deeper down into it you go.” —Chicago Tribune “Haunting, and darkly funny . . . features complex, many-sided characters and a clear-eyed examination of the deep sexism of the period, which trapped even the most intelligent women in roles as restrictive as their corsets.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Hardinge, who can turn a phrase like no other, melds a haunting historical mystery with a sharp observation on the dangers of suppressing the thirst for knowledge.” —School Library Journal (starred review)

Author : Regina Maria Roche
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KUL:KULGB008848

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The Children of the Abbey: a Tale by Regina Maria Roche Pdf

Author : Chris Riddell
Publisher : Macmillan Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781035022649

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Goth Girl and the Sinister Symphony by Chris Riddell Pdf

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Goth Girl with Ada and her friends as they solve a musical mystery in the fourth book in the award-winning Goth Girl series.