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Poetics of Childhood
Av Roni Natov
Häftad, 2006
1139 kr
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Children's literature provides a medium through which writers re-create or approximate the sensibility of a child. But what exactly is this sensibility, and how does it find creative expression in adulthood? What language can portray the seemingly untranslatable experience of a child?The Poetics of …
Cyborg Saints
Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
Inbunden, 2019
3146 kr
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Saints are currently undergoing a resurrection in middle grade and young adult fiction, as recent prominent novels by Socorro Acioli, Julie Berry, Adam Gidwitz, Rachel Hartman, Merrie Haskell, Gene Luen Yang, and others demonstrate. Cyborg Saints: Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young …
Out of Reach
The Ideal Girl in American Girls’ Serial Literature
Av Kate Harper
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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Out of Reach: The Ideal Girl in American Girls’ Serial Literature traces the journey of the ideal girl through American girls’ series in the twentieth century. Who is the ideal girl? In what ways does the trope of the ideal girl rely on the exclusion and erasure of Othered girls? How does the trope …
Dust Off the Gold Medal
Rediscovering Children’s Literature at the Newbery Centennial
Av Sara L. Schwebel, Jocelyn Van Tuyl
Inbunden, 2021
3643 kr
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The oldest and most prestigious children’s literature award, the Newbery Medal has since 1922 been granted annually by the American Library Association to the children’s book it deems "most distinguished." Medal books enjoy an outsized influence on American children’s literature, figuring …
Children's Literature and Culture of the First World War
Av Lissa Paul, Rosemary R. Johnston m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
843 kr
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Because all wars in the twenty-first century are potentially global wars, the centenary of the first global war is the occasion for reflection. This volume offers an unprecedented account of the lives, stories, letters, games, schools, institutions (such as the Boy Scouts and YMCA), and toys of …
Gender(ed) Identities
Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children's and Young Adult Literature
Av Tricia Clasen, Holly Hassel
Häftad, 2019
843 kr
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This volume brings together diverse, cross-disciplinary scholarly voices to examine gender construction in children's and young adult literature. It complements and updates the scholarship in the field by creating a rich, cohesive examination of core questions around gender and sexuality in classic …
Future of the Nineteenth-Century Dream-Child
Fantasy, Dystopia, Cyberculture
Av Amy Billone
Häftad, 2019
843 kr
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This book investigates the reappearance of the 19th-century dream-child from the Golden Age of Children's Literature, both in the Harry Potter series and in other works that have reached unprecedented levels of popular success today. Discussing Harry Potter as a reincarnation of Lewis Carroll's …
Child Autonomy and Child Governance in Children's Literature
Where Children Rule
Av Christopher Kelen, Bjorn Sundmark
Häftad, 2019
876 kr
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This book explores representations of child autonomy and self-governance in children’s literature.The idea of child rule and child realms is central to children’s literature, and childhood is frequently represented as a state of being, with children seen as aliens in need of passports to Adultland …
Tolerance Discourse and Young Adult Holocaust Literature
Engaging Difference and Identity
Häftad, 2019
876 kr
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What, exactly, does one mean when idealizing tolerance as a solution to cultural conflict? This book examines a wide range of young adult texts, both fiction and memoir, representing the experiences of young adults during WWII and the Holocaust. Author Rachel Dean-Ruzicka argues for a progressive …
Contemporary British Children's Fiction and Cosmopolitanism
Häftad, 2019
843 kr
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This book visits contemporary British children’s and young adult (YA) fiction alongside cosmopolitanism, exploring the notion of the nation within the context of globalization, transnationalism and citizenship. By resisting globalization’s dehumanizing conflation, cosmopolitanism offers an ethical, …
Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature
Av Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Anja Muller
Häftad, 2019
843 kr
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This volume focuses on the (de)canonization processes in children’s literature, considering the construction and cultural-historical changes of canons in different children’s literatures. Chapters by international experts in the field explore a wide range of different children’s literatures from …
Fictions of Integration
American Children's Literature and the Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education
Av Naomi Lesley
Häftad, 2019
843 kr
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This book examines how children’s and young adult literature addresses and interrogates the legacies of American school desegregation. Such literature narrates not only the famous battles to implement desegregation in the South, in places like Little Rock, Arkansas, but also more insidious and less …
New Directions in Children's Gothic
Debatable Lands
Av Anna Jackson
Häftad, 2019
843 kr
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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 …
Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture
New Perspectives in Childhood Studies and Animal Studies
Av Anna Feuerstein, Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo
Häftad, 2019
843 kr
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Bringing together new perspectives in childhood studies and animal studies, this book is the first collection to critically address the manifold alignments and frequent co-constitutions of children and pets in our families, our cultures, and our societies. The cultural politics of power shaping …
More Words about Pictures
Current Research on Picturebooks and Visual/Verbal Texts for Young People
Av Perry Nodelman, Naomi Hamer m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
876 kr
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This volume represents the current state of research on picture books and other adjacent hybrid forms of visual/verbal texts such as comics, graphic novels, and book apps, with a particular focus on texts produced for and about young people. When Perry Nodelman’s Words about Pictures: the Narrative …
Origin Narratives
The Stories We Tell Children About Immigration and International Adoption
Häftad, 2019
876 kr
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The first of its kind, this volume unpacks the cultural construction of transnational adoption and migration by examining a sample of recent children’s books that address the subject. Of all European countries, Spain is the nation where immigration and transnational adoption have increased most …
Beloved Does Not Bite
Moral Vampires and the Humans Who Love Them
Av Debra Dudek
Häftad, 2019
843 kr
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In this new monograph, author Debra Dudek defines a new era of vampire texts in which vampires have moved from their iconic dark, feared, often seductive figure lingering in alleys, to the beloved and morally sensitive vampire winning the affections of teen protagonists throughout pop culture. …
Italian Children’s Literature and National Identity
Childhood, Melancholy, Modernity
Häftad, 2020
843 kr
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This book bridges the fields of Children’s Literature and Italian Studies by examining how turn-of-the-century children’s books forged a unified national identity for the new Italian State. Through contextualized close readings of a wide range of texts, Truglio shows how the 19th-century concept of …
Affect, Emotion, and Children’s Literature
Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults
Av Kristine Moruzi, Michelle Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
843 kr
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This volume explores the relationship between representation, affect, and emotion in texts for children and young adults. It demonstrates how texts for young people function as tools for emotional socialisation, enculturation, and political persuasion. The collection provides an introduction to …
Interactive Books
Playful Media before Pop-Ups
Häftad, 2019
843 kr
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Movable books are an innovative area of children’s publishing. Commonly equated with spectacular pop-ups, movable books have a little-known history as interactive, narrative media. Since they are hybrid artifacts consisting of words, images and movable components, they cross the borders between …
Embodied Child
Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture
Av Roxanne Harde, Lydia Kokkola
Häftad, 2019
843 kr
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The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture brings together essays that offer compelling analyses of children’s bodies as they read and are read, as they interact with literature and other cultural artifacts, and as they are constructed in literature and popular culture. The …
Prizing Children's Literature
The Cultural Politics of Children’s Book Awards
Av Kenneth Kidd, Joseph Thomas Jr.
Häftad, 2019
843 kr
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Children's book awards have mushroomed since the early twentieth-century and especially since the 1960s, when literary prizing became a favored strategy for both commercial promotion and canon-making. There are over 300 awards for English-language titles alone, but despite the profound impact of …
Arctic in Literature for Children and Young Adults
Av Heidi Hansson, Maria Leavenworth m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2879 kr
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As a setting for juvenile literature, the Arctic has traditionally been a space for adventure, the exotic and the fantastic. More recent works have used the Arctic setting to explore a dystopian future, often related to climate change. The aim of the present volume is to examine themes in Arctic …
Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature
Inbunden, 2024
2879 kr
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The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature is a provocative meditation on emotion, mood, history, and futurism in the critique of queer texts created for younger audiences. Given critical demands to distance queer youth culture from narratives of violence, sadness, and hurt that have …
Antarctica in British Children’s Literature
Inbunden, 2020
2879 kr
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For over a century British authors have been writing about the Antarctic for child readers, yet this body of literature has never been explored in detail. Antarctica in British Children’s Literature examines this field for the first time, identifying the dominant genres and recurrent themes and …
Antarctica in British Children’s Literature
Häftad, 2022
809 kr
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For over a century British authors have been writing about the Antarctic for child readers, yet this body of literature has never been explored in detail. Antarctica in British Children’s Literature examines this field for the first time, identifying the dominant genres and recurrent themes and …
Rulers of Literary Playgrounds
Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children’s Literature
Av Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Irena Kalla
Inbunden, 2020
887 kr
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Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children’s Literature offers multifaceted reflection on interdependences between children and adults as they engage in play in literary texts and in real life. This volume brings together international children’s literature …
Rulers of Literary Playgrounds
Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children’s Literature
Av Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Irena Kalla
Häftad, 2022
809 kr
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Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children’s Literature offers multifaceted reflection on interdependences between children and adults as they engage in play in literary texts and in real life. This volume brings together international children’s literature …
ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature
Brown and Nerdy
Häftad, 2022
809 kr
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ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature analyzes novels by the acclaimed Chicana YA writers Jo Ann Yolanda Hernández, Isabel Quintero, Ashley Hope Pérez, Erika Sánchez, Guadalupe García McCall, and Patricia Santana. Combining the term "Chicana" with "nerd," Dr. Herrera coins the term …
‘The Right Thing to Read’
A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960
Av Bronwyn Lowe
Häftad, 2020
843 kr
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‘The Right Thing to Read’: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960 explores the reading habits, identity, and construction of femininity of Australian girls aged between ten and fourteen from 1910 to 1960. It investigates changing notions of Australian girlhood across the period, and …
