Critical Approaches to Children's Literature – serie

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New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature
Utopian Transformations
AvC. Bradford,K. Mallanm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures. The authors explore the ways in which children's texts respond to social change and global politics. The book argues that children's texts are crucially implicated in shaping the values of their readers.
Children's Literature, Popular Culture, and Robinson Crusoe
AvA. O'Malley
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This study of the afterlife of Robinson Crusoe offers insights into the continued popularity and relevance of Crusoe's story and how modern conceptions of childhood are shaped by nostalgia and ideas of 'the popular'. Examining many adaptations in a variety of formats, it reconsiders the place Crusoe has occupied in our culture for three centuries.
Empire in British Girls' Literature and Culture
Imperial Girls, 1880-1915
AvM. Smith
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
While the gender and age of the girl may seem to remove her from any significant contribution to empire, this book provides both a new perspective on familiar girls' literature, and the first detailed examination of lesser-known fiction relating the emergence of fictional girl adventurers, castaways and 'ripping' schoolgirls to the British Empire.
Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games
AvM. Mackey
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Stories are told today through many formats and young interpreters bring multimedia experience to bear on every narrative format they encounter. In this book, twelve young people read a novel, watch a film and play a video game from beginning to end. Their responses inform a new framework of contemporary themes of narrative comprehension.
New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature
Utopian Transformations
AvC. Bradford,K. Mallanm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
692 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
This book demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures. The authors explore the ways in which children's texts respond to social change and global politics. The book argues that children's texts are crucially implicated in shaping the values of their readers.
Playing with Picturebooks
Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque
AvC. Allan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Offers new insights into the continuing influence of postmodernism on a wide range of international picture books for children published between 1963 and 2008. Its chapters include metafiction; disruption to narrative conventions; interrogation of 'truths'; historiographic metafiction; difference and ex-centricity; globalisation and media.
Children's Literature and Capitalism
Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850-1914
AvC. Parkes
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important writers of children's and young-adult texts in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.
Middle Ages in Children's Literature
AvC. Bradford
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
946 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Children grow up surrounded by stories, motifs, characters and themes which respond to the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages in Children's Literature explores the use and abuse of the medieval in children's literature, the many forms in which it appears, and its enduring capacity to enchant the young.
Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction
A Poetics of Earth
AvA. Curry
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This pioneering study is the first full-length treatment of feminism and the environment in children's literature. Drawing on the history, philosophy and ethics of ecofeminism, it examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic landscapes in young adult fiction reflect contemporary attitudes towards environmental crisis and human responsibility.
Secrets, Lies and Children’s Fiction
AvK. Mallan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Many children learn from a young age to tell the truth. They also learn that some lies are necessary in order to survive in a world that paradoxically values truth-telling, but practises deception. This book examines this paradox by considering how deception is often a necessary means of survival for individuals, families, governments, and animals.
Revaluing British Boys' Story Papers, 1918-1939
AvH. A Fairlie
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book explores the phenomenon of the story paper, the meanings and values children took from their reading, and the responses of adults to their reading choices. It argues for the revaluing of the story paper in the inter-war years, giving the genre a pivotal role in the development of children's literature.
Seriality and Texts for Young People
The Compulsion to Repeat
AvM. Reimer,N. Alim. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Seriality and Texts for Young People is a collection of thirteen scholarly essays about series and serial texts directed to children and youth, each of which begins from the premise that a basic principle of seriality is repetition.
Internationalism in Children's Series
AvK. Sands-O'Connor,M. Frank
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Internationalism in Children's Series brings together international children's literature scholars who interpret 'internationalism' through various cultural, historical and theoretical lenses. From imperialism to transnationalism, from Tom Swift to Harry Potter, this book addresses the unique ability of series to introduce children to the world.
Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction
The Posthuman Subject
AvV. Flanagan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
1 258 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction is not a historical study or a survey of narrative plots, but takes a more conceptual approach that engages with the central ideas of posthumanism: the fragmented nature of posthuman identity, the concept of agency as distributed and collective and the role of embodiment in understandings of selfhood.
Animality and Children's Literature and Film
AvA. Ratelle
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Examining culturally significant works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, Animality and Children's Literature and Film argues that Western philosophy's objective to establish a notion of an exclusively human subjectivity is continually countered in the very texts that ostensibly work to this end.
Class, Leisure and National Identity in British Children's Literature, 1918-1950
AvHazel Sheeky Bird
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book places children's literature at the forefront of early twentieth-century debates about national identity and class relations that were expressed through the pursuit of leisure. Focusing on stories about hiking, camping and sailing, this book offers a fresh insight into a popular period of modern British cultural and political history.
Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature
From the Enlightenment to the Present Day
AvEmer O'Sullivan,Andrea Immel
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 759 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book investigates how cultural sameness and difference has been presented in a variety of forms and genres of children’s literature from Denmark, Germany, France, Russia, Britain, and the United States; ranging from English caricatures of the 1780s to dynamic representations of contemporary cosmopolitan childhood. The chapters address different models of presenting foreigners using examples from children’s educational prints, dramatic performances, travel narratives, comics, and picture books. Contributors illuminate the ways in which the texts negotiate the tensions between the Enlightenment ideal of internationalism and discrete national or ethnic identities cultivated since the Romantic era, providing examples of ethnocentric cultural perspectives and of cultural relativism, as well as instances where discussions of child reader agency indicate how they might participate eventually in a tolerant transnational community.
Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
AvElisabeth Rose Gruner
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
821 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book examines the way young adult readers are constructed in a variety of contemporary young adult fictions, arguing that contemporary young adult novels depict readers as agents. Reading, these novels suggest, is neither an unalloyed good nor a dangerous ploy, but rather an essential, occasionally fraught, by turns escapist and instrumental, deeply pleasurable, and highly contentious activity that has value far beyond the classroom skills or the specific content it conveys. After an introductory chapter that examines the state of reading and young adult fiction today, the book examines novels that depict reading in school, gendered and racialized reading, reading magical and religious books, and reading as a means to developing civic agency. These examinations reveal that books for teens depict teen readers as doers, and suggest that their ability to read deeply, critically, and communally is crucial to the development of adolescent agency.
Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy
Idealization, Identity, Ideology
AvDimitra Fimi
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 508 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Runner-up of the Katherine Briggs Folklore Award 2017Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth & Fantasy Studies 2019This book examines the creative uses of “Celtic” myth in contemporary fantasy written for children or young adults from the 1960s to the 2000s. Its scope ranges from classic children’s fantasies such as Lloyd Alexander’s The Chronicles of Prydain and Alan Garner’s The Owl Service, to some of the most recent, award-winning fantasy authors of the last decade, such as Kate Thompson (The New Policeman) and Catherine Fisher (Darkhenge). The book focuses on the ways these fantasy works have appropriated and adapted Irish and Welsh medieval literature in order to highlight different perceptions of “Celticity.” The term “Celtic” itself is interrogated in light of recent debates in Celtic studies, in order to explore a fictional representation of a national past that is often romanticized and political.
Children’s Publishing and Black Britain, 1965-2015
AvKaren Sands-O'Connor
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 133 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book examines a critical period in British children’s publishing, from the earliest days of dedicated publishing firms for Black British audiences to the beginnings of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK. Taking a historical approach that includes education acts, Black protest, community publishing and children’s literature prizes, the study investigates the motivation behind both independent and mainstream publishing firm decisions to produce books for a specifically Black British audience. Beginning with a consideration of early reading schemes that incorporated Black and Asian characters, the book continues with a history of one of the earliest presses to publish for children, Bogle L’Ouverture. Other chapters look at the influence of community-based and independent presses, the era of multiculturalism and anti-racism, the effect of racially-motivated violence on children’s publishing, and the dubious benefit of awards for Black British publishing. The volume will appealto children’s literature scholars, librarians, teachers, education-policy makers and Black British historians.
Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Literature
Imaginary Activism
AvMegan L. Musgrave
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
1 133 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book is a study of the evolving relationships between literature, cyberspace, and young adults in the twenty-first century. Megan L. Musgrave explores the ways that young adult fiction is becoming a platform for a public conversation about the great benefits and terrible risks of our increasing dependence upon technology in public and private life. Drawing from theories of digital citizenship and posthuman theory, Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First Century Young Adult Literature considers how the imaginary forms of activism depicted in literature can prompt young people to shape their identities and choices as citizens in a digital culture
Children's Literature Collections
Approaches to Research
AvKeith O'Sullivan,Pádraic Whyte
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 508 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book provides scholars, both national and international, with a basis for advanced research in children’s literature in collections. Examining books for children published across five centuries, gathered from the collections in Dublin, this unique volume advances causes in collecting, librarianship, education, and children’s literature studies more generally. It facilitates processes of discovery and recovery that present various pathways for researchers with diverse interests in children’s books to engage with collections. From book histories, through bookselling, information on collectors, and histories of education to close text analyses, it is evident that there are various approaches to researching collections. In this volume, three dominant approaches emerge: history and canonicity, author and text, ideals and institutions. Through its focus on varied materials, from fiction to textbooks, this volume illuminates how cities can articulate a vision of children's literature through particular collections and institutional practices.
New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature
Utopian Transformations
AvC. Bradford,K. Mallanm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures. The authors explore the ways in which children's texts respond to social change and global politics. The book argues that children's texts are crucially implicated in shaping the values of their readers.
Children's Literature, Popular Culture, and Robinson Crusoe
AvA. O'Malley
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This study of the afterlife of Robinson Crusoe offers insights into the continued popularity and relevance of Crusoe's story and how modern conceptions of childhood are shaped by nostalgia and ideas of 'the popular'. Examining many adaptations in a variety of formats, it reconsiders the place Crusoe has occupied in our culture for three centuries.
Empire in British Girls' Literature and Culture
Imperial Girls, 1880-1915
AvM. Smith
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
While the gender and age of the girl may seem to remove her from any significant contribution to empire, this book provides both a new perspective on familiar girls' literature, and the first detailed examination of lesser-known fiction relating the emergence of fictional girl adventurers, castaways and 'ripping' schoolgirls to the British Empire.
Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games
AvM. Mackey
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Stories are told today through many formats and young interpreters bring multimedia experience to bear on every narrative format they encounter. In this book, twelve young people read a novel, watch a film and play a video game from beginning to end. Their responses inform a new framework of contemporary themes of narrative comprehension.
Playing with Picturebooks
Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque
AvC. Allan
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Offers new insights into the continuing influence of postmodernism on a wide range of international picture books for children published between 1963 and 2008. Its chapters include metafiction; disruption to narrative conventions; interrogation of 'truths'; historiographic metafiction; difference and ex-centricity; globalisation and media.
Children's Literature and Capitalism
Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850-1914
AvC. Parkes
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important writers of children's and young-adult texts in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.
Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction
A Poetics of Earth
AvA. Curry
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
696 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This pioneering study is the first full-length treatment of feminism and the environment in children's literature. Drawing on the history, philosophy and ethics of ecofeminism, it examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic landscapes in young adult fiction reflect contemporary attitudes towards environmental crisis and human responsibility.
Secrets, Lies and Children’s Fiction
AvK. Mallan
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Many children learn from a young age to tell the truth. They also learn that some lies are necessary in order to survive in a world that paradoxically values truth-telling, but practises deception. This book examines this paradox by considering how deception is often a necessary means of survival for individuals, families, governments, and animals.

Critical Approaches to Children's Literature – serie

New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature

Children's Literature, Popular Culture, and Robinson Crusoe

Empire in British Girls' Literature and Culture

Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games

New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature

Playing with Picturebooks

Children's Literature and Capitalism

Middle Ages in Children's Literature

Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction

Secrets, Lies and Children’s Fiction

Revaluing British Boys' Story Papers, 1918-1939

Seriality and Texts for Young People

Internationalism in Children's Series

Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction

Animality and Children's Literature and Film

Class, Leisure and National Identity in British Children's Literature, 1918-1950

Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature

Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction

Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy

Children’s Publishing and Black Britain, 1965-2015

Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Literature

Children's Literature Collections

New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature

Children's Literature, Popular Culture, and Robinson Crusoe

Empire in British Girls' Literature and Culture

Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games

Playing with Picturebooks

Children's Literature and Capitalism

Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction

Secrets, Lies and Children’s Fiction