Critical Approaches to Children's Literature – serie
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New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature
Utopian Transformations
Av C. Bradford, K. Mallan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
634 kr
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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 …
Children's Literature, Popular Culture, and Robinson Crusoe
Av A. O'Malley
Inbunden, 2012
634 kr
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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 …
Empire in British Girls' Literature and Culture
Imperial Girls, 1880-1915
Av M. Smith
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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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, …
Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games
Av M. Mackey
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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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 …
New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature
Utopian Transformations
Av C. Bradford, K. Mallan m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
699 kr
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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 …
Playing with Picturebooks
Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque
Av C. Allan
Inbunden, 2012
634 kr
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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 …
Children's Literature and Capitalism
Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850-1914
Av C. Parkes
Inbunden, 2012
634 kr
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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 …
Middle Ages in Children's Literature
Av C. Bradford
Inbunden, 2015
949 kr
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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
Av A. Curry
Inbunden, 2013
635 kr
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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 …
Secrets, Lies and Children’s Fiction
Av K. Mallan
Inbunden, 2013
635 kr
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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 …
Revaluing British Boys' Story Papers, 1918-1939
Av H. A Fairlie
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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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 …
Seriality and Texts for Young People
The Compulsion to Repeat
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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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
Av K. Sands-O'Connor, M. Frank
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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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 …
Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction
The Posthuman Subject
Av V. Flanagan
Inbunden, 2014
1263 kr
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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 …
Animality and Children's Literature and Film
Av A. Ratelle
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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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 …
Class, Leisure and National Identity in British Children's Literature, 1918-1950
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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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 …
Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature
From the Enlightenment to the Present Day
Av Emer O'Sullivan, Andrea Immel
Inbunden, 2017
1764 kr
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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 …
Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
Inbunden, 2019
823 kr
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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, …
Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy
Idealization, Identity, Ideology
Av Dimitra Fimi
Inbunden, 2017
1514 kr
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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 …
Children’s Publishing and Black Britain, 1965-2015
Inbunden, 2017
1137 kr
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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 …
Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Literature
Imaginary Activism
Inbunden, 2016
1137 kr
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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 …
Children's Literature Collections
Approaches to Research
Av Keith O'Sullivan, Pádraic Whyte
Inbunden, 2017
1514 kr
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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, …
New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature
Utopian Transformations
Av C. Bradford, K. Mallan m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Children's Literature, Popular Culture, and Robinson Crusoe
Av A. O'Malley
Häftad, 2012
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Empire in British Girls' Literature and Culture
Imperial Girls, 1880-1915
Av M. Smith
Häftad, 2011
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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, …
Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games
Av M. Mackey
Häftad, 2011
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Playing with Picturebooks
Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque
Av C. Allan
Häftad, 2012
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Children's Literature and Capitalism
Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850-1914
Av C. Parkes
Häftad, 2012
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction
A Poetics of Earth
Av A. Curry
Häftad, 2013
698 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Secrets, Lies and Children’s Fiction
Av K. Mallan
Häftad, 2013
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
