Changing Concepts Of Childhood And Childrens Literature
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Author | : Vanessa Joosen |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
The varied collection of essays presented in this volume bridges the gap between continental and Anglo-American approaches to childrenâ (TM)s literature, and discuss the state of the art of what is topical in childrenâ (TM)s literature studies in Europe and the United States. Varied as the different subject areas under discussion are, considering different subgenres, historical periods, and geographical contexts, two main themes surface in nearly all the essays: ideology and childrenâ (TM)s literature on the one hand, and images of childhood on the other. The contributions illustrate the wide range of subject areas and the increasing level of sophistication with which criticism of ideology and Cultural Studies have enriched childrenâ (TM)s literature criticism. The essays address, among others, the influence of globalisation and mass market culture on the production of childrenâ (TM)s books, as well as the choices governing the production of translations and adaptations of texts for young readers. Representing a broad array of methodological approaches and of representations of childhood, this publication intends to render visible actual manifestations of the tension between pedagogy and aesthetics, inherent to and constitutive of childrenâ (TM)s literature.
Author | : Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2016-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317397010 |
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 Great Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Eastern and Central Europe, as well as from Non-European countries such as Australia, Israel, and the United States. Situating the inquiry within larger literary and cultural studies conversations about canonicity, the contributors assess representative authors and works that have encountered changing fates in the course of canon history. Particular emphasis is given to sociological canon theories, which have so far been under-represented in canon research in children’s literature. The volume therefore relates historical changes in the canon of children’s literature not only to historical changes in concepts of childhood but to more encompassing political, social, economic, cultural, and ideological shifts. This volume’s comparative approach takes cognizance of the fact that, if canon formation is an important cultural factor in nation-building processes, a comparative study is essential to assessing transnational processes in canon formation. This book thus renders evident the structural similarities between patterns and strategies of canon formation emerging in different children’s literatures.
Author | : Saralee Tomei |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Children's literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Keith Bosco |
Publisher | : Yellow Light Publishing |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-10-11 |
Genre | : Hygiene |
ISBN | : 9781947165328 |
Charlie is a young okapi who wants to be a detective, but his one big flaw causes a big, big problem...he's a very sloppy okapi! Join Charlie as he learns the importance of being neat while discovering that his weakness doesn't determine his destiny.
Author | : Philip Nel |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2011-06-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0814758541 |
49 original essays on the essential terms and concepts in children's literature
Author | : Mildred M. Seltzer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Children's literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Holt McGavran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780820334875 |
These essays document and examine the transformation of children's literature during the Romantic period, and trace Romanticism's influence on Victorian children's literature using a variety of critical approaches, including neo-historicist, feminist, mythic, reader-response, and formalist.
Author | : Zohar Shavit |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2009-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0820334812 |
Since its emergence in the seventeenth century as a distinctive cultural system, children's literature has had a culturally inferior status resulting from its existence in a netherworld between the literary system and the educational system. In addition to its official readership—children—it has to be approved of by adults. Writers for children, explains Zohar Shavit, are constrained to respond to these multiple systems of often mutually contradictory demands. Most writers do not try to bypass these constraints, but accept them as a framework for their work. In the most extreme cases an author may ignore one segment of the readership. If the adult reader is ignored, the writer risks rejection, as is the case of popular literature. If the writer utilizes the child as a pseudo addressee in order to appeal to an adult audience, the result can be what Shavit terms an ambivalent work. Shavit analyzes the conventions and the moral aims that have structured children's literature, from the fairy tales collected and reworked by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm—in particular, “Little Red Riding Hood”—through the complex manipulations of Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, to the subversion of the genre's canonical requirements in the chapbooks of the eighteenth century, and in the formulaic Nancy Drew books of the twentieth century. Throughout her study Shavit, explores not only how society has shaped children's literature, but also how society has been reflected in the literary works it produces for its children.
Author | : Shelby Wolf |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 2011-04-27 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1136913572 |
This multidisciplinary handbook pulls together in one volume the research on children's and young adult literature which is currently scattered across three intersecting disciplines: education, English, and library and information science.
Author | : Paul Bloom |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2002-01-25 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780262523295 |
How do children learn that the word "dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of verbs like "think," adjectives like "good," and words for abstract entities such as "mortgage" and "story"? The acquisition of word meaning is one of the fundamental issues in the study of mind. According to Paul Bloom, children learn words through sophisticated cognitive abilities that exist for other purposes. These include the ability to infer others' intentions, the ability to acquire concepts, an appreciation of syntactic structure, and certain general learning and memory abilities. Although other researchers have associated word learning with some of these capacities, Bloom is the first to show how a complete explanation requires all of them. The acquisition of even simple nouns requires rich conceptual, social, and linguistic capacities interacting in complex ways. This book requires no background in psychology or linguistics and is written in a clear, engaging style. Topics include the effects of language on spatial reasoning, the origin of essentialist beliefs, and the young child's understanding of representational art. The book should appeal to general readers interested in language and cognition as well as to researchers in the field.