Aesthetic Approaches To Childrens Literature

Author : Maria Nikolajeva
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810854260
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aesthetic Approaches to Children's Literature written by Maria Nikolajeva and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005-05-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As undergraduate and graduate courses in children's literature become more established and numerous, there is an intense need for a textbook that offers aesthetic rather than educational approaches to children's literature. This work fills that void by providing students of children's literature with a comprehensible and easy-to-use analytical tool kit, showing through concrete demonstration how each tool might best be used. The chapters are organized around familiar and easily recognized features of literary texts (e.g. author, genre, character). Theoretical issues are illustrated by specific texts from the North American children's literature canon. The book explores the particular aesthetics of children's fiction and the ways critical theory may be applied to children's texts, while remaining accessible to a college readership without prior specialized knowledge of literary theory. Each chapter includes a short introduction to a specific theoretical approach (e.g. semiotics, feminist, psychoanalytic), an example of its application to a literary text, a number of activities (study questions, reading exercises), and suggestions for further explorations.

Author : Maria Nikolajeva
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317358287
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children's Literature Comes of Age written by Maria Nikolajeva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1996. A detailed analysis of the art of children's literature covering world literature for children, children's literature as a canonical art form, the history of children's literature from a semiotic perspective, and epic, polyphony, chronotope, intertextuality, and metafiction in children's literature.

Author : K. Reynolds
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230206204
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Children's Literature written by K. Reynolds and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-12 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reappraises the place of children's literature, showing it to be a creative space where writers and illustrators try out new ideas about books, society, and narratives in an age of instant communication and multi-media. It looks at the stories about the world and young people; the interaction with changing childhoods and new technologies.

Author : Jane M. Gangi
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encountering Children's Literature written by Jane M. Gangi and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this text, Jane M. Gangi gives us a new perspective on how integrating the fine arts and literature fosters the active participation and in-depth understanding that is as important for children as it is for teachers. The heart of the book is a comprehensive treatment of children's literature, with a strong emphasis on multicultural and international literature."--Jaquette.

Author : Michael Cadden
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803234090
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telling Children's Stories written by Michael Cadden and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most accessible approach yet to children's literature and narrative theory,Telling Children's Storiesis a comprehensive collection of never-before-published essays by an international slate of scholars that offers a broad yet in-depth assessment of narrative strategies unique to children's literature. The volume is divided into four interrelated sections: "Genre Templates and Transformations," "Approaches to the Picture Book," "Narrators and Implied Readers," and "Narrative Time." Mike Cadden's introduction considers the links between the various essays and topics, as well as their connections with such issues as metafiction, narrative ethics, focalization, and plotting. Ranging in focus from picture books to novels such asTo Kill a Mockingbird, from detective fiction for children to historical tales, from new works such as the Lemony Snicket series to classics likeTom's Midnight Garden, these essays explore notions of montage and metaphor, perspective and subjectivity, identification and time. Together, they comprise a resource that will interest and instruct scholars of narrative theory and children's literature, and that will become critically important to the understanding and development of both fields.

Author : Philip Nel
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814758894
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keywords for Children's Literature written by Philip Nel and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents 49 original essays on the essential terms and concepts of children's literature.

Author : Perry Nodelman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820312711
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words about Pictures written by Perry Nodelman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1990-08-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering study of a unique narrative form, Words about Pictures examines the special qualities of picture books--books intended to educate or tell stories to young children. Drawing from a number of aesthetic and literary sources, Perry Nodelman explores the ways in which the interplay of the verbal and visual aspects of picture books conveys more narrative information and stimulation than either medium could achieve alone. Moving from "baby" books, alphabet books, and word books to such well-known children's picture books as Nancy Ekholm Burkert's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Gerald McDermott's Arrow to the Sun, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, and Chris Van Allsburg's The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, Nodelman reveals how picture-book narrative is affected by the exclusively visual information of picture-book design and illustration as well as by the relationships between pictures and their complementary texts.

Author : Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027283230
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emergent Literacy written by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume constitutes the first serious, sustained examination of the study of children’s books for children aged from 0 to 3 with contributions by scholars working in different domains and attempting to assess the recognition of the role and influence of children’s literature on the cognitive, linguistic, psychological and aesthetic development of young children. This collection achieves a balance between theoretical, empirical, historical and cross-cultural approaches by examining the broad range of children’s books for children under three years of age, ranging from early-concept books through wimmelbooks and ABC books for small children to picture books that support the young child’s acquisition of behavioral norms. Most importantly, the chapters proffer new insights into the strong relationship between children’s books for young children and emergent literacy, drawing on current research in children’s literature research, visual literacy, cognitive psychology, language acquisition, picture theory and pedagogy.

Author : Maria Nikolajeva
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027269955
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading for Learning written by Maria Nikolajeva and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does reading fiction affect young people? How can they transfer fictional experience into real life? Why do they care about fictional characters? How does fiction enhance young people's sense of self-hood? Supported by cognitive psychology and brain research, this ground-breaking book is the first study of young readers' cognitive and emotional engagement with fiction. It explores how fiction stimulates perception, attention, imagination and other cognitive activity, and opens radically new ways of thinking about literature for young readers. Examining a wide range of texts for a young audience, from picturebooks to young adult novels, the combination of cognitive criticism and children’s literature theory also offers significant insights for literary studies beyond the scope of children’s fiction. An important milestone in cognitive criticism, the book provides convincing evidence that reading fiction is indispensable for young people’s intellectual, emotional and social maturation.

Author : Emer O'Sullivan
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810874961
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature written by Emer O'Sullivan and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature relates the history of children's literature through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, books, and genres.