Imagining Sameness And Difference In Childrens Literature

Author : Emer O'Sullivan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137461691
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature written by Emer O'Sullivan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Gail Edwards
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802085407
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picturing Canada written by Gail Edwards and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman illuminate the connection between children's publishing and Canadian nationalism, analyse the gendered history of children's librarianship, identify changes and continuities in narrative themes and artistic styles, and explore recent changes in the creation and consumption of children's illustrated books. Over 130 interviews with Canadian authors, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, critics, and other contributors to Canadian children's book publishing, document the experiences of those who worked in the industry.

Author : Emer O'Sullivan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134404840
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Children's Literature written by Emer O'Sullivan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-03-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2007 CHLA BOOK AWARD! Children's literature has transcended linguistic and cultural borders since books and magazines for young readers were first produced, with popular books translated throughout the world. Emer O'Sullivan traces the history of comparative children's literature studies, from the enthusiastic internationalism of the post-war period – which set out from the idea of a supra-national world republic of childhood – to modern comparative criticism. Drawing on the scholarship and children's literature of many cultures and languages, she outlines the constituent areas that structure the field, including contact and transfer studies, intertextuality studies, intermediality studies and image studies. In doing so, she provides the first comprehensive overview of this exciting new research area. Comparative Children's Literature also links the fields of narratology and translation studies, to develop an original and highly valuable communicative model of translation. Taking in issues of children's 'classics', the canon and world literature for children, Comparative Children's Literature reveals that this branch of literature is not as genuinely international as it is often fondly assumed to be and is essential reading for those interested in the consequences of globalization on children's literature and culture.

Author : John Keene
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081122435X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counternarratives written by John Keene and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are “suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting” (Publishers Weekly) Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. “An Outtake” chronicles an escaped slave’s take on liberty and the American Revolution; “The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows” presents a bizarre series of events that unfold in Haiti and a nineteenth-century Kentucky convent; “The Aeronauts” soars between bustling Philadelphia, still-rustic Washington, and the theater of the U. S. Civil War; “Rivers” portrays a free Jim meeting up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; and in “Acrobatique,” the subject of a famous Edgar Degas painting talks back.

Author : Virginia Hamilton
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780590473651
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plain City written by Virginia Hamilton and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bittersweet story of a 12-year-old girl's search for the truth about her own past and her missing father.

Author : M. O. Grenby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139828045
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature written by M. O. Grenby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling and Philip Pullman, the Companion illuminates acknowledged classics and many more neglected works. Its unique structure means that equal consideration can be given to both texts and contexts. Some chapters analyse key themes and major genres, including humour, poetry, school stories, and picture books. Others explore the sociological dimensions of children's literature and the impact of publishing practices. Written by leading scholars from around the world, this Companion will be essential reading for all students and scholars of children's literature, offering original readings and new research that reflects the latest developments in the field.

Author : Jessica Straley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107127521
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature written by Jessica Straley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary study that explores the impact of evolutionary theory on Victorian children's literature.

Author : Barbara Stoodt
Publisher : Macmillan Education AU
ISBN 13 : 9780732940126
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children's Literature written by Barbara Stoodt and published by Macmillan Education AU. This book was released on 1996 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Todres
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190213345
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in Children's Literature written by Jonathan Todres and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can children grow to realize their inherent human rights and respect the rights of others? This book explores this question through children's literature from 'Peter Rabbit' to 'Horton Hears a Who!' to Harry Potter. The authors investigate children's rights under international law - identity and family rights, the right to be heard, the right to be free from discrimination, and other civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights - and consider the way in which those rights are embedded in children's literature.

Author : Debra Mitts-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135765715
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picturing the Wolf in Children's Literature written by Debra Mitts-Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the villainous beast of “Little Red Riding Hood” and “The Three Little Pigs,” to the nurturing wolves of Romulus and Remus and Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, the wolf has long been a part of the landscape of children’s literature. Meanwhile, since the 1960s and the popularization of scientific research on these animals, children’s books have begun to feature more nuanced views. In Picturing the Wolf in Children’s Literature, Mitts-Smith analyzes visual images of the wolf in children’s books published in Western Europe and North America from 1500 to the present. In particular, she considers how wolves are depicted in and across particular works, the values and attitudes that inform these depictions, and how the concept of the wolf has changed over time. What she discovers is that illustrations and photos in works for children impart social, cultural, and scientific information not only about wolves, but also about humans and human behavior. First encountered in childhood, picture books act as a training ground where the young learn both how to decode the “symbolic” wolf across various contexts and how to make sense of “real” wolves. Mitts-Smith studies sources including myths, legends, fables, folk and fairy tales, fractured tales, fictional stories, and nonfiction, highlighting those instances in which images play a major role, including illustrated anthologies, chapbooks, picture books, and informational books. This book will be of interest to children’s literature scholars, as well as those interested in the figure of the wolf and how it has been informed over time.