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Popular Media Cultures - Fans, Audiences and Paratexts (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): L. Geraghty Popular Media Cultures - Fans, Audiences and Paratexts (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
L. Geraghty
R1,499 Discovery Miles 14 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Popular Media Cultures explores the relationship between audiences and media texts, their paratexts and interconnected ephemera. Authors focus on the cultural work done by media audiences, how they engage with social media and how convergence culture impacts on the strategies and activities of popular media fans.

Class, Leisure and National Identity in British Children's Literature, 1918-1950 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): Hazel Sheeky... Class, Leisure and National Identity in British Children's Literature, 1918-1950 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
Hazel Sheeky Bird
R1,988 Discovery Miles 19 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Developing a Love of Reading and Books - Teaching and nurturing readers in primary schools (Hardcover): Angela Gill, Megan... Developing a Love of Reading and Books - Teaching and nurturing readers in primary schools (Hardcover)
Angela Gill, Megan Stephenson, David Waugh
R2,463 Discovery Miles 24 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

nursing children read for pleasure and develop a life-long love of reading is a priority for all primary school teachers. The National Curriculum focuses heavily on promoting reading for pleasure and engaging pupils using a range of diverse and inclusive texts and materials. This text supports trainee teachers working towards primary QTS and Early Career Teachers to understand the importance of supporting children to become readers, enjoy reading for pleasure and develop higher level reading skills. It includes guidance, case studies and theoretical perspectives to show trainee teachers how they can develop children's reading.

Der inklusive Blick; Die Literaturdidaktik und ein neues Paradigma (German, Hardcover): Christian Dawidowski, Daniela A... Der inklusive Blick; Die Literaturdidaktik und ein neues Paradigma (German, Hardcover)
Christian Dawidowski, Daniela A Frickel, Andre Kagelmann
R1,857 Discovery Miles 18 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Das neue bildungspolitische Paradigma der Inklusion fordert die Literaturdidaktik heraus, ihre Theorien, Inhalte und Methoden einer Revision zu unterziehen. Es gilt, Grundlagen und Konzepte zu entwickeln, die Prozesse inklusiver Realisation fundieren und gestalten. Die Beitrage in diesem Band zielen auf einen interdisziplinaren Dialog zwischen der Fachdidaktik Deutsch und der Foerderpadagogik sowie zwischen der Literatur- und Sprachdidaktik und loten die Herausforderungen und Moeglichkeiten einer 'inklusiv denkenden und agierenden' Literatur- bzw. Deutschdidaktik mehrperspektivisch und facherubergreifend aus.

Children as Readers in Children's Literature - The power of texts and the importance of reading (Paperback): Evelyn... Children as Readers in Children's Literature - The power of texts and the importance of reading (Paperback)
Evelyn Arizpe, Vivienne Smith
R1,571 Discovery Miles 15 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

We are fascinated by text and we are fascinated by reading. Is this because we are in a time of textual change? Given that young people always seem to be in the vanguard of technological change, questions about what and how they read are the subject of intense debate. Children as Readers in Children's Literature explores these questions by looking at the literature that is written for children and young people to see what it tells us about them as readers. The contributors to this book are a group of distinguished children's literature scholars, literacy and media specialists who contemplate the multiple images of children as readers and how they reflect the power and purpose of texts and literacy. Contributors to this wide-ranging text consider: How books shape the readers we become Cognitive and affective responses to representation of books and reading The relationship between love-stories and reading as a cultural activity Reading as 'Protection and Enlightenment' Picturebooks as stage sets for acts of reading Readers' perceptions of a writer This portrayal of books and reading also reveals adults' beliefs about childhood and literacy and how they are changing. It is a theme of crucial significance in the shaping of future generations of readers given these beliefs influence not only ideas about the teaching of literature but also about the role of digital technologies. This text is a must-read for any individual interested in the importance of keeping literature alive through reading.

Harry Potter; Auf den Spuren eines zauberhaften Bestsellers (German, Paperback): Sandra Wilfinger-Bak Harry Potter; Auf den Spuren eines zauberhaften Bestsellers (German, Paperback)
Sandra Wilfinger-Bak
R1,643 Discovery Miles 16 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Was hat Harry Potter, was andere nicht haben? Und wie ist es zum internationalen Erfolg gekommen? Das phanomenale Erstlingswerk der britischen Autorin Joanne K. Rowling beruht nur scheinbar auf Zufall und Gluck, das richtige Buch zur richtigen Zeit geschrieben zu haben. Vielmehr verdankt die Romanserie ihre Beliebtheit einem perfekten Zusammenspiel dreier Faktoren: Literarische Qualitat, Legendenbildung um die Autorin und Einsatz gezielter Presse- und Marketingstrategien. Der Genre-Mix, d.h. phantastische Erzahlung, Abenteuerroman, Kriminalgeschichte, British Schoolstory, Adoleszenzroman, findet ebenso Eingang in die Betrachtung wie der Ruckgriff auf literarische Traditionen und die immer wiederkehrenden Grundstrukturen der Reihe. Der anfangs verbreitete Aschenputtelmythos um die Autorin wird analysiert, die Vermarktung des Zauberlehrlings gibt einen Einblick in die gigantische Welt der Potter-Werbung.

Internationalism in Children's Series (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): K. Sands-O'connor, M. Frank Internationalism in Children's Series (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
K. Sands-O'connor, M. Frank
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Theory for Beginners - Children's Literature as Critical Thought (Hardcover): Kenneth B. Kidd Theory for Beginners - Children's Literature as Critical Thought (Hardcover)
Kenneth B. Kidd
R2,512 Discovery Miles 25 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Since its inception in the 1970s, the Philosophy for Children movement (P4C) has affirmed children's literature as important philosophical work. Theory, meanwhile, has invested in children's classics, especially Lewis Carroll's Alice books, and has also developed a literature for beginners that resembles children's literature in significant ways. Offering a novel take on this phenomenon, Theory for Beginners explores how philosophy and theory draw on children's literature and have even come to resemble it in their strategies for cultivating the child and/or the beginner. Examining everything from the rise of French Theory in the United States to the crucial pedagogies offered in children's picture books, from Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir Are You My Mother? and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events to studies of queer childhood, Kenneth B. Kidd deftly reveals the way in which children may learn from philosophy and vice versa.

National Character in South African English Children's Literature (Paperback): Elwyn Jenkins National Character in South African English Children's Literature (Paperback)
Elwyn Jenkins
R1,127 R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Save R592 (53%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first full-length study of South African English youth literature to cover the entire period of its publication, from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. Jenkins' book focuses on what made the subsequent literature essentially South African and what aspects of the country and its society authors concentrated on. What gives this book particular strength is its coverage of literature up to the 1960s, which has until now received almost no scholarly attention. Not only is this earlier literature a rewarding subject for study in itself, but it also throws light on subsequent literary developments. Another exceptional feature is that the book follows the author's previous work in placing children's literature in the context of adult South African literature and South African cultural history (e.g. cinema). He also makes enlightening comparisons with American, Canadian and Australian children's literature.

Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction - The Posthuman Subject (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): V. Flanagan Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction - The Posthuman Subject (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
V. Flanagan
R3,330 Discovery Miles 33 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): Laurence Talairach-Vielmas Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
R3,365 Discovery Miles 33 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much debated word.

The Annotated Alice - The Definitive Edition: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Paperback,... The Annotated Alice - The Definitive Edition: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Paperback, Definitive Ed)
Lewis Carroll; Illustrated by John Tenniel; Introduction by Martin Gardner
R295 R266 Discovery Miles 2 660 Save R29 (10%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The bestselling Annotated Alice was the first work to decode the wordplay and mathematical riddles in Carroll's classic stories.

This Definitive Edition comgines the notes of Gardner's 1960s edition, together with hundreds of newer discoveries.

Charles Dickens and the Victorian Child - Romanticizing and Socializing the Imperfect Child (Paperback): Amberyl Malkovich Charles Dickens and the Victorian Child - Romanticizing and Socializing the Imperfect Child (Paperback)
Amberyl Malkovich
R1,427 Discovery Miles 14 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the ideas of children and childhood, and the construct of the 'ideal' Victorian child, that developed rapidly over the Victorian era along with literacy and reading material for the emerging mass reading public. Children's Literature was one of the developing areas for publishers and readers alike, yet this did not stop the reading public from bringing home works not expressly intended for children and reading to their family. Within the idealized middle class family circle, authors such as Charles Dickens were read and appreciated by members of all ages. By examining some of Dickens's works that contain the imperfect child, and placing them alongside works by Kingsley, MacDonald, Stretton, Rossetti, and Nesbit, Malkovich considers the construction, romanticization, and socialization of the Victorian child within work read by and for children during the Victorian Era and early Edwardian period. These authors use elements of religion, death, irony, fairy worlds, gender, and class to illustrate the need for the ideal child and yet the impossibility of such a construct. Malkovich contends that the 'imperfect' child more readily reflects reality, whereas the 'ideal' child reflects an unattainable fantasy and while debates rage over how to define children's literature, such children, though somewhat changed, can still be found in the most popular of literatures read by children contemporarily.

Revaluing British Boys' Story Papers, 1918-1939 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): H. A. Fairlie Revaluing British Boys' Story Papers, 1918-1939 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
H. A. Fairlie
R1,997 Discovery Miles 19 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Serial Memoir - Archiving American Lives (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): N. Stamant Serial Memoir - Archiving American Lives (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
N. Stamant
R1,486 Discovery Miles 14 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Serial Memoir chronicles the phenomenon of seriality in memoir, a transition in life writing toward repeated acts of self-representation in the later twentieth century. Such a shift demonstrates a new way to understand and represent constantly-shifting subjectivities and their ambivalent relationship to the concept and structure of the archive.

Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013): K. Mallan Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)
K. Mallan
R2,064 Discovery Miles 20 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Monstrous Bodies - Feminine Power in Young Adult Horror Fiction (Paperback): June Pulliam Monstrous Bodies - Feminine Power in Young Adult Horror Fiction (Paperback)
June Pulliam
R999 R716 Discovery Miles 7 160 Save R283 (28%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Recent works of young adult fantastic fiction such as Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga have been excoriated for glamorizing feminine subordination. However, young adult horror fiction with female protagonists who have paranormal abilities suggests to female readers the possibility of resisting restrictive gender roles that are presented to them as natural and therefore immutable. In this type of fiction, the ""monstrous Other"" is a double with a difference, a metaphor of the adolescent girl in Western culture who is pressured to embody a doll-like feminine ideal which is untenable because it deprives them of agency. This book examines three types of female monstrous Others in young adult fiction - the haunted girl, the female werewolf and the witch - and considers what each has to tell us about feminine subordination in a supposedly post-feminist world, where girls continue to be pressured to silence their voices and stifle their desires in conformity with contemporary ideas about what it means to be a good woman.

Playing with Picturebooks - Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012): Callan Playing with Picturebooks - Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012)
Callan
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Under the Bed, Creeping - Psychoanalyzing the Gothic in Children's Literature (Paperback): Michael Howarth Under the Bed, Creeping - Psychoanalyzing the Gothic in Children's Literature (Paperback)
Michael Howarth
R969 R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Save R255 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From Puritan tracts and chapbooks to fairy tales and Victorian poems, from zombies and werewolves to ghosts and vampires, the gothic has become an important part of children's literature. This book explores how Gothicism is crucial in helping children progress through different stages of growth and development. Michael Howarth examines five famous texts - namely Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market, Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio, Neil Gaiman's Coraline, three versions of Little Red Riding Hood, and J.M. Barrie's play and then novel Peter and Wendy - incorporating renowned psychologist Erik Erikson's landmark theories on psychosocial stages of development. By linking a particular stage to each of the aforementioned texts, it becomes clearer how anxiety and terror are just as important as happiness and wonder in fostering maturity, achieving a sense of independence and fulfilling one's self-identity. Gothic elements give shape to children's fears, which is precisely how children are able to defeat them, and through their interactions with the ghosts and goblins that inhabit fantasy worlds, children come to better understand their own world, as well as their own lives.

Reading Contemporary Picturebooks - Picturing Text (Paperback): David Lewis Reading Contemporary Picturebooks - Picturing Text (Paperback)
David Lewis
R1,878 Discovery Miles 18 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Reading Contemporary Picturebooks takes a look at one of the most vibrant branches of children's literature - the modern picturebook. This exciting new book takes a sample of contemporary picturebooks and closely examines the features that make them distinctive and then suggests a way of characterising the 'interanimation' of words and pictures that is the essence of the form. The reasons for the picturebook's vitality and flexibility are also explored and the close bond between the picturebook and its readers is analysed. Advances in our understanding of how visual images are organised are examined and the book concludes with an attempt to redescribe the picturebook in such a way that pictures, readers and text may be drawn together. Picturing Text will be of interest to students, teachers and researchers interested in reading, children's literature and media studies.

Adopting America - Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature (Paperback): Carol J. Singley Adopting America - Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature (Paperback)
Carol J. Singley
R953 Discovery Miles 9 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

American literature abounds with orphans who experience adoption or placements that resemble adoption. These stories do more than recount adventures of children living away from home. They tell an American story of family and national identity. In narratives from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, adoption functions as narrative event and trope that describes the American migratory experience, the impact of Calvinist faith, and the growth of democratic individualism. The roots of literary adoption appear in the discourse of Puritan settlers, who ambivalently took leave of their birth parent country and portrayed themselves as abandoned children. Believing they were chosen children of God, they also prayed for spiritual adoption and emulated God's grace by extending adoption to others. Nineteenth-century adoption literature develops from this notion of adoption as salvation and from simultaneous attachments to the Old World and the New. In domestic fiction of the mid-nineteenth century, adoption also reflects a focus on nurture in childrearing, increased mobility in the nation, and middle-class concerns over immigration and urbanization, assuaged when the orphan finds a proper, loving home. Adoption signals fresh starts and the opportunity for success without genealogical constraints, especially for white males, but inflected by gender and racial biases, it often entails dependency for girls and children of color. A complex signifier of difference, adoption gives voice to sometimes contradictory calls to origins and fresh beginning; to feelings of worthiness and unworthiness. In writings from Cotton Mather to Edith Wharton, it both replicates and offers an alternative to the genealogical norm, evoking ambivalence as it shapes national mythologies.

Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature 1985-1995 (Paperback): Donnarae MacCann, Yulisa Amadu Maddy Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature 1985-1995 (Paperback)
Donnarae MacCann, Yulisa Amadu Maddy
R1,605 Discovery Miles 16 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While white racism has global dimensions, it has an unshakeable lease on life in South African political organizations and its educational system. Donnarae MacCann and Yulisa Maddy here provide a thorough and provocative analysis of South African children's literature during the key decade around Nelson Mandela's release from prison. Their research demonstrates that the literature of this period was derived from the same milieu -- intellectual, educational, religious, political, and economic -- that brought white supremacy to South Africa during colonial times. This volume is a signal contribution to the study of children's literature and its relation to racism and social conditions.

Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction - A Poetics of Earth (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013): A. Curry Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction - A Poetics of Earth (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)
A. Curry
R1,611 Discovery Miles 16 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature (Paperback): Julia Mickenberg, Lynne Vallone The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature (Paperback)
Julia Mickenberg, Lynne Vallone
R1,978 Discovery Miles 19 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature is at once a literary history, an introduction to various theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, a review of genres, and a selection of original and interdisciplinary essays on canonical and popular works for children in the Anglo-American tradition. It is geared toward graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and scholars new to the study of children's literature, as well as teachers and anyone wishing to keep up with new research and innovative approaches to children's literature. Twenty-six essays by top scholars from varied disciplines address theoretical, historical, sociological, and critical issues through analyses of classic novels such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, The Swiss Family Robinson, Tom Sawyer, Kidnapped, and Five Little Peppers and How They Grew; early educational and religious works such as The New England Primer and Froggy's Little Brother; picture books, comics and graphic novels such as Millions of Cats, Where the Wild Things Are, the Peanuts series and American Born Chinese; early readers such as The Cat in the Hat and the Frog and Toad books; newer children's classics including Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, Jade, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, The Circuit, the Harry Potter series and His Dark Materials trilogy; works of poetry such as The Bat Poety and The Dreamkeeper; a play, Peter Pan; and media classics such as Free to Be You and Me and Dumbo. An editors' introduction surveys key trends in criticism, the field's history, and foundational scholarship.

Bringing Light to Twilight - Perspectives on a Pop Culture Phenomenon (Paperback): G. Anatol Bringing Light to Twilight - Perspectives on a Pop Culture Phenomenon (Paperback)
G. Anatol
R1,507 Discovery Miles 15 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight" series has enjoyed astounding commercial success, not just with adolescents as originally intended but with a wide and diverse audience, yet the cultural and literary contributions of these novels have been largely overlooked. This dynamic volume reveals how the "Twilight "series has fundamentally altered our interpretations of vampires. These essays bring together a broad range of perspectives on the vampire series, from gender issues to the genre of Gothic fiction to environmental concerns. Ultimately, this compelling collection provides insights on how we can better "read" popular culture and loosen the restrictive boundaries between pleasure and intellectual pursuit along the way.

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