Contemporary picturebooks open up spaces for philosophical dialogues between people of all ages. As works of art, picturebooks offer unique opportunities to explore ideas and to create meaning collaboratively. This book considers censorship of certain well-known picturebooks, challenging the assumptions on which this censorship is based. Through a lively exploration of children's responses to these same picturebooks the authors paint a way of working philosophically based on respectful listening and creative and authentic interactions, rather than scripted lessons. This dialogical process challenges much current practice in education. The authors propose that a courageous and critical practice of listening is central to the facilitation of mutually educative dialogue. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of education studies, philosophy of education, literacy teaching and learning, children's literature, childhood and pedagogy.

Die neunzehnte Folge des Jahrbuchs widmet sich der Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung im transnationalen Kontext mit dem zweiten Teil von Ave Mattheus' Studie uber die estnische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und dem Bericht uber die Siegener Forschungsstelle zur europaischen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Andre Kagelmann befasst sich mit den vergessenen Kinderbuchern Thea von Harbous. Auch die weiteren gegenwartsbezogenen Beitrage beweisen erneut, dass auch die Erforschung des breiten Spektrums aktueller Kinder- und Jugendmedien ihren Platz haben soll, wie die Ausfuhrungen uber Kinderbuchillustration, Manga und Medienverbunde zeigen. Daruber hinaus kommen klassische Literaturgattungen zur Sprache: die zeitgeschichtliche Erzahlung fur junge Leser und der moderne Jugendroman mit seinen vielfaltigen Auspragungen.

TV-Serien, Filme und Computerspieladaptionen gehoeren ebenso wie Smartphones und Tablet-Computer heute zum Alltag von Kindern und Jugendlichen. Mit der Ausdifferenzierung der Medien wandeln sich kinder- und jugendliterarische Formen und Themen. Texte werden im Verbund produziert und vermarktet und im Medienzusammenhang rezipiert. Die Grenzen zwischen Produktion und Rezeption, aber auch zwischen den Medien werden offener. So werden kinder- und jugendliterarische Stoffe haufig medienubergreifend entwickelt. Nicht zuletzt zeigen sich die Austauschprozesse in vielfaltigen intertextuellen Bezugen, in denen die Kinder- und Jugendliteratur auf andere Medien verweist. Die Beitrage des vorliegenden Bandes beleuchten die skizzierten Phanomene mit ihren oekonomischen, asthetischen, individuellen und didaktischen Aspekten und Konsequenzen. Dabei werden sowohl historische Entwicklungen als auch aktuelle Perspektiven betrachtet.

Ce volume explore la double question des pouvoirs de la litterature de jeunesse et de ses modalites formelles. Pourquoi parler ici de pouvoirs au pluriel de cette litterature? Car l'on a tres souvent tendance a la reduire a sa vocation pedagogique en vertu de laquelle elle continue de faire l'objet de diverses manipulations. Certes, toute litterature, qu'elle soit adressee aux adultes ou au jeune public, remplit la fonction de plaire et d'instruire. Toutefois, en ce qui concerne la litterature de jeunesse, l'aspect didactique est mal compris, ce qui donne lieu a une vision excessivement simplificatrice de cette production. Cet ouvrage s'attache a montrer que la fonction instructive de l'oeuvre pour la jeunesse, a l'instar de la litterature generale, se manifeste sous des formes complexes et variees: meditations sur l'existence humaine, engagement, projet axiologique, constructions memorielles, ambition therapeutique, renouvellement des procedes esthetiques.

This book calls for a re-imagining of global picture book history: with the former Soviet Union at the centre of this narrative web. The result of an unusual collaboration between India and Lithuania, the book looks at two different global impacts of the Soviet picture book enterprise. At a particular period in Indian history, cheaply available Soviet picture books, in English and vernacular translations, changed the way Indian children read. This was part of the Soviet Union's efforts to spread 'socialist' culture across the world. Meanwhile, a different and more problematic kind of cultural 'globalization' was underway in the regions governed by the Soviet State, and Lithuania is a rich case in point.A sumptuous and unusual archive of art has been mined to go with this history: from socialist realist art to classic examples of the Lithuanian primitive-modern, many of the images in the book are featured in an English language publication for the first time.

Die Studie widmet sich der Bedeutung von (angehenden) Fachkraften fur kindliche Rezeptionsprozesse im institutionalisierten Kontext der Elementar- und Kindheitspadagogik. Dabei wertet die Autorin das unterschatzte Medium Bilderbuch auf, dessen verengte Wahrnehmung oftmals den didaktischen Mehrwert auch auf Seiten der padagogischen Fachkrafte ubersieht. Auf wissenschaftlicher Ebene fokussiert die Studie eine empirisch fundierte Theoriebildung zur Rolle von Fachkraften im kindlichen Rezeptionsprozess von Bilderbuchern. Mithilfe von Daten- und Methodentriangulation wirft die Autorin einen mehrperspektivischen Blick auf stabile Seh- und Rezeptionsgewohnheiten und damit verbundene handlungswirksame Theorien von Erwachsenen uber den Gegenstand und dessen Vermittlung im institutionellen Kontext. Den praktischen Ertrag bildet die Konzeption von Modulen zur wissenschaftlichen Weiterbildung und in der akademischen Ausbildung.

Lutz Hubner und Sarah Nemitz gehoeren zu den erfolgreichsten Akteuren des deutschsprachigen Gegenwartstheaters, wurden aber bislang von der literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschung kaum beachtet, wie dieser Band aufzeigt. Er widmet sich ausschliesslich den Jugendtheaterstucken des Autorenpaares. Im ersten Teil der Arbeit werden Form und AEsthetik der Texte erfasst, und zwar Handlung, Figuren, Nebentexte und Musik. Im zweiten Teil werden die Jugenddramen nach thematischen Gesichtspunkten untersucht. Diese koennen als Adoleszenz- und All-Age-Literatur gelten, zumal die Dramen in Jugendtheatern und im Schauspiel aufgefuhrt werden. Auch Genderdiskurse sowie Intertextualitat und Intermedialitat unterstutzen den hermeneutischen Prozess. Alle Jugenddramen koennen der realistischen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur zugeordnet werden. Eine Schulbuchanalyse schliesst die Untersuchung ab.

"Inklings" nannte sich eine Gruppe von Schriftstellern und Geisteswissenschaftlern in Oxford, deren bekannteste Mitglieder J.R.R. Tolkien und C.S. Lewis waren. Die Inklings-Gesellschaft e.V. widmet sich seit 1983 dem Studium und der Verbreitung der Werke dieser und ihnen nahestehender Autoren sowie der Analyse des Phantastischen in Literatur, Film und Kunst allgemein. Ihre Jahrestagungen werden in Jahrbuchern dokumentiert. Dieser Band enthalt 12 Vortrage der Tagung "The Inheritance of the Inklings", die 2012 in Wetzlar stattfand und sich mit neuesten Entwicklungen in der phantastischen Literatur und anderen Medien beschaftigte, sowie 5 weitere Beitrage und zahlreiche Rezensionen. "Inklings" was the name of a group of Oxford scholars and writers; its best-known members were J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. The German Inklings-Gesellschaft, founded in 1983, is dedicated to the discussion and dissemination of the works of these authors and of writers commonly associated with them and to the study of the fantastic in literature, film and the arts in general. The proceedings of the annual Inklings conferences are being published in yearbooks. This volume contains 12 papers presented at the 2012 conference in Wetzlar, "The Inheritance of the Inklings". They explore recent developments in fantasy fiction and other media. In addition, there are 5 general articles and numerous reviews.

This 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task. He has researched, taught, and written on virtually every area of literature, and his infectious passion for books and reading has defined his own life. Now he guides young readers and the grown-ups in their lives on an entertaining journey 'through the wardrobe' to a greater awareness of how literature from across the world can transport us and help us to make sense of what it means to be human. Sutherland introduces great classics in his own irresistible way, enlivening his offerings with humor as well as learning: Beowulf, Shakespeare, Don Quixote, the Romantics, Dickens, Moby Dick, The Waste Land, Woolf, 1984, and dozens of others. He adds to these a less-expected, personal selection of authors and works, including literature usually considered well below 'serious attention' - from the rude jests of Anglo-Saxon runes to The Da Vinci Code. With masterful digressions into various themes - censorship, narrative tricks, self-publishing, taste, creativity, and madness - Sutherland demonstrates the full depth and intrigue of reading. For younger readers, he offers a proper introduction to literature, promising to interest as much as instruct. For more experienced readers, he promises just the same.

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.

Mit der Behandlung literarischer Texte im Schulunterricht werden Wertvorstellungen vermittelt, deren Wahrnehmung und Verstandnis von entwicklungspsychologischen Voraussetzungen abhangig ist. Die Geltungsanspruche dieser Handlungsimperative koennen in einer Lerngruppe unterschiedlich wirksam sein und zu Kontroversen fuhren - das 4-Phasen-Modell von Kreft sichert hier den methodischen Rahmen fur eine geleitete Erschliessung von normativen Textinhalten. Dennoch erwirbt weniger als ein Viertel eines Jahrgangs eine literar-asthetische Kompetenz, es wird deshalb ein Kurssystem nach finnischem oder neuseelandischem Vorbild vorgeschlagen.

Published to mark the centenary of Roald Dahl's (Welsh) birth, Roald Dahl: Wales of the Unexpected breaks new ground by revealing the place of Wales in the imagination of the writer known as 'the world's number one storyteller'. Exploring the complex conditioning presence of Wales in his life and work, the essays in this collection dramatically defamiliarise Dahl and in the process render him uncanny. Importantly, Dahl is encountered whole - his books for children and his fiction for adults are read as mutually invigorating bodies of work, both of which evidence the ways in which Wales, and the author's Anglo-Welsh orientation, demand articulation throughout the career. Recognising the impossibility of constructing a monolithic 'Welsh' Dahl, the contributors explore the compound and nuanced ways in which Wales signifies across the oeuvre. Roald Dahl: Wales of the Unexpected takes Dahl studies into new territory in terms of both subject and method, showing the new horizons that open up when Dahl is read through a Welsh lens. Locating Dahl in illuminating new textual networks, resourcefully offering fresh angles of entry into classic Dahl texts, rehabilitating neglected Dahl texts, and analysing the layered genesis of (seemingly) familiar works by excavating the manuscripts, this innovative volume brings Dahl 'home' in order to render him invigoratingly unhomely. The result is not a parochialisation of Dahl, but rather a new internationalisation.

Young adult fantasy (YA fantasy) brings together two established genres - young adult fiction and fantasy fiction - and in so doing amplifies, energises, and leverages the textual, social, and industrial practices of the two genres: combining the fantastic with adolescent concerns; engaging passionate online fandoms; proliferating quickly into series and related works. By considering the texts alongside the way they are circulated and marketed, this Element aims to show that the YA fantasy genre is a dynamic formation that takes shape and reshapes itself responsively in a continuing process over time.

This anthology explores the multitude of evidence for recognisable fairy tales drawn from sources in the much older cultures of the ancient world, appearing much earlier than the 17th century where awareness of most fairy tales tends to begin. It presents versions of Cinderella, The Emperor's New Clothes, Snow White, The Frog Prince and a host of others where the similarities to familiar 'modern' versions far outweigh the differences. Here we find Cinderella as a courtesan, Snow White coming to a tragic end or an innocent heroine murdering her sisters. We find an emperor's new clothes where the flatterers compare him to Alexander the Great, or a pair of adulterers caught in a magic trap. Tantalising fragments suggest that there is more to be discovered: we can point to a Sleeping Beauty where the girl takes on the green colouring of the surrounding wood, or we encounter a Rumpelstiltskin connected to a mystery cult. The overall picture suggests a much richer texture of popular tale as a fascinating new legacy of antiquity. This volume breaks down the traditional barriers between Classical Mythology and the fairy tale, and will be an invaluable resource for anyone working on the history of fairy tales and folklore.

Scholars and professionals interested in the study and engagement with young people will find this project relevant to deepening their understanding of reading practices with comics and graphic novels. Comics reading has been an understudied experience despite its potential to enrich our exploration of reading in our currently saturated media landscape. This Element is based on seventeen in-depth interviews with teens and young adults who describe themselves as readers of comics for pleasure. These interviews provide insights about how comics reading evolves with the readers and what they consider a good or bad reading experience. Special attention is paid to the place of female readers in the comics community and material aspects of reading. From these readers, one begins to understand why comics reading is something that young people do not 'grow out of' but an experience that they 'grow with'.

Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl, classic books such as Pooh, Alice in Wonderland, and The Secret Garden, to modern works including Harry Potter and the Twilight series, thisVery Short Introduction provides an overview of the history of children's literature as it has developed in English, whilst at the same time introducing key debates, developments, and figures in the field. Raising questions about what shape the future of literature for children should take, and exploring the crossover with adult fiction, Reynolds shows that writing for children - whether on page or screen - has participated in shaping and directing ideas about culture, society and childhood. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Evolutionary theory sparked numerous speculations about human development, and one of the most ardently embraced was the idea that children are animals recapitulating the ascent of the species. After Darwin's Origin of Species, scientific, pedagogical, and literary works featuring beastly babes and wild children interrogated how our ancestors evolved and what children must do in order to repeat this course to humanity. Exploring fictions by Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles Kingsley, and Margaret Gatty, Jessica Straley argues that Victorian children's literature not only adopted this new taxonomy of the animal child, but also suggested ways to complete the child's evolution. In the midst of debates about elementary education and the rising dominance of the sciences, children's authors plotted miniaturized evolutions for their protagonists and readers and, more pointedly, proposed that the decisive evolutionary leap for both our ancestors and ourselves is the advent of the literary imagination.

How is academia portrayed in children's literature? This Element ambitiously surveys fictional professors in texts marketed towards children. Professors are overwhelmingly white and male, tending to be elderly scientists who fall into three stereotypes: the vehicle to explain scientific facts, the baffled genius, and the evil madman. By the late twentieth century, the stereotype of the male, mad, muddlehead, called Professor SomethingDumb, is formed in humorous yet pejorative fashion. This Element provides a publishing history of the role of academics in children's literature, questioning the book culture which promotes the enforcement of stereotypes regarding intellectual expertise in children's media. The Element is also available, with additional material, as Open Access.

This Element traces the varied and magical history of Christmas publications for children. The Christmas book market has played an important role in the growth of children's literature, from well-loved classics to more ephemeral annuals and gift books. Starting with the eighteenth century and continuing to recent sales successes and picturebooks, Christmas Books for Children investigates continuities and new trends in this hugely significant part of the children's book market.

The potential of video games as storytelling media and the deep involvement that players feel when they are part of the story needs to be analysed vis-a-vis other narrative media. This book underscores the importance of video games as narratives and offers a framework for analysing the many-ended stories that often redefine real and virtual lives.

An adapted and illustrated edition of Jane Austen's romantic classic - at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Clever and confident, Emma is positive that she can find the perfect husband for her new friend Harriet. But with one mistake after another, Emma realises that she might not understand people as well as she thought. In fact, she might not even understand her own heart. About Jane Austen Children's Stories: From the gardens of Pemberley to the spooky halls of Northanger Abbey, join some of literature's most iconic heroines on their path to self-discovery and true love. An adaptation of Jane Austen's famous stories, illustrated to introduce children aged 7+ to the classics.

Provides a unique snapshot of themes and trends within popular fiction in the twenty-first centuryThis groundbreaking collection captures the state of popular fiction in present day. It features twenty new essays on key authors associated with a wide range of genres and sub-genres, providing chapter-length discussions of major post-2000 works of contemporary popular fiction. The lively, accessible and academically rigorous essays presented here cover a wider range of established popular fiction genres such as fantasy, horror and the romance, as well as more niche areas such as Domestic Noir, Steampunk, the New Weird, Nordic Noir and Zombie Lit. The collection will primarily appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students but general readers may also find the focus on many of today's most prominent and influential authors to be of interest.Key FeaturesProvides students with a timely and accessible overview of current trends within contemporary popular fictionIncludes timely reassessments of recent fiction by established figures such as Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, Larry McMurtry, Neil Gaiman, J.K. Rowling, Jodi Picoult, China Mieville, Grant Morrison, Terry Pratchett and Nora Roberts as well as consideration of authors who have emerged more recently, amongst them Stephenie Meyer, Gillian Flynn, E.L. James, Hugh Howey, Cherie Priest, and Max BrooksIncludes supplementary material such recommended further reading at the end of each chapter

In den zuruckliegenden zwei Jahrzehnten ist in Deutschland intensive Theoriearbeit zur Gattung des Adoleszenzromans geleistet worden. Was jedoch aussteht, ist eine intensive Auseinandersetzung mit dem in der Forschung haufig diffus verwendeten Begriff des "postmodernen Adoleszenzromans". Deshalb widmet sich diese Arbeit ausfuhrlich der Debatte um Kunst und Literatur der Postmoderne sowie der haufig recht vagen Diskussion uber "postmoderne" Lebenswelten Jugendlicher. Auf der Grundlage einer Gattungstheorie des Adoleszenzromans zwischen 1900 und 2000 wird ein Analyserahmen entwickelt, nach dem ausgewahlte Werke im Kontext der Postmoderne untersucht werden. Ziel ist es, die verschiedenen gattungs- und jugendkulturspezifischen Auspragungen des postmodernen Jugendromans herauszuarbeiten.

The collection proposes inventive research strategies for the study of the affective and fluctuating dimensions of cultural life. It presents studies of nightclubs, YouTube memes, political provocations, heritage sites, blogging, education development, and haunting memories.