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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Children's literature studies

Children's Literature, Popular Culture, and Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover): A. O'malley Children's Literature, Popular Culture, and Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
A. O'malley
R1,509 Discovery Miles 15 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study of the long and varied afterlife of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, primarily in the overlapping arenas of children's and popular culture, offers new insights into not only the continued popularity and relevance of Crusoe's story, but into how modern conceptions of childhood have been shaped by nostalgia and by ideas of 'the popular.' Because it enjoyed such tremendous success as a pedagogical work for children and as a source for children's and popular entertainments, Robinson Crusoe provides a unique case study in the development of our ideas of childhood and the points of intersection between children's and popular cultures. Drawing on a wide range of adaptations and remediations, including children's abridgements, print 'robinsonades, ' chapbooks, popular songs, pantomimes, toys, games, and various consumer items, this book offers a fresh consideration of the place Crusoe has occupied in our culture for almost three centuries.

Are the Kids All Right? - Representations of LGBTQ Characters in Children's and Young Adult Literature (Paperback): B.J.... Are the Kids All Right? - Representations of LGBTQ Characters in Children's and Young Adult Literature (Paperback)
B.J. Epstein
R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Are the Kids All Right? by B.J. Epstein is the first survey of English-language children's literature that features lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or otherwise queer characters. It explores how LGBTQ characters are portrayed and what this says about contemporary society and it covers picture books, middle-grade books, and young adult fiction. Epstein explores why sex, sexuality and gender non-conformity is something that many writers and publishers of children's and young adult lit appear to shy away from. She passionately demonstrates that the information children get from literature matters, and that so called 'difficult' topics can be communicated in entertaining and informative ways. Are the Kids All Right? uses ideas from queer theory and other research to interrogate the ways LGBTQ characters are portrayed in books for children and young people, and to analyse what messages readers of such books might receive. This book brings together literary studies, sociology, queer studies, and other academic fields in an accessible manner, where the research supports the detailed analyses of over fifty books for children and young adults. In Are the Kids All Right?, Epstein looks at a range of topics, such as the lack of diversity in many of these works, how same-sex marriage is portrayed, the relative absence of bisexual and transgender characters, the way that many of these books are marketed and intended as "issue books," and more. Are the Kids All Right? is a practical and informative book that will inspire writers and publishers to produce better LGBTQ literature for young readers. About the author: B.J. Epstein is the author of over 150 articles, book reviews, personal essays, and short stories. She is lecturer in Literature and Public Engagement at the University of East Anglia, and she is also a translator from the Scandinavian languages to English.

Teaching Children's Fiction (Hardcover, 2006 ed.): C. Butler Teaching Children's Fiction (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
C. Butler
R1,515 Discovery Miles 15 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Teaching Children's Literature" provides an account of the various intellectual and educational traditions within which children's literature has been taught, and some historical context for the current position of the discipline. The volume also clarifies the relationships between these traditions and suggests theoretical and practical ways in which they may be brought to bear on each other. Drawing on the international expertise of some of the most eminent practioners in the field, the text shares and disseminates the best teaching practice in both undergraduate and postgraduate study.

Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Martina Domines Veliki, Cian Duffy Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Martina Domines Veliki, Cian Duffy
R2,885 Discovery Miles 28 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection of essays explores the remarkable range and cultural significance of the engagement with 'infancy' during the Romantic period. Taking its point of departure in the commonplace claim that the Romantics invented childhood, the book traces that engagement across national boundaries, in the visual arts, in works of educational theory and natural philosophy, and in both fiction and non-fiction written for children. Essays authored by scholars from a range of national and disciplinary backgrounds reveal how Romantic-period representations of and for children constitute sites of complex discursive interaction, where ostensibly unrelated areas of enquiry are brought together through common tropes and topoi associated with infancy. Broadly new-historicist in approach, but drawing also on influential theoretical descriptions of genre, discipline, mediation, cultural exchange, and comparative methodologies, the collection also seeks to rethink the idea of a clear-cut dichotomy between Enlightenment and Romantic conceptions of infancy.

Translating and Transmediating Children's Literature (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Anna Kerchy, Bjoern Sundmark Translating and Transmediating Children's Literature (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Anna Kerchy, Bjoern Sundmark
R3,901 Discovery Miles 39 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From Struwwelpeter to Peter Rabbit, from Alice to Bilbo-this collection of essays shows how the classics of children's literature have been transformed across languages, genres, and diverse media forms. This book argues that translation regularly involves transmediation-the telling of a story across media and vice versa-and that transmediation is a specific form of translation. Beyond the classic examples, the book also takes the reader on a worldwide tour, and examines, among other things, the role of Soviet science fiction in North Korea, the ethical uses of Lego Star Wars in a Brazilian context, and the history of Latin translation in children's literature. Bringing together scholars from more than a dozen countries and language backgrounds, these cross-disciplinary essays focus on regularly overlooked transmediation practices and terminology, such as book cover art, trans-sensory storytelling, ecart, enfreakment, foreignizing domestication, and intra-cultural transformation.

Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood - Transforming Children's Literature into Film (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018):... Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood - Transforming Children's Literature into Film (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
R. Mccallum
R3,130 Discovery Miles 31 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book features a cutting edge approach to the study of film adaptations of literature for children and young people, and the narratives about childhood those adaptations enact. Historically, film media has always had a partiality for the adaptation of 'classic' literary texts for children. As economic and cultural commodities, McCallum points out how such screen adaptations play a crucial role in the cultural reproduction and transformation of childhood and youth, and indeed are a rich resource for the examination of changing cultural values and ideologies, particularly around contested narratives of childhood. The chapters examine various representations of childhood: as shifting states of innocence and wildness, liminality, marginalisation and invisibility. The book focuses on a range of literary and film genres, from 'classic' texts, to experimental, carnivalesque, magical realist, and cross-cultural texts.

Jessica and Madison - Being Beautiful (Hardcover): Derrick Taylor, Kaila Garnett Jessica and Madison - Being Beautiful (Hardcover)
Derrick Taylor, Kaila Garnett; Illustrated by Rob Peters
R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Do you want to be friends like Jessica and Madison? All you need is the will to learn. This is a book for all little girls who want to be nice and kind, and to know that you are beautiful all the time.

Bringing Light to Twilight - Perspectives on a Pop Culture Phenomenon (Hardcover): G. Anatol Bringing Light to Twilight - Perspectives on a Pop Culture Phenomenon (Hardcover)
G. Anatol
R1,540 Discovery Miles 15 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The astounding commercial success of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, not just with adolescent girls (as originally intended), but with a large and diverse audience, makes interpreting their underlying themes vital for understanding the ways that we perceive and interact with each other in contemporary society. Literary critics have interpreted vampires from Stoker's Dracula to Rice's Lestat in numerous ways-as symbols of deviant sexuality; as transgressive figures of sexual empowerment; as xenophobic representations of foreigners; as pop culture figures that reveal the attitudes of the masses better than any scholarly writing-and the Twilight saga is no exception. The essays in this collection use these interpretative lens and others to interrogate the meanings of Meyer's books, making a compelling case for the cultural relevance of Twilight and providing insights on how we can "read" popular culture to our best advantage. The volume will be of interest to academic and lay readers alike: undergraduates, graduate students, and instructors of children's and young adult literature, contemporary U.S. literature, gothic literature, and popular culture, as well as the myriad Twilight fans who seek to explore and re-explore the novels from a variety of angles.

Publishers, Readers, and Digital Engagement (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Marianne Martens Publishers, Readers, and Digital Engagement (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Marianne Martens
R3,498 Discovery Miles 34 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book demonstrates how the roles of "author," "marketer," and "reviewer" are being redefined, as online environments enable new means for young adults to participate in the books they love. Prior to the expansion of digital technologies around reading, teachers, parents and librarians were the primary gatekeepers responsible for getting books into the hands of young people. Now publishers can create disintermediated digital enclosures in which they can communicate directly with their reading audience. This book exposes how teens contribute their immaterial and affective labor as they engage in participatory reading experiences via publishers' and authors' interactive websites and use of social media, and how in turn publishers are able to use such labor as they get invaluable market research, peer-to-peer recommendations, and even content which can be used in other projects all virtually free-of-charge.

English Literature for Young People (Hardcover): H.E. Marshall English Literature for Young People (Hardcover)
H.E. Marshall; Illustrated by John R. Skelton; Edited by Sheila D. Carroll
R1,004 Discovery Miles 10 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

English Literature for Young People is an introduction to the great works of English literature. H. E. Marshall's story of England 's literary heritage is rich and compelling---a masterly account of 1500 years of the literary arts in Great Britain, extending from early Irish legends through the Golden Age of English letters to the modern age.The Living Books Press hardcover edition is a republication of the 1909 edition, English Literature for Boys and Girls. Our edition has been significantly revised and expanded to improve its use as a study text. Added are a biography of the author, an expanded Chronology of Writers, a bibliography of books recommended by the author, maps of the British Isles, an expanded index, and enhanced illustrations and images. Intended for students age 10 through high school.

Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture - Coming of Age in Fantasyland (Hardcover, New): Gary Westfahl Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture - Coming of Age in Fantasyland (Hardcover, New)
Gary Westfahl
R2,761 Discovery Miles 27 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In a constantly changing world, individuals are forever growing to meet the challenges and developments that emerge around them. In contemporary society, technology is at the heart of change. Literature, too, reflects the evolution of culture and increasingly represents and considers technology. And as children become young adults, their reading helps shape their understanding of the world. This book examines representative works of science fiction, children's literature, and popular culture to show how these works reflect the process of growing up in a technological world. The volume looks at the simple picture books and comic books that appeal to small children; the formulaic adventures that fascinate older children; the films and television programs that are watched by children and young adolescents; the music videos and programming that appeal to young adults; and the popular novels that interest older readers. Included are discussions of Superman, the Hardy Boys, Star Trek, science fiction films, and music videos. The book points to similarities among popular culture, science fiction, and children's literature and demonstrates the relevance of these works to contemporary society.

Language and Gender in the Fairy Tale Tradition - A Linguistic Analysis of Old and New Story-Telling (Hardcover, 2003 ed.):... Language and Gender in the Fairy Tale Tradition - A Linguistic Analysis of Old and New Story-Telling (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
Alessandra Levorato
R2,875 Discovery Miles 28 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Much research has been done on the social messages conveyed to children reading or listening to fairy tales. In this highly original study, the emphasis shifts from content to linguistic expression. The language and linguistic organization of a dozen versions, old and new, of the Little Red Riding Hood story are analyzed using a variety of theoretical approaches, including Critical Discourse Analysis, Conversational Analysis, Functional Grammar and Critical Stylistics, to uncover the contribution of fairy tales to the discourse of gender relations over time.

Coming of Age in Children's Literature - Growth and Maturity in the Work of Phillippa Pearce, Cynthia Voigt and Jan Mark... Coming of Age in Children's Literature - Growth and Maturity in the Work of Phillippa Pearce, Cynthia Voigt and Jan Mark (Hardcover, New)
Margaret Meek Spencer, Victor Watson
R6,636 Discovery Miles 66 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Edited by Morag Styles and written by an interational team of acknowledged experts, this series provides jargon-free, critical discussion and a comprehensive guide to literary and popular texts for children. Each book introduces the reader to a major genre of children's literature, covering key authors, major works and contexts in which those texts are published. Margaret Meek and Victor Watson provide a profound and revealing examiniation of the treatment of personal development, maturation and rites of passage in literature written for children and adolescents. Including a broad survey of the theme across a number of genres and an in-depth analysis of the work of key writers, the authors work towards an answer to the question What is a classic? Margaret Meek is Reader Emeritus at the Institute of Education in London. Victor Watson is Assistant Director of Research at Homerton College, Cambridge.

Robert Cormier (Hardcover): Adrienne E. Gavin Robert Cormier (Hardcover)
Adrienne E. Gavin
R2,855 Discovery Miles 28 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This compelling New Casebook is the first essay collection devoted to the work of groundbreaking American author Robert Cormier. Written by a team of international children's literature experts, the volume offers a variety of critical and theoretical approaches to the range of Cormier's controversial young adult novels. The newly-commissioned essays explore the author's earlier best-known writings for teenagers as well as his later less critically examined texts, focussing on key issues such as adolescence, identity, bullying and child corruption. Recognizing Cormier's achievement, this long-overdue critical resource is essential reading for anyone with an interest in his influential work and lasting impact on young adult fiction.

100 Most Popular Children's Authors - Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies (Hardcover): Sharron L. McElmeel 100 Most Popular Children's Authors - Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies (Hardcover)
Sharron L. McElmeel
R2,541 Discovery Miles 25 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Students can learn more about their favorite authors and find plenty of reading materials they'll enjoy with this affordable biographical work and ready-reference. Featuring 100 beloved and celebrated children's book authors, McElmeel offers engaging biographical sketches, photos, and selected bibliographies and lists of related information sources. Included are such long-time luminaries as Beverly Cleary and Marguerite Henry as well as many new emerging writers. McElmeel's focus is on contemporary authors and those whose works are still in print. A more current and affordable alternative to multivolume publications, this book is a great collection development tool and resource for author studies. Students will enjoy using it for their reports and research papers.

The Courage to Imagine - The Child Hero in Children's Literature (Hardcover): Roni Natov The Courage to Imagine - The Child Hero in Children's Literature (Hardcover)
Roni Natov
R4,235 Discovery Miles 42 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The act of imagining lies at the very heart of children's engagements with literature and with the plots and characters they encounter in their favorite stories. The Courage to Imagine is a landmark new study of that fundamental act of imagining. Roni Natov focuses on the ways in which children's imaginative engagement with the child hero figure can open them up to other people's experiences, developing empathy across lines of race, gender and sexuality, as well as helping them to confront and handle traumatic experience safely. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches from the psychological to the cultural and reading a multicultural spectrum of authors, including works by Maya Angelou, Louise Erdrich, Neil Gaiman and Brian Selznick, this is a groundbreaking examination of the nature of imagining for children and re-imagining for the adult writer and illustrator.

The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination - Missing, Presumed Dead (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Berit Astroem The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination - Missing, Presumed Dead (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Berit Astroem
R3,869 Discovery Miles 38 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This anthology explores the recurring trope of the dead or absent mother in Western cultural productions. Across historical periods and genres, this dialogue has been employed to articulate and debate questions of politics and religion, social and cultural change as well as issues of power and authority within the family. Astroem seeks to investigate the many functions and meanings of the dialogue by covering extensive material from the 1200s to 2014 including hagiography, romances, folktales, plays, novels, children's literature and graphic novels, as well as film and television. This is achieved by looking at the discourse both as products of the time and culture that produced the various narratives, and as part of an on-going cultural conversation that spans the centuries, resulting in an innovative text that will be of great interest to all scholars of gender, feminist and media studies.

I Can Rhyme! - Fill-in-the-Blank Poems (Learn the ABCs) (Hardcover): Chris  Kramer I Can Rhyme! - Fill-in-the-Blank Poems (Learn the ABCs) (Hardcover)
Chris Kramer
R659 Discovery Miles 6 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Growing and Knowing: A Selection Guide for Children's Literature (Hardcover): Mary Trim Growing and Knowing: A Selection Guide for Children's Literature (Hardcover)
Mary Trim
R5,729 Discovery Miles 57 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is designed to meet the needs of professionals working with children and their books. Intented for use as a reference book for library assistants and librarians, in children's libraries, school libraries, resource centres, and general reference libraries, it should also to provide sound information for trainee librarians, teachers and parents. The primary function of this book is to serve as a guide to the selection of books for children, recognising the vast range of books published and the individual rates of reading and social development of different children.The first section focuses on 'The Child: Growing and Knowing through Books', applying reading development theories of the 20th and 21st century to the selection of specific books and covering the characteristics of the various genres of children's literature, including the classics and award winners.There is also coverage of books for special situations and dilemmas and for children who are reluctant to read, along with a section on electronic formats.The second section focuses on 'The Professional: Knowing and Growing', providing ideas for book promotion within the children's library or school library and classroom.This section includes a contribution from Tricia Kings and covers the selection of books for children from ethnic groups communities through out the world.There are also ideas for books for fathers and sons to enjoy reading together.

Literature's Children - The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization (Hardcover): Louise Joy Literature's Children - The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization (Hardcover)
Louise Joy
R3,897 Discovery Miles 38 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Literature's Children offers a new way of thinking about how literature for children functions didactically. It analyzes the nature of the practical critical activity which the child reader carries out, emphasizing what the child does to the text rather than what he or she receives from it. Through close readings of a range of works for children which have shaped our understanding of what children's literature entails, including works by Isaac Watts, John Newbery, Kate Greenaway, E. Nesbit, Kenneth Grahame, J.R.R. Tolkien and Malcolm Saville, it demonstrates how the critical child resists the processes of idealization in operation in and through such texts. Bringing into dialogue ideas from literary theory and the philosophy of education, drawing in particular on the work of the philosopher John Dewey, it provides a compelling new account of the complex relations between literary aesthetics and literary didacticism.

The Turner Twins (Hardcover): Ralph Henry Barbour The Turner Twins (Hardcover)
Ralph Henry Barbour
R995 Discovery Miles 9 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Shelf2Life Children's Literature and Fiction Collection is a charming set of pre-1923 nursery rhymes, fairy tales, classic novels and short stories for children and young adults. From a tardy white rabbit, spirited orphan and loyal watchdog to a dreamer named Dorothy, this collection presents an assortment of memorable characters whose stories light up the pages. The young and young at heart will delight in magical tales of fairies and angels and be captivated by explorations of mysterious islands. The Shelf2Life Children's Literature and Fiction Collection allows you to open a door into a world of fantasy and make-believe where imaginations can run wild.

The Voice of Nature in Ted Hughes's Writing for Children - Correcting Culture's Error (Hardcover): Lorraine Kerslake The Voice of Nature in Ted Hughes's Writing for Children - Correcting Culture's Error (Hardcover)
Lorraine Kerslake
R4,474 Discovery Miles 44 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Despite the fame Ted Hughes's poetry has achieved, there has been surprisingly little critical writing on his children's literature. This book identifies the importance of Hughes's children's writing from an ecocritical perspective and argues that the healing function that Hughes ascribes to nature in his children's literature is closely linked to the development of his own sense of environmental responsibility. This book will be the first sustained examination of Hughes's greening in relation to his writing for children, providing a detailed reading of Hughes's children's literature through his poetry, prose and drama as well as his critical essays and letters. In addition, it also explores how Hughes's children's writing is a window to the poet's own emotional struggles, as well as his environmental consciousness and concern to reconnect a society that has become alienated from nature. This book will be of great interest to not only those studying Ted Hughes, but also students and scholars of environment and literature, ecocriticism, children's literature and twentieth-century literature.

Reflections of Change - Children's Literature Since 1945 (Hardcover, New): Sandra L. Beckett Reflections of Change - Children's Literature Since 1945 (Hardcover, New)
Sandra L. Beckett
R2,765 Discovery Miles 27 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Over the past fifty years, children's literature has freed itself of many traditional restrictions and become a field of exciting innovations in both form and content. The new status of children's literature has been accompanied by an unprecedented growth in research on children's literature internationally. This volume explores the many changes that have taken place in the past half-century in children's literature, showing how those changes reflect our rapidly-changing world and attempt to prepare children for the new millennium. Among the issues discussed are the shifting boundaries between children's literature and adult literature, postmodern trends, paradigm shifts, national literatures, and the reconceptualization of the past.

Childhood in Edwardian Fiction - Worlds Enough and Time (Hardcover): A. Gavin, A. Humphries Childhood in Edwardian Fiction - Worlds Enough and Time (Hardcover)
A. Gavin, A. Humphries
R1,537 Discovery Miles 15 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first book-length look at childhood in Edwardian fiction, this book challenges assumptions that the Edwardian period was simply a continuation of the Victorian or the start of the Modern. Exploring both classics and popular fiction, the authors provide a a compelling picture of the Edwardian fictional cult of childhood.

Playing with Picturebooks - Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque (Hardcover): Callan Playing with Picturebooks - Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque (Hardcover)
Callan
R1,510 Discovery Miles 15 100 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.

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