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

British Children's Poetry in the Romantic Era - Verse, Riddle, and Rhyme (Hardcover): D. Ruwe British Children's Poetry in the Romantic Era - Verse, Riddle, and Rhyme (Hardcover)
D. Ruwe
R1,524 Discovery Miles 15 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This important new book is the first monograph on children's poetry written between 1780 and 1830, when non-religious children's poetry publishing came into its own. Introducing some of the era's most significant children's poets, the book shows how the conventions of children's verse and poetics were established during the Romantic era.

Open at the Close - Literary Essays on Harry Potter (Hardcover): Cecilia Konchar Farr Open at the Close - Literary Essays on Harry Potter (Hardcover)
Cecilia Konchar Farr
R3,168 Discovery Miles 31 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Contributions by Lauren R. Carmacci, Keridiana Chez, Kate Glassman, John Granger, Marie Schilling Grogan, Beatrice Groves, Tolonda Henderson, Nusaiba Imady, Cecilia Konchar Farr, Juliana Valadao Lopes, Amy Mars, Christina Phillips-Mattson, Patrick McCauley, Jennifer M. Reeher, Jonathan A. Rose, and Emily Strand Despite their decades-long, phenomenal success, the Harry Potter novels have attracted relatively little attention from literary critics and scholars. While popular books, articles, blogs, and fan sites for general readers proliferate, and while philosophers, historians, theologians, sociologists, psychologists, and even business professors have taken on book-length studies and edited essay collections about Harry Potter, literature scholars, outside of the children's books community, have paid few serious visits to the Potterverse. Could it be that scholars are still reluctant to recognize popular novels, especially those with genre labels "children's literature" or "fantasy," as worthy subjects for academic study? This book challenges that oversight, assembling and foregrounding some of the best literary critical work by scholars trying to move the needle on these novels to reflect their importance to twenty-first-century literate culture. In Open at the Close, contributors consciously address Harry Potter primarily as a literary phenomenon rather than a cultural one. They interrogate the novels on many levels, from multiple perspectives, and with various conclusions, but they come together around the overarching question: What is it about these books? At their heart, what is it that makes the Harry Potter novels so exceptionally compelling, so irresistible to their readers, and so relevant in our time?

Ethics in British Children's Literature - Unexamined Life (Hardcover, New): Lisa Sainsbury Ethics in British Children's Literature - Unexamined Life (Hardcover, New)
Lisa Sainsbury
R4,581 Discovery Miles 45 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Featuring close readings of selected poetry, visual texts, short stories and novels published for children since 1945 from Naughty Amelia Jane to Watership Down, this is the first extensive study of the nature and form of ethical discourse in British children's literature. Ethics in British Children's Literature explores the extent to which contemporary writing for children might be considered philosophical, tackling ethical spheres relevant to and arising from books for young people, such as naughtiness, good and evil, family life, and environmental ethics. Rigorously engaging with influential moral philosophers, from Aristotle through Kant and Hegel, to Arno Leopold, Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley, and Lars Svendsen, this book demonstrates the narrative strategies employed to engage young readers as moral agents.

The Discover Cats Explore Famous Inventions - A Children's Book About Creativity, Technology, and History (Hardcover):... The Discover Cats Explore Famous Inventions - A Children's Book About Creativity, Technology, and History (Hardcover)
Jimmy Nightingale
R615 Discovery Miles 6 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Oz Behind the Iron Curtain - Aleksandr Volkov and His Magic Land Series (Hardcover): Erika Haber Oz Behind the Iron Curtain - Aleksandr Volkov and His Magic Land Series (Hardcover)
Erika Haber
R3,191 Discovery Miles 31 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1939, Aleksandr Volkov (1891-1977) published Wizard of the Emerald City, a revised version of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Only a line on the copyright page explained the book as a "reworking" of the American story. Readers credited Volkov as author rather than translator. Volkov, an unknown and inexperienced author before World War II, tried to break into the politically charged field of Soviet children's literature with an American fairy tale. During the height of Stalin's purges, Volkov adapted and published this fairy tale in the Soviet Union despite enormous, sometimes deadly, obstacles. Marketed as Volkov's original work, Wizard of the Emerald City spawned a series that was translated into more than a dozen languages and became a staple of Soviet popular culture, not unlike Baum's fourteen-volume Oz series in the United States. Volkov's books inspired a television series, plays, films, musicals, animated cartoons, and a museum. Today, children's authors and fans continue to add volumes to the Magic Land series. Several generations of Soviet Russian and Eastern European children grew up with Volkov's writings, yet know little about the author and even less about his American source, L. Frank Baum. Most Americans have never heard of Volkov and know nothing of his impact in the Soviet Union, and those who do know of him regard his efforts as plagiarism. Erika Haber demonstrates how the works of both Baum and Volkov evolved from being popular children's literature and became compelling and enduring cultural icons in both the US and USSR/Russia, despite being dismissed and ignored by critics, scholars, and librarians for many years.

Bimbi (Hardcover): Louise De La Ramee Bimbi (Hardcover)
Louise De La Ramee
R990 Discovery Miles 9 900 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.

Overcoming Writer's Block - The Writer's Guide to Beating the Blank Page (Hardcover): Marcy Pusey Overcoming Writer's Block - The Writer's Guide to Beating the Blank Page (Hardcover)
Marcy Pusey
R582 R542 Discovery Miles 5 420 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Children's Literature in Context (Hardcover, New): Fiona McCulloch Children's Literature in Context (Hardcover, New)
Fiona McCulloch
R3,540 Discovery Miles 35 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Featuring close readings of commonly studied texts, this book takes students of Children's Literature through the key works, their contexts and critical and popular afterlives. "Children's Literature in Context" is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to children's literature and its wider contexts. It begins by introducing key issues involved in the study of children's literature and its social, cultural and literary contexts. Close readings of commonly studied texts including Lewis Carroll's Alice books, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", "The Lion", "The Witch and the Wardrobe", the "Harry Potter" series and the "His Dark Materials" trilogy highlight major themes and ways of reading children's literature. A chapter on afterlives and adaptations explores a range of wider cultural texts including the film adaptations of "Harry Potter", "The Chronicles of Narnia" and "The Golden Compass". The final section introduces key critical interpretations from different perspectives on issues including innocence, gender, fantasy, psychoanalysis and ideology. 'Review, Reading and Research' sections give suggestions for further reading, discussion and research. Introducing texts, contexts and criticism, this is a lively and up-to-date resource for anyone studying children's literature. Texts and Contexts is a series of clear, concise and accessible introductions to key literary fields and concepts. The series provides the literary, critical, historical context for texts and authors in a specific literary area in a way that introduces a range of work in the field and enables further independent study and reading.

Storybridge to Second Language Literacy - The Theory, Research and Practice of Teaching English with Children's Literature... Storybridge to Second Language Literacy - The Theory, Research and Practice of Teaching English with Children's Literature (Hardcover, New)
Irma-Kaarina Ghosn
R3,042 Discovery Miles 30 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Storybridge to Second Language Literacy makes a case for using authentic children's literature- alternately also referred to as 'stories' or 'real books'-as the medium of instruction in teaching English to young learners, particularly in contexts where children must access general curriculum subjects in English. The author first proposes theoretical foundations for the argument that illustrated children's books are superior to traditional language teaching courses in the primary school. She builds the case around the motivational power of stories, the language and content of quality children's literature, and the potential of literature to contribute to development of second language academic literacy. She then reviews research of the past thirty years that clearly supports her claim. Finally, she uses transcripts from real classrooms to illustrate how teachers in diverse contexts make use of stories. Through the classroom vignettes, a practical model of literature-based instruction emerges that is adaptable to a wide range of primary school teaching contexts, including English as a second language contexts in core-English countries. Storybridge to Second Language Literacy compiles in one volume solid theoretical foundations for story-based instruction, research evidence of the past thirty years supporting the approach (not currently available in a single source), and extensive classroom vignettes illustrating diverse practical applications (not lesson plans).This makes the book valuable for anyone in the field of young learner ELT. MA students in TESOL will find the book useful and will develop an understanding of why and how literature-based instruction works and develop insight to guide their practice. Members of TESOL Elementary Education, EFL, and Bilingual Education SIGs, and IATEFL Young Learner SIG will be interested in the volume. Instructors of teacher development courses should also find the proposed volume a valuable addition to assigned readings. Each chapter is followed by 'Think about it' questions and 'Try it out' suggestions.

Modern Children's Literature - An Introduction (Hardcover, 2nd edition): catherine butler, Kimberly Reynolds Modern Children's Literature - An Introduction (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
catherine butler, Kimberly Reynolds
R3,215 Discovery Miles 32 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An established introductory textbook that provides students with a guide to developments in children's literature over time and across genres. This stimulating collection of critical essays written by a team of subject experts explores key British, American and Australian works, from picture books and texts for younger children, through to graphic novels and young adult fiction. It combines accessible close readings of children's texts with informed examinations of genres, issues and critical contexts, making it an essential practical book for students. This is an ideal core text for dedicated modules on Children's literature which may be offered at the upper levels of an undergraduate literature or education degree. In addition it is a crucial resource for students who may be studying children's literature for the first time as part of a taught postgraduate degree in literature or education. New to this Edition: - Revised and updated throughout in light of recent children's books and the latest research - Includes new coverage of key topics such as canon formation, fantasy and technology - Features an essay on children's poetry by the former Children's Laureate, Michael Rosen

Behind the Back of the North Wind - Critical Essays on George MacDonald's Classic Children's Book (Hardcover): John... Behind the Back of the North Wind - Critical Essays on George MacDonald's Classic Children's Book (Hardcover)
John Pennington, Roderick McGillis
R670 Discovery Miles 6 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Adapting Canonical Texts in Children's Literature (Hardcover, New): Anja Muller Adapting Canonical Texts in Children's Literature (Hardcover, New)
Anja Muller
R4,239 Discovery Miles 42 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Adaptations of canonical texts have played an important role throughout the history of children's literature and have been seen as an active and vital contributing force in establishing a common ground for intercultural communication across generations and borders. This collection analyses different examples of adapting canonical texts in or for children's literature encompassing adaptations of English classics for children and young adult readers and intercultural adaptations of children's classics across Europe. The international contributors assess both historical and transcultural adaptation in relation to historically and regionally contingent concepts of childhood. By assessing how texts move across age-specific or national borders, they examine the traces of a common literary and cultural heritage in European children's literature.

This Book Is Alive! (Hardcover): Justine Avery This Book Is Alive! (Hardcover)
Justine Avery; Illustrated by Daria Yudina
R618 Discovery Miles 6 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between - Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children's Entertainment... Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between - Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children's Entertainment Media (Hardcover)
Carrielynn D Reinhard, Christopher J Olson; Contributions by Fatima Q Al Hattami, Sara Austin, Thomas J Billard, …
R3,758 R2,649 Discovery Miles 26 490 Save R1,109 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Current characters in children's entertainment media illustrate a growing trend of representations that challenge or subvert traditional notions of gender and sexuality. From films to picture books to animated television series, children's entertainment media around the world has consistently depicted stereotypically traditional gender roles and heterosexual relationships as the normal way that people act and engage with one another. Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between: Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children's Entertainment Media examines how this media ecology now includes a presence for nonheteronormative genders and sexualities. It considers representations of such identities in various media products (e.g., comic books, television shows, animated films, films, children's literature) meant for children (e.g., toddlers to teenagers). The contributors seek to identify and understand characterizations that go beyond these traditional understandings of gender and sexuality. By doing so, they explore these nontraditional representations and consider what they say about the current state of children's entertainment media, popular culture, and global acceptance of these gender identities and sexualities.

Political Anxiety in Golden Age Children's Classics and Their Contemporary Adaptations (Hardcover): Jasmin Sultemeyer Political Anxiety in Golden Age Children's Classics and Their Contemporary Adaptations (Hardcover)
Jasmin Sultemeyer
R3,676 Discovery Miles 36 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

As striking, counter-intuitive and distasteful as the combination of children and anxiety may seem, some of the most popular children's classics abound in depictions of traumatic relationships, bloody wars and helpless heroes. This book draws on Freudian and Lacanian anxiety models to investigate the psychological and political significance of this curious juxtaposition, as it stands out in Golden Age novels from both sides of the Atlantic and their present-day adaptations. The stories discussed in detail, so the argument goes, identify specific anxieties and forms of anxiety management as integral elements of hegemonial middle-class identity. Apart from its audacious link between psychoanalysis and Marxist, feminist, as well as postcolonial ideology criticism, this study provides a nuanced analysis of the ways in which allegedly trivial texts negotiate questions of individual and (trans)national identities. In doing so, it offers a fresh look at beloved tales like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz and Peter Pan, contributes to the dynamic field of adaptation studies and highlights the necessity to approach children's entertainment more seriously and more sensitively than it is generally the case.

F.B.'s Thanksgiving - The Human's Lesson (Hardcover): Alice Anne Townsend F.B.'s Thanksgiving - The Human's Lesson (Hardcover)
Alice Anne Townsend
R1,068 Discovery Miles 10 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature (Hardcover): Emer O'Sullivan Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature (Hardcover)
Emer O'Sullivan
R2,863 Discovery Miles 28 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Children's literature comes from a number of different sources-folklore (folk- and fairy tales), books originally for adults and subsequently adapted for children, and material authored specifically for them-and its audience ranges from infants through middle graders to young adults (readers from about 12 to 18 years old). Its forms include picturebooks, pop-up books, anthologies, novels, merchandising tie-ins, novelizations, and multimedia texts, and its genres include adventure stories, drama, science fiction, poetry, and information books. 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. Some of the most legendary names in all of literature are covered in this important reference, including Hans Christian Anderson, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, Beatrix Potter, J.K. Rowling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jules Verne, and E.B. White.

Lessons for a Lifetime - Children's Stories We Never Outgrow (Hardcover): Maureen Kasdorf Lessons for a Lifetime - Children's Stories We Never Outgrow (Hardcover)
Maureen Kasdorf
R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Americas Award - Honoring Latino/a Children's and Young Adult Literature of the Americas (Hardcover): Laretta Henderson The Americas Award - Honoring Latino/a Children's and Young Adult Literature of the Americas (Hardcover)
Laretta Henderson; Contributions by Candace Doerr-Stevens, Patricia Enciso, Leanne M. Evans, Wooseob Jeong, …
R2,609 Discovery Miles 26 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First awarded in 1993, the Americas Award is given in recognition of books that authentically and engagingly portray Latino/as in Latin America, the Caribbean or the United States. By combining both and linking the Americas, the award reaches beyond geographic borders, as well as multicultural-international boundaries, focusing instead upon cultural heritages within the hemisphere. The Award is unique in that selects Latino/a youth literature for classroom use and in that it focuses on the entire Western Hemisphere. Scholars from the fields of literature, education, lbrary science, and theater engage with Latino/a Critical Race Theory (LatCrit) in this ecollection of essays about the Americas Award, the Award-winning and honored books, and the contexts in which the books are used. This collection offers essays on the history of the award, close readings of Award-winning and honored books situated in the classroom, and discussions of how best to use the books in the classroom, library and theater.

30th Birthday Guest Book - Gold Frame and Letters Pink Roses Floral Watercolor Theme, Best Wishes from Family and Friends to... 30th Birthday Guest Book - Gold Frame and Letters Pink Roses Floral Watercolor Theme, Best Wishes from Family and Friends to Write in, Guests Sign in for Party, Gift Log, Hardback (Hardcover)
Birthday Guest Books Of Lorina
R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Five Little Peppers - And How They Grew (Paperback): Margaret Sidney Five Little Peppers - And How They Grew (Paperback)
Margaret Sidney; Edited by Hilary Emmett, Thomas Ruys Smith; Introduction by Bella Brittan, Kayleigh Doucy, …
R480 R433 Discovery Miles 4 330 Save R47 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Thematic Guide to Popular Short Stories (Hardcover): Patrick A. Smith Thematic Guide to Popular Short Stories (Hardcover)
Patrick A. Smith
R2,473 Discovery Miles 24 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Providing easy access to information on nearly 450 short stories, this unique guide surveys a wide spectrum of world literature, canonical works, and contemporary fiction. Librarians and teachers will find multiple purposes for this expertly-compiled resource, which can be employed in much the same way as a standard bibliography. Educators will appreciate the concise annotations, arranged alphabetically by author, that form the core of this work. Insightful critical statements synthesize plot summaries and identify the thematic content of each short story.

A theme guide utilizes the nearly 100 theme headings matching those at the start of each entry, allowing the user to quickly locate story titles on related themes and construct reading lists based on individual interests and needs. Another component designed to aid librarians offers one bibliography that lists the anthologies from which the stories are drawn (Works Cited) and one comprised of a number of recent anthologies that can be adapted for the classroom (Further Reading). In addition to the theme index, the general subject and author indexes make this a user-friendly and invaluable resource.

Telling Trails - Your Story, Your Experiences, You! In pictures, poetry, and prose (Hardcover): Iris Jackson Telling Trails - Your Story, Your Experiences, You! In pictures, poetry, and prose (Hardcover)
Iris Jackson
R705 Discovery Miles 7 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Elsie's Girlhood (Hardcover): M F Elsie's Girlhood (Hardcover)
M F
R1,108 Discovery Miles 11 080 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.

Terry Pratchett's Narrative Worlds - From Giant Turtles to Small Gods (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Marion Rana Terry Pratchett's Narrative Worlds - From Giant Turtles to Small Gods (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Marion Rana
R3,371 Discovery Miles 33 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book highlights the multi-dimensionality of the work of British fantasy writer and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett. Taking into account content, political commentary, and literary technique, it explores the impact of Pratchett's work on fantasy writing and genre conventions.With chapters on gender, multiculturalism, secularism, education, and relativism, Section One focuses on different characters' situatedness within Pratchett's novels and what this may tell us about the direction of his social, religious and political criticism. Section Two discusses the aesthetic form that this criticism takes, and analyses the post- and meta-modern aspects of Pratchett's writing, his use of humour, and genre adaptations and deconstructions. This is the ideal collection for any literary and cultural studies scholar, researcher or student interested in fantasy and popular culture in general, and in Terry Pratchett in particular.

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