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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.
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?
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.
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.
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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.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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