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Traducciones, adaptaciones y doble destinatario en literatura infantil y juvenil (English, Spanish, Hardcover, New edition):... Traducciones, adaptaciones y doble destinatario en literatura infantil y juvenil (English, Spanish, Hardcover, New edition)
Elvira Camara Aguilera
R2,015 Discovery Miles 20 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

El presente libro recoge trabajos punteros de investigacion sobre traduccion, adaptacion y doble destinatario en LIJ. Se estudian generos tan variados como el album ilustrado, la poesia o las historias en formato audiovisual. Sus autores proceden de paises como Alemania, Brasil, Costa Rica, Espana, Francia, Finlandia, Israel, Italia, Portugal o Reino Unido. Autoras como Riitta Oittinen o Zohar Shavit ofrecen una vision nueva sobre obras clasicas. Asimismo, se pueden encontrar proyectos innovadores de aplicacion en el aula. Supone abrir una puerta que nos acercara a la literatura para ninos y jovenes de cada uno de esos lugares. Es, sin duda, una muestra representativa de donde se encuentra y hacia donde se dirige la investigacion de LIJ en el contexto internacional en la actualidad.

Diana Wynne Jones - An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom (Paperback): Teya Rosenberg, Martha P. Hixon, Sharon M. Scapple, Donna R.... Diana Wynne Jones - An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom (Paperback)
Teya Rosenberg, Martha P. Hixon, Sharon M. Scapple, Donna R. White
R884 Discovery Miles 8 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom is a collection of scholarly essays examining the work of British author Diana Wynne Jones, whose prolific contributions to speculative fiction span the past thirty years. A contemporary of such

Children, Media, and American History - Printed Poison, Pernicious Stuff, and Other Terrible Temptations (Hardcover): Margaret... Children, Media, and American History - Printed Poison, Pernicious Stuff, and Other Terrible Temptations (Hardcover)
Margaret Cassidy
R4,759 Discovery Miles 47 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Printed poison. Pernicious stuff. Since the nineteenth century, these are some of the many concerned comments critics have made about media for children. From dime novels to comic books to digital media, Cassidy illustrates the ways children have used "old media" when they were first introduced as "new media." Further, she interrogates the extent to which different conceptions of childhood have influenced adults' reactions to children's use of media. Exploring the history of American children and media, this text presents a portrait of the way in which children and adults adapt to a constantly changing media environment.

Bridges to Understanding - Envisioning the World through Children's Books (Paperback, New): Linda M. Pavonetti Bridges to Understanding - Envisioning the World through Children's Books (Paperback, New)
Linda M. Pavonetti
R2,045 Discovery Miles 20 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the fourth volume sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People, following Children's Books from Other Countries (1998), The World Through Children's Books (2002), and Crossing Boundaries (2006). This latest volume, edited by Linda M. Pavonetti, includes books published between 2005 and 2009. This annotated bibliography, organized geographically by world region and country, with descriptions of nearly 700 books representing more than 70 countries, is a valuable resource for librarians, teachers, and anyone else seeking to promote international understanding through children's literature. Like its predecessors, it will be an important tool for providing stories that will help children understand our differences while simultaneously demonstrating our common humanity.

Literarisches und mediales UEbersetzen; Aufsatze zu Theorie und Praxis einer gelehrten Kunst (German, Paperback): Klaus Poertl,... Literarisches und mediales UEbersetzen; Aufsatze zu Theorie und Praxis einer gelehrten Kunst (German, Paperback)
Klaus Poertl, Rainer Kohlmayer, Wolfgang Poeckl
R1,756 Discovery Miles 17 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Der Band besteht aus zwoelf Vortragen, die von Mitgliedern des Fachbereichs Angewandte Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft der Universitat Mainz sowie von Gastrednern im Rahmen des Forums Literaturubersetzen Germersheim gehalten wurden. Die Artikel verteilen sich auf die Bereiche UEbersetzungstheorie, Rezeptionsgeschichte und UEbersetzungskritik sowie Werkstattberichte. Die theorieorientierten Beitrage behandeln Aspekte wie Einfuhlungsvermoegen des UEbersetzers, UEbersetzen aus Minderheitensprachen, feministische UEbersetzung oder Untertitelung und Synchronisation. Die zweite Gruppe beinhaltet Aufsatze zur UEbersetzung von Thomas Mann in den USA, Astrid Lindgren in Frankreich, chinesische Literatur und franzoesische Chansons in deutscher UEbertragung. UEbersetzungspraktische Erfahrungen werden demonstriert an Werken von Plautus, Montaigne, Camoes und an einem ungarischen Erfolgstitel.

Literature for Young Adults - Books (and More) for Contemporary Readers (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Joan L Knickerbocker, James... Literature for Young Adults - Books (and More) for Contemporary Readers (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Joan L Knickerbocker, James A. Rycik
R4,522 Discovery Miles 45 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Now in its second edition, this book explores a great variety of genres and formats of young adult literature while placing special emphasis on contemporary works with nontraditional themes, protagonists, and literary conventions that are well suited to young adult readers. It looks at the ways in which contemporary readers can access literature and share the works they're reading, and it shows teachers the resources that are available, especially online, for choosing and using good literature in the classroom and for recommending books for their students' personal reading. In addition to traditional genre chapters, this book includes chapters on literary nonfiction; poetry, short stories, and drama; and film. Graphic novels, diversity issues, and uses of technology are also included throughout the text. The book's discussion of literary language-including traditional elements as well as metafictive terms-enables readers to share in a literary conversation with their peers (and others) when communicating about books. This book is an essential resource for preservice educators to help young adults understand and appreciate the excellent literature that is available to them. New to the second edition: New popular authors, books, and movies with a greater focus on diversity of literature Updated coverage of new trends, such as metafiction, a renewed focus on nonfiction, and retellings of canonical works Increased attention to graphic novels and multimodal texts throughout the book eResources with downloadable materials, including book lists, awards lists, and Focus Questions

Twenty-First Century Feminisms in Children's and Adolescent Literature (Hardcover): Roberta Seelinger Trites Twenty-First Century Feminisms in Children's and Adolescent Literature (Hardcover)
Roberta Seelinger Trites
R3,188 Discovery Miles 31 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Over twenty years after the publication of her groundbreaking work, Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels, Roberta Seelinger Trites returns to analyze how literature for the young still provides one outlet in which feminists can offer girls an alternative to sexism. Supplementing her previous work in the linguistic turn, Trites employs methodologies from the material turn to demonstrate how feminist thinking has influenced literature for the young in the last two decades. She interrogates how material feminism can expand our understanding of maturation and gender - especially girlhood - as represented in narratives for preadolescents and adolescents. Twenty-First-Century Feminisms in Children's and Adolescent Literature applies principles behind material feminisms, such as ecofeminism, intersectionality, and the ethics of care, to analyze important feminist thinking that permeates twenty-first-century publishing for youth. The structure moves from examinations of the individual to examinations of the individual in social, environmental, and interpersonal contexts. The book deploys ecofeminism and the posthuman to investigate how embodied individuals interact with the environment and via the extension of feministic ethics how people interact with each other romantically and sexually. Throughout the book, Trites explores issues of identity, gender, race, class, age, and sexuality in a wide range of literature for young readers, such as Kate DiCamillo's Flora and Ulysses, Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming, and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park. She demonstrates how shifting cultural perceptions of feminism affect what is happening both in publishing for the young and in the academic study of literature for children and adolescents.

Hogwarts and All - Gothic Perspectives on Children's Literature (Paperback, New edition): Gregory G Pepetone Hogwarts and All - Gothic Perspectives on Children's Literature (Paperback, New edition)
Gregory G Pepetone
R877 Discovery Miles 8 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Hogwarts and All explores modern children's literature from its origins in the nineteenth-century cult of childhood, a cultural movement inseparable from Christian theology. From the Kunstmarchen (adult fairy tales) of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century German romanticism through Charles Dickens, J. R. R. Tolkien, and J. K. Rowling, this genre, like all gothic arts, has served as an alternative cultural perspective to that of scientific materialism. Its benignly subversive message is that a civilization that abandons its commitment to the childlike values of wonder, trust, sacrificial love, spontaneity, vulnerability, and faith in radical possibilities for peace, social justice, and human happiness - all qualities endorsed by Ray Bradbury, Susan Cooper, Madeleine L'Engle, and other authors discussed in this volume - is a civilization at risk.

Children's Literature (Hardcover, 1st Ed. 2016): Pat Pinsent Children's Literature (Hardcover, 1st Ed. 2016)
Pat Pinsent
R3,029 Discovery Miles 30 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This invaluable Guide surveys the key critical works and debates in the vibrant field of children's literature since its inception. Leading expert Pat Pinsent combines a chronological overview of developments in the genre with analysis of key theorists and theories, and subject-specific methodologies.

Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature (Hardcover): Bettina Kummerling-Meibauer, Anja Muller Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature (Hardcover)
Bettina Kummerling-Meibauer, Anja Muller
R4,784 Discovery Miles 47 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume focuses on the (de)canonization processes in children's literature, considering the construction and cultural-historical changes of canons in different children's literatures. Chapters by international experts in the field explore a wide range of different children's literatures from Great Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Eastern and Central Europe, as well as from Non-European countries such as Australia, Israel, and the United States. Situating the inquiry within larger literary and cultural studies conversations about canonicity, the contributors assess representative authors and works that have encountered changing fates in the course of canon history. Particular emphasis is given to sociological canon theories, which have so far been under-represented in canon research in children's literature. The volume therefore relates historical changes in the canon of children's literature not only to historical changes in concepts of childhood but to more encompassing political, social, economic, cultural, and ideological shifts. This volume's comparative approach takes cognizance of the fact that, if canon formation is an important cultural factor in nation-building processes, a comparative study is essential to assessing transnational processes in canon formation. This book thus renders evident the structural similarities between patterns and strategies of canon formation emerging in different children's literatures.

Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the 'Twilight' Series (Paperback): Anne Morey Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the 'Twilight' Series (Paperback)
Anne Morey
R1,828 Discovery Miles 18 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Much of the criticism on Stephenie Meyer's immensely popular 'Twilight' novels has underrated or even disparaged the books while belittling the questionable taste of an audience that many believe is being inculcated with anti-feminist values. Avoiding a repetition of such reductive critiques of the series's purported shortcomings with respect to literary merit and political correctness, this volume adopts a cultural studies framework to explore the range of scholarly concerns awakened by the 'Twilight novels and their filmic adaptations. Contributors examine 'Twilight's debts to its predecessors in young adult, vampire, and romance literature; the problems of cinematic adaptation; issues in fan and critical reception in the United States and Korea; and the relationship between the series and contemporary conceptualizations of feminism, particularly girl culture. Placing the series within a broad tradition of literary history, reception studies, and filmic adaptation, the collection offers scholars the opportunity to engage with the books' importance for studies of popular culture, gender, and young adult literature.

History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children's Literature (Paperback): Jackie C. Horne History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children's Literature (Paperback)
Jackie C. Horne
R1,827 Discovery Miles 18 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How did the 'flat' characters of eighteenth-century children's literature become 'round' by the mid-nineteenth? While previous critics have pointed to literary Romanticism for an explanation, Jackie C. Horne argues that this shift can be better understood by looking to the discipline of history. Eighteenth-century humanism believed the purpose of history was to teach private and public virtue by creating idealized readers to emulate. Eighteenth-century children's literature, with its impossibly perfect protagonists (and its equally imperfect villains) echoes history's exemplar goals. Exemplar history, however, came under increasing pressure during the period, and the resulting changes in historiographical practice - an increased need for reader engagement and the widening of history's purview to include the morals, manners, and material lives of everyday people - find their mirror in changes in fiction for children. Horne situates hitherto neglected Robinsonades, historical novels, and fictionalized histories within the cultural, social, and political contexts of the period to trace the ways in which idealized characters gradually gave way to protagonists who fostered readers' sympathetic engagement. Horne's study will be of interest to specialists in children's literature, the history of education, and book history.

Children's Stories and 'Child-Time' in the Works of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-Garde... Children's Stories and 'Child-Time' in the Works of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-Garde (Paperback)
Analisa Leppanen-Guerra
R1,836 Discovery Miles 18 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Focusing on his evocative and profound references to children and their stories, Children's Stories and 'Child-Time' in the Works of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-Garde studies the relationship between the artist's work on childhood and his search for a transfigured concept of time. This study also situates Cornell and his art in the broader context of the transatlantic avant-garde of the 1930s and 40s. Analisa Leppanen-Guerra explores the children's stories that Cornell perceived as fundamental in order to unpack the dense network of associations in his under-studied multimedia works. Moving away from the usual focus on his box constructions, the author directs her attention to Cornell's film and theater scenarios, 'explorations', 'dossiers', and book-objects. One highlight of this study is a work that may well be the first artist's book of its kind, and has only been exhibited twice: Untitled (Journal d'Agriculture Pratique), presented as Cornell's enigmatic tribute to Lewis Carroll's Alice books.

Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoanalytic Theory - Feminism and Retelling the Tale (Paperback): Veronica L. Schanoes Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoanalytic Theory - Feminism and Retelling the Tale (Paperback)
Veronica L. Schanoes
R1,817 Discovery Miles 18 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

At the same time that 1970s feminist psychoanalytic theorists like Jean Baker Miller and Nancy Chodorow were challenging earlier models that assumed the masculine psyche as the norm for human development and mental/emotional health, writers such as Anne Sexton, Olga Broumass, and Angela Carter were embarked on their own revisionist project to breathe new life into fairy tales and classical myths based on traditional gender roles. Similarly, in the 1990s, second-wave feminist clinicians continued the work begun by Chodorow and Miller, while writers of fantasy that include Terry Windling, Tanith Lee, Terry Pratchett, and Catherynne M. Valente took their inspiration from revisionist authors of the 1970s. As Schanoes shows, these two decades were both particularly fruitful eras for artists and psychoanalytic theorists concerned with issues related to the development of women's sense of self. Putting aside the limitations of both strains of feminist psychoanalytic theory, their influence is undeniable. Schanoes's book posits a new model for understanding both feminist psychoanalytic theory and feminist retellings, one that emphasizes the interdependence of theory and art and challenges the notion that literary revision involves a masculinist struggle with the writer's artistic forbearers.

Gender(ed) Identities - Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children's and Young Adult Literature (Hardcover): Tricia Clasen,... Gender(ed) Identities - Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children's and Young Adult Literature (Hardcover)
Tricia Clasen, Holly Hassel
R4,791 Discovery Miles 47 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume brings together diverse, cross-disciplinary scholarly voices to examine gender construction in children's and young adult literature. It complements and updates the scholarship in the field by creating a rich, cohesive examination of core questions around gender and sexuality in classic and contemporary texts. By providing an expansive treatment of gender and sexuality across genres, eras, and national literature, the collection explores how readers encounter unorthodox as well as traditional notions of gender. It begins with essays exploring how children's and YA literature construct communities formed by gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and in face-to-face and virtual spaces. Section II's central focus is how gendered identities are formed, unpacking how texts for young readers ranging from Amish youth periodicals to the blockbuster Divergent series trace, reproduce, and shape gendered identity socialization. In section III, the essential literary function of translating trauma into narrative is addressed in classics like Anne of Green Gables and Pollyanna, as well as more recent works. Section IV's focus on sexuality and romance encompasses fiction and nonfiction works, examining how children's and young adult literature can serve as a regressive, progressive, and transgressive site for construction meaning about sex and romance. Last, Section IV offers new readings of paratextual features in literature for children -- from the classic tale of Cinderella to contemporary illustrated novels. The key achievement of this volume is providing an updated range of multidisciplinary and methodologically diverse analyses of critically and commercially successful texts, contributing to the scholarship on children's and YA literature; gender, sexuality, and women's studies; and a range of other disciplines.

Media Power and Plurality - From Hyperlocal to High-Level Policy (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): S. Barnett, J Townend Media Power and Plurality - From Hyperlocal to High-Level Policy (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
S. Barnett, J Townend
R2,045 Discovery Miles 20 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While policymakers in the world reiterate the importance of protecting voice diversity, traditional media conglomerates and new social media giants make their task increasingly challenging. This book assesses the current state of policy-making on media plurality and explores novel policy ideas for funding, regulatory and structural interventions.

A Genre Approach to Celebrity Politics - Global Patterns of Passage from Media to Politics (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): Nahuel... A Genre Approach to Celebrity Politics - Global Patterns of Passage from Media to Politics (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
Nahuel Ribke
R2,064 Discovery Miles 20 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Exploring the transition of celebrities into institutional-electoral politics, the book argues that many insights developed by genre theorists could be highly instrumental to understand the celebrity politics phenomenon. It analyzes the historical and cultural specificity of celebrity politics as it evolved through different countries and cultures.

World Cinema and Cultural Memory (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): I Hedges World Cinema and Cultural Memory (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
I Hedges
R1,950 Discovery Miles 19 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cinema has long played a crucial role in the way that societies represent themselves. Hedges discusses the role of cinema in creating cultural memory within a global perspective that spans five continents. The book's innovative approach and approachable style should transform the way that we think of film and its social effects.

Afterlife of Events - Perspectives on Mnemohistory (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): Marek Tamm Afterlife of Events - Perspectives on Mnemohistory (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
Marek Tamm
R3,521 Discovery Miles 35 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Recently, we have witnessed a rearticulation of the traditional relationship between the past, present and future, broadening historiography's range from studying past events to their later impact and meaning. The volume proposes to look at the perspectives of this approach called mnemohistory, and argues for a redefinition of the term 'event'.

Seriality and Texts for Young People - The Compulsion to Repeat (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): M. Reimer, N Ali, D. England, M.... Seriality and Texts for Young People - The Compulsion to Repeat (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
M. Reimer, N Ali, D. England, M. Dennis Unrau, Melanie Dennis Unrau
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Seriality and Texts for Young People is a collection of thirteen scholarly essays about series and serial texts directed to children and youth, each of which begins from the premise that a basic principle of seriality is repetition.

Animality and Children's Literature and Film (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): A. Ratelle Animality and Children's Literature and Film (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
A. Ratelle
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Examining culturally significant works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, Animality and Children's Literature and Film argues that Western philosophy's objective to establish a notion of an exclusively human subjectivity is continually countered in the very texts that ostensibly work to this end.

Locative Social Media - Place in the Digital Age (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): L. Evans Locative Social Media - Place in the Digital Age (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
L. Evans
R1,911 Discovery Miles 19 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers a critical analysis of the effect of usage of locative social media on the perceptions and phenomenal experience of lived in spaces and places. Drawing on users accounts of location-based social networking, a digital post-phenomenology of place is developed to explain how place is mediated in the digital age.

Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles - Powerful Times (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): A. Reading, T. Katriel Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles - Powerful Times (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
A. Reading, T. Katriel
R2,083 Discovery Miles 20 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

If societies have only memories of war, of cruelty, of violence, then why are we called humankind? This book marks a new trajectory in Memory Studies by examining cultural memories of nonviolent struggles from ten countries. The book reminds us of the enduring cultural scripts for human agency, solidarity, resilience and human kindness.

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

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

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

This book places children's literature at the forefront of early twentieth-century debates about national identity and class relations that were expressed through the pursuit of leisure. Focusing on stories about hiking, camping and sailing, this book offers a fresh insight into a popular period of modern British cultural and political history.

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