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Literature's Children - The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,668
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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

Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature

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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.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature
Release date: February 2019
First published: July 2015
Authors: Louise Joy (Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK)
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-1-4725-7719-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Children's literature studies
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
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LSN: 1-4725-7719-1
Barcode: 9781472577191

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