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Literature's Children - The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization (Hardcover)
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Literature's Children - The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization (Hardcover)
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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