As undergraduate and graduate courses in children's literature
become more established and numerous, there is an intense need for
a textbook that offers aesthetic rather than educational approaches
to children's literature. This work fills that void by providing
students of children's literature with a comprehensible and
easy-to-use analytical tool kit, showing through concrete
demonstration how each tool might best be used. The chapters are
organized around familiar and easily recognized features of
literary texts (e.g. author, genre, character). Theoretical issues
are illustrated by specific texts from the North American
children's literature canon. The book explores the particular
aesthetics of children's fiction and the ways critical theory may
be applied to children's texts, while remaining accessible to a
college readership without prior specialized knowledge of literary
theory. Each chapter includes a short introduction to a specific
theoretical approach (e.g. semiotics, feminist, psychoanalytic), an
example of its application to a literary text, a number of
activities (study questions, reading exercises), and suggestions
for further explorations.
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