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Following the material turn in the humanities, this book brings
perspectives from science and ecology into dialogue with
children’s fiction written and published in the UK and the USA in
the 21st century. It develops the concept of entanglement, which
originated in 20th-century quantum physics but has been applied to
cultural critique, through a reading of Fantastika literature.
Surveying a wide-ranging scope of literary texts, this book covers
the gothic, fantasy, the Weird, and other forms of speculative
fiction to argue that Fantastika positions entanglement as an
ethical imperative that transforms our imaginative relationship
with materiality. In so doing, it synthesizes perspectives from a
similarly diverse range of areas, including ecology, physics,
anthropology, and literary studies, to examine the storied matter
of children’s Fantastika as ground from which we might begin to
imagine an as-yet-unrealised future that addresses the problems of
our present.
Metaphysics of Children's Literature is the first sustained study
of ways in which children's literature confronts metaphysical
questions about reality and the nature of what there is in the
world. In its exploration of something and nothing, this book
identifies a number of metaphysical structures in texts for young
people-such as the ontological exchange or nowhere in
extremis-demonstrating that their entanglement with the workings of
reality is unique to the conditions of children's literature.
Drawing on contemporary children's literature discourse and
metaphysicians from Heidegger and Levinas, to Bachelard, Sartre and
Haraway, Lisa Sainsbury reveals the metaphysical groundwork of
children's literature. Authors and illustrators covered include:
Allan and Janet Ahlberg, Mac Barnett, Ron Brooks, Peter Brown,
Lewis Carroll, Eoin Colfer, Gary Crew, Roald Dahl, Roddy Doyle,
Imme Dros, Sarah Ellis, Mem Fox, Zana Fraillon, Libby Gleeson,
Kenneth Grahame, Armin Greder, Sonya Hartnett, Tana Hoban, Judy
Horacek, Tove Jansson, Oliver Jeffers, Jon Klassen, Elaine
Konigsburg, Norman Lindsay, Geraldine McCaughrean, Robert
Macfarlane, Jackie Morris, Edith Nesbit, Mary Norton, Jill Paton
Walsh, Philippa Pearce, Ivan Southall, William Steig, Shaun Tan,
Tarjei Vesaas, David Wiesner, Margaret Wild, Jacqueline Woodson and
many others.
Focusing on the mythological narratives that influence Irish
children's literature, this book examines the connections between
landscape, time and identity, positing that myth and the language
of myth offer authors and readers the opportunity to engage with
Ireland's culture and heritage. It explores the recurring patterns
of Irish mythological narratives that influence literature produced
for children in Ireland between the nineteenth and the twenty-first
centuries. A selection of children's books published between 1892,
when there was an escalation of the cultural pursuit of Irish
independence and 2016, which marked the centenary of the Easter
1916 rebellion against English rule, are discussed with the aim of
demonstrating the development of a pattern of retrieving,
re-telling, remembering and re-imagining myths in Irish children's
literature. In doing so, it examines the reciprocity that exists
between imagination, memory, and childhood experiences in this body
of work.
Metaphysics of Children's Literature is the first sustained study
of ways in which children's literature confronts metaphysical
questions about reality and the nature of what there is in the
world. In its exploration of something and nothing, this book
identifies a number of metaphysical structures in texts for young
people-such as the ontological exchange or nowhere in
extremis-demonstrating that their entanglement with the workings of
reality is unique to the conditions of children's literature.
Drawing on contemporary children's literature discourse and
metaphysicians from Heidegger and Levinas, to Bachelard, Sartre and
Haraway, Lisa Sainsbury reveals the metaphysical groundwork of
children's literature. Authors and illustrators covered include:
Allan and Janet Ahlberg, Mac Barnett, Ron Brooks, Peter Brown,
Lewis Carroll, Eoin Colfer, Gary Crew, Roald Dahl, Roddy Doyle,
Imme Dros, Sarah Ellis, Mem Fox, Zana Fraillon, Libby Gleeson,
Kenneth Grahame, Armin Greder, Sonya Hartnett, Tana Hoban, Judy
Horacek, Tove Jansson, Oliver Jeffers, Jon Klassen, Elaine
Konigsburg, Norman Lindsay, Geraldine McCaughrean, Robert
Macfarlane, Jackie Morris, Edith Nesbit, Mary Norton, Jill Paton
Walsh, Philippa Pearce, Ivan Southall, William Steig, Shaun Tan,
Tarjei Vesaas, David Wiesner, Margaret Wild, Jacqueline Woodson and
many others.
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.
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.
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