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Faber & Faber Boys Will Be Boys
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Liverpool University Press Women Writers of Childrens Classics
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Scarecrow Press Aesthetic Approaches to Childrens Literature
Book SynopsisAs 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,Trade ReviewThis resource would be a remarkable addition to children's literature research collections. * School Library Journal, 1/1/2006 *This textbook is designed for use in children's literature courses in which literary criticism is emphasized. Nikolajeva's goal is to provide students with an 'analytical toolkit' that they can use to better understand the aesthetic dimensions of children's literature. Among the critical approaches covered in this book are hermeneutics, structuralism, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory. * Children's Literature Association Quarterly *Table of ContentsPart 1 Preface Part 2 Introduction: Do We Need a Separate Aesthetics for Children's Literature? Chapter 3 1 The Aesthetic of the Author Chapter 4 2 The Aesthetic of the Work Chapter 5 3 The Aesthetic of the Genre Chapter 6 4 The Aesthetic of the Content Chapter 7 5 The Aesthetic of Composition Chapter 8 6 The Aesthetic of the Scene Chapter 9 7 The Aesthetic of Character Chapter 10 8 The Aesthetic of Narration Chapter 11 9 The Aesthetic of Language Chapter 12 10 The Aesthetic of the Medium Chapter 13 11 The Aesthetic of the Reader Chapter 14 12 Conclusion: Which Tool Shall I Choose? Part 15 Bibliography Part 16 Index Part 17 Subject and Name Index Part 18 Title Index Part 19 About the Author
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Wayne State University Press Under Fire
Book SynopsisExplores the representation of war and its after effects in children's books and documentary films. This volume examines the influence of violence and war on children's literature by studying the childhood experiences of authors writing for children, the children represented in war stories, and experiences of children who make up the readership.
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Living Books Press English Literature for Young People
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Legare Street Press Childrens Catalog of Thirtyfive Hundred Books a Guide to the Best Reading for Boys and Girls Based on Fiftyfour Selected Library Lists and Bulletins Arranged Under the Author Title and Subject With Analytical Entries for 700 Volumes
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Creative Media Partners, LLC A Parents Guide to Childrens Reading
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BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research) Baron Trumps Marvellous Underground Journey
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Modern Childrens Literature An Introduction
Book SynopsisCatherine Butler is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of the West of England, UK. Kimberley Reynolds is Professor of Children's Literature at Newcastle University, UK.Trade Review'a useful addition to the study of children's literature in English.' - Valerie Coghlan, International Research Society for Children's LiteratureTable of ContentsList of Contributors List of Boxes List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction; Catherine Butler PART I: MAPPING THE TERRITORY 1. The Classic and the Canon in Children's Literature; Peter Hunt 2. Fantasy in Children's Fiction; Farah Mendlesohn 3. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Children's Literature; David Rudd 4. Reading Contemporary Picture Books; Judith Graham 5. Poetry for Children; Michael Rosen PART II: TEXTS AND GENRES 6. Family, Identity and Nationhood: Family Stories in Anglo-American Children's Literature, 1930-2000; Lucy Pearson 7. Theories of Genre and Gender: Change and Continuity in the School Story; Pat Pinsent 8. Literature of War: Comparative and Autobiographical Approaches; Gillian Lathey 9. Language, Genres and Issues: The Socially Committed Novel; Pat Pinsent 10. Past Settings, Contemporary Concerns: Feminist Historical Fiction in the Late Twentieth Century; Peter Bramwell 11. Postmodernism, New Historicism and Postcolonialism: Some Recent Historical Novels; Pat Pinsent PART III: APPROACHES AND ISSUES 12. Chronotopes and Heritage: Time and Memory in Contemporary Children's Literature; Lisa Sainsbury 13. Childhood, Youth Culture and the Uncanny: Uncanny Nights in Contemporary Fiction for Young People; Lisa Sainsbury 14. Magic and Maturation: Uses of Magic in Fantasy Fiction; Peter Bramwell 15. Supermen, Cyborgs, Avatars and Geeks: Technology and the Human in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction; Richard Shakeshaft 16. Voicing Identity: The Dilemma of Narrative Perspective in Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Fiction; Maria Nikolajeva Further Reading Index.
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St. Martin's Publishing Group Somewhere a Boy and His Bear
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Palgrave Macmillan Affective Methodologies
Book SynopsisThe collection proposes inventive research strategies for the study of the affective and fluctuating dimensions of cultural life. It presents studies of nightclubs, YouTube memes, political provocations, heritage sites, blogging, education development, and haunting memories.Trade Review"Affective Methodologies redefines the way we can work with affect in our research assemblages. In a considered and timely application of affect theory to qualitative research practices, Knudsen and Stage have brought together a diverse collection of scholars. From defining figures in the field such as Blackman and Gibbs, to new voices including To and Kølvraa, this book provides a much needed consolidation of the existing trajectories of scholarship on and of affect while opening new ways forward for qualitative research." - Anna Hickey-Moody, Goldsmiths, University of London, UKTable of Contents1. Introduction: Affective methodologies; Britta Timm Knudsen and Carsten StagePart I: Inventive experiments2. Researching Affect and Embodied Hauntologies: Exploring an Analytics of Experimentation; Lisa Blackman3. Experimenting with affects and senses – A performative pop-up-laboratory (self) critically revisited; Dorthe Staunæs and Jette Kofoed 4. Diasporic montage and critical autoethnography: Mediated visions of intergenerational memory and the affective transmission of trauma; Nathan ToPart II: Embodied fieldwork5. Methods in Motion: Affecting Heritage Research; Emma Waterton and Steve Watson6. Exploring a ' 'remembering crisis ' ': ' 'Affective attuning ' ' and ' 'assemblaged archive ' ' as theoretical frameworks and research methodologies; Elena Trivelli7. The scent of a rose: imitating imitators as they learn to love the Prophet; Mikkel Rytter8. The field note assemblage: Researching the bodily-affective dimensions of drinking and dancing ethnographically; Frederik Bøhling Part III: Textualities9. Affect, Provocation and Far Right Rhetoric; Christoffer Kølvraa10. From Artwork to Net-work: Affective Effects of Political Art; Camilla M. Reestorff11. Writing as Method: Attunement, Resonance and Rhythm; Anna Gibbs12. Epilogue; Celia Lury
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Adulthood in Childrens Literature Bloomsbury Perspectives on Childrens Literature
Book SynopsisVanessa Joosen is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, where she specializes in children's literature studies, fairy-tale studies and age studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Defining adulthood in children’s books 2. Grown-up children? The adult protagonist in children’s literature 3. Hair, hair, everywhere: The adult body in children’s literature 4. The disdainful adult: Childism in children’s literature 5. From writing block to wonderful friend: The adult writer as character in children’s literature 6. Second childhoods: The elderly adult in children’s literature Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene
Book SynopsisMarek Oziewicz is Professor of Literacy Education and Sidney and Marguerite Henry Professor of Children's and Young Adult Literature at the College of Education and Human Development, Universty of Minnesota - Twin Cities, USA. He is the author of One Earth, One People (2008), which won the 2010 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies; Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction (2015); and 5 co-edited collections, and over 50 articles and book chapters. Brian Attebery is Professor of English at Idaho State University, USA and Editor or the Journal of the Fantastic in Art. His publications include Stories about Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth (2019) and Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home (2019). In 2019 he was Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Fantasy at the University of Glasgow. Tereza Dedinová is Assistant Professor in the Department of Czech Literature, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. She has puTrade ReviewMind opening. * Language and Ecology *The book’s profusion of subjects and clarity of language will make this book compelling reading for scholars of narrative genre while remaining accessible to undergraduate readers. * Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment *The urgings in Fantasy and Myth should be heeded. They may go far to help persuade people that we do not have to live in a dystopian world; that we cannot focus solely on end-of-the-world stories but on “how can we work together to change the world” stories * The Living Church *Generally speaking, so-called fantasy and mythic literature tend to be regarded as enjoyable and yet too unrealistic to enable us to grasp the causes of the real dangers threatening our complex civilized world. This assumption is misleading if not discouraging, for as the numerous essays by notable scholars and artists in Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene demonstrate, fantasy and myth play an important role in helping us deal with the doom and gloom of climate change. Moreover, they provide extraordinary counter narratives that can help us reshape the world. This collection of essays is a wonderful breath of fresh optimistic air and reveals how the anticipatory imagination in contemporary myths and fantasy can help us resist the current ecological dilemma in which we find ourselves. * Jack Zipes, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Academic Contributors List of Artists Introduction: The choice we have in the stories we tell Marek Oziewicz, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA Part I. Trouble in the Air Anthropos and the Air Brian Attebery, Idaho State University, USA From the Third Age to the Fifth Season: confronting the Anthropocene through fantasy Brian Attebery Who knows where the time goes? Nisi Shawl, author, editor and journalist Playing with the trouble: children and the Anthropocene in Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Witch series Lindsay Burton,University of Cambridge, UK Rewrite Katherine Applegate, author Staying with the singularity: nonhuman narrators and more-than-human mythologies Alexander Popov, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria The eye of the story Joseph Bruchac / Nokidahozid, author Fantasy for the Anthropocene: on the ecocidal unconscious, planetarianism, and imagination of biocentric futures Marek Oziewicz AstroNuts, the origin story Jon Scieszka, author Part II. Dreaming the Earth Anthropos and the Earth Brian Attebery Embodying the permaculture story: Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching series Tereza Dedinová, Masaryk University, Czechia Where is the place for seagrass and weevils in children’s literature? Eliot Schrefer, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA Arboreal magic and kinship in the Chthulucene: Margaret Mahy’s trees Melanie Duckworth Just imagine Barbara Henderson, author From portable landscapes to themed thrill rides: Rowling’s heterotopic hopescapes Stephanie Weaver, Savannah College of Art and Design, USA Does fantasy literature have a place in the climate change crisis? Craig Russell, USA “The earth is my home too, can’t I help protect it?”: Planetary thinking, queer identities and environmentalism in The Legend of Korra, She-Ra and Steven Universe Aneesh Barai, University of Sheffield, UK Celebrations of resilience Elin Kelsey, author and scholar Part III: Visions in the Water Anthropos and the Ocean Brian Attebery Kim Stanley Robinson’s case for hope in New York 2140 John Rieder, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, USA Myth makes us see Adam Gidwitz, author Sleeping with the fishmen: reimagining the Anthropocene through oceanic-chthonic kinships Prema Arasu, University of Western Australia, Australia and Drew Thornton, Curtin University, USA Fish Girl’s dilemma Donna Jo Napoli, author From culture hero to emissions zero: critiquing Maui’s extractivist mindset in Disney’s Moana Christopher D. Foley, University of Southern Mississippi, USA Finding balance and hope in the Indigenous past David Bowles, author Reimagining youth relations with Moananuiakea (The large, expansive ocean): contemporary Niuhi Mo‘olelo (man-eating shark stories) and environmental activism Caryn Kunz Lesuma, Brigham Young University, USA The future that has yet to be imagined Shaun Tan, artist writer and film maker Part IV: Playing with Fire Anthropos and the Fire Brian Attebery Convert or kill: disanthropocentric systems and religious myth in Jemisin’s Broken Earth Derek J. Thiess, University of North Georgia, USA Reimaging the upright ape Jane Yolen, author Myths of (un)creation: narrative strategies for confronting the Anthropocene Jacob Burg, Boston University, USA The stepping stone, the Boulder, and the Star: a fable for the Anthropocene Grace L. Dillon, Portland State University, USA On monsters and other matters of housekeeping:reading Jeff VanderMeer with Donna Haraway and Ursula K. Le Guin Kim Hendrickx, University of Leuven, Belgium The seriousness of writing funny Molly B. Burnham, author Literalizing hyperobjects: on (mis)representing global warming in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones Markus Laukkanen, Tampere University, Finland Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Writing for Young People
Book SynopsisDr Elen Caldecott?is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK. She is the author of 12 novels and dozens of early readers for young people. Her debut novel,?How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant?(Bloomsbury, 2009) was shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Prize. Her most recent novel The Blackthorn Branch (Andersen 2022) was longlisted for the 2023 Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing. Her website is https://elencaldecott.com/
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Simon & Schuster Ltd Bedtime Story
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of The Tall Man and The Arsonist, a personal tale about death, life and the enchantment of stories. With illustrations by Anna Walker.‘A striking voyage of discovery.’ Observer Let me tell you a story… When Chloe Hooper’s partner is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive illness, she has to find a way to tell their two young sons. By instinct, she turns to the bookshelf. Can the news be broken as a bedtime tale? Is there a perfect book to prepare children for loss? Hooper embarks on a quest to find what practical lessons children’s literature—with its innocent orphans and evil adults, magic, monsters and anthropomorphic animals—can teach about grief and resilience in real life. As she discovers, ‘the right words are an incantation, a spell of hope for the future.’ From the Brothers Grimm to FrancTrade Review‘This book is a miracle of light and meaning-making from one of our finest writers. Venturing inward with extraordinary grace, Hooper explores – and extends – the long literary line surging with our deepest inherited wisdom about how to embrace our finite lives. The result is nothing less than the hero's journey we have been collectively starving for. Telling you this is like trying to describe the sun; it is a book so powerful and beautiful – so utterly its own – that it can only be experienced directly.’ Sarah Krasnostein -- Sarah Krasnostein
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