Modern Children's Literature

An Introduction
Herausgegeben:Butler, Catherine; Reynolds, K.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An established introductory textbook that provides students with a guide to developments in children's literature over time and across genres. This stimulating collection of critical essays written by a team of subject experts explores key British, American and Australian works, from picture books and texts for younger children, through to graphic novels and young adult fiction. It combines accessible close readings of children's texts with informed examinations of genres, issues and critical contexts, making it an essential practical book for students.

This is an ideal core text for dedicated modules on Children's Literature which may be offered at the upper levels of an undergraduate Literature or Education degree. In addition it is a crucial resource for students who may be studying children's literature for the first time as part of a taught postgraduate degree in Literature or Education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education UK / Red Globe Press / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-36471-5
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781137364715
• ISBN-10: 1137364718
• Artikelnr.: 41642084

Autorenporträt

Catherine 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.

Inhaltsangabe

List 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 PinsentPART 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.