The Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature / / Maria Nikolajeva, Clémentine Beauvais.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Beauvais, Clémentine,; Nikolajeva, Maria,
• MitwirkendeR: Arizpe, Evelyn,; Beauvais, Clémentine,; Burn, Andrew,; Butler, Catherine,; Carroll, Jane Suzanne,; Coats, Karen,; Curry, Alice,; Dusinberre, Juliet,; Flanagan, Victoria,; Giddens, Eugene,; Jaques, Zoe,; Joosen, Vanessa,; Kokkola, Lydia,; Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina,; Lathey, Gillian,; Mackey, Margaret,; Mourão, Sandie,; Müller, Anja,; Nikolajeva, Maria,; Salisbury, Martin,; Spring, Erin,; Tandoi, Eve,; Trites, Roberta Seelinger,; Waller, Alison,; Webb, Jean,; Yokota, Junko,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 3 B/W illustrations

A collection of newly-commissioned essays tracing cutting-edge developments in children’s literature researchTime has passed since ‘having a PhD in children’s literature’ was a funny joke in You’ve Got Mail. Children’s literature research is now one of the most dynamic fields of literary criticism and of education, and has a bright future ahead – as children’s writers and publishers invent yet more forms of literature for young people, and researchers find yet more sophisticated ways of exploring them. This collection takes informed and scholarly readers to the utmost frontier of children’s literature criticism, from the intricate worlds of children’s poetry, picturebooks and video games to the new theoretical constellations of critical plant studies, non-fiction studies and big data analyses of literature. Key FeaturesFeatures the most recent directions in children's literature theory and criticismIntroduces the leading international scholars in the field as well as new emerging scholarsOffers a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches, including a mixture of empirical and theoretical research, and analyses at the intersection of education and literary studies

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Where Have We Come From? Where Are We Heading? -- Part I: Contemporary Directions in Children’s Literature Scholarship -- 1 Teaching the Confl icts: Diverse Responses to Diverse Children’s Books -- 2 Posthumanism: Rethinking ‘The Human’ in Modern Children’s Literature -- 3 Animal Studies -- 4 Spatiality in Fantasy for Children -- 5 A Question of Scale: Zooming Out and Zooming In on Feminist Ecocriticism -- 6 Age Studies and Children’s Literature -- 7 Carnality in Adolescent Literature -- 8 Cognitive Narratology and Adolescent Fiction -- 9 Empirical Approaches to Place and the Construction of Adolescent Identities -- 10 Picturebooks and Situated Readers: The Intersections of Text, Image, Culture and Response -- 11 Re-memorying: A New Phenomenological Methodology in Children’s Literature Studies -- Part II: Contemporary Trends in Children’s and Young Adult Literature -- 12 Canons and Canonicity -- 13 Seriality in Children’s Literature -- 14 Counterfactual Historical Fiction for Children and Young Adults -- 15 Pattern, Texture and Print: New Technology, Old Aesthetic in Contemporary Picturebook-Making -- 16 Telling Stories in Different Formats: New Directions in Digital Stories for Children -- 17 Multimodality and Multiliteracies: Production and Reception -- 18. Serendipity, Independent Publishing and Translation Flow: Recent Translations for Children in the UK -- 19 The Picturebook in Instructed Foreign Language Learning Contexts -- Part III: Unmapped Territories -- 20 Next of Kin: ‘The Child’ and ‘The Adult’ in Children’s Literature Theory Today and Tomorrow -- 21 Critical Plant Studies and Children’s Literature -- 22 Health, Sickness and Literature for Children -- 23 Evolutionary Criticism and Children’s Literature -- 24 The Genetic Study of Children’s Literature -- 25 Distant Reading and Children’s Literature -- 26 Hogwarts versus Svalbard: Cultures, Literacies and Game Adaptati ons of Children’s Literature -- 27 Hybrid Novels for Children and Young Adults -- 28 Cyberspace and Story: The Impact of Digital Media on Printed Children’s Books -- Coda: Alice to the Lighthouse Revisited -- Notes on Contributors -- Index