The Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature /

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

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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 a...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 3 B/W illustrations
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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

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