Age in David Almond's oeuvre : : a multi-method approach to studying age and the life course in children's literature / / Vanessa Joosen, Michelle Anya Anjirbag, Leander Duthoy, Lindsey Geybels, Frauke Pauwels, and Emma-Louise Silva.

"In recent decades age studies has started to emerge as a new approach to study children's literature. This book builds on that scholarship but also significantly extends it by exploring age in various aspects of children's literature: the age of the author, the characters, the writin...

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Superior document:Children's Literature and Culture Series
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Place / Publishing House:Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2023.
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Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Children's literature and culture
Physical Description:1 online resource (221 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Counting Stars, discounting years? Life writing and memory studies / Vanessa Joosen
  • Social and material minds through the lens of cognitive narratology in Clay and Bone Music / Emma-Louise Silva
  • Weird, but lovely: A digital exploration of age in David Almond's oeuvre / Lindsey Geybels
  • An exploration of reader-response research through My Name is Mina / Leander Duthoy
  • Constructing age transmedially: Framing age in text and on screen in Skellig / Michelle Anya Anjirbag and Frauke Pauwels
  • Eating fire: Close reading David Almond as a crosswriter / Vanessa Joosen
  • Appendix
  • A. List of most frequent words
  • B. Scatterplots of character speech
  • C. Lists of most common verbs, possessions and adjectives by age category
  • D. Interview guide
  • E. Griet's and Astrid's stories.