As 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, feminist, psychoanalytic), an example of its
application to a literary text, a number of activities (study
questions, reading exercises), and suggestions for further
explorations.
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ISBN
9781461656159
Publisert
2012
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Vendor
Scarecrow Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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