Change and renewal in children's literature / edited by Thomas van der Walt ; assisted by Felicité Fairer-Wessels and Judith Inggs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Van der Walt, Thomas.

Fairer-Wessels, Felicité.

Inggs, Judith.

Series:

Contributions to the study of world literature 0738-9345 ; no. 126.

Contributions to the study of world literature, 0738-9345 ; no. 126

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature--History and criticism.

Children's literature.

Physical Description:

vii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.

Contents:

Renewing stories of childhood: children's literature as a creative art / Rosemary Johnstone

When everything old is new again: aboriginal texts and the politics of renewal / Clare Bradford

Space and race in contemporary South African English youth literature / Judith Inggs

Exploring otherness: changes in the child-animal metamorphosis motif / Maria Lassén-Seger

A happy blend of universality and novelty: Julie of the wolves and A ring of endless light as stories crossing the animal-human boundary / Darja Mazi-Leskovar

Me, myself, and him, the changing face of female cross-dressing in contemporary children's literature / Victoria Flanagan

Voyeurism and power: change and renewal of the eroticized figure in Australian books for teenagers / Margot Hillel

Fostering controlled dissent: democratic values and children's literature / Eva-Maria Metcalf

Childhood as the sign of change: Hans Christian Andersen's retellings of the concept of childhood in the light of romanticism, modernism, and children's own cultures / Helen Hyrup

Continuity and change in the fantasy tale, with a focus on recent Danish works / Anna Karlskov Skyggebjerg

Blytons, noddies, and denoddification centres: the changing constructions of a culture icon / David Rudd

Changing perspectives: Tarzan recalled and retold at the turn of the millennium / Rolf Romåren

Spell-binding Dahl: considering Roald Dahl's fantasy / Eileen Donaldson

"Never lonely, always on the go": the merry-go-round as kinetic metonym, in text and illustration, in Tove Jansson's short story, "The hemulen who loved silence" / Sirke Happonen

The beginning of all poetry: some observations about lullabies from oral traditions / Anne de Vries

Change and renewal: translating the visual in picture books / Riita Oittinen

Change and renewal of a famous German classic

Klaus Doderer

Too many elephants? endangered discourses in the field of children's literature / Nancy Huse.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0275981851

OCLC:

52948980