From tongue to text : a new reading of children's poetry / Debbie Pullinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pullinger, Debbie, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury perspectives on children's literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's poetry--History and criticism.

Children's poetry.

Poetry and children.

Children--Books and reading.

Children.

Orality in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xviii, 261 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Summary:

"The connection between childhood and poetry runs deep. And yet, poetry written for children has been neglected by criticism and resists prevailing theories of children's literature. Drawing on Walter Ong's theory of orality and on Iain McGilChrist's work on brain function, this book develops a new theoretical framework for the study of children's poetry. From Tongue to Text argues that the poem is a multimodal form that exists in the borderlands between the world of experience and the world of language and between orality and literacy -- places that children themselves inhabit. Engaging with a wide range of poetry from nursery rhymes and Christina Rossetti to Michael Rosen and Carol Ann Duffy, Debbie Pullinger demonstrates how these 'tactful' works are shaped by the dynamics of orality and textuality."-- Provided by publisher.

"Reading poems by such writers as A.A. Milne, Michael Rosen and Carol Ann Duffy, this book explores the neglected genre of children's poetry to develop a new theory of the form"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Introduction

Children's Poetry: the problem child

Mind and Body

Part One: Tact

The Hidden Child

Not Narrative

In our right minds?

The infancy of language

The language of infancy

The crossing

The container

Tactful language

Part Two: Tongue

Ear and voice

Orality and vocality

And another thing

Making lists

Again and again

Here and now

All join in!

Live and in performance

Part Three: Text

Hand and eye

From performance to page

From A to Z

The poetics of the page

The distances of text

The child and the text Conclusion

Glossary

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474222327

1474222323

OCLC:

960833612