Children's literature as communication : the ChiLPA Project / edited by Roger D. Sell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sell, Roger D.

Series:

Studies in narrative ; v. 2.

Studies in narrative, 1568-2706 ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature--History and criticism.

Children's literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub., c2002.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

In this book, members of the ChiLPA Project explore the children's literature of several different cultures, ranging from ancient India, nineteenth century Russia, and the Soviet Union, to twentieth century Britain, America, Australia, Sweden, and Finland. The research covers not only the form and content of books for children, but also their potential social functions, especially within education. These two perspectives are brought together within a theory of children's literature as one among other forms of communication, an approach that sees the role of literary scholars, critics and teachers as one of mediation. Part I deals with the way children's writers and picturebook-makers draw on a culture's available resources of orality, literacy, intertextuality, and image. Part II examines their negotiation of major issues such as the child adult distinction, gender, politics, and the Holocaust. Part III discusses children's books as used within language education programmes, with particular attention to young readers' pragmatic processing of differences between the context of writing and their own context of reading.

Contents:

Children's Literature as Communication

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication

Table of contents

Members of the ChiLPA Project, Åbo Akademi University

Introduction

Part I: Initiating

Chapter 1: Orality and literacy

Chapter 2: Orality and literacy, continued

Chapter 3: Intertextualities

Chapter 4: Intertextualities, continued

Chapter 5: The verbal and the visual

Part II: Negotiating

Chapter 6: Growing up

Chapter 7: Childhood

Chapter 8: Child-power?

Chapter 9: Gender and beyond

Chapter 10: Politics

Chapter 11: The unspeakable

Part III: Responding

Chapter 12: Early immersion reading

Chapter 13: Reader-learners

Chapter 14: Primary-level EFL

Chapter 15: Secondary-level EFL

Chapter 16: Bilingualism, stories, new technology

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-16180-6

9786612161803

90-272-9729-0

OCLC:

70769114