Reading for learning : cognitive approaches to children's literature / Maria Nikolajeva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nikolajeva, Maria, author.

Series:

Children's literature, culture, and cognition ; Volume 3.

Children's Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 2212-9006 ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language awareness in children.

Reading, Psychology of.

Cognitive styles in children.

Reading--Social aspects.

Reading.

Psychology and literature.

Children's literature--History and criticism.

Children's literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How does reading fiction affect young people? How can they transfer fictional experience into real life? Why do they care about fictional characters? How does fiction enhance young people's sense of self-hood? Supported by cognitive psychology and brain research, this ground-breaking book is the first study of young readers' cognitive and emotional engagement with fiction. It explores how fiction stimulates perception, attention, imagination and other cognitive activity, and opens radically new ways of thinking about literature for young readers. Examining a wide range of texts for a young

Contents:

Reading for Learning; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; What is cognitive criticism and what's in it for children's literature research?; Assumptions and reservations; Chapter 1. Knowledge of the world; Fact and fiction; Realism, authenticity and representation; Social knowledge and intentionality; Possible worlds; Cognitive strategies; Chapter 2. Three possible worlds; An impossible world; A probable world; An improbable world; Chapter 3. Knowledge of other people; Why do we care about literary characters?; Where do emotions come from?

Empathy and identification Representation and metarepresentation; Higher-order mind-reading; Emotions and empathy in multimedial narratives; Chapter 4. Creative mind-reading; Emotion ekphrasis: Emotions in multimedial texts; Diegetic and extradiegetic emotions; Reading non-human faces; Higher-cognitive emotions; Emotions and power hierarchies; In defence of action-oriented texts; Multiple protagonists and mind-reading; Emotions, empathy and embodiment; Chapter 5. Knowledge of self; The self-reflective mind; Retrospection; Memory and narration; The here and now; Chapter 6. Memory of the present

Deleted memory Amplified memory; Distorted memory; Chapter 7. Ethical knowledge; Can children's literature be ethically neutral?; Ethics and genre; Breaking rules; Whose ethics?; Can fictional characters have a free will?; The ethics of happy endings; Intentionality, revisited; Chapter 8. The ethics of address and the ethics of response; Being guilty and feeling guilty; Desire and duty; The guiltless trickster; "Time out of joint"; First comes food, ethics later; How to read a children's book and why; Children's books discussed; Primary sources; Other primary texts mentioned; Secondary sources

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027269959

9027269955

OCLC:

881732976