Rereading childhood books : a poetics / Alison Waller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waller, Alison, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury perspectives on children's literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature--History and criticism.

Children's literature.

Books and reading--Psychological aspects.

Books and reading.

Children's literature--Appreciation.

Reader-response criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 237 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.

Summary:

"Childhood books play a special role in reading histories, providing touchstones for our future tastes and giving shape to our ongoing identities. Bringing the latest work in Memory Studies to bear on writers' memoirs, autobiographical accounts of reading, and interviews with readers, Rereading Childhood Books explores how adults remember, revisit, and sometimes forget, these significant books. Asking what it means to return to familiar works by well-known authors such as Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis and Enid Blyton, as well as popular and ephemeral material not often considered as part of the canon, Alison Waller develops a poetics of rereading and presents a new model for understanding lifelong reading. As such she reconceives the history of children's literature through the shared and individual experiences of the readers who carry these books with them throughout their lives"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : excavating

The reading scene

The life space

Affective traces

Rereading attitudes

Transforming, misremembering, forgetting

Conclusion : the lifelong reading act.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Waller, Alison, author. Rereading childhood books

ISBN:

9781474298285

1474298281

OCLC:

1039606644