Maps and mapping in children's literature : landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes / edited by Nina Goga, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goga, Nina, editor.

Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina, editor.

Series:

Children's literature, culture, and cognition ; volume 7.

Children's Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 2212-9006 ; volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature--History and criticism.

Children's literature.

Maps in literature.

Geography in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

Summary:

The first comprehensive study that investigates the representation of maps in children's books as well as the impact of mapping on the depiction of landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes in children's literature.

Contents:

Intro

Maps and Mapping in Children's Literature

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Table of figures

Maps and mapping in children's literature

Introduction

Research on maps and mapping in children's literature

Aims and structure of the present volume

References

Part 1. About mapping

1. A subtle cartography

Foundations of map understanding

Geography: Cartographic foundations

Cognitive development: Representational foundations

Cognitive development: Spatial foundations

Summary

Map foci across perspectives

The perspective of geography

The perspective of children's literature

Comparing perspectives

A cognitive-developmental perspective: Where next?

2. Mapping the new citizen - Pedagogy of cartophobia

Pedagogy of cartophobia

From topos to topography: Campe's geographical writings

The geographic card game: Useful play

"Here is" - Bringing the world back home

Performing the map

3. A subtle cartography

Ecocriticism

Geographic literacy

Personal cartographies

Ecocriticism: Where is nature?

Nature and transformation

The nature of the green places

Ecocritical navigation

Critical nostalgia

Mapping the past

4. Metaphorical maps in picturebooks

What is a metaphorical map?

Relating maps and metaphors

Metaphorical maps in descriptive picturebooks

What can children learn from metaphorical maps?

Part 2. Literary shaping of real cityscapes

5. Mapping a city - Berlin in a contemporary detective novel

Place, space, and children's literature

Overcoming obstacles

Rico follows in Emil's footsteps

Rico's home is his castle

Mastering the next step

Leaving the comfort zone

Mapping a city - Concluding remarks

References.

6. "New York just like I pictured it - skyscrapers and everything"

A cognitive map of young love in New York City

"The real wild" and "the center of the world": Manhattan as spectacle

Mapping possibilities for growth onto real world locations

Cross-linking storyworlds: Intertexts and intermedia

A specific experience of space and time

7. Itineraries and maps

The importance of the journey in the poetics of Peter Sís

Walking as map-making in two stories by Peter Sís

'The Three Golden Keys', or the city as a mental map

'Madlenka', or walking as map-building

'Madlenka' and 'The Three Golden Keys': Mapping the memories of Peter Sís

8. Bruno Munari's visual mapping of the city of Milan

Bruno Munari and the futuristic heritage

Munari's innovative children's books

The structure of the picturebook 'The Circus in the Mist'

Munari's visual mapping of the city of Milan

Engendering new aesthetic dimensions

Part 3. Fictional seascapes and landscapes

9. "An island made of water quite surrounded by earth"

Nonsense geography: Seascapes and soundscapes

Lear's limericks

Imprecise nonsense geography and soundscape

Carroll: Maps as concepts

Emptiness (re)imagined and a new nonsense seascape

Lear's realm re-illustrated and mapped

The infinite eclecticism of Zamonia

"Navigation was always a difficult art"

10. Connecting worlds

Islands and islandness

Islands, cartography, and literature

Islands in children's literature

Gullstruck Island

Kensuke's Kingdom

Midwinterblood

11. Mapping illusions

Contextualizing Kassil's mapping

Authorial mapping in 'Schwambrania': The first map of an imaginary state

The second map of Schwambrania

Maps of Schwambrania: Leaving aside child's fantasy.

References

12. Mapping Middle Earth

The map iconotext

Maps in travel tales and adventure stories

The Hobbit: The map of Wilderland and Thror's map

The three maps of 'The Lord of the Rings'

In the Tolkien tradition: A Song of Ice and Fire

The Chamber of the Painted Table

Dynamic maps: From Middle Earth to Westeros

13. Landscapes of growth, faith, and doubt

The fantasy world

Traveling between crime and fantasy

Mapped movement

The true traveler

Acknowledgements

About the editors and contributors

Name index

Subject index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

1002698429