The Edinburgh companion to children's literature / edited by Clémentine Beauvais and Maria Nikolajeva

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beauvais, Clémentine, Author.

Contributor:

Beauvais, Clémentine.

Nikolajeva, Maria.

Series:

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Children's literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 376 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh Universoty Press, [2017]

Summary:

A collection of newly-commissioned essays tracing cutting-edge developments in children’s literature researchTime has passed since ‘having a PhD in children’s literature’ was a funny joke in You’ve Got Mail. Children’s literature research is now one of the most dynamic fields of literary criticism and of education, and has a bright future ahead – as children’s writers and publishers invent yet more forms of literature for young people, and researchers find yet more sophisticated ways of exploring them. This collection takes informed and scholarly readers to the utmost frontier of children’s literature criticism, from the intricate worlds of children’s poetry, picturebooks and video games to the new theoretical constellations of critical plant studies, non-fiction studies and big data analyses of literature. Key FeaturesFeatures the most recent directions in children's literature theory and criticismIntroduces the leading international scholars in the field as well as new emerging scholarsOffers a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches, including a mixture of empirical and theoretical research, and analyses at the intersection of education and literary studies

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Where Have We Come From? Where Are We Heading?

Part I: Contemporary Directions in Children’s Literature Scholarship

1 Teaching the Confl icts: Diverse Responses to Diverse Children’s Books

2 Posthumanism: Rethinking ‘The Human’ in Modern Children’s Literature

3 Animal Studies

4 Spatiality in Fantasy for Children

5 A Question of Scale: Zooming Out and Zooming In on Feminist Ecocriticism

6 Age Studies and Children’s Literature

7 Carnality in Adolescent Literature

8 Cognitive Narratology and Adolescent Fiction

9 Empirical Approaches to Place and the Construction of Adolescent Identities

10 Picturebooks and Situated Readers: The Intersections of Text, Image, Culture and Response

11 Re-memorying: A New Phenomenological Methodology in Children’s Literature Studies

Part II: Contemporary Trends in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

12 Canons and Canonicity

13 Seriality in Children’s Literature

14 Counterfactual Historical Fiction for Children and Young Adults

15 Pattern, Texture and Print: New Technology, Old Aesthetic in Contemporary Picturebook-Making

16 Telling Stories in Different Formats: New Directions in Digital Stories for Children

17 Multimodality and Multiliteracies: Production and Reception

18. Serendipity, Independent Publishing and Translation Flow: Recent Translations for Children in the UK

19 The Picturebook in Instructed Foreign Language Learning Contexts

Part III: Unmapped Territories

20 Next of Kin: ‘The Child’ and ‘The Adult’ in Children’s Literature Theory Today and Tomorrow

21 Critical Plant Studies and Children’s Literature

22 Health, Sickness and Literature for Children

23 Evolutionary Criticism and Children’s Literature

24 The Genetic Study of Children’s Literature

25 Distant Reading and Children’s Literature

26 Hogwarts versus Svalbard: Cultures, Literacies and Game Adaptati ons of Children’s Literature

27 Hybrid Novels for Children and Young Adults

28 Cyberspace and Story: The Impact of Digital Media on Printed Children’s Books

Coda: Alice to the Lighthouse Revisited

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-359) and index.

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781474414654

1474414656

9781474414647

1474414648

9781786848383

1786848384

OCLC:

1065393760