The Routledge companion to children's literature and culture / edited by Claudia Nelson, Elisabeth Wesseling, and Andrea Mei-Ying Wu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nelson, Claudia, Editor.

Wesseling, Elisabeth, Editor.

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying, Editor.

Series:

Routledge companions to literature series

Routledge handbooks

Routledge literature companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature--History and criticism.

Children's literature.

Children--Books and reading.

Children.

Children's mass media.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 550 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Claudia Nelson is Professor Emerita of English at Texas A&M University, USA. Elisabeth Wesseling is Professor of Cultural Memory, Gender and Diversity and at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Andrea Mei-Ying Wu is Director of the Chinese Language Center and Professor of Children's Literature and Taiwanese Literature at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.

Summary:

"Focusing on significant and cutting-edge preoccupations within children's literature scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture presents a comprehensive overview of the print, digital, and electronic texts for children aged zero to thirteen as forms of world literature participating in a panoply of identity formations. Offering five distinct sections, this volume will: Familiarize students and beginning scholars with key concepts and main methodological resources guiding contemporary inquiry into children's literature; Describe the major media formats and genres for texts expressly addressing children; Consider the production, distribution, and valuing of children's books from an assortment of historical and contemporary perspectives, highlighting context as a driver of content; Map how children's texts have historically presumed and prescribed certain identities on the part of their readers, sometimes addressing readers who share some part of the author's identity, sometimes seeking to educate the reader about a presumed 'other,' and in recent decades increasingly foregrounding identities once lacking visibility and voice; Explore the historical evolutions and trans-regional contacts and (inter)connections in the long process of the formation of global children's literature, highlighting new issues such as retranslation, transnationalism, transculturality, and new digital formats for considering cultural crossings and renegotiations in the production of children's literature. Methodically presented and contextualized, this volume is an engaging introduction to this expanding and multifaceted field"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. Concepts and tools

Theory / Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

Poetics and Pedagogy / Karen Coats

Ethics and Historical Perspectives / Amanda K. Allen

Children's Literary Geography / Björn Sundmark and Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang

The Monster at the End of This Book: Posthumanism and New Materialism in the Scholarship of Children's Literature / Megan L. Musgrave

Digital Humanities and Children's Literature / Deanna Stover

Research with Young Readers: Participatory Approaches in Children's Literature Studies / Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak

Part II. Media and genres

Picturebooks / Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer

Books for Beginners / Annette Wannamaker and Jennifer Miskec

Magazines / Kristine Moruzi

Comics for Children Across Cultures / Joseph Michael Sommers

Children's Fiction: The Possibilities of Reality and Imagination / Deborah Stevenson

Nonfiction / Giorgia Grilli

Children's Poetry / Michael Joseph

Theatre and Drama: Global Perspectives / Manon van de Water

Film / Christine Lötscher

Television / Debbie Olson

Playful Possibilities: The Rights of the Reader in a Digital Age / Angela Colvert

Fairy Tales and Circulation: A Case Study in Poland / Weronika Kostecka

Children's Literature and Transnationalism / Clare Bradford, Kristine Moruzi, and Michelle J. Smith

Transcultural Comparison as Method: Korean and Hebrew Children's Poetry in the Early Twentieth Century / Dafna Zur and Rachel Feldman

Marketing and Franchising / Naomi Hamer

Children's Literature Websites and Fandom / Sara K. Day and Carrie Sickmann

Part V. Institutions

Book Publishing and the British Sphere of Influence in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / Courtney Weikle-Mills

Children's Book Publishing in Europe: A Historical Approach / Emily Bruce

Contemporary Asian Book Publishing / Shih-Wen Sue Chen, Ramona Caponegro and Kenneth B. Kidd

Children's Literature in Schools / Etti Gordon Ginzburg

Libraries / Margaret Mackey

Book Clubs / Julie Fette and Anne Morey

Promoting Children's Reading Internationally / Valerie Coghlan

Censorship and Shifting Contexts in Children's Literature / Andrew Zalot.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic resource, viewed: January 31, 2024.

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge companion to children's literature and culture.

ISBN:

9781003214953

1003214959

100098446X

9781000984521

1000984524

9781000984460

OCLC:

1388209803

Access Restriction:

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