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Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games

Author : M. Mackey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023031662X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games written by M. Mackey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-07-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories are told today through many formats and young interpreters bring multimedia experience to bear on every narrative format they encounter. In this book, twelve young people read a novel, watch a film and play a video game from beginning to end. Their responses inform a new framework of contemporary themes of narrative comprehension.

The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children's and Young Adult Literature

Author : Karen Coats
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472575555
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children's and Young Adult Literature written by Karen Coats and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Maria Edgeworth, Dr Seuss and Lewis Carroll to Sherman Alexie, Sharon Flake, and Gene Luen Yang, this is a comprehensive introduction to studying the infinitely varied worlds of literature for children and young adults. Exploring a diverse range of writing, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children's and Young Adult Literature includes: - Chapters covering key genres and forms from fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to picture books, graphic novels and fairy tales - A history of changing ideas of childhood and adolescence - Coverage of psychological, educational and literary theoretical approaches - Practical guidance on researching, reading and writing about children's and young adult literature - Explorations of children's and young adult film, TV and new media In addition, “Extending Your Study” sections at the end of each chapter provide advice on further reading, writing, discussion and online resources as well as case study responses from writers and teachers in the field. Accessibly written for both students new to the subject and experienced teachers, this is the most comprehensive single volume introduction to the study of writing for young people.

Everyday Youth Literacies

Author : Kathy Sanford
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9814451037
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Youth Literacies written by Kathy Sanford and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Testifying to the maturity of the youth literacy education field, this collection of papers displays the increasing sophistication of research on the subject, and at the same time offers pointers to its potential for development in the next decade. The contributors track the rapid proliferation of youth literacies in today’s digital age, from video games to social media and film production. Drawing on detailed research and an intimate knowledge of youth communities in nations as diverse as Canada and Uganda, they provide notable examples of digital literacies in situ, and challenge conventional wisdom about literacy education. The chapters do more, however, than merely offer reportage of a crisis in literacy education. The authors embrace the core challenge faced by educators everywhere: how to incorporate and utilize new modes of literacy in education, and how to realize the potential benefits of heterogeneous modern media in youth literacy education, especially in marginalized, remote, and disadvantaged communities. This volume expands our view of digital communications technologies and digital literacies to include complex understandings of how media such as translated videos can serve as learning tools for youths whose access to literacy education is limited. In particular, a number of contributing scholars provide important new information about the praxis of teachers and the literacies adopted by young people in Africa, a continent largely neglected by literacy researchers. This book’s global perspective, and its ground-level viewpoint of youth literacy practices in a variety of locations, problematizes normative assumptions about researching literacy as well as about literacy itself.

Young People, Comics and Reading

Author : Lucia Cedeira Serantes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316998134
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Young People, Comics and Reading written by Lucia Cedeira Serantes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars and professionals interested in the study and engagement with young people will find this project relevant to deepening their understanding of reading practices with comics and graphic novels. Comics reading has been an understudied experience despite its potential to enrich our exploration of reading in our currently saturated media landscape. This Element is based on seventeen in-depth interviews with teens and young adults who describe themselves as readers of comics for pleasure. These interviews provide insights about how comics reading evolves with the readers and what they consider a good or bad reading experience. Special attention is paid to the place of female readers in the comics community and material aspects of reading. From these readers, one begins to understand why comics reading is something that young people do not 'grow out of' but an experience that they 'grow with'.

Literature, Videogames and Learning

Author : Andrew Burn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000404064
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Literature, Videogames and Learning written by Andrew Burn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book explores links between literature and videogames, and how designing and playing games can transform our understanding of literature. It shows how studying literature through the lens of videogames can provide new insights into narrative and creative engagement with the text. The book sets out theories of narrative aesthetics and multimodality in literature and videogames, alongside models of literacy needed for such cultural and creative engagement. It goes on to examine game adaptations of children’s literature; and a series of videogames made by students based on Beowulf and Macbeth. In each case, the book considers ways in which the original text has been transformed by the process of game design, and what fresh light this casts on the literary narrative. It also considers what kind of learning, creative production, and cultural engagement is apparent in the game designs and emphasises the importance of treating games as a narrative medium in their own right. With a unique approach to the aesthetics of narrative in literature and videogames, the book will be of great interest to researchers, academics, and post-graduate students in the fields of literature, pedagogy, and game studies.

Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction

Author : V. Flanagan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137362065
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction written by V. Flanagan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction is not a historical study or a survey of narrative plots, but takes a more conceptual approach that engages with the central ideas of posthumanism: the fragmented nature of posthuman identity, the concept of agency as distributed and collective and the role of embodiment in understandings of selfhood.

The Rise of Transtexts

Author : Benjamin W.L. Derhy Kurtz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317371054
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Transtexts written by Benjamin W.L. Derhy Kurtz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume builds on previous notions of transmedia practices to develop the concept of transtexts, in order to account for both the industrial and user-generated contributions to the cross-media expansion of a story universe. On the one hand exists industrial transmedia texts, produced by supposedly authoritative authors or entities and directed to active audiences in the aim of fostering engagement. On the other hand are fan-produced transmedia texts, primarily intended for fellow members of the fan communities, with the Internet allowing for connections and collaboration between fans. Through both case studies and more general analyses of audience participation and reception, employing the artistic, marketing, textual, industrial, cultural, social, geographical, technological, historical, financial and legal perspectives, this multidisciplinary collection aims to expand our understanding of both transmedia storytelling and fan-produced transmedia texts.

A Companion to Children's Literature

Author : Karen Coats
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119038251
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Children's Literature written by Karen Coats and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COMPANION TO CHILDREN'S LITERATURE A collection of international, up-to-date, and diverse perspectives on children's literary criticism A Companion to Children's Literature offers students and scholars studying children's literature, education, and youth librarianship an incisive and expansive collection of essays that discuss key debates within children's literature criticism. The thirty-four works included demonstrate a diverse array of perspectives from around the world, introduce emerging scholars to the field of children's literature criticism, and meaningfully contribute to the scholarly conversation. The essays selected by the editors present a view of children's literature that encompasses poetry, fiction, folklore, nonfiction, dramatic stage and screen performances, picturebooks, and interactive and digital media. They range from historical overviews to of-the-moment critical theory about children’s books from across the globe. A Companion to Children's Literature explores some of the earliest works in children's literature, key developments in the genre from the 20th century, and the latest trends and texts in children's information books, postmodern fairytales, theatre, plays, and more. This collection also discusses methods for reading children's literature, from social justice critiques of popular stories to Black critical theory in the context of children's literary analysis.

(Re)imagining the World

Author : Yan Wu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642367607
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book (Re)imagining the World written by Yan Wu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Re)Imagining the world: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times considers how writers of fiction for children imagine ‘the world’, not one universal world, but different worlds: imaginary, strange, familiar, even monstrous worlds. The chapters in this collection discuss how fiction for children engages with some of the changes brought about by new technologies, information literacy, consumerism, migration, politics, different family structures, cosmopolitanism, new and old monsters. They also invite us to think about how memory shapes our understanding of the past, and how fiction engages our emotions, our capacity to empathise, and our desire to discover, and what the future may hold. The contributors bring different perspectives from education, postcolonial studies, literary criticism, cultural studies, childhood studies, postmodernism, and the social sciences. With a wide coverage of texts from different countries, and scholarly and lively discussions, this collection is itself a testament to the power of the human imagination and the significance of children’s literature in the education of young people.

Writing Youth

Author : Jonathan Alexander
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498538436
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Writing Youth written by Jonathan Alexander and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Youth: Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship studies young adult (YA) fiction that analyzes corporate sponsorship of media literacy practices in and through YA fiction. It shows how YA novels model for young people ways to manage the various media tools that surround them.

Masculinities in Play

Author : Nicholas Taylor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319905813
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Masculinities in Play written by Nicholas Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the persistent and frequently toxic associations between masculinity and games. It explores many of the critical issues in contemporary studies of masculinity—including issues of fatherhood, homoeroticism, eSports, fan cultures, and militarism—and their intersections with digital games, the contexts of their play, and the social futures associated with sustained involvement in gaming cultures. Unlike much of the research and public discourse that put the onus of “fixing” games and gaming cultures on those at its margins—women, LGBTQ, and people of color—this volume turns attention to men and masculinities, offering vital and productive avenues for both practical and theoretical intervention.

The Embodied Child

Author : Roxanne Harde
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351588567
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book The Embodied Child written by Roxanne Harde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture brings together essays that offer compelling analyses of children’s bodies as they read and are read, as they interact with literature and other cultural artifacts, and as they are constructed in literature and popular culture. The chapters examine the ideology behind the cultural constructions of the child’s body and the impact they have on society, and how the child’s body becomes a carrier of cultural ideology within the cultural imagination. They also consider the portrayal of children’s bodies in terms of the seeming dichotomies between healthy-vs-unhealthy bodies as well as able-bodied-vs-disabled, and examines flesh-and-blood bodies that engage with literary texts and other media. The contributors bring perspectives from anthropology, communication, education, literary criticism, cultural studies, philosophy, physical education, and religious studies. With wide and astute coverage of disparate literary and cultural texts, and lively scholarly discussions in the introductions to the collection and to each section, this book makes a long-needed contribution to discussions of the body and the child.

Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction

Author : A. Curry
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113727011X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction written by A. Curry and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study is the first full-length treatment of feminism and the environment in children's literature. Drawing on the history, philosophy and ethics of ecofeminism, it examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic landscapes in young adult fiction reflect contemporary attitudes towards environmental crisis and human responsibility.

Visual Journeys Through Wordless Narratives

Author : Evelyn Arizpe
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1780937245
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Visual Journeys Through Wordless Narratives written by Evelyn Arizpe and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Literacy Research Association's 2015 Edward B. Fry Book Award Immigration is an ongoing, global phenomenon and schools and teachers in host countries must continually find new ways of working with the increasing numbers of immigrant pupils, including refugees and asylum seekers. Language and literacy are crucial for inclusion in a new context but these must be developed in spaces where these children feel safe to explore themes that resonate with their experiences; to express their understanding and to engage in intercultural exchange. Visual Journeys Through Wordless Narratives presents the exploration of response strategies to Shaun Tan's The Arrival. The inquiry was carried out in educational settings, with children from many different parts of the world, in four host countries: the UK, Spain, Italy and the USA. The findings reveal the benefits of using wordless narratives such as picturebooks and graphic novels together with visual strategies to support immigrant children's literary understandings and visual literacy. They also reveal the wealth of experiences the children bring with them which have the potential to transform educational practices.

Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature

Author : Emer O'Sullivan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538122928
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature written by Emer O'Sullivan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Ditionary of Children's Literature, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about children's literature.

Child Autonomy and Child Governance in Children's Literature

Author : Christopher Kelen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317394798
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Child Autonomy and Child Governance in Children's Literature written by Christopher Kelen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores representations of child autonomy and self-governance in children’s literature.The idea of child rule and child realms is central to children’s literature, and childhood is frequently represented as a state of being, with children seen as aliens in need of passports to Adultland (and vice versa). In a sense all children’s literature depends on the idea that children are different, separate, and in command of their own imaginative spaces and places. Although the idea of child rule is a persistent theme in discussions of children’s literature (or about children and childhood) the metaphor itself has never been properly unpacked with critical reference to examples from those many texts that are contingent on the authority and/or power of children. Child governance and autonomy can be seen as natural or perverse; it can be displayed as a threat or as a promise. Accordingly, the "child rule"-motif can be seen in Robinsonades and horror films, in philosophical treatises and in series fiction. The representations of self-ruling children are manifold and ambivalent, and range from the idyllic to the nightmarish. Contributors to this volume visit a range of texts in which children are, in various ways, empowered, discussing whether childhood itself may be thought of as a nationality, and what that may imply. This collection shows how representations of child governance have been used for different ideological, aesthetic, and pedagogical reasons, and will appeal to scholars of children’s literature, childhood studies, and cultural studies.

Children's Literature and Capitalism

Author : C. Parkes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137265094
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Children's Literature and Capitalism written by C. Parkes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important writers of children's and young-adult texts in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.