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The Politics and Poetics of Irish Children's Literature

Author : Nancy Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Politics and Poetics of Irish Children's Literature written by Nancy Watson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the work of many contemporary Irish writers for children is often complex and sophisticated there is currently very little critical analysis to do it justice. The aim of this book is to redress that situation and to prove that the best writing for children is no less complex and well written than the best adult fiction and offers valuable material for theoreticians. With a detailed examination of selected texts by six Irish writers for children, the book explores the reciprocal relationship between the different time and place of the child reader and the complexity and multiplicity of the world of the adult writer. It suggests that putting the different forms of experience in dialogue with each other promotes a new understanding because it allows for other points of view and other ways of seeing. This book also suggests that the way in which these writers implement the potential of the child reader's different perspective refutes the idea of the 'impossible' relation between adult and child. The opening chapter explores the attempt to re-create childhood and adolescence in a range of Irish memoir and fiction.

Irish Children’s Literature and the Poetics of Memory

Author : Rebecca Long
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350167266
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Irish Children’s Literature and the Poetics of Memory written by Rebecca Long and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the mythological narratives that influence Irish children's literature, this book examines the connections between landscape, time and identity, positing that myth and the language of myth offer authors and readers the opportunity to engage with Ireland's culture and heritage. It explores the recurring patterns of Irish mythological narratives that influence literature produced for children in Ireland between the nineteenth and the twenty-first centuries. A selection of children's books published between 1892, when there was an escalation of the cultural pursuit of Irish independence and 2016, which marked the centenary of the Easter 1916 rebellion against English rule, are discussed with the aim of demonstrating the development of a pattern of retrieving, re-telling, remembering and re-imagining myths in Irish children's literature. In doing so, it examines the reciprocity that exists between imagination, memory, and childhood experiences in this body of work.

The Poetics and Politics of Youth in Milton's England

Author : Blaine Greteman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107434793
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics and Politics of Youth in Milton's England written by Blaine Greteman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the notion of government by consent took hold in early modern England, many authors used childhood and maturity to address contentious questions of political representation - about who has a voice and who can speak on his or her own behalf. For John Milton, Ben Jonson, William Prynne, Thomas Hobbes and others, the period between infancy and adulthood became a site of intense scrutiny, especially as they examined the role of a literary education in turning children into political actors. Drawing on new archival evidence, Blaine Greteman argues that coming of age in the seventeenth century was a uniquely political act. His study makes a compelling case for understanding childhood as a decisive factor in debates over consent, autonomy and political voice, and will offer graduate students and scholars a new perspective on the emergence of apolitical children's literature in the eighteenth century.

Irish Children's Literature and Culture

Author : Keith O'Sullivan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136825096
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Irish Children's Literature and Culture written by Keith O'Sullivan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish Children’s Literature and Culture looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with major genres, forms, and issues, including the gothic, the speculative, picturebooks, ethnicity, and globalization. It contextualizes modern Irish children’s literature in relation to Irish mythology and earlier writings, as well as in relation to Irish writing for adults, thereby demonstrating the complexity of this fascinating area. What constitutes a "national literature" is rarely straightforward, and it is especially complex when discussing writing for young people in an Irish context. Until recently, there was only a slight body of work that could be classified as "Irish children’s literature" in comparison with Ireland’s contribution to adult literature in the twentieth century. The contributors to the volume examine a range of texts in relation to contemporary literary and cultural theory, and children’s literature internationally, raising provocative questions about the future of the topic. Irish Children’s Literature and Culture is essential reading for those interested in Irish literature, culture, sociology, childhood, and children’s literature. Valerie Coghlan, Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin, is a librarian and lecturer. She is a former co-editor of Bookbird: An International Journal of Children's Literature. She has published widely on Irish children's literature and co-edited several books on the topic. She is a former board member of the IRSCL, and a founder member of the Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature, Children's Books Ireland, and IBBY Ireland. Keith O’Sullivan lectures in English at the Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin. He is a founder member of the Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature, a former member of the board of directors of Children’s Books Ireland, and past chair of the Children’s Books Ireland/Bisto Book of the Year Awards. He has published on the works of Philip Pullman and Emily Brontë.

Irish Children’s Literature and the Poetics of Memory

Author : Rebecca Long
Publisher : Bloomsbury Perspectives on Chi
ISBN 13 : 1350190764
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Irish Children’s Literature and the Poetics of Memory written by Rebecca Long and published by Bloomsbury Perspectives on Chi. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the mythological narratives that influence Irish children's literature, this book examines the connections between landscape, time and identity, positing that myth and the language of myth offer authors and readers the opportunity to engage with Ireland's culture and heritage. It explores the recurring patterns of Irish mythological narratives that influence literature produced for children in Ireland between the nineteenth and the twenty-first centuries. A selection of children's books published between 1892, when there was an escalation of the cultural pursuit of Irish independence and 2016, which marked the centenary of the Easter 1916 rebellion against English rule, are discussed with the aim of demonstrating the development of a pattern of retrieving, re-telling, remembering and re-imagining myths in Irish children's literature. In doing so, it examines the reciprocity that exists between imagination, memory, and childhood experiences in this body of work.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction

Author : Liam Harte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191071056
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction written by Liam Harte and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction presents authoritative essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction. They provide in-depth assessments of the breadth and achievement of novelists and short story writers whose collective contribution to the evolution and modification of these unique art forms has been far out of proportion to Ireland's small size. The volume brings a variety of critical perspectives to bear on the development of modern Irish fiction, situating authors, texts, and genres in their social, intellectual, and literary historical contexts. The Handbook's coverage encompasses an expansive range of topics, including the recalcitrant atavisms of Irish Gothic fiction; nineteenth-century Irish women's fiction and its influence on emergent modernism and cultural nationalism; the diverse modes of irony, fabulism, and social realism that characterize the fiction of the Irish Literary Revival; the fearless aesthetic radicalism of James Joyce; the jolting narratological experiments of Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien, and Máirtín Ó Cadhain; the fate of the realist and modernist traditions in the work of Elizabeth Bowen, Frank O'Connor, Seán O'Faoláin, and Mary Lavin, and in that of their ambivalent heirs, Edna O'Brien, John McGahern, and John Banville; the subversive treatment of sexuality and gender in Northern Irish women's fiction written during and after the Troubles; the often neglected genres of Irish crime fiction, science fiction, and fiction for children; the many-hued novelistic responses to the experiences of famine, revolution, and emigration; and the variety and vibrancy of post-millennial fiction from both parts of Ireland. Readably written and employing a wealth of original research, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction illuminates a distinguished literary tradition that has altered the shape of world literature.

Children's Literature and Imaginative Geography

Author : Aïda Hudson
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771123265
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis Children's Literature and Imaginative Geography by : Aïda Hudson

Download or read book Children's Literature and Imaginative Geography written by Aïda Hudson and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do children travel when they read a story? In this collection, scholars and authors explore the imaginative geography of a wide range of places, from those of Indigenous myth to the fantasy worlds of Middle-earth, Earthsea, or Pacificus, from the semi-fantastic Wild Wood to real-world places like Canada’s North, Chicago’s World Fair, or the modern urban garden. What happens to young protagonists who explore new worlds, whether fantastic or realistic? What happens when Old World and New World myths collide? How do Indigenous myth and sense of place figure in books for the young? How do environmental or post-colonial concerns, history, memory, or even the unconscious affect an author's creation of place? How are steampunk and science fiction mythically re-enchanting for children? Imaginative geography means imaged earth writing: it creates what readers see when they enter the world of fiction. Exploring diverse genres for children, including picture books, fantasy, steampunk, and realistic novels as well as plays from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland from the early nineteenth century to the present, Children’s Literature and Imaginative Geography provides new geographical perspectives on children’s literature.

Irish Childhoods

Author : Pádraic Whyte
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144383095X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Irish Childhoods written by Pádraic Whyte and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While much has been written about Irish culture’s apparent obsession with the past and with representing childhood, few critics have explored in detail the position of children’s fiction within such discourses. This book serves to redress these imbalances, illuminating both the manner in which children’s texts engage with complex cultural discourses in contemporary Ireland and the significant contribution that children’s novels and films can make to broader debates concerning Irish identity at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Through close analysis of specific books and films published or produced since 1990, Irish Childhoods offers an insight into contrasting approaches to the representation of Irish history and childhood in recent children’s fiction. Each chapter interrogates the unique manner in which an author or filmmaker engages with twentieth century Irish history from a contemporary perspective, and reveals that constructions of childhood in Irish children’s fiction are often used to explore aspects of Ireland’s past and present.

Irish Children's Literature and the Poetics of Memory

Author : Rebecca Long
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781350167285
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (672 download)

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Download or read book Irish Children's Literature and the Poetics of Memory written by Rebecca Long and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focusing on the mythological narratives that influence Irish children's literature, this book examines the connections between landscape, time and identity, positing that myth and the language of myth offer authors and readers the opportunity to engage with Ireland's culture and heritage. It explores the recurring patterns of Irish mythological narratives that influence literature produced for children in Ireland between the nineteenth and the twenty-first centuries. A selection of children's books published between 1892, when there was an escalation of the cultural pursuit of Irish independence and 2016, which marked the centenary of the Easter 1916 rebellion against English rule, are discussed with the aim of demonstrating the development of a pattern of retrieving, re-telling, remembering and re-imagining myths in Irish children's literature. In doing so, it examines the reciprocity that exists between imagination, memory, and childhood experiences in this body of work."--

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1678 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 1678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

J.R.R. Tolkien

Author : Peter Hunt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137264012
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book J.R.R. Tolkien written by Peter Hunt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.R.R. Tolkien is arguably the most influential and popular of all fantasy writers. Although his position and status have long been controversial, his popularity has not faded. His best-loved works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, have sold millions of copies around the world and continue to enthral readers young and old. This lively collection of original essays examines The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in the light of children's literature theory and approaches, as well as from adult and fantasy literature perspectives. Exploring issues such as gender, language, worldbuilding, and ecocriticism, the volume also places Tolkien's works in the context of a range of visual media, including Peter Jackson's film adaptations.

Treasure Islands

Author : Mary Shine Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasure Islands written by Mary Shine Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of Eils Dillon receive particular attention on the 10th anniversary of her death. -- Kate Hebblethwaite Maroons-Darwin and the question of humanity -- Siobhan Parkinson-From Utopia to Weslandia, via Terabithia -- Anna Bogen Peter Pan-Wildcat Island, and the lure of the real -- Carmen Prez Diez-C.S. Lewis The voyage of the dawn treader -- David Rudd-Islands and I-lands in Enid Blyton -- Jane OHanlon-Enid Blytons relevance -- Clive Barnes-Changes in island adventure in the mid-20th century -- Robert Dunbar-Textual ownership in recent young adult fiction -- Maureen A. Farrell-Scottish childrens literature -- Elizabeth Parsons-The sea in Gary Crews picture books -- Celia Keenan-Tradition and modernity in Into the west and Whale rider -- Michael Flanagan-Catholic/nationalist ideology in Irish popular culture -- Marnie Hay-Irish nationalist propaganda aimed at children, 191016 -- Mire U Mhaicn-The Celtic otherworld in retellings of Old Irish tales -- Patricia Kennon-Si

Divided Worlds

Author : Mary Shine Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Divided Worlds written by Mary Shine Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the third collection of studies in children's literature, explores the political, social and cultural divisions that dominate children's books, ranging over Irish and international topics and texts. Articles on the fiction of Katherine Tynan, Maria Edgeworth and Somerville & Ross, as well as modern Ulster fiction and contemporary children's publishing, are indicative of the range of Irish material. The international focus extends from Luigi Bertelli's treatment of fascism and Gianni Rodari's communism to the English contexts of Cecil Alexander's English hymns. Rosemary Sutcliffe's Roman Britain series is revisited to explore its masculinities, and gendered divisions are the subject of a review of Oisin McGann's recent fantasy fiction. (Series: Studies in Children's Literature)

Discourses of Home and Homeland in Irish Children’s Fiction 1990-2012

Author : Ciara Ní Bhroin
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030733971
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book Discourses of Home and Homeland in Irish Children’s Fiction 1990-2012 written by Ciara Ní Bhroin and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of changing constructs of home and of childhood since the mid-twentieth century, this book examines discourses of home and homeland in Irish children’s fiction from 1990 to 2012, a time of dramatic change in Ireland spanning the rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger and of unprecedented growth in Irish children’s literature. Close readings of selected texts by five award-winning authors are linked to social, intellectual and political changes in the period covered and draw on postcolonial, feminist, cultural and children’s literature theory, highlighting the political and ideological dimensions of home and the value of children’s literature as a lens through which to view culture and society as well as an imaginative space where young people can engage with complex ideas relevant to their lives and the world in which they live. Examining the works of O. R. Melling, Kate Thompson, Eoin Colfer, Siobhán Parkinson and Siobhan Dowd, Ciara Ní Bhroin argues that Irish children’s literature changed at this time from being a vehicle that largely promoted hegemonic ideologies of home in post-independence Ireland to a site of resistance to complacent notions of home in Celtic Tiger Ireland.

Children's Literature and Culture of the First World War

Author : Lissa Paul
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317361660
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Children's Literature and Culture of the First World War written by Lissa Paul and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because all wars in the twenty-first century are potentially global wars, the centenary of the first global war is the occasion for reflection. This volume offers an unprecedented account of the lives, stories, letters, games, schools, institutions (such as the Boy Scouts and YMCA), and toys of children in Europe, North America, and the Global South during the First World War and surrounding years. By engaging with developments in Children’s Literature, War Studies, and Education, and mining newly available archival resources (including letters written by children), the contributors to this volume demonstrate how perceptions of childhood changed in the period. Children who had been constructed as Romantic innocents playing safely in secure gardens were transformed into socially responsible children actively committing themselves to the war effort. In order to foreground cross-cultural connections across what had been perceived as ‘enemy’ lines, perspectives on German, American, British, Australian, and Canadian children’s literature and culture are situated so that they work in conversation with each other. The multidisciplinary, multinational range of contributors to this volume make it distinctive and a particularly valuable contribution to emerging studies on the impact of war on the lives of children.

International Who's Who in Poetry 2004

Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781857431780
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book International Who's Who in Poetry 2004 written by Europa Publications and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.

Irish Poems

Author : Fiona Waters
Publisher : Gill & MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9780717132867
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Irish Poems written by Fiona Waters and published by Gill & MacMillan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Irish poetry both old and contemporary. Poets featured include James Stephens, W.B. Yeats, Oliver Goldsmith, Oscar Wilde, and many others.