Poetics of Children's Literature

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820334812
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetics of Children's Literature by : Zohar Shavit

Download or read book Poetics of Children's Literature written by Zohar Shavit and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its emergence in the seventeenth century as a distinctive cultural system, children's literature has had a culturally inferior status resulting from its existence in a netherworld between the literary system and the educational system. In addition to its official readership—children—it has to be approved of by adults. Writers for children, explains Zohar Shavit, are constrained to respond to these multiple systems of often mutually contradictory demands. Most writers do not try to bypass these constraints, but accept them as a framework for their work. In the most extreme cases an author may ignore one segment of the readership. If the adult reader is ignored, the writer risks rejection, as is the case of popular literature. If the writer utilizes the child as a pseudo addressee in order to appeal to an adult audience, the result can be what Shavit terms an ambivalent work. Shavit analyzes the conventions and the moral aims that have structured children's literature, from the fairy tales collected and reworked by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm—in particular, “Little Red Riding Hood”—through the complex manipulations of Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, to the subversion of the genre's canonical requirements in the chapbooks of the eighteenth century, and in the formulaic Nancy Drew books of the twentieth century. Throughout her study Shavit, explores not only how society has shaped children's literature, but also how society has been reflected in the literary works it produces for its children.

The Poetics of Childhood

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113572170X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Book Synopsis The Poetics of Childhood by : Roni Natov

Download or read book The Poetics of Childhood written by Roni Natov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Prizing Children's Literature

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317231422
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Book Synopsis Prizing Children's Literature by : Kenneth B. Kidd

Download or read book Prizing Children's Literature written by Kenneth B. Kidd and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's book awards have mushroomed since the early twentieth-century and especially since the 1960s, when literary prizing became a favored strategy for both commercial promotion and canon-making. There are over 300 awards for English-language titles alone, but despite the profound impact of children’s book awards, scholars have paid relatively little attention to them. This book is the first scholarly volume devoted to the analysis of Anglophone children's book awards in historical and cultural context. With attention to both political and aesthetic concerns, the book offers original and diverse scholarship on prizing practices and their consequences in Australia, Canada, and especially the United States. Contributors offer both case studies of particular awards and analysis of broader trends in literary evaluation and elevation, drawing on theoretical work on canonization and cultural capital. Sections interrogate the complex and often unconscious ideological work of prizing, the ongoing tension between formalist awards and so-called identity-based awards — all the more urgent in light of the "We Need Diverse Books" campaign — the ever-morphing forms and parameters of prizing, and scholarly practices of prizing. Among the many awards discussed are the Pura Belpré Medal, the Inky Awards, the Canada Governor General Literary Award, the Printz Award, the Best Animated Feature Oscar, the Phoenix Award, and the John Newbery Medal, giving due attention to prizes for fiction as well as for non-fiction, poetry, and film. This volume will interest scholars in literary and cultural studies, social history, book history, sociology, education, library and information science, and anyone concerned with children's literature.

The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317045548
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry by : Katherine Wakely-Mulroney

Download or read book The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry written by Katherine Wakely-Mulroney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection gives sustained attention to the literary dimensions of children’s poetry from the eighteenth century to the present. While reasserting the importance of well-known voices, such as those of Isaac Watts, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, A. A. Milne, and Carol Ann Duffy, the contributors also reflect on the aesthetic significance of landmark works by less frequently celebrated figures such as Richard Johnson, Ann and Jane Taylor, Cecil Frances Alexander and Michael Rosen. Scholarly treatment of children’s poetry has tended to focus on its publication history rather than to explore what comprises – and why we delight in – its idiosyncratic pleasures. And yet arguments about how and why poetic language might appeal to the child are embroiled in the history of children’s poetry, whether in Isaac Watts emphasising the didactic efficacy of “like sounds,” William Blake and the Taylor sisters revelling in the beauty of semantic ambiguity, or the authors of nonsense verse jettisoning sense to thrill their readers with the sheer music of poetry. Alive to the ways in which recent debates both echo and repudiate those conducted in earlier periods, The Aesthetics of Children’s Poetry investigates the stylistic and formal means through which children’s poetry, in theory and in practice, negotiates the complicated demands we have made of it through the ages.

Rereading Childhood Books

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147429829X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis Rereading Childhood Books by : Alison Waller

Download or read book Rereading Childhood Books written by Alison Waller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the ESSE book awards 2020, for Literatures in the English Language Childhood books play a special role in reading histories, providing touchstones for our future tastes and giving shape to our ongoing identities. Bringing the latest work in Memory Studies to bear on writers' memoirs, autobiographical accounts of reading, and interviews with readers, Rereading Childhood Books explores how adults remember, revisit, and sometimes forget, these significant books. Asking what it means to return to familiar works by well-known authors such as Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis and Enid Blyton, as well as popular and ephemeral material not often considered as part of the canon, Alison Waller develops a poetics of rereading and presents a new model for understanding lifelong reading. As such she reconceives the history of children's literature through the shared and individual experiences of the readers who carry these books with them throughout their lives.

Considering Children's Literature

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Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1551116049
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (511 download)

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Book Synopsis Considering Children's Literature by : Andrea Schwenke Wyile

Download or read book Considering Children's Literature written by Andrea Schwenke Wyile and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2008-02-21 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The study of children’s literature is not just about children and the books said to be for them; it is also about the societies and cultures from which the literature comes, and it is about the assumptions and ideas we hold about children and childhood. For adults, reading children’s literature is ultimately both an act of nostalgia and of self-examination. When we consider children’s literature, we must include ourselves in the equation: What kinds of readers are we? How do we relate to books and stories? To what degree should we impose our experience upon others? Reading children’s literature actively can lead to all kinds of remarkable (and sometimes unsettling) revelations about ourselves and our society.” — from the Introduction Considering Children’s Literature is a collection of previously published essays on a variety of topics that inform the study of children’s literature. Exploring issues such as censorship, the canon, the meanings of fairy tales, and the adaptation of children’s literature into film, the essays in this anthology are as diverse as they are illuminating. Along with authors like Natalie Babbitt and Margaret Mahy, teachers, scholars, and publishers of children’s books are also contributors. Accessible and comprehensive, this book will appeal to anyone interested in children’s literature.

The Presence of Grace and Other Book Reviews by Flannery O'Connor

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820331392
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Presence of Grace and Other Book Reviews by Flannery O'Connor written by Flannery O'Connor and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1950s and early 1960s Flannery O'Connor wrote more than a hundred book reviews for two Catholic diocesan newspapers in Georgia. This full collection of these reviews nearly doubles the number that have appeared in print elsewhere and represents a significant body of primary materials from the O'Connor canon. We find in the reviews the same personality so vividly apparent in her fiction and her lectures--the unique voice of the artist that is one clear sign of genius. Her spare precision, her humor, her extraordinary ability to permit readers to see deeply into complex and obscure truths-all are present in these reviews and letters.

The Random House Book of Poetry for Children

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0394850106
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (948 download)

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Book Synopsis The Random House Book of Poetry for Children by : Jack Prelutsky

Download or read book The Random House Book of Poetry for Children written by Jack Prelutsky and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1983-09-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most accessible and joyous introduction to the world of poetry! The Random House Book of Poetry for Children offers both funny and illuminating poems for kids personally selected by the nation's first Children's Poet Laureate, Jack Prelutsky. Featuring a wealth of beloved classic poems from the past and modern glittering gems, every child who opens this treasury will finda world of surprises and delights which will instill a lifelong love of poetry. Featuring 572 unforgettable poems, and over 400 one-of-a-kind illustrations from the Caldecott-winning illustrator of the Frog and Toad series, Arnold Lobel, this collection is, quite simply, the perfect way to introduce children to the world of poetry.

Children's Literature

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226473023
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Book Synopsis Children's Literature by : Seth Lerer

Download or read book Children's Literature written by Seth Lerer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Children’s Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop’s fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter. The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children’s literature in its full panorama, this extraordinary book reveals why J. R. R. Tolkien, Dr. Seuss, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Beatrix Potter, and many others, despite their divergent styles and subject matter, have all resonated with generations of readers. Children’s Literature is an exhilarating quest across centuries, continents, and genres to discover how, and why, we first fall in love with the written word. “Lerer has accomplished something magical. Unlike the many handbooks to children’s literature that synopsize, evaluate, or otherwise guide adults in the selection of materials for children, this work presents a true critical history of the genre. . . . Scholarly, erudite, and all but exhaustive, it is also entertaining and accessible. Lerer takes his subject seriously without making it dull.”—Library Journal (starred review) “Lerer’s history reminds us of the wealth of literature written during the past 2,600 years. . . . With his vast and multidimensional knowledge of literature, he underscores the vital role it plays in forming a child’s imagination. We are made, he suggests, by the books we read.”—San Francisco Chronicle “There are dazzling chapters on John Locke and Empire, and nonsense, and Darwin, but Lerer’s most interesting chapter focuses on girls’ fiction. . . . A brilliant series of readings.”—Diane Purkiss, Times Literary Supplement

The Pleasures of Children's Literature

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Publisher : Pearson College Division
ISBN 13 : 9780801332487
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (324 download)

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Book Synopsis The Pleasures of Children's Literature by : Perry Nodelman

Download or read book The Pleasures of Children's Literature written by Perry Nodelman and published by Pearson College Division. This book was released on 2003 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an overview of children's literature in the context of professional discussion of children's literature and reading. Focusing on controversial issues and designed to provoke thought and debate, this text examines literary response to and analysis of the field of literary texts written by adults for children.

The Hutchinson Treasury of Children's Literature

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0091761441
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (917 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hutchinson Treasury of Children's Literature by : Alison Sage

Download or read book The Hutchinson Treasury of Children's Literature written by Alison Sage and published by Random House. This book was released on 1995 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully produced celebration of children’s literature that will carry a child through his or her reading life, with nursery rhymes, short stories, fables, fairy tales and extracts from the classics. Each entry is a work of true literary distinction.

The Children's Literature Lover's Book of Lists

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Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 : 9780787965952
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (659 download)

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Book Synopsis The Children's Literature Lover's Book of Lists by : Joanna Sullivan

Download or read book The Children's Literature Lover's Book of Lists written by Joanna Sullivan and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2004-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book is written for teachers, parents, librarians and anyone who is seeking quality literature for children (preschoolers through grade 6). The book is filled with wide-ranging lists of titles organized by grade level, theme, and content areas. This comprehensive resource simplifies your search by selecting the most useful information from websites, teacher resources, award listings, and publications that are available on children’s literature. For quick access and easy use, the lists are printed in full-page format and organized into five sections.

A Past Without Shadow

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135880697
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Book Synopsis A Past Without Shadow by : Zohar Shavit

Download or read book A Past Without Shadow written by Zohar Shavit and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-02-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this controversial study of postwar German's children's books, Zohar Shavit reveals a troubling perspective on the German understanding of the Holocaust.

A Child's Introduction to Poetry (Revised and Updated)

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Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 0762469668
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (624 download)

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Book Synopsis A Child's Introduction to Poetry (Revised and Updated) by : Michael Driscoll

Download or read book A Child's Introduction to Poetry (Revised and Updated) written by Michael Driscoll and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This delightful, interactive journey through the history of the world's poetry includes a removable poster and access to downloadable audio, allowing kids to listen and learn as they experience the magic of the spoken word. Poetry is fun—especially when we can read it, hear it, and discover its many delights. A Child's Introduction to Poetry joyously introduces kids (and parents) to the greatest poets in history—from Homer and Shakespeare to Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou—and provides excellent examples of their work and commentary on what makes it so special and everlasting. The book covers every style of poem, from epics and odes, to nonsense verse and haikus, and is filled with examples of each one. This multimedia package encourages children to listen, read, and learn, and opens the door to a lifetime of appreciation of a rich literary tradition. Also included is a removable, fold-out poster of "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, one of history's most iconic poems.

The Oxford Book of Children's Poetry

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192762764
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Book of Children's Poetry by : Michael Harrison

Download or read book The Oxford Book of Children's Poetry written by Michael Harrison and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To coincide with the centenary of Oxford Children's Books we are proud to present this definitive new collection. Including all the major children's poets, and with a wonderful range of both classic and modern favourites, this is a book that will be treasured for a lifetime. The poems areenhanced with black and white artwork from a number of top children's illustrators to create a truly special package, which should be on every child's bookshelf.

Children's Literature in Context

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847064876
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Children's Literature in Context by : Fiona McCulloch

Download or read book Children's Literature in Context written by Fiona McCulloch and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring close readings of commonly studied texts, this book takes students of Children's Literature through the key works, their contexts and critical and popular afterlives.

Bernard Pepperlin

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780062865458
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (654 download)

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Book Synopsis Bernard Pepperlin by : Cara Hoffman

Download or read book Bernard Pepperlin written by Cara Hoffman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bernard and his newfound friends--revolutionary rats, wise-cracking cats, and coffee-chugging squirrels, to name a few--will delight and inspire readers of all ages!" --Erin Entrada Kelly, Newbery Medal-winning author of Hello, Universe The drowsy Dormouse from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is transported to modern-day New York City for the adventure of a lifetime in this middle grade novel that's perfect for fans of Stuart Little and written by critically acclaimed author Cara Hoffman. When a girl in a blue dress crashes the Mad Hatter's eternal tea party, the sleepy Dormouse feels more awake than he has in a long time. He wishes he could follow her and be a part of her adventure. And as luck would have it, a surprising twist of fate sends the Dormouse on an adventure of his own, where he must not fall asleep. For he is destined to save a magical world outside Wonderland, and it will take all his courage--and a few new friends--to do it.