- By : Faye Riter Kensinger
- Social Science
Children of the Series and how They Grew, Or, A Century of Heroines and Heroes, Romantic, Comic, Moral
Author: Faye Riter Kensinger
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879723767
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Children s series fiction comprises tales incorporating innocence and hard reality along with romance, wit, and character. Heavy streaks of morality diminished as the entertainment element increased. Heroes performed in a wide range of adventures, but restrictions often kept heroines close to home. Series fiction peaked, then waned, but such writers as Beverly Cleary and Madeleine L Engle carried on the style."
- By : Michael Cadden
- Literary Criticism
Telling Children's Stories
Author: Michael Cadden
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803234090
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The most accessible approach yet to children's literature and narrative theory,Telling Children's Storiesis a comprehensive collection of never-before-published essays by an international slate of scholars that offers a broad yet in-depth assessment of narrative strategies unique to children's literature. The volume is divided into four interrelated sections: "Genre Templates and Transformations," "Approaches to the Picture Book," "Narrators and Implied Readers," and "Narrative Time." Mike Cadden's introduction considers the links between the various essays and topics, as well as their connections with such issues as metafiction, narrative ethics, focalization, and plotting. Ranging in focus from picture books to novels such asTo Kill a Mockingbird, from detective fiction for children to historical tales, from new works such as the Lemony Snicket series to classics likeTom's Midnight Garden, these essays explore notions of montage and metaphor, perspective and subjectivity, identification and time. Together, they comprise a resource that will interest and instruct scholars of narrative theory and children's literature, and that will become critically important to the understanding and development of both fields.
- By : Casie Hermansson
- Performing Arts
The Palgrave Handbook of Children's Film and Television
Author: Casie Hermansson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030176207
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
This volume explores film and television for children and youth. While children’s film and television vary in form and content from country to country, their youth audience, ranging from infants to “screenagers”, is the defining feature of the genre and is written into the DNA of the medium itself. This collection offers a contemporary analysis of film and television designed for this important audience, with particular attention to new directions evident in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. With examples drawn from Iran, China, Korea, India, Israel, Eastern Europe, the Philippines, and France, as well as from the United States and the United Kingdom, contributors address a variety of issues ranging from content to production, distribution, marketing, and the use of film, both as object and medium, in education. Through a diverse consideration of media for young infants up to young adults, this volume reveals the newest trends in children’s film and television and its role as both a source of entertainment and pedagogy.
- By : Clementine Beauvais
- Literary Criticism
Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature
Author: Clementine Beauvais
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474414656
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Introduces you to the promises and problems of Charles Taylor's thought in major contemporary debates
- By : Brian Rouleau
- History
Empire's Nursery
Author: Brian Rouleau
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479804479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
How the West was fun -- Serialized Impreialism -- Empire's amateurs -- Internationalist impulses -- Dollar diplomacy for the price of a few nickels -- Comic book cold war.
- By : Betsy Bird
- Literary Criticism
Wild Things! Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature
Author: Betsy Bird
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763667714
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Secret lives, scandalous turns, and some very funny surprises — these essays by leading kids’ lit bloggers take us behind the scenes of many much-loved children’s books. Told in lively and affectionate prose, this treasure trove of information for a student, librarian, parent, or anyone wondering about the post–Harry Potter children’s book biz brings contemporary illumination to the warm-and-fuzzy bunny world we think we know.
- By : International Research Society for Children's Literature. Congress
- Children
Children's Literature and the Fin de Siècle
Author: International Research Society for Children's Literature. Congress
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780313321207
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The close of a century invites both retrospection and prognostication. As a period of transition, it also brings a sense of uncertainty, finality, and apocalypticism. This volume examines fin de siecle tensions in 19th- and 20th-century children's literature from around the world. The contributors look back at children's literature of the past and ahead toward children's literature of the future, while probing such issues as literary nonsense and the breakdown of language, the image of the child as redeemer, social engineering in children's literature, the Holocaust in children's fiction, fear in contemporary fantasy, and changing notions of masculinity.
- By : Mark Hawkins-Dady
- Reference
Reader's Guide to Literature in English
Author: Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135314179
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.
- By :
- Families
The Family in America
Author:
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 1576072320
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
- By : Simon J. Bronner
- Social Science
Youth Cultures in America [2 volumes]
Author: Simon J. Bronner
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 1440833923
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 821
Book Description
What are the components of youth cultures today? This encyclopedia examines the facets of youth cultures and brings them to the forefront. Offers information on groups beyond the gangs the public associates with youth culture, providing definitions of suburban youth culture, survivalists and preppers, the deaf, skateboarders, Gen X, soldiers, and street kids, among others Provides coverage of the expressive genres of American youth and the way they have shaped public tastes and trends, such as music, dance, fashion, tattooing, body piercing, social media, and more Features an exploration of life issues for youth that have entered into the headlines—for example, bullying, cliques, rites of passage, student protest and activism, child abuse, and drugs