Understanding Children's LiteraturePeter Hunt Routledge, 2006 M05 17 - 232 páginas Edited by Peter Hunt, a leading figure in the field, this book introduces the study of children’s literature, addressing theoretical questions as well as the most relevant critical approaches to the discipline. The fourteen chapters draw on insights from academic disciplines ranging from cultural and literary studies to education and psychology, and include an essay on what writers for children think about their craft. The result is a fascinating array of perspectives on key topics in children’s literature as well as an introduction to such diverse concerns as literacy, ideology, stylistics, feminism, history, culture and bibliotherapy. An extensive general bibliography is complemented by lists of further reading for each chapter and a glossary defines critical and technical terms, making the book accessible for those coming to the field or to a particular approach for the first time. In this second edition there are four entirely new chapters; contributors have revisited and revised or rewritten seven of the chapters to reflect new thinking, while the remaining three are classic essays, widely acknowledged to be definitive. Understanding Children’s Literature will not only be an invaluable guide for students of literature or education, but it will also inform and enrich the practice of teachers and librarians. |
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... example, Teaching Literature 9–14 (with Geoff Fox) (1985), and Young Readers Responding to Poems (with John Teasey, Ray Bell, and Keith Hurst) (1988); classroom anthologies, for example Picture Poems (with Peter Benton) (1997); and ...
... example, Judy Blume is not as good a writer as Jane Austen is not to compare like with like, and presupposes an innate superiority in the latter. 'Literature', then, is only a useful concept if we want to educate children into a ...
... example of these kinds of confusion may be seen in the discussion of poetry for children. Surely such a thing cannot exist, if we assume that 'poetry' is a kind of litera— ture which is structured so as to invite or require a special ...
... example, at the end of the eighteenth century in the Netherlands there was a rapid growth in fiction for children; whereas in Spain, despite translations of Grimm, Andersen, and Perrault, 'true' children's books did not emerge until the ...
... example, sexual or racial issues, unless the balance is explic— itly stated. Judy Blume's books, which in Forever (1975) include the first example of explicitly described sexual intercourse in a children's book, have been widely ...
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3 Critical tradition and ideological positioning | 30 |
the setting of childrens literature | 50 |
linguistics and stylistics | 73 |
readerresponse criticism | 86 |
psychoanalytical criticism | 103 |
8 Feminism revisited | 114 |
the resources of childrens literature | 140 |
11 Understanding reading and literacy | 159 |
12 Intertextuality and the child reader | 168 |
bibliotherapy and psychology | 180 |
14 What the authors tell us | 190 |
Glossary | 206 |
General bibliography | 208 |
Index | 212 |
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