Literature's Children
The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization
Literature's Children offers a new way of thinking about how literature for children functions didactically. It analyses the nature of the practical critical activity which the child reader carries out, emphasising what the child does to the text rather than what he or she receives from it. Through close readings of a range of so-called 'Golden Age' novels for children which continue to shape our understanding of what children's literature entails, including The Railway Children, The Wind in the Willows, The Hobbit, and mid-twentieth-century series fiction, it demonstrates how the child critic resists the processes of idealisation at work in…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4725-7719-1
- EAN: 9781472577191
- Produktnummer: 16117411
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm 540 g
- Gewicht: 540
Über den Autor
Louise Joy is Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK. She is co-editor of The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry (2015) and Poetry and Childhood (2010).
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