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Children s Literature and Culture Representing the Holocaust in Children s Literature (Paperback)

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. more

Children s Literature and Culture Ways of Being Male: Representing Masculinities in Children s Literature (Paperback)

Given the substantial impact of feminism on children s literature and culture during the last quarter century it comes as no surprise that gender studies have focused predominantly on issues of female representation. The question of how the same... more

Children s Literature and Culture Subjectivity in Asian Children s Literature and Film: Global Theories and Implications (Hardcover)

Winner of the Children s Literature Association Honor Book Award This volume establishes a dialogue between East and West in children s literature scholarship. In all cultures children s literature shows a concern to depict identity and individual... more

Children s Literature Annual: The Sands of Time : Children s Literature: Culture Politics & Identity (Series #3) (Paperback)

Written by key scholars and authors this collection of essays examines contemporary and historical children s literature. From a wry look at girls school stories from the last century to a thought-provoking analysis of contemporary illustrated children... more

Children s Literature and Culture The Family in English Children s Literature (Paperback)

From the trials of families experiencing divorce as in Anne Fine s Madame Doubtfire to the childcare problems highlighted in Jacqueline Wilson s Tracy Beaker it might seem that the traditional family and the ideals that accompany it have long vanished.... more

Children s Literature and Culture A Critical History of French Children s Literature (Paperback)

These books are the first full-length comprehensive study written in English of French children s literature. They provide both an overview of developments from the seventeenth century to the present day and detailed discussion of texts that are... more

Children s Literature and Culture Diana Wynne Jones: The Fantastic Tradition and Children s Literature (Paperback)

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. more

Children s Literature and Culture From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood: Children s Literature and the Construction of Canadian Identity (Paperback)

As Canada came to terms with its role as an independent nation following Confederation in 1867 there was a call for a literary voice to express the needs and desires of a new country. Children s literature was one of the means through which this new... more

Children s Literature and Culture Fundamental Concepts of Children s Literature Research: Literary and Sociological Approaches (Hardcover)

In this book Ewers provides students and professors with a new system of categorization for a differentiated description of children s literature. In the early 1970s Swedish children s literature scholar Göte Kingberg worked to establish a system of... more

Children s Literature and Culture Power Voice and Subjectivity in Literature for Young Readers (Hardcover)

This book considers one of the most controversial aspects of children s and young adult literature: its use as an instrument of power. Children in contemporary Western society are oppressed and powerless yet they are allowed in fiction written by... more

Pre-Owned: The Routledge Companion to Children s Literature and Culture (Routledge Literature Companions) (Hardcover 9781032103594 1032103590)

The Routledge Companion to Children s Literature and Culture (Routledge Literature Companions) ISBN-10 1032103590 ISBN-13 9781032103594 Nelson Claudia; Wesseling Elisabeth; Wu Andrea Mei-Ying 1 edition 550 pages Publisher: Routledge Binding: Hardcover... more

Pre-Owned Children s Films: History Ideology Pedagogy Theory (Children s Literature and Culture): 12 Paperback - USED

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Children s Literature and Culture: Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children s Historical Fiction: The Seeds of Memory (Hardcover)

This is the first book monograph devoted to Anglophone Ukrainian Canadian children s historical fiction published between 1991 and 2021. It consists of five chapters offering cross-sectional and interdisciplinary readings of 41 books - novels novellas... more

Children s Literature and Culture Beyond Pippi Longstocking: Intermedial and International Approaches to Astrid Lindgren s Work (Hardcover)

Astrid Lindgren author of the famed Pippi Longstocking novels is perhaps one of the most significant children s authors of the last half of the twentieth century. In this collection contributors consider films music and picturebooks relating to... more

Children s Literature and Culture Reading Victorian Schoolrooms: Childhood and Education in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Paperback)

Reading Victorian Schoolrooms examines the numerous schoolroom scenes in nineteenth-century novels during the fraught era of the Victorian education debates. As Gargano argues the fiction of mainstream and children s writers such as Dickens Brontë and... more

Children s Literature and Culture Re-visioning Historical Fiction for Young Readers: The Past through Modern Eyes (Hardcover)

This study is concerned with how readers are positioned to interpret the past in historical fiction for children and young adults. Looking at literature published within the last thirty to forty years Wilson identifies and explores a prevalent trend... more

Pre-Owned Girls Boys Books Toys : Gender in Children s Literature and Culture 9780801865268 Used

Girls Boys Books Toys asks questions about how the gender symbolism of children s culture is constructed and resisted. What happens when women rewrite (or illustrate) nursery rhymes adventure stories and fairy tales told by men? How do the socially... more

Pre-Owned Reading in the Dark: Horror in Children s Literature and Culture (Hardcover 9781496806444) by Jessica R McCort

9781496806444. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 256. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 256 p. Contains: Unspecified. Children s Literature Association. Dark novels shows and films targeted toward children and young adults... more

Children s Literature and Culture Peter Pan s Shadows in the Literary Imagination (Hardcover)

This book is a literary analysis of J.M. Barrie s Peter Pan in all its different versions -- key rewritings dramatisations prequels and sequels -- and includes a synthesis of the main critical interpretations of the text over its history. A... more

Children s Literature and Culture The Fantasy of Family (Paperback)

The myth of the Victorian family remains a pervasive influence within a contemporary Britain that perceives itself to be in social crisis. Nostalgic for a golden age of Victorian values in which visions of supportive united families predominate the... more

Children s Literature and Culture The Crossover Novel (Paperback)

Highly recommended by Choice While crossover books such as Rowling s Harry Potter series have enjoyed enormous sales and media attention critical analysis of crossover fiction has not kept pace with the growing popularity of this new category of... more

Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture: The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture (Hardcover)

This book examines representations of precocity in Victorian textual culture - canonical literature children s fiction scientific texts and writing by children - to argue that precocity challenges the idea of progress. It considers how practitioners of... more

Children s Literature Association: Tending to the Past: Selfhood and Culture in Children s Narratives about Slavery and Freedom (Paperback)

In many popular depictions of Black resistance to slavery stereotypes around victimization and the heroic efforts of a small number of individuals abound. These ideas ignore the powers of ordinary families and obscure the systematic working of racism.... more

Across Cultures : A Guide to Multicultural Literature for Children 9781591583363 Used / Pre-owned

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Pre-Owned Imaginary Ethnographies: Literature Culture and Subjectivity (Paperback 9780231159494) by Gabriele Schwab

9780231159494. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 240. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Through readings of iconic figures such as the cannibal the child the alien and the posthuman Gabriele Schwab analyzes... more

Keywords: Keywords for Childrenas Literature (Paperback)

A new vocabulary for Children s Literature The study of children s literature and culture has been experiencing a renaissance with vital new work proliferating across many areas of interest. Mapping this vibrant scholarship Keywords for Children s... more

Very Short Introductions Children s Literature (Paperback)

This Very Short Introduction provides a lively and comprehensive discussion of children s literature--what it is why it is interesting how it contributes to culture and how it is studied as literature. Reynolds provides a general overview of the... more

Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture (Hardcover)

Jones revises our understanding of modern China by tracing the ways that evolutionary works developed into a form of vernacular knowledge in modern Chinese literature. From children s primers to print culture from fairy tales to filmmaking his analysis... more

Pre-Owned Childhood and Children s Books in Early Modern Europe 1550-1800 (Hardcover 9780415972581) by Andrea Immel Michael Witmore

9780415972581. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 350. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 350 p. Contains: Unspecified Illustrations black & white. Children s Literature and Culture 38. This volume of 14 original essays by... more

Cambridge Themes in British Literature and Culture: The Nation in British Literature and Culture (Hardcover)

The Nation and British Literature and Culture charts the emergence of Britain as a political social and cultural construct examining the manner in which its constituent elements were brought together through a process of amalgamation and conquest. The... more

Cambridge Themes in Irish Literature and Culture: Technology in Irish Literature and Culture (Hardcover)

Technology in Irish Literature and Culture shows how such significant technologies--typewriters gramophones print radio television computers--have influenced Irish literary practices and cultural production while also examining how technology has been... more

Studies in Mobilities Literature and Culture: Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture (Paperback)

Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Border Violence focuses on the evidence of the effects of displacement as seen in narratives--cinematic photographic and literary--produced by with or about refugees... more

Pre-Owned Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Poetry (Modern German Culture and Literature) (Modern German Culture and Literature Series) Paperback

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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture: A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West (Hardcover)

A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America s western states. Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural... more

Maritime Literature and Culture: Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture (Hardcover)

This open access edited collection explores various aspects of how oceanic im/ mobilities have been framed and articulated in the literary and cultural imagination. It covers the entanglements of maritime mobility and immobility as they are articulated... more

Pre-Owned Literature Class and Culture: An Anthology (Longman Literature and Culture Series) Paperback

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Studies in Mobilities Literature and Culture: Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature History and Culture (Hardcover)

Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature History and Culture analyses the cultural and literary histories of medicine and mobility as entangled processes whose discourses and practices constituted influenced and transformed each... more

African-American Literature and Culture: Black Outlaws: Race Law and Male Subjectivity in African American Literature and Culture (Paperback)

In this provocative and original exploration of Black males and the legal establishment Carlyle Van Thompson illuminates the critical issues defining Black male subjectivity. Since the days of Black people s enslavement and the days of Jim Crow... more