Télécharger le livre :  Storying Plants in Australian Children's and Young Adult Literature
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Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds explores cultural and historical aspects of the representation of plants in Australian children’s and young adult literature, encompassing colonial, postcolonial, and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-10-04
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Discourses of Home and Homeland in Irish Children's Fiction 1990-2012
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In the context of changing constructs of home and of childhood since the mid-twentieth century, this book examines discourses of home and homeland in Irish children’s fiction from 1990 to 2012, a time of dramatic change in Ireland spanning the rise and fall of the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-05-22
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Children's Literature and Intergenerational Relationships
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Children’s Literature and Intergenerational Relationships: Encounters of the Playful Kind explores ways in which children’s literature becomes the object and catalyst of play that brings younger and older generations closer to one another. Providing examples from...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-04-23
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Translating and Transmediating Children's Literature
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From Struwwelpeter to Peter Rabbit, from Alice to Bilbo—this collection of essays shows how the classics of children’s literature have been transformed across languages, genres, and diverse media forms. This book argues that translation regularly involves...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-09-30
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Creating Memory
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This book considers the English Civil Wars and the civil wars in Scotland and Ireland through the lens of historical fiction—primarily fiction for the young. The text argues that the English Civil War lies at the heart of English and Irish political identities and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-09-23
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Louisa May Alcott and the Textual Child
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This book examines constructions of childhood in the works of Louisa May Alcott. While Little Women continues to gain popular and critical attention, Alcott’s wider works for children have largely been consigned to history.This book therefore investigates Alcott’s...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-04-28
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
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This book examines the way young adult readers are constructed in a variety of contemporary young adult fictions, arguing that contemporary young adult novels depict readers as agents. Reading, these novels suggest, is neither an unalloyed good nor a dangerous ploy, but...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-05-17
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Ecocritical Perspectives on Children's Texts and Cultures
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This volume presents key contributions to the study of ecocriticism in Nordic children’s and YA literary and cultural texts, in dialogue with international classics. It investigates the extent to which texts for children and young adults reflect current environmental...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-06-11
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures
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This book explores how alarmist social discourses about 'cruel' young people fail to recognize the complexity of cruelty and the role it plays in child agency. Examining representations of cruel young people in popular texts and popular culture, the collected essays...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-04-19
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Terry Pratchett's Narrative Worlds
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This book highlights the multi-dimensionality of the work of British fantasy writer and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett. Taking into account content, political commentary, and literary technique, it explores the impact of Pratchett's work on fantasy writing and genre...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-02-12
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  The Boy Detective in Early British Children's Literature
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This book maps the development of the boy detective in British children’s literature from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. It explores how this liminal figure – a boy operating within a man’s world – addresses adult anxieties about boyhood and the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-19
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature
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This book investigates how cultural sameness and difference has been presented in a variety of forms and genres of children’s literature from Denmark, Germany, France, Russia, Britain, and the United States; ranging from English caricatures of the 1780s to dynamic...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-31
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  British Working-Class Writing for Children
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This book explores how working-class writers in the 1960s and 1970s significantly reshaped British children’s literature through their representations of working-class life and culture. Aidan Chambers, Alan Garner and Robert Westall were examples of what Richard...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-21
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Children's Publishing and Black Britain, 1965-2015
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This book examines a critical period in British children’s publishing, from the earliest days of dedicated publishing firms for Black British audiences to the beginnings of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK. Taking a historical approach that includes education...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-06-23
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Children's Literature Collections
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This book provides scholars, both national and international, with a basis for advanced research in children’s literature in collections. Examining books for children published across five centuries, gathered from the collections in Dublin, this unique volume advances...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-05-19
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Alternating Narratives in Fiction for Young Readers
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This book is about the implications of novels for young readers that tell their stories by alternating between different narrative lines focused on different characters. It asks: if you make sense of fiction by identifying with one main character, how do you handle two...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-04-17
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children's Fantasy
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Runner-up of the Katherine Briggs Folklore Award 2017Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth & Fantasy Studies 2019This book examines the creative uses of “Celtic” myth in contemporary fantasy written for children or young adults from the 1960s to the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-03-06
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Racism in Contemporary African American Children's and Young Adult Literature
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Applying critical race theory to contemporary African American children’s and young adult literature, this book explores one key racial issue that has been overlooked both in race studies and literary scholarship—internalised racism. By systematically examining the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-10-25
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Literature
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This book is a study of the evolving relationships between literature, cyberspace, and young adults in the twenty-first century. Megan L. Musgrave explores the ways that young adult fiction is becoming a platform for a public conversation about the great benefits and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-10-11
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Victorian Children's Literature
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This book reveals how the period’s transforming identities affected by social, economic, religious, and national energies offers rich opportunities in which to analyze the relationship between identity and transformation. At the heart of this study is this question:...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-22
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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