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Latest Issues
Includes
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no. 43y
The Gothic in Children's Literature : Haunting the Borders
Anna Jackson
(editor),
Karen Coats
(editor),
Roderick McGillis
(editor),
New York (City)
London
:
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
,
2008
Z1536467
2008
anthology
criticism
'While the Gothic genre has received much critical attention, and the popularity of Gothic narratives at the turn of the millennium has been analyzed in studies such as Mark Edmundson's Nightmare on Main Street, The Gothic in Children's Literature is the first book-length study on the Gothic as a mode within the genre of children's literature.' -- Book jacket
New York (City)
London
:
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
,
2008
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Children's Literature and Culture no. 10y
Voices of the Other : Children's Literature and the Postcolonial Context
Roderick McGillis
(editor),
New York (City)
London
:
Garland
,
2000
Z1536525
2000
anthology
criticism
New York (City)
London
:
Garland
,
2000
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58y
Shakespeare in Children's Literature : Gender and Cultural Capital
New York (City)
:
Routledge
,
2009
13815357
2009
single work
criticism
'Shakespeare in Children's Literature looks at the genre of Shakespeare-for-children, considering both adaptations of his plays and children's novels in which he appears as a character. Drawing on feminist theory and sociology, Hateley demonstrates how Shakespeare for children utilises the ongoing cultural capital of "Shakespeare," and the pedagogical aspects of children's literature, to perpetuate anachronistic forms of identity and authority.' (Source: Publisher's blurb)
New York (City) : Routledge , 2009 -
y
Re-Visiting Historical Fiction for Young Readers : The Past through Modern Eyes
New York (City)
:
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
,
2011
Z1886683
2011
single work
criticism
'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 for re-visioning and rewriting the past according to modern social and political ideological assumptions. Fiction within this genre, while concerned with the past at the level of content, is additionally concerned with present views of that historical past because of the future to which it is moving. Specific areas of discussion include the identification of a new sub-genre: Living history fiction, stories of Joan of Arc, historical fiction featuring agentic females, the very popular Scholastic Press historical journal series, fictions of war, and historical fiction featuring multicultural discourses.
Wilson observes specific traits in historical fiction written for children — most notably how the notion of positive progress into the future is nuanced differently in this literature in which the concept of progress from the past is inextricably linked to the protagonist's potential for agency and the realization of subjectivity. The genre consistently manifests a concern with identity construction that in turn informs and influences how a metanarrative of positive progress is played out. This book engages in a discussion of the functionality of the past within the genre and offers an interpretative frame for the sifting out of the present from the past in historical fiction for young readers.' (Publisher's blurb)
New York (City) : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group , 2011
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