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Playing With Picturebooks : Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque
Kelvin Grove
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2010
Z1761205
2010
single work
thesis
The thesis traces the influence of postmodernism on picturebooks. Through a review of current scholarship on both postmodernism and postmodern literature it examines the multiple ways in which picturebooks have responded to the influence of postmodernism. The thesis is predominantly located in the field of Cultural and Literary Studies, which informs the ways in which children's literature is positioned within contemporary culture and how it responds to the influences which shape its production and reception. Cultural and Literary Studies also offers a useful theoretical frame for analysing issues of textuality, ideology, and originality, as well as social and political comment in the focus texts.
The thesis makes a significant contribution to the development of an understanding of the place of the postmodern picturebook within the cultural context of postmodernism. It adds to the field of children's literature research through an awareness of the (continuing) evolution of the postmodern picturebook particularly as the current scholarship on the postmodernism picturebook does not engage with the changing form and significance of the postmodern picturebook to the same extent as this thesis.
The study is significant from a methodological perspective as it draws on a wide range of theoretical perspectives across literary studies, visual semiotics, philosophy, cultural studies, and history to develop a tripartite methodological framework that utilises the methods of postclassical narratology, semiotics, and metafictive strategies to carry out the textual analysis of the focus texts.
Children's texts have a tradition of being both resistant and compliant. Its resistance has made a space for the development of the postmodern picturebook; its compliance is evident in its tendency to take a route around a truly radical or iconoclastic position. The thesis posits that children's postmodern picturebooks adopt what suits their form and purposes by drawing from and reflecting on some influences of postmodernism while disregarding those that seem irrelevant to its direction. Furthermore, the thesis identifies a shift in the focus of a number of postmodern picturebooks produced since the turn of the twenty-first century. This trend has seen a shift from texts which interrogate discourses of liberal humanism to those that engage with aspects of postmodernity. These texts, postmodernesque picturebooks, offer contradictory perspectives on aspects of society emanating from the rise in global trends mentioned above.
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Roland Harvey - The Master of the Detail
2009
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Dromkeen Society Bulletin , July vol. 15 no. 2 2009; (p. 1-3) -
Untitled
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 52 no. 1 2008; (p. 14)
— Review of In the City : Our Scrapbook of Souvenirs 2007 single work picture book -
Waltzing As One
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 300 2008; (p. 60-61)
— Review of The Peasant Prince 2007 single work picture book ; Wandihnu and the Old Dugong 2007 single work picture book ; You and Me : Our Place 2007 single work picture book ; In the City : Our Scrapbook of Souvenirs 2007 single work picture book ; Sydney of the Antarctic 2007 single work picture book ; Minnie Pearl : And the Undersea Bazaar 2007 single work picture book ; Natemba 2007 single work picture book ; Guess Who? 2007 single work picture book ; Five Little Owls 2007 single work picture book -
Fun Focus for Budding Imaginations
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 12 January 2008; (p. 18)
— Review of Ruby Roars 2007 single work picture book ; How Absurd! 2007 single work picture book ; What Bumosaur is That? 2007 single work children's fiction ; In the City : Our Scrapbook of Souvenirs 2007 single work picture book ; World of Monsters 2007 single work children's fiction
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Untitled
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , October vol. 87 no. 4 2007; (p. 49)
— Review of In the City : Our Scrapbook of Souvenirs 2007 single work picture book -
[Untitled]
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 22 no. 5 2007; (p. 30)
— Review of In the City : Our Scrapbook of Souvenirs 2007 single work picture book -
Fun Focus for Budding Imaginations
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 12 January 2008; (p. 18)
— Review of Ruby Roars 2007 single work picture book ; How Absurd! 2007 single work picture book ; What Bumosaur is That? 2007 single work children's fiction ; In the City : Our Scrapbook of Souvenirs 2007 single work picture book ; World of Monsters 2007 single work children's fiction -
Waltzing As One
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 300 2008; (p. 60-61)
— Review of The Peasant Prince 2007 single work picture book ; Wandihnu and the Old Dugong 2007 single work picture book ; You and Me : Our Place 2007 single work picture book ; In the City : Our Scrapbook of Souvenirs 2007 single work picture book ; Sydney of the Antarctic 2007 single work picture book ; Minnie Pearl : And the Undersea Bazaar 2007 single work picture book ; Natemba 2007 single work picture book ; Guess Who? 2007 single work picture book ; Five Little Owls 2007 single work picture book -
Untitled
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 52 no. 1 2008; (p. 14)
— Review of In the City : Our Scrapbook of Souvenirs 2007 single work picture book -
Roland Harvey - The Master of the Detail
2009
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Dromkeen Society Bulletin , July vol. 15 no. 2 2009; (p. 1-3) -
y
Playing With Picturebooks : Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque
Kelvin Grove
:
2010
Z1761205
2010
single work
thesis
The thesis traces the influence of postmodernism on picturebooks. Through a review of current scholarship on both postmodernism and postmodern literature it examines the multiple ways in which picturebooks have responded to the influence of postmodernism. The thesis is predominantly located in the field of Cultural and Literary Studies, which informs the ways in which children's literature is positioned within contemporary culture and how it responds to the influences which shape its production and reception. Cultural and Literary Studies also offers a useful theoretical frame for analysing issues of textuality, ideology, and originality, as well as social and political comment in the focus texts.
The thesis makes a significant contribution to the development of an understanding of the place of the postmodern picturebook within the cultural context of postmodernism. It adds to the field of children's literature research through an awareness of the (continuing) evolution of the postmodern picturebook particularly as the current scholarship on the postmodernism picturebook does not engage with the changing form and significance of the postmodern picturebook to the same extent as this thesis.
The study is significant from a methodological perspective as it draws on a wide range of theoretical perspectives across literary studies, visual semiotics, philosophy, cultural studies, and history to develop a tripartite methodological framework that utilises the methods of postclassical narratology, semiotics, and metafictive strategies to carry out the textual analysis of the focus texts.
Children's texts have a tradition of being both resistant and compliant. Its resistance has made a space for the development of the postmodern picturebook; its compliance is evident in its tendency to take a route around a truly radical or iconoclastic position. The thesis posits that children's postmodern picturebooks adopt what suits their form and purposes by drawing from and reflecting on some influences of postmodernism while disregarding those that seem irrelevant to its direction. Furthermore, the thesis identifies a shift in the focus of a number of postmodern picturebooks produced since the turn of the twenty-first century. This trend has seen a shift from texts which interrogate discourses of liberal humanism to those that engage with aspects of postmodernity. These texts, postmodernesque picturebooks, offer contradictory perspectives on aspects of society emanating from the rise in global trends mentioned above.