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Schemas and Scripts : Cognitive Instruments and the Representation of Cultural Diversity in Children's Literature,
single work
criticism
(p. 12-35)Stephens discusses the use of script and schema as strategies for the representation of cultural diversity in Australian children's literature.
- Local and Global : Cultural Globalization, Consumerism and Children's Fiction, single work criticism (p. 57-78)
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Children as Ecocitizens : Ecocriticism and Environmental Texts,
single work
criticism
(p. 109-126)
This chapter provides an overview of ecocriticism, discussing the extent to which children's environmental texts mobilise concept and approaches from this field.
- All That Matters : Technoscience, Critical Theory, and Children's Fiction, single work criticism (p. 147-167)
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Why Theory Matters
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Jeunesse : Young People, Texts, Culture , Winter vol. 4 no. 2 2012; (p. 151-156)
— Review of Contemporary Children's Literature and Film 2011 anthology criticismContemporary Children’s Literature and Film: Engaging with Theory sets out to reveal how theory informs critical interpretations of children’s literature and film. It includes essays from both leading and emerging children’s literature scholars from around the world who examine children’s texts from a plethora of theoretical approaches: John Stephens uses cognitive poetics to demonstrate how picture books model attitudes toward significant social ideologies such as cultural diversity; Clare Bradford and Raffaella Baccolini analyze the representation of space in children’s books and films using a theoretical framework that interweaves cultural geography, postcolonial theory, and utopian studies; Elizabeth Bullen and Kerry Mallan employ cultural theories of globalization to argue that children’s texts provide evidence of a dynamic interplay between the global and the local in their depiction of modern life; Maria Takolander makes a disquieting case about the pervasive Gothic and thus inherently misogynistic construction of femininity in the animated film Monster House; Christine Wilkie-Stibbs furthers this gendered theme in her exploration of transgender subjectivity in a range of young adult fiction and in the excellent French film Ma vie en rose, using a conceptual framework that draws on the theories of Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; David Buchbinder’s topic is adaptation theory, which he uses to illuminate the relationship(s) between an “original” text and its adaptation(s); and the book closes with Mallan’s chapter on posthumanism and its increasing relevance to children’s literature.' (Introduction)
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Why Theory Matters
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Jeunesse : Young People, Texts, Culture , Winter vol. 4 no. 2 2012; (p. 151-156)
— Review of Contemporary Children's Literature and Film 2011 anthology criticismContemporary Children’s Literature and Film: Engaging with Theory sets out to reveal how theory informs critical interpretations of children’s literature and film. It includes essays from both leading and emerging children’s literature scholars from around the world who examine children’s texts from a plethora of theoretical approaches: John Stephens uses cognitive poetics to demonstrate how picture books model attitudes toward significant social ideologies such as cultural diversity; Clare Bradford and Raffaella Baccolini analyze the representation of space in children’s books and films using a theoretical framework that interweaves cultural geography, postcolonial theory, and utopian studies; Elizabeth Bullen and Kerry Mallan employ cultural theories of globalization to argue that children’s texts provide evidence of a dynamic interplay between the global and the local in their depiction of modern life; Maria Takolander makes a disquieting case about the pervasive Gothic and thus inherently misogynistic construction of femininity in the animated film Monster House; Christine Wilkie-Stibbs furthers this gendered theme in her exploration of transgender subjectivity in a range of young adult fiction and in the excellent French film Ma vie en rose, using a conceptual framework that draws on the theories of Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; David Buchbinder’s topic is adaptation theory, which he uses to illuminate the relationship(s) between an “original” text and its adaptation(s); and the book closes with Mallan’s chapter on posthumanism and its increasing relevance to children’s literature.' (Introduction)
