The Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature

This collection takes informed and scholarly readers to the utmost frontier of children’s literature criticism, from the intricate worlds of children’s poetry, picturebooks and video games to the new theoretical constellations of critical plant studies, non-fiction studies and big data analyses of l...

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Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Edinburgh University Press 08.09.2017
Subjects
British Studies
European Studies
Language & Literature
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter Table of Contents Introduction: 1: Teaching the Conflicts: 2: Posthumanism: 3: Animal Studies 4: Spatiality in Fantasy for Children 5: A Question of Scale: 6: Age Studies and Children’s Literature 7: Carnality in Adolescent Literature 8: Cognitive Narratology and Adolescent Fiction 9: Empirical Approaches to Place and the Construction of Adolescent Identities 10: Picturebooks and Situated Readers: 11: Re-memorying: 12: Canons and Canonicity 13: Seriality in Children’s Literature 14: Counterfactual Historical Fiction for Children and Young Adults 15: Pattern, Texture and Print: 16: Telling Stories in Different Formats: 17: Multimodality and Multiliteracies: 18: Serendipity, Independent Publishing and Translation Flow: 19: The Picturebook in Instructed Foreign Language Learning Contexts 20: Next of Kin: 21: Critical Plant Studies and Children’s Literature 22: Health, Sickness and Literature for Children 23: Evolutionary Criticism and Children’s Literature 24: The Genetic Study of Children’s Literature 25: Distant Reading and Children’s Literature 26: Hogwarts Versus Svalbard: 27: Hybrid Novels for Children and Young Adults 28: Cyberspace and Story: Coda: Notes on Contributors Index