Change and Renewal in Children's Literature

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Thomas van der Walt

ISBN: 0-275-98185-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98185-3

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216 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 10/30/2004

List Price: $95.00 (UK Sterling Price: £65.95)

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Series Title: Contributions to the Study of World Literature

Description: In the growing field of children's literature theory in criticism, this volume presents critical international perspectives on changes and innovation in this discipline. The recent new status of children's literature, and the growth in children's literature research internationally have led to exciting advances in both form and content. This collection comprises a selection of papers given by prominent experts. Reflecting on past decades, contributors trace and analyze important developments in children's literature as the dawn of a new millennium offers its readers a multitude of representations and responses to a changing world.

Each of the book's eighteen chapters represents a unique aspect of children's literature theory. Topics range from an analysis of the children's literature as creative act, changing interpretations of different genres, and the impact of shifting race relations and socio-political developments on children's literature. This presentation of international perspectives on children's literature theory and criticism by leading authorities will be a valuable resource for scholars of children's and comparative literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Renewing Stories of Childhood: Children's Literature as a Creative Art by Rosemary Johnstone
When Everything Old is New Again: Aboriginal Tests and the Politics of Renewal by Clare Bradford
Space and Race in Contemporary South African English Your Literature by Judith A. Inggs
Exploring Otherness: Cheantes in the Child-Animal Metamorphosis Motif by Maria Lassén-Seger
A Happy Blend of Universality and Novelty: "Julie of the Wolves" and "A Ring of Endless Light as Stories Crossing the Animal-human Boundary by Darja Mazi-Leskovar
Me, Myself, and Him - The Changing Face of Female Cross-dressing in Contemporary Children's Literature by Victoria Flanagan
Voyeruism and Power: Change and Renewal of the Eroticized Figure in Australian Books for Teenagers by Margot Hillel
Fostering Controlled Dissent: Democratic Values and Children's Literature by Eva-Maria Metcalf
Childhood as the Sign of Change: Hans Christian Anderson's Retellings of the Concept of Childhood in the Light of Romanticism, Modernism, and Children's Own Cultures by Helene Høyrup
Continuity and Change in the Fantasy Tale - with a Focus on Recent Danish Works by Anna Karlskov Skyggebjerg
Blytons, Noddies and Denoddification Centres: The Changing Constructions of a Cultural Icon by David Rudd
Changing Perspectives: Tarzan Recalled and Retold at the Turn of the Millennium by Rolf Romören
Spell-binding Dahl: Considering Roald Dahl's Fantasy by Eileen Donaldson
"Never Lonely, Always on the Go": The Merry-go-round as Kinetic Metonym, in Text and Illustration, in Tove Jansson's Short Story, "The Hemulen Who Loved Silence" by Sirke Happonen
The Beginning of All Poetry: Some Observations about Lullabies from Oral Traditions by Anne de Vries
Change and Renewal: Translating the Visual in Picture Books by Riitta Oittinen
Change and Renewal of a Famous German Classic by Klaus Doderer
Too Many Elephants? Endangered Discourses in the Field of Children's Literature by Nancy Huse
Index

About the Author: THOMAS VAN DER WALT is Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Science at the University of South Africa.

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