Reflections of Change Children's Literature Since 1945

Subjects:

• Literature » Children's & Young Adult Literature
• Literature » World Literature

Reviews:

• A collection of papers from a 1995 congress for children's literature held in Stockholm, this is a truly international collection, by virtue of both content and contributors...Recommended for all academic collections.
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• ...thought provoking....raise[s] important questions about the future of children, children's literature, and children's literary theory....Sandra Beckett is to be commended for bringing together a collection so prismatic and multifaceted in its approach to children's literature. Also significant is the book's worldwide perspective; most readers will find many authors and titles unfamiliar to them--the book is worth owning simply for its bibliography.
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Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Reflections of Change
• Theory and Children's Literature
• Fear of Children's Literature: What's Left (or Right) After Theory? by Perry Nodelman
• "Is This the Promised End...?": Fin de Siècle Mentality and Children's Literature by John Stephens
• Ramona the Underestimated: The Everyday-Life Story in Children's Literature by Deborah Stevenson
• Shifting Boundaries Between Children's and Adult Literature
• The Disappearance of Children's Literature (or Children's Literature as Nostalgia) in the United States in the Late Twentieth Century by Jerry Griswold
• Literature for All Ages? Literary Emancipation and the Borders of Children's Literature by Anne de Vries
• The Changing Status of Children and Children's Literature by Eva-Maria Metcalf
• Experimental Writing and Postmodern Trends
• From Grand Narrative to Small Stories: New Narrative Structures in Recent Scandinavian Children's Literature by Åsfrid Svensen
• The Status of Sequels in Children's Literature: The Long Secret and Beyond the Chocolate War by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
• Gillian Cross' Wolf: An Exploration of Patterns and Polarities by Susan Clancy
• Paradigm Shifts
• Reflections of Change in Children's Book Titles by Maria Nikolajeva
• High and Wild Magic, the Moral Universe, and the Electronic Superhighway: Reflections of Change in Susan Cooper's Fantasy Literature by Carole Scott
• "Terror is Her Constant Companion": The Cult of Fear in Recent Books for Teenagers by Roderick McGillis
• Suburban Scenarios in Simon French's All We Know: The Emergence of the Suburbs as the Spatial Framework for Australian Children's Fiction by Beverley Pennell
• Reading Children's Literature Multiculturally by Daniel D. Hade
• National Literatures
• The Journey Inward: Adolescent Literature in America, 1945-1995 by Anne Scott MacLeod
• The Novel for Adolescents in Québec: Stereotypes and New Conventions by Danielle Thaler
• Realistic Stories for Children in the Federal Republic of Germany 1970-1994: Features and Tendencies by Dagmar Grenz
• Text and Context: Factors in the Development of Children's Literature in Taiwan 1945-1995, and the Emergence of Young Adult Literature by Shu-Jy Duan
• Reconceptualizing the Past
• An Awfully Big Adventure? Representations of the Second World War in British Children's Books of the 1960s and 1970s by Dieter Petzold
• Topsy-Turvy World: New Trends in Modern Russian Children's Literature by Olga Mäeots
• Children's Literature in Totalitarian and Post-totalitarian Society by Vincas Auryla
• Selected Bibliography
• Index