Télécharger le livre :  Discourses of Home and Homeland in Irish Children's Fiction 1990-2012
In the context of changing constructs of home and of childhood since the mid-twentieth century, this book examines discourses of home and homeland in Irish children’s fiction from 1990 to 2012, a time of dramatic change in Ireland spanning the rise and fall of the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-05-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Translating and Transmediating Children's Literature
From Struwwelpeter to Peter Rabbit, from Alice to Bilbo—this collection of essays shows how the classics of children’s literature have been transformed across languages, genres, and diverse media forms. This book argues that translation regularly involves...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-09-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Creating Memory
This book considers the English Civil Wars and the civil wars in Scotland and Ireland through the lens of historical fiction—primarily fiction for the young. The text argues that the English Civil War lies at the heart of English and Irish political identities and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-09-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Louisa May Alcott and the Textual Child
This book examines constructions of childhood in the works of Louisa May Alcott. While Little Women continues to gain popular and critical attention, Alcott’s wider works for children have largely been consigned to history.This book therefore investigates Alcott’s...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-04-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Ecocritical Perspectives on Children's Texts and Cultures
This volume presents key contributions to the study of ecocriticism in Nordic children’s and YA literary and cultural texts, in dialogue with international classics. It investigates the extent to which texts for children and young adults reflect current environmental...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-06-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures
This book explores how alarmist social discourses about 'cruel' young people fail to recognize the complexity of cruelty and the role it plays in child agency. Examining representations of cruel young people in popular texts and popular culture, the collected essays...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-04-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Terry Pratchett's Narrative Worlds
This book highlights the multi-dimensionality of the work of British fantasy writer and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett. Taking into account content, political commentary, and literary technique, it explores the impact of Pratchett's work on fantasy writing and genre...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-02-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The Boy Detective in Early British Children's Literature
This book maps the development of the boy detective in British children’s literature from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. It explores how this liminal figure – a boy operating within a man’s world – addresses adult anxieties about boyhood and the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-19
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Télécharger le livre :  British Working-Class Writing for Children
This book explores how working-class writers in the 1960s and 1970s significantly reshaped British children’s literature through their representations of working-class life and culture. Aidan Chambers, Alan Garner and Robert Westall were examples of what Richard...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Alternating Narratives in Fiction for Young Readers
This book is about the implications of novels for young readers that tell their stories by alternating between different narrative lines focused on different characters. It asks: if you make sense of fiction by identifying with one main character, how do you handle two...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-04-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Racism in Contemporary African American Children's and Young Adult Literature
Applying critical race theory to contemporary African American children’s and young adult literature, this book explores one key racial issue that has been overlooked both in race studies and literary scholarship—internalised racism. By systematically examining the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-10-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Victorian Children's Literature
This book reveals how the period’s transforming identities affected by social, economic, religious, and national energies offers rich opportunities in which to analyze the relationship between identity and transformation. At the heart of this study is this question:...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Seriality and Texts for Young People
Seriality and Texts for Young People is a collection of thirteen scholarly essays about series and serial texts directed to children and youth, each of which begins from the premise that a basic principle of seriality is repetition.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-12-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction
Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction is not a historical study or a survey of narrative plots, but takes a more conceptual approach that engages with the central ideas of posthumanism: the fragmented nature of posthuman identity, the concept of agency as...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-12-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Animality and Children's Literature and Film
Examining culturally significant works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, Animality and Children's Literature and Film argues that Western philosophy's objective to establish a notion of an exclusively human subjectivity is...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-11-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Class, Leisure and National Identity in British Children's Literature, 1918-1950
This book places children's literature at the forefront of early twentieth-century debates about national identity and class relations that were expressed through the pursuit of leisure. Focusing on stories about hiking, camping and sailing, this book offers a fresh...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-10-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Internationalism in Children's Series
Internationalism in Children's Series brings together international children's literature scholars who interpret 'internationalism' through various cultural, historical and theoretical lenses. From imperialism to transnationalism, from Tom Swift to Harry Potter, this...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-04-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Revaluing British Boys' Story Papers, 1918-1939
This book explores the phenomenon of the story paper, the meanings and values children took from their reading, and the responses of adults to their reading choices. It argues for the revaluing of the story paper in the inter-war years, giving the genre a pivotal role...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-02-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction
Many children learn from a young age to tell the truth. They also learn that some lies are necessary in order to survive in a world that paradoxically values truth-telling, but practises deception. This book examines this paradox by considering how deception is often a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-10-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction
This pioneering study is the first full-length treatment of feminism and the environment in children's literature. Drawing on the history, philosophy and ethics of ecofeminism, it examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic landscapes in young adult fiction reflect...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-02-18
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