| Description |
viii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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| Summary |
"Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book argues for the significance of theory for reading texts written and produced for young people. Integrating perspectives from across feminism, ecocriticism, postcolonialism and poststructuralism, it demonstrates how these inform approaches to a range of contemporary literature and film"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-181) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: bringing back theory / Kerry Mallan, Clare Bradford -- Schemas and scripts: cognitive instruments and the representation of cultural diversity in children's literature / John Stephens -- Journeying subjects: spatiality and identity in children's texts / Clare Bradford, Raffaella Baccolini -- Local and global: cultural globalization, consumerism, and children's fiction / Elizabeth Bullen, Kerry Mallan -- Monstrous women: gothic misogyny in Monster House / Maria Takolander -- Splitting the difference: pleasure, desire, and intersubjectivity in children's literature and film / Christine Wilkie-Stibbs -- Children as ecocitizens: ecocriticism and environmental texts / Geraldine Massey, Clare Bradford -- From 'Wizard' to 'Wicked': adaptation theory and young adult fiction / David Buchbinder -- All that matters: technoscience, critical theory, and children's fiction / Kerry Mallan. |
| Subject |
Children's literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Children's films -- History and criticism.
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Children -- Books and reading.
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| Added Author |
Mallan, Kerry.
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Bradford, Clare.
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| ISBN |
9780230231498 (hbk.) |
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0230231497 (hbk.) |
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9780230231504 (pbk.) |
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0230231500 (pbk.) |
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