A vibrant guide to the world of literature, from dramatic plays to engrossing novels Literature has inspired every civilisation, from Greek myth to today’s graphic novels. John Sutherland, who has researched, taught and written on th...Loe edasi...
Unravel the fundamental ingredients of visual storytelling and discover how top children’s illustrators portray narrative, intrigue, and suspense through art. In this visually captivating volume, a vibrant selection of loved and revered child...Loe edasi...
Language and Ideology in Childrens Fiction (1992) reveals how books shape young minds by embedding societal beliefs within stories. It examines how fiction socializes readers through invisible ideological processes, exploring picture books, historic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781805967217)
This book discusses the full range of Terry Pratchetts writing, from Discworld to his equally successful, award-winning novels for children and the unrelated stand-alone novels. It explores Pratchetts development as a writer, showing how story the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781805966883)
This book discusses the full range of Terry Pratchetts writing, from Discworld to his equally successful, award-winning novels for children and the unrelated stand-alone novels. It explores Pratchetts development as a writer, showing how story the...Loe edasi...
This edited volume proposes a new perspective on how childrens literature interacts with politics: its chapters focus not only on politics and literature or politics in literature, but primarily on the politics of text and im...Loe edasi...
In this study, the engaging art created by childrens author Margaret Wise Brown receives the critical attention it deserves as a lasting contribution to American childrens literature....Loe edasi...
Understanding (Post)feminist Girlhood Through Young Adult Fantasy Literature takes advantage of growing critical interest in popular young adult texts and their influence on young people....Loe edasi...
A timely and significant contribution to Palestinian childrens literature from 1967 to the present day, Palestinian Memory and Identity in Modern Childrens Literature examines a myriad of motifs and popular culture....Loe edasi...
It investigates the gender representations that French childrens literature transmits to children. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the book grounds its literary analysis in a sociohistorical examination of three institutions libraries, book c...Loe edasi...
Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous, building on recent work which decentres the myth of the solitary genius....Loe edasi...
The definitive, all-access biography of one of the worlds most beloved literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant and inspiring as the stories she crafted. To know the name Judy Blume is to know and love literature. Her i...Loe edasi...
This book is the first publication to systematically describe the phenomenon of Victorian childrens vegetarianism and its representations in literature and culture. It will appeal to researchers of vegetarianism and veganism, human-animal relations,...Loe edasi...
Unearthing the ethical entanglements of early childrens books with the Atlantic slave economy.What ethical lessons are children taught when their books are funded by enslavement and their childhoods sweetened with sugar? In Sugar...Loe edasi...
In its fifth edition, this popular textbook introduces prospective and practicing English teachers to current methods of teaching literature in middle and high school classrooms. The book invites teachers to consider important issues in the contex...Loe edasi...
In its fifth edition, this popular textbook introduces prospective and practicing English teachers to current methods of teaching literature in middle and high school classrooms. This new edition features updated chapters that incorporate c...Loe edasi...
Comics and serial print have a long, closely intertwined history, with the earliest comics proliferating in newspapers before gradually migrating to children’s magazines. In positioning itself between the booming research on comics and periodicals...Loe edasi...
Empathy in the Reading and Teaching of English Literature explores the educational potential of empathy for literary studies across a historical, generic and geographic continuum. The book draws on interdisciplinary methodologies to offer new readin...Loe edasi...
Uncovers the role of children’s periodicals in the development of charitable ideals for children between 1840–1930 Drawing on a wealth of material from children’s periodicals from the Victorian era to the early twentieth century, Kristine Mor...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197839584)
The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world for future generations. While political philosophers have regarded intergenerational justice as an important field of study s...Loe edasi...
Fantasy is one of the most beloved genres of fiction that has only relatively recently entered academia in all its magical glory. And yet, one of its developing branches, fantasy theatre, has to date not been addressed in detail in scholarly circles...Loe edasi...
