Children's literature and childhood discourses

• Titel: Children's literature and childhood discourses
• Mitwirkende: Čermáková, Anna [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Mahlberg, Michaela [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Anna Cermakova and Michaela Mahlberg
• Verlagsort: London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: xv, 263 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, Diagramme
• Format: 24 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Corpus and discourse
• Fussnoten: Literaturangaben
• ISBN: 978-1-350-17698-0
• Schlagwörter: (s)Kinderliteratur
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Children's literature and childhood discourses. - London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. - 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 263 Seiten)
• K10plus-PPN: 1890363022

Abstract

Children's literature shapes what children learn about the world. It reflects social values, norms, and stereotypes. This book offers fresh insights into some of the key issues in fiction for children, from the representation of gender to embodied cognition and the translation of children's literature. Connecting classic children's texts such as Alice in Wonderland with contemporary fiction including Murder Most Unladylike, the book innovatively brings together perspectives from corpus linguistics, stylistics, cognitive linguistics, literary and cultural studies, and human geography. It explores approaches to experiencing fiction, as well as methods for the study of literary texts. Childhood discourses are investigated through the materiality of texts, the spaces that literature takes up in libraries, the cultural history of fiction moulded through performances, as well as reading environments that shape childhood experiences, such as fashion and urban spaces. Children's Literature and Childhood Discourses emphasizes the crucial link between fictional stories and real life

Abstract

"Providing an interdisciplinary perspective on children's fiction and childhood, this book offers a fresh insight into the key issues in fiction for children, such as gender, social stereotypes, embodied and spatial experience, and emotions. Connecting classic children's texts, such as Alice in Wonderland with contemporary fiction, such as Harry Potter, the book innovatively brings together perspectives from corpus linguistics, stylistics, cognitive linguistics, literary and cultural studies, and human geography to cast light on the role of literature in how children construct the world around them"--