Playing with Picturebooks [electronic resource] : Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque /
Allan, C.author.
Offers new insights into the continuing influence of postmodernism on a wide range of international picture books for children published between 1963 and 2008. Its chapters include metafiction; disruption to narrative conventions; interrogation of 'truths'; historiographic metafiction; difference and ex-centricity; globalisation and media.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Looking Back; 1 Looking Beneath the Surface; 2 Destabilising Modes of Representation; 3 Disturbing the Air of Reality; 4 Interrogating Representations of the Past; 5 Problematising Unity through Ex-centricity and Difference; 6 Towards the Postmodernesque Picturebook; (In)Conclusion: Looking Forward; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-194) and index.
Offers new insights into the continuing influence of postmodernism on a wide range of international picture books for children published between 1963 and 2008. Its chapters include metafiction; disruption to narrative conventions; interrogation of 'truths'; historiographic metafiction; difference and ex-centricity; globalisation and media.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Children's literature.
Postmodernism.
Literature—Philosophy.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Children's Literature.
Postmodern Philosophy.
Literary Theory.