From Tongue to Text
Subtitle: A New Reading of Children's Poetry
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: May 04, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781474222327
Description: "The connection between childhood and poetry runs deep. And yet, poetry written for children has been neglected by criticism and resists prevailing theories of children's literature. Drawing on Walter Ong's theory of orality and on Iain McGilChrist's work on brain function, this book develops a new theoretical framework for the study of children's poetry. From Tongue to Text argues that the poem is a multimodal form that exists in the borderlands between the world of experience and the world of language and between orality and literacy -- places that children themselves inhabit.  Engaging with a wide range of poetry from nursery rhymes and Christina Rossetti to Michael Rosen and Carol Ann Duffy, Debbie Pullinger demonstrates how these 'tactful' works are shaped by the dynamics of orality and textuality. "--Bloomsbury Publishing.

"Reading poems by such writers as A.A. Milne, Michael Rosen and Carol Ann Duffy, this book explores the neglected genre of children's poetry to develop a new theory of the form"--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Source title: From Tongue to Text: A New Reading of Children's Poetry (Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature)