Keywords for children's literature
By: edited by Philip Nel and Lissa Paul
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780814758540; 9780814758557; 9780814758892
Subjects: History and criticism; Children's literature; Terminology
Description: The study of children's literature and culture has been experiencing a renaissance, with vital new work proliferating across many areas of interest. Mapping this vibrant scholarship, this work presents 49 original essays on the essential terms and concepts of the field with scope, clarity, and interdisciplinary play between concepts. From Aesthetics to Young Adult, a multidisciplinary cast of scholars explores the vocabulary central to the study of children's literature. Following the growth of his or her word, each author traces its branching uses and meanings, often into unfamiliar disciplinary territories. Award-winning novelist Philip Pullman writes about Intentionality, Education expert Margaret Meek Spencer addresses Reading, literary scholar Peter Hunt historicizes Children's Literature, Psychologist Hugh Crago examines Story, librarian and founder of the influential Child Lit litserv Michael Joseph investigates Liminality. In the spirit of Raymond Williams' seminal Keywords, this book is a snapshot of a vocabulary of children's literature that is changing, expanding, and ever unfinished.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: -- 1.; title: Aesthetics  -- Joseph T. Thomas, Jr. -- 2.; title: African American  -- Michelle Martin -- 3.; title: Audience  -- Beverly Lyon Clark -- 4.; title: Body  -- Kelly Hager -- 5.; title: Boyhood  -- Eric L. Tribunella -- 6.; title: Censorship  -- David Booth -- 7.; title: Character  -- Jay Mechling -- 8.; title: Childhood  -- Karen Sánchez-Eppler -- 9.; title: Children's literature  -- Peter Hunt -- 10.; title: Class  -- Elizabeth Bullen -- 11.; title: Classic  -- Kenneth Kidd -- 12.; title: Crossover literature  -- Sandra L. Beckett -- 13.; title: Culture  -- Richard Flynn -- 14.; title: Domestic  -- Claudia Nelson -- 15.; title: Education  -- Elisabeth Rose Gruner -- 16.; title: Empire  -- Jo-Ann Wallace and Stephen Slemon -- 17.; title: Fantasy  -- Deirdre Baker -- 18.; title: Gender  -- Erica Hateley -- 19.; title: Girlhood  -- Jacqueline Reid-Walsh -- 20.; title: Golden age  -- Angela Sorby -- 21.; title: Graphic novel  -- Charles Hatfield -- 22.; title: Home  -- Mavis Reimer -- 23.; title: Identity -- Karen Coats; title: 24.; title: Ideology  -- Elizabeth Parsons -- 25.; title: Image  -- Nathalie op de Beeck -- 26.; title: Innocence  -- Marah Gubar -- 27.; title: Intention  -- Philip Pullman -- 28.; title: Latino/a  -- Phillip Serrato -- 29.; title: Liminality  -- Michael Joseph -- 30.; title: Literacy  -- Lissa Paul -- 31.; title: Marketing  -- June Cummins -- 32.; title: Modernism  -- Kimberley Reynolds -- 33.; title: Multicultural  -- Debra Dudek -- 34.; title: Nature  -- Peter Hollindale -- 35.; title: Nonsense  -- Michael Heyman and Kevin Shortsleeve -- 36.; title: Picture book  -- William Moebius -- 37.; title: Popular  -- Julie A. S. Cassidy -- 38.; title: Postcolonial  -- Clare Bradford -- 39.; title: Postmodernism  -- Philip Nel -- 40.; title: Queer  -- Kerry Mallan -- 41.; title: Race  -- Katharine Capshaw Smith -- 42.; title: Reading  -- Margaret Meek Spencer -- 43.; title: Realism  -- Cathryn M. Mercier -- 44.; title: Science fiction  -- A. Waller Hastings -- 45.; title: Story  -- Hugh Crago -- 46.; title: Theory  -- David Rudd -- 47.; title: Tomboy  -- Michelle Ann Abate -- 48.; title: Voice  -- Mike Cadden -- 49.; title: Young Adult -- Lee A. Talley.