Understanding children's literature
Subtitle: key essays from the International companion encyclopedia of children's literature
By: edited by Peter Hunt.
Contributors: Hunt, Peter, 1945-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Children's literature -- History and criticism.; Children -- Books and reading.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, the expanding world of children's literature studies / Peter Hunt; title: Theorising and theories / David Rudd; title: Critical tradition and ideological positioning / Charles Sarland; title: Space, history and culture / Tony Watkins; title: Analysing texts / John Stephens; title: Readers, texts, contexts / Michael Benton; title: Reading the unconscious / Hamida Bosmajian; title: Feminism revisited / Lissa Paul; title: Decoding the images / Perry Nodelman; title: Bibliography / Matthew Grenby; title: Understanding reading and literacy / Sally Yates; title: Intertextuality and the child reader / Christine Wilkie-Stibbs; title: Healing texts / Hugh Crago; title: Theory into practice / Peter Hunt.