| Description |
xi, 203 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Contributions to the study of world literature, 0738-9345 ; no. 74 |
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Contributions to the study of world literature,
0738-9345 ; no. 74.
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| Note |
Selected papers of the Twelfth Biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL), held 1995 in Stockholm. |
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"Published under the auspices of the International Research Society for Children's Literature." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-187) and index. |
| Contents |
I. Theory and children's literature. Fear of children's literature : what's left (or right) after theory? / Perry Nodelman -- "Is this the promised end--?" : fin de siècle mentality and children's literature / John Stephens -- Ramona the underestimated : the everyday-life story in children's literature / Deborah Stevenson. II. Shifting boundaries between children's and adult literature. The disappearance of children's literature (or children's literature as nostalgia) in the United States in the late twentieth century / Jerry Griswold -- Literature for all ages? : literary emancipation and the borders of children's literature / Anne de Vries -- The changing status of children and children's literature / Eva-Maria Metcalf. III. Experimental writing and postmodern trends. From grand narrative to small stories : new narrative structures in recent Scandinavian children's literature / Åsfrid Svensen -- The status of sequels in children's literature : The long secret and Beyond the chocolate war / Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer -- Gillian Cross's Wolf : an exploration of patterns and polarities / Susan Clancy. |
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IV. Paradigm shifts. Reflections of change in children's book titles / Maria Nikolajeva -- High and wild magic, the moral universe, and the electronic superhighway : reflections of change in Susan Cooper's fantasy literature / Carole Scott -- "Terror is her constant companion" : the cult of fear in recent books for teenagers / Roderick McGillis -- Suburban scenarioes in Simon French's All we know : the emergence of the suburbs as the spatial framework for Australian children's fiction / Beverley Pennell -- Reading children's literature multiculturally / Daniel D. Hade. V. National literatures. The journey inward : adolescent literature in America, 1945-1995 / Anne Scott MacLeod -- The novel for adolescents in Quebec : stereotypes and new conventions / Danielle Thaler -- Realistic stories in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1970-1994 : features and tendencies / Dagmar Grenz -- Text and context : factors in the development of children's literature in Taiwan, 1945-1995, and the emergence of young adult literature / Shu-Jy Duan. VI. Reconceptualizing the past. An awfully big adventure? : representations of the Second World War in British children's books of the 1960s and 1970s / Dieter Petzold -- Topsy-turvy world : new trends in modern Russian children's literature / Olga Mäeots -- Children's literature in totalitarian and post-totalitarian society / Vincas Auryla. |
| Subject |
Children's literature -- History and criticism.
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Children -- Books and reading -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Beckett, Sandra L., 1953-
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International Research Society for Children's Literature. Congress (12th : 1995 : Stockholm, Sweden)
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International Research Society for Children's Literature.
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| ISBN |
031330145X hardcover alkaline paper |
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