Télécharger le livre :  Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction

Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction is not a historical study or a survey of narrative plots, but takes a more conceptual approach that engages with the central ideas of posthumanism: the fragmented nature of posthuman identity, the concept of agency as...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-12-16
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Animality and Children's Literature and Film

Examining culturally significant works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, Animality and Children's Literature and Film argues that Western philosophy's objective to establish a notion of an exclusively human subjectivity is...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-11-27
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Class, Leisure and National Identity in British Children's Literature, 1918-1950

This book places children's literature at the forefront of early twentieth-century debates about national identity and class relations that were expressed through the pursuit of leisure. Focusing on stories about hiking, camping and sailing, this book offers a fresh...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-10-07
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Internationalism in Children's Series

Internationalism in Children's Series brings together international children's literature scholars who interpret 'internationalism' through various cultural, historical and theoretical lenses. From imperialism to transnationalism, from Tom Swift to Harry Potter, this...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-04-08
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Revaluing British Boys' Story Papers, 1918-1939

This book explores the phenomenon of the story paper, the meanings and values children took from their reading, and the responses of adults to their reading choices. It argues for the revaluing of the story paper in the inter-war years, giving the genre a pivotal role...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-02-09
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction

Many children learn from a young age to tell the truth. They also learn that some lies are necessary in order to survive in a world that paradoxically values truth-telling, but practises deception. This book examines this paradox by considering how deception is often a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-10-25
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction

This pioneering study is the first full-length treatment of feminism and the environment in children's literature. Drawing on the history, philosophy and ethics of ecofeminism, it examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic landscapes in young adult fiction reflect...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-02-18
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Playing with Picturebooks

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';...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-10-10
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Children's Literature and Capitalism

After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important writers of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-09-10
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Children's Literature, Popular Culture, and Robinson Crusoe

This study of the afterlife of Robinson Crusoe offers insights into the continued popularity and relevance of Crusoe's story and how modern conceptions of childhood are shaped by nostalgia and ideas of 'the popular'. Examining many adaptations in a variety of formats,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-07-30
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games

Stories are told today through many formats and young interpreters bring multimedia experience to bear on every narrative format they encounter. In this book, twelve young people read a novel, watch a film and play a video game from beginning to end. Their responses...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-07-08
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Empire in British Girls' Literature and Culture

While the gender and age of the girl may seem to remove her from any significant contribution to empire, this book provides both a new perspective on familiar girls' literature, and the first detailed examination of lesser-known fiction relating the emergence of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-07-08
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature

This book demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures. The authors explore the ways in which children's texts respond to social change and global politics. The book argues that children's...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-03-13
Collection : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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