| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 254 pages) : illustrations |
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Children's literature and culture |
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Children's literature and culture.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Canon Studies and Children's Literature -- Prelude: The Case of Canons and Classics: The Impossibility of Definitions? -- part 1: Canons, Cultural Capital and Policies of Community Building. Nation Building and Children's Literary Canons: The Israeli Test Case ; Canon Formation and Social Imaginaries in British Children's Literature ; Firing the Canon! Geoffrey Trease's Campaign for an Alternative Children's Canon in 1930s Britain ; Canon Formation in the Soviet union: The Case of Swift as an Author of a Children's Classic ; Historical Twists and Turns in the Polish Canon of Children's Literature -- part 2: The Challenges of the Canon: Genre, Gender, Avant-garde. The Origins of Modernism in Fairy Tale: Hans Christian Andersen's Authorship and Canon Studies ; Canon and German Avant-garde Children's Literature of the 1920s and 1930s: A Paradoxical Relationship ; Genre, Gender and Canon Formation: The Case of Laura Richards ; "Girls Like it Most": Challenging Gendered Canons and Paracanons in the Case of The Secret Garden -- part 3: Keeping the Gate-agents in Canon Formation. The Perks of Being Talked About: Norms of Evaluation Informing the Canonization of Astrid Lindgren's Oeuvre in the Dutch Language Area ; The Junior Literary Guild and the Making of New Canonical Works: The Case of Waterless Mountain ; Visions and Values: The Children's Book Council of Australia's Prizing of Picture Books in the Twenty-First Century ; Finally Coming Together? The Bridging Role of the Adolescent Novel in the Netherlands |
| Summary |
This volume focuses on the (de)canonization processes in children's literature, considering the construction and cultural-historical changes of canons in different children's literatures. Chapters by international experts in the field explore a wide range of different children's literatures from Great Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Eastern and Central Europe, as well as from Non-European countries such as Australia, Israel, and the United States. Situating inquiry within larger literary and cultural studies conversations about canonicity, contributors assess representative authors and works that encountered changing fates in the course of canon history. Particular emphasis is given to sociological canon theories, which have so far been under-represented in canon research in children's literature. The volume therefore relates historical changes in the canon of children's literature not only to historical changes in concepts of childhood but to more encompassing political, social, economic, cultural, and ideological shifts. This volume's comparative approach takes cognizance of the fact that, if canon formation is an important cultural factor in nation-building processes, a comparative study is essential to assessing transnational processes in canon formation. This book thus renders evident the structural similarities between patterns and strategies of canon formation emerging in different children's literatures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed September 12, 2017) |
| Subject |
Children's literature -- History and criticism
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Children -- Books and reading.
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Canon (Literature)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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Canon (Literature)
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Children -- Books and reading
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Children's literature
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina, editor
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Müller, Anja, 1969 September 24- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317397014 |
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1317397010 |
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9781317397021 |
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1317397029 |
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9781315680385 |
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1315680386 |
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