| Description |
1 online resource (264 pages) |
| Series |
Children's literature and culture ; 116 |
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Children's literature and culture ; 116.
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| Contents |
1. Where children rule : an introduction / Kit Kelen and Björn Sundmark -- 2. Can children rule? an enquiry into Locke's ideas of children and government / Mavis Reimer and Charlie Peters -- 3. Discourses of internationalism in children's literature / Emer O'Sullivan -- 4. Mysteries and histories : children and the paradox of religious empowerment / Robert A. Davis -- 5. Where the child is father : republics, expulsions and the rule(s) of poetry: exploring Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" / Kit Kelen -- 6. The child Robinsonade / Björn Sundmark -- 7. (Child) reign of terror : dangerous child regimes / Björn Sundmark -- 8. Where girls rule by magic : metaphors of agency / Clare Bradford -- 9. In the kingdom of cancer : dying children living their own lives in contemporary YA novels / Karin Nykvist -- 10. The king of misrule / Anna Czernow -- 11. "I've a crown on my head!" The ruling animal in children's fiction / Zoe Jaques -- 12. Woods where things have no names : an investigation of "The teddy bears' picnic" / Kit Kelen -- 13. Children's rule in comic strips and TV series / Åse Marie Ommundsen -- 14. Finding the spaces within : picturebooks in which children (can) enter and have agency / Junko Yokota -- 15. Playtime in playworld : how children learn to rule / You Chengcheng and Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 8, 2016) |
| Subject |
Children's literature -- History and criticism
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Children's rights in literature.
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Power (Philosophy) in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Children's literature
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Children's rights in literature
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Power (Philosophy) in 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 |
Kelen, Christopher, 1958- editor.
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Sundmark, Björn, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317394808 |
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1317394801 |
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