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Title The Oxford handbook of children's literature / edited by Julia Mickenberg and Lynne Vallone
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 584 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford handbooks
Oxford handbooks.
Contents pt. 1. Adults and children's literature. The fundamentals of children's literature criticism : Alice's adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking-glass / Peter Hunt -- Randall Jarrell's The bat-poet : poets, children, and readers in an age of prose / Richard Flynn -- Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad together as a primer for critical literacy / Teya Rosenberg -- Blending genres and crossing audiences : Harry Potter and the future of literary fiction / Karin E. Westman ---- pt. 2. Pictures and poetics. Wanda's wonderland : Wanda Gág and her Millions of cats / Nathalie op de Beeck -- A cross-written Harlem renaissance : Langston Hughes's The dream keeper / Katharine Capshaw Smith -- Dumbo, Disney, and difference : Walt Disney Productions and film as children's literature / Nicholas Sammond -- Redrawing the comic-strip child : Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts as cross-writing / Charles Hatfield -- The cat in the hippie : Dr. Seuss, nonsense, the carnivalesque, and the sixties rebel / Kevin Shortsleeve -- Wild things and wolf dreams : Maurice Sendak, picture-book psychologist / Kenneth Kidd -- Reimagining the Monkey King in comics : Gene Luen Yang's American born Chinese / Lan Dong ---- pt. 4. Innocence and agency. "My book and heart shall never part" : reading, printing, and circulation in the New England primer / Courtney Weikle-Mills -- Castaways : The Swiss Family Robinson, child bookmakers, and the possibilities of literary flotsam / Karen Sánchez-Eppler -- Tom Brown and the schoolboy crush : boyhood desire, hero worship, and the boys' school story / Eric L. Tribunella -- Peter Pan as children's theater : the issue of audience / Marah Gubar -- Jade and the tomboy tradition / Claudia Nelson -- Happily ever after : Free to be you and me, second-wave feminism, and 1970s American children's culture / Leslie Paris -- Paradise refigured : innocence and experience in His dark materials / Naomi Wood
Summary Provides a grounding in children's literture through a selection of original interdisciplinary essays on canonical and popular works for in the Anglo-American tradition. Twenty-six essays address theoretical, historical, sociological, and critical issues through analyses of classic novels such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, and The Swiss Family Robinson; early educational and religious works such as The New England Primer and Froggy's Little Brother; picture books, comics, and graphic novels such as Millions of Cats, Peanuts, and American Born Chinese; early readers, including The Cat in the Hat and the Frog and Toad; newer children's classics such as Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, the Harry Potter series and the His Dark Materials trilogy; and works of poetry and drama, including The Dream Keeper and Peter Pan. Other media, such as the classic album Free to Be ... You and Me Me and the generation-defining cartoon film Dumbo, are also addressed. An editors' introduction sets the stage by reviewing the field's history, foundational scholarship, and critical trends
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Children's literature, English -- History and criticism
Children's literature, American -- History and criticism
Children's literature, American
Children's literature, English
Jeugdliteratuur.
Engels.
Amerikaans.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Handboeken (vorm)
Form Electronic book
Author Mickenberg, Julia L.
Vallone, Lynne.
ISBN 9780199940189
0199940185
9780199701919
0199701911