Beginning with Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbit and concluding with best-selling series still ongoing at the time of writing, this volume examines works of twentieth- and twenty-first-century children's literature that incorporate character types, settings, and narratives derive…
Nikolajeva (comparative literature, Stockholm U., Sweden and Abo Akademi U., Finland) realized from the poor responses of her students--future teachers--that they were not being given adequate tools for analyzing the artistic means used for characterization in children's literat…
Through a variety of critical perspectives, Nikolajeva ponders the art of characterization, uncovering the essential differences between story ('what we are told') and discourse ('how we are told'), and carefully distinguishing between how these are employed in children's fictio…
"This bibliography includes books written about or set in Appalachia from the 18th century to the present. Titles represent the entire region as defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission. The bibliography is arranged in alphabetical order by author, and each title is accomp…
"While the Gothic genre has received much critical attention, and the popularity of Gothic narratives at the turn of the millennium has been analyzed in studies such as Mark Edmundson's Nightmare on Main Street, The Gothic in Children's Literature is the first book-length study …
"While the Gothic genre has received much critical attention, and the popularity of Gothic narratives at the turn of the millennium has been analyzed in studies such as Mark Edmundson's Nightmare on Main Street, The Gothic in Children's Literature is the first book-length study …
This is the first monograph that brings together the fields of Gothic Studies and children?s fiction to analyse a range of popular and literary works for children published since 2000. It offers a completely new way of reading children?s Gothic that counters the dominant critica…
Studie waarin schrijfster aan de hand van het boek Peter Pan van J.M. Barrie probeert aan te geven wat de rol van het kind is in de jeugdliteratuur en welke plaats het kind inneemt in relatie tot deze jeugdliteratuur
