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Aesthetic Approaches to Children´s Literature: An Introduction
Maria Nikolajeva
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Description for Aesthetic Approaches to Children´s Literature: An Introduction
Paperback. Provides students of children's literature, with a comprehensible and easy-to-use analytical tool kit, showing through concrete demonstration how each tool might best be used. This title discusses such contemporary literary theories as: semiotics and hermeneutics, structuralism and narratology, feminist and postcolonial theory, and more. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 538.
As undergraduate and graduate courses in children's literature become more established and numerous, there is an intense need for a textbook that offers aesthetic rather than educational approaches to children's literature. This work fills that void by providing students of children's literature with a comprehensible and easy-to-use analytical tool kit, showing through concrete demonstration how each tool might best be used. The chapters are organized around familiar and easily recognized features of literary texts (e.g. author, genre, character). Theoretical issues are illustrated by specific texts from the North American children's literature canon. The book explores the particular aesthetics ... Read more
As undergraduate and graduate courses in children's literature become more established and numerous, there is an intense need for a textbook that offers aesthetic rather than educational approaches to children's literature. This work fills that void by providing students of children's literature with a comprehensible and easy-to-use analytical tool kit, showing through concrete demonstration how each tool might best be used. The chapters are organized around familiar and easily recognized features of literary texts (e.g. author, genre, character). Theoretical issues are illustrated by specific texts from the North American children's literature canon. The book explores the particular aesthetics ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
546g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810854260
SKU
V9780810854260
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About Maria Nikolajeva
Maria Nikolajeva is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stockholm University (Sweden) and associate professor of comparative literature at Åbo Akademi University (Finland). She has been member of the North American Children's Literature Association since 1985 and has served on its International Committee. She is also the author of From Mythic to Linear: Time in Children's Literature (Scarecrow, 2000) and The ... Read more
Reviews for Aesthetic Approaches to Children´s Literature: An Introduction
This resource would be a remarkable addition to children's literature research collections.
School Library Journal, 1/1/2006
This textbook is designed for use in children's literature courses in which literary criticism is emphasized. Nikolajeva's goal is to provide students with an 'analytical toolkit' that they can use to better understand the aesthetic dimensions of children's literature. Among the critical ... Read more
School Library Journal, 1/1/2006
This textbook is designed for use in children's literature courses in which literary criticism is emphasized. Nikolajeva's goal is to provide students with an 'analytical toolkit' that they can use to better understand the aesthetic dimensions of children's literature. Among the critical ... Read more