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Debbie Pullinger - From Tongue to Text: A New Reading of Children´s Poetry - 9781474222327 - V9781474222327
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From Tongue to Text: A New Reading of Children´s Poetry

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Description for From Tongue to Text: A New Reading of Children´s Poetry Hardback. Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature. Num Pages: 280 pages, 11 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
The connection between childhood and poetry runs deep. And yet, poetry written for children has been neglected by criticism and resists prevailing theories of children’s literature. Drawing on Walter Ong’s theory of orality and on Iain McGilChrist’s work on brain function, this book develops a new theoretical framework for the study of children’s poetry. From Tongue to Text argues that the poem is a multimodal form that exists in the borderlands between the world of experience and the world of language and between orality and literacy – places that children themselves inhabit. Engaging with a wide range of poetry ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474222327
SKU
V9781474222327
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About Debbie Pullinger
Debbie Pullinger is Research Associate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Reviews for From Tongue to Text: A New Reading of Children´s Poetry
In a brief closing section, Pullinger returns to the idea of ‘tactful reading’ to argue that children’s poetry is best understood, not through arm’s-length theories, but through methodologies that are grounded in ‘commitment, immersion, abandonment, trust’ … This is an ambitious conclusion to an ambitious study. Its success reflects the author’s broad knowledge of contemporary British poetry as well as ... Read more

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