| The Politics and Poetics of Irish Children's Literature Contributor(s): Watson, Nancy (Author), Kiberd, Declan (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0716530031 ISBN-13: 9780716530039 Publisher: Irish Academic Press OUR PRICE: $71.20 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Children's & Young Adult Literature - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| LCCN: 2009278751 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (0.97 lbs) 187 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Although the work of many contemporary Irish writers for children is often complex and sophisticated there is currently very little critical analysis to do it justice. The aim of this book is to redress that situation and to prove that the best writing for children is no less complex and well written than the best adult fiction and offers valuable material for theoreticians. With a detailed examination of selected texts by six Irish writers for children, the book explores the reciprocal relationship between the different time and place of the child reader and the complexity and multiplicity of the world of the adult writer. It suggests that putting the different forms of experience in dialogue with each other promotes a new understanding because it allows for other points of view and other ways of seeing. This book also suggests that the way in which these writers implement the potential of the child reader's different perspective refutes the idea of the 'impossible' relation between adult and child. The opening chapter explores the attempt to re-create childhood and adolescence in a range of Irish memoir and fiction. |