| Literature's Children: The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization Contributor(s): Joy, Louise (Author), Sainsbury, Lisa (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1472577191 ISBN-13: 9781472577191 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Children's & Young Adult Literature - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
| Dewey: 809.892 |
| LCCN: 2018058748 |
| Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.10 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Literature's Children offers a new way of thinking about how literature for children functions didactically. It analyzes the nature of the practical critical activity which the child reader carries out, emphasizing what the child does to the text rather than what he or she receives from it. Through close readings of a range of works for children which have shaped our understanding of what children's literature entails, including works by Isaac Watts, John Newbery, Kate Greenaway, E. Nesbit, Kenneth Grahame, J.R.R. Tolkien and Malcolm Saville, it demonstrates how the critical child resists the processes of idealization in operation in and through such texts. Bringing into dialogue ideas from literary theory and the philosophy of education, drawing in particular on the work of the philosopher John Dewey, it provides a compelling new account of the complex relations between literary aesthetics and literary didacticism. |
Contributor Bio(s): Joy, Louise: - Louise Joy is Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK. She is co-editor of The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry (2015) and Poetry and Childhood (2010).Sainsbury, Lisa: - Lisa Sainsbury is Director of the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature, University of Roehampton, UK. |
