| From Tongue to Text: A New Reading of Children's Poetry Contributor(s): Pullinger, Debbie (Author), Sainsbury, Lisa (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1474222323 ISBN-13: 9781474222327 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $173.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Children's & Young Adult Literature - Social Science | Children's Studies - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 809.100 |
| LCCN: 2016046733 |
| Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.25 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 from nursery rhymes and Christina Rossetti to Michael Rosen and Carol Ann Duffy, Debbie Pullinger demonstrates how these 'tactful' works are shaped by the dynamics of orality and textuality. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sainsbury, Lisa: - Lisa Sainsbury is Director of the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature, University of Roehampton, UK.Pullinger, Debbie: - Debbie Pullinger is Research Associate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. |
