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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792310703321

Titolo

New directions in picturebook research / / edited by Teresa Colomer, Bettina Kummerling-Meibauer, Cecilia Silva-Diaz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-88277-4

1-136-88278-2

1-282-65958-8

9786612659584

0-203-83917-X

Descrizione fisica

XVIII, 261 s : ill

Collana

Children's literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

ColomerTeresa

Kummerling-MeibauerBettina

Silva-DiazCecilia

Disciplina

002

Soggetti

Picture books for children - Social aspects

Children's literature - History and criticism

Picture books for children - Authorship

Picture books for children - Technique

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Series Editor's Foreword; Permissions; Introduction: Current Trends in Picturebook Research; Part I: Picturebooks, Literacy, and Cultural Context; Chapter One: Words Claimed: Picturebook Narratives and the Project of Children's Literature; Chapter Two: Interpretative Codes and Implied Readers of Children's Picturebooks; Chapter Three: Picturebooks and Changing Values at the Turn of the Century; Chapter Four: How to Make Sense: Refl ections on the Infl uence of Eighteenth Century Picturebooks on Picturebooks of Today

Chapter Five: "All this book is about books": Picturebooks, Culture, and Metaliterary AwarenessChapter Six: Artistic Allusions in Picturebooks; Part II: Picturebooks and Storytelling; Chapter Seven: Frame-making and Frame-breaking in Picturebooks; Chapter Eight: Surprised Readers: Twist Endings in Narrative Picturebooks; Chapter Nine: The Narrative



Power of Pictures: L'Orage (The Thunderstorm) by Anne Brouillard; Chapter Ten: Picturebooks and Trojan Horses: The Nordic Picturebook as a Site for Artistic Experiment during the 1950s

Chapter Eleven: A Strawberry? Or the Planet?: Children's Aesthetic Response to the Picturebook Strawberries by Susumu Shingu, Moving Art SculptorChapter Twelve: Off-Screen: The Importance of Blank Space; Part III: Making Sense Out of Picturebooks; Chapter Thirteen: Being a Guide into Picturebook Literacy: Challenges of Cognition and Connotation; Chapter Fourteen: First-Person Narratives in Picturebooks: An Inquiry into the Acquisition of Picturebook Competence; Chapter Fifteen: Remembering the Past in Words and Pictures: How Autobiographical Stories Become Picturebooks

Chapter Sixteen: Do Sons Inherit the Sins of their Fathers?: An Analysis of the Picturebook Angry ManChapter Seventeen: Imagination or Reality?: Mindscapes and Characterization in a Finnish and a Swedish Picturebook; Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this new collection, children's literature scholars from twelve different countries contribute to the ongoing debate on the importance of picturebook research, focusing on aesthetic and cognitive aspects of picture books. Contributors take interdisciplinary approaches that integrate different disciplines such as literary studies, art history, linguistics, narratology, cognitive psychology, sociology, memory studies, and picture theory. Topics discussed include intervisuality, twist endings, autobiographical narration, and metaliterary awareness in picturebooks. The essays also examine th