1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465154103321

Autore

Nikolajeva Maria

Titolo

Reading for learning : cognitive approaches to children's literature / / Maria Nikolajeva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-272-6995-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Collana

Children's Literature, Culture, and Cognition, , 2212-9006 ; ; Volume 3

Disciplina

809/.89282019

Soggetti

Language awareness in children

Reading, Psychology of

Cognitive styles in children

Reading - Social aspects

Psychology and literature

Children's literature - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Reading for Learning; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; What is cognitive criticism and  what's in it for children's literature research?; Assumptions and reservations; Chapter 1.  Knowledge of the world; Fact and fiction; Realism, authenticity and representation; Social knowledge and intentionality; Possible worlds; Cognitive strategies; Chapter 2. Three possible worlds; An impossible world; A probable world; An improbable world; Chapter 3. Knowledge of other people; Why do we care about literary characters?; Where do emotions come from?

Empathy and identification Representation and metarepresentation; Higher-order mind-reading; Emotions and empathy in multimedial narratives; Chapter 4. Creative mind-reading; Emotion ekphrasis: Emotions in multimedial texts; Diegetic and extradiegetic emotions; Reading non-human faces; Higher-cognitive emotions; Emotions and power hierarchies; In defence of action-oriented texts; Multiple



protagonists and mind-reading; Emotions, empathy and embodiment; Chapter 5. Knowledge of self; The self-reflective mind; Retrospection; Memory and narration; The here and now; Chapter 6. Memory of the present

Deleted memory Amplified memory; Distorted memory; Chapter 7. Ethical knowledge; Can children's literature be ethically neutral?; Ethics and genre; Breaking rules; Whose ethics?; Can fictional characters have a free will?; The ethics of happy endings; Intentionality, revisited; Chapter 8. The ethics of address and the ethics of response; Being guilty and feeling guilty; Desire and duty; The guiltless trickster; "Time out of joint"; First comes food, ethics later; How to read a children's book and why; Children's books discussed; Primary sources; Other primary texts mentioned; Secondary sources

Index

Sommario/riassunto

How does reading fiction affect young people? How can they transfer fictional experience into real life? Why do they care about fictional characters? How does fiction enhance young people's sense of self-hood? Supported by cognitive psychology and brain research, this ground-breaking book is the first study of young readers' cognitive and emotional engagement with fiction. It explores how fiction stimulates perception, attention, imagination and other cognitive activity, and opens radically new ways of thinking about literature for young readers. Examining a wide range of texts for a young



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798561903321

Autore

Guiașu Radu Cornel

Titolo

Non-native species and their role in the environment : the need for a broader perspective / / by Radu Cornel Guiașu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Brill, , 2016

ISBN

90-474-2613-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Disciplina

578.6/2

Soggetti

Introduced organisms - Environmental aspects

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

Preliminary Material / Radu Cornel Guiașu -- Introduction / Radu Cornel Guiașu -- The Troublesome Matter of Subjective Definitions / Radu Cornel Guiașu -- The Dynamic Distributions of Species and the Static Concept of Native Range / Radu Cornel Guiașu -- Speciation, Biodiversity, and Introduced Species / Radu Cornel Guiașu -- The Controversies Regarding the Perceived Negative Impacts of Non-native Species / Radu Cornel Guiașu -- Positive Contributions of Introduced Species / Radu Cornel Guiașu -- Changing Ecosystems and Impacts of Introduced Species over Time / Radu Cornel Guiașu -- The Endless War on Invasive Species – Control and Eradication Programs / Radu Cornel Guiașu -- Some Conclusions and Some Questions / Radu Cornel Guiașu -- Literature Cited / Radu Cornel Guiașu -- Index / Radu Cornel Guiașu.

Sommario/riassunto

The young field of invasion biology - initially a branch of ecology and conservation biology - has greatly expanded, particularly in the last two and a half decades or so. As a result, the potential negative effects of introduced species have been widely advertised and sometimes, perhaps, overemphasized. This book attempts to restore some balance to the current debate over the role of non-native species, by offering a broader perspective, and taking a longer term, evolutionary look at these species and their impact in their new environments. The relatively arbitrary nature of terms such as \'native\' and \'non-native\', and the rather inconsistent ways in which such terms are applied to biological species, as well as the subjective boundaries of so-called \'native



ranges\' are analyzed. The role of non-native species in their new environments can be considerably more complex than the anti-introduced species information would often suggest. Thus, the more positive and nuanced perspective on introduced species and their impact offered in this book is much needed and long overdue.