1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910811381103321

Titolo

Beyond the book : transforming children's literature / / edited by Bridget Carrington and Jennifer Harding

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

ISBN

1-4438-5541-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CarringtonBridget

HardingJennifer

Disciplina

809.89282

Soggetti

Children's literature - History and criticism

Children - Books and reading

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

CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF PLATES; INTRODUCTION; BEFORE THE BOOK?MANUSCRIPT, HOUSEHOLD READING AND THE ORIGINS OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE; A MONSTER CALLS; 'LOTS OF SUDDEN LIES'; POP UP; CHARTING THE JOURNAL OF A CIRCUS-THEATRE COLLABORATION INSPIRED BY SHAUN TAN'S THE ARRIVAL; EIGHT BOOKS IS NEVER ENOUGH; DIGITAL DEVELOPMENTS; JUST A FIGMENT?ONLINE PARTICIPATORY WRITING COMMUNITIES AND THE FUTURE OF THE YOUNG ADULT NOVEL; THE DRESS OF THE BOOK; VIRTUAL WORLDS AND NEW LITERARY INTERACTIONS IN SALMAN RUSHDIE'S LUKA AND THE FIRE OF LIFE; THE BLANK PAGE; POP-UPS

CHILDREN'S MOVABLES AND THE THREAT OF THE MECHANICAL BOOK REIMAGINING THE FORM OF THE BOOK; WALKING WITH WOLVES; THE IMPACT OF E-BOOKS ON YOUNG CHILDREN'S READING HABITS; BEYOND THE 'GROWN-UP CHILD'; 'SECOND TO THE RIGHT AND STRAIGHT ON TILL GALLIFREY'; ENHANCING THE EXPERIENCE; WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?; NON-VERBAL CHILDREN AND 'LITERACY'; PLANETA TANGERINA; GREEK CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE; BIOGRAPHIES OF CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

November 2012 saw the joint annual conference of the British branch of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY UK) and the MA course at the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature (NCRCL) at Roehampton University. The theme of the conference was



the investigation of aspects of literature for children that were 'Beyond the Book'. From woodcuts to e-books, children's literature has always lent itself to reinterpretation and expansion. In its early days, this was a...

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821082803321

Autore

Bush Harold K (Harold Karl), <1956-2021, >

Titolo

Continuing bonds with the dead : parental grief and nineteenth-century American authors / / Harold K. Bush

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8173-8954-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Collana

Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism

Disciplina

810.9/3548

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Death in literature

Bereavement in literature

Children - Death

Parental grief

Authors, American - Psychology

Death - United States - Psychological aspects - History - 19th century

Death - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century

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

Introduction: "continuing bonds" and nineteenth-century American authorship -- Hatty's grief: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the death of Charley -- Lincoln's grief: Willie, Antietam, and the "meditation on the divine will" -- Howells's grief: Winny and the fur-lined overcoat -- Mark Twain's grief: Susy, theodicy, and "systemless system" -- Du Bois's grief: Burghardt and cultural trauma -- Epilogue: "surrounded by a cloud of witnesses": recovering the bonds with the dead.