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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972024303321

Titolo

Children's literature as communication : the ChiLPA Project / / edited by Roger D. Sell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, PA, : John Benjamins Pub., c2002

ISBN

1-282-16180-6

9786612161803

90-272-9729-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Collana

Studies in narrative, , 1568-2706 ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

SellRoger D

Disciplina

809/.89282

Soggetti

Children's literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Children's Literature as Communication -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Members of the ChiLPA Project, Åbo Akademi University -- Introduction -- Part I: Initiating -- Chapter 1: Orality and literacy -- Chapter 2: Orality and literacy, continued -- Chapter 3: Intertextualities -- Chapter 4: Intertextualities, continued -- Chapter 5: The verbal and the visual -- Part II: Negotiating -- Chapter 6: Growing up -- Chapter 7: Childhood -- Chapter 8: Child-power? -- Chapter 9: Gender and beyond -- Chapter 10: Politics -- Chapter 11: The unspeakable -- Part III: Responding -- Chapter 12: Early immersion reading -- Chapter 13: Reader-learners -- Chapter 14: Primary-level EFL -- Chapter 15: Secondary-level EFL -- Chapter 16: Bilingualism, stories, new technology -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, members of the ChiLPA Project explore the children's literature of several different cultures, ranging from ancient India, nineteenth century Russia, and the Soviet Union, to twentieth century Britain, America, Australia, Sweden, and Finland. The research covers not only the form and content of books for children, but also their potential social functions, especially within education. These two perspectives are brought together within a theory of children's literature as one among other forms of communication, an approach



that sees the role of literary scholars, critics and teachers as one of mediation. Part I deals with the way children's writers and picturebook-makers draw on a culture's available resources of orality, literacy, intertextuality, and image. Part II examines their negotiation of major issues such as the child adult distinction, gender, politics, and the Holocaust. Part III discusses children's books as used within language education programmes, with particular attention to young readers' pragmatic processing of differences between the context of writing and their own context of reading.