New and Published Books
91-100 of 108 results in Children's Literature and Culture
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A Past Without Shadow
Constructing the Past in German Books for Children
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
A Past Without Shadow examines 50 years of German children's books in which the darkest horrors of the Third Reich have routinely remained hidden. The horrors of the Third Reich are systematically screened and filtered, allowing the darker, bleaker parts of history to escape illumination. Here...
Published January 10th 2005 by Routledge
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Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Published November 21st 2002 by Routledge
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The Poetics of Childhood
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
First published in 2003...
Published November 14th 2002 by Routledge
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Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature 1985-1995
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
First published in 2002...
Published September 20th 2001 by Routledge
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How Picturebooks Work
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
In How Picturebooks Work, Maria Nikolajeva and Carole Scott explore the dynamic relationship between word and image in children's literature. They treat picturebooks as a specific medium or genre in literature and culture, one that prepares children for other media of communication. As such, the...
Published December 26th 2000 by Routledge
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Inventing the Child
Culture, Ideology and the Story of the Child
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
This book traces the historical roots of Western culture's stories of childhood in which the child is subjugated to the adult. Going back 400 years, it looks again at Hamlet, fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, and Walt Disney cartoons. Inventing the Child is a highly entertaining, humorous, and at...
Published December 19th 2000 by Garland Science
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Regendering the School Story
Sassy Sissies and Tattling Tomboys
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Published December 6th 2000 by Routledge
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White Supremacy in Children's Literature
Characterizations of African Americans, 1830-1900
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
This penetrating study of the white supremacy myth in books for the young adds an important dimension to American intellectual history. The study pinpoints an intersecting adult and child culture: it demonstrates that many children's stories had political, literary, and social contexts that...
Published November 16th 2000 by Routledge
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The Presence of the Past
Memory, Heritage and Childhood in Post-War Britain
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
The presence of the Past studies the interaction of heritage and fiction written for children over a 40 year period in Britain, exploring a range of works for children from The Tale of Peter Rabbit to I Spy....
Published November 1st 2000 by Routledge
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Russell Hoban/Forty Years
Essays on His Writings for Children
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Published July 26th 2000 by Routledge
Forthcoming Books
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Reading Victorian Schoolrooms: Childhood and Education in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
To Be Published August 15th 2013 -
Soon Come Home to This Island: West Indians in British Children's Literature
To Be Published August 15th 2013 -
Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins
To Be Published August 15th 2013 -
Inventing the Child
To Be Published August 15th 2013 -
Ways of Being Male: Representing Masculinities in Children's Literature
To Be Published August 15th 2013 -
Children’s Literature and New York City
To Be Published August 31st 2013 -
Twice-Told Children's Tales: The Influence of Childhood Reading on Writers for Adults
To Be Published September 26th 2013 -
Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature 1985-1995
To Be Published September 26th 2013 -
The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature
To Be Published September 29th 2013 -
The Poetics of Childhood
To Be Published September 29th 2013