Discourses of Home and Homeland in Irish Children's Fiction 1990-2012

Ciara Ní Bhroin

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• In the context of changing constructs of home and of childhood since the mid-twentieth century, this book examines discourses of home and homeland in ... Lees meer

Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Literature

Megan L Musgrave

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• This book is a study of the evolving relationships between literature, cyberspace, and young adults in the twenty-first century. Megan L. Musgrave exp... Lees meer

The Boy Detective in Early British Children's Literature

Lucy Andrew

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• Draws links between juvenile and adult detective fiction which are rarely acknowledged in criticism exploring the early history of British detective f... Lees meer

Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• This book explores how alarmist social discourses about 'cruel' young people fail to recognize the complexity of cruelty and the role it plays in chil... Lees meer

Creating Memory

Farah Mendlesohn

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• This book considers the English Civil Wars and the civil wars in Scotland and Ireland through the lens of historical fiction--primarily fiction for th... Lees meer

Seriality and Texts for Young People

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• Seriality and Texts for Young People is a collection of thirteen scholarly essays about series and serial texts directed to children and youth, each o... Lees meer

Children's Literature, Popular Culture, and Robinson Crusoe

A O'Malley

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• This study of the afterlife of Robinson Crusoe offers insights into the continued popularity and relevance of Crusoe's story and how modern conception... Lees meer

Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children's Fantasy

Dimitra Fimi

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• Runner-up of the Katherine Briggs Folklore Award 2017 Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth & Fantasy Studies 2019 This book examines th... Lees meer

Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction

A Curry

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• This pioneering study is the first full-length treatment of feminism and the environment in children's literature. Drawing on the history, philosophy ... Lees meer

Revaluing British Boys' Story Papers, 1918-1939

H A Fairlie

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• This book explores the phenomenon of the story paper, the meanings and values children took from their reading, and the responses of adults to their r... Lees meer

Children's Literature and Intergenerational Relationships

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• Children's Literature and Intergenerational Relationships: Encounters of the Playful Kind explores ways in which children's literature becomes the obj... Lees meer

Storying Plants in Australian Children's and Young Adult Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• Storying Plants in Australian Children's and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds explores cultural and historical aspects of the representa... Lees meer

Playing with Picturebooks

C Allan

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• Offers new insights into the continuing influence of postmodernism on a wide range of international picture books for children published between 1963 ... Lees meer

Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction

K Mallan

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• Many children learn from a young age to tell the truth. They also learn that some lies are necessary in order to survive in a world that paradoxically... Lees meer

Ecocritical Perspectives on Children's Texts and Cultures

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• This volume presents key contributions to the study of ecocriticism in Nordic children's and YA literary and cultural texts, in dialogue with internat... Lees meer

Terry Pratchett's Narrative Worlds

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• This book highlights the multi-dimensionality of the work of British fantasy writer and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett. Taking into account content... Lees meer

Racism in Contemporary African American Children's and Young Adult Literature

Suriyan Panlay

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• Applying critical race theory to contemporary African American children's and young adult literature, this book explores one key racial issue that has... Lees meer

Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction

V Flanagan

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction is not a historical study or a survey of narrative plots, but takes a more conceptual approach that eng... Lees meer

Creating Memory

Farah Mendlesohn

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• This book considers the English Civil Wars and the civil wars in Scotland and Ireland through the lens of historical fiction--primarily fiction for th... Lees meer

Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction

Elisabeth Rose Gruner

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• This book examines the way young adult readers are constructed in a variety of contemporary young adult fictions, arguing that contemporary young adul... Lees meer

Revaluing British Boys' Story Papers, 1918-1939

H A Fairlie

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• This book explores the phenomenon of the story paper, the meanings and values children took from their reading, and the responses of adults to their r... Lees meer

New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature

C Bradford, K Mallan, J Stephens, R McCallum

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• This book demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures. The authors ex... Lees meer

Children's Literature, Popular Culture, and Robinson Crusoe

A O'Malley

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• This study of the afterlife of Robinson Crusoe offers insights into the continued popularity and relevance of Crusoe's story and how modern conception... Lees meer

The Middle Ages in Children's Literature

C Bradford

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• Children grow up surrounded by stories, motifs, characters and themes which respond to the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages in Children's Literature explo... Lees meer