Children's literature studies

Titel: Children's literature studies : a research handbook / edited by M. O. Grenby ...
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Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Umfang: XII, 234 Seiten : Illustrationen
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9780230525542 ; 9780230525535 ; 0230525539 ; 0230525547
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Lokale Klassifikation: Sekundärliteratur
  • List of Illustrations
  • p. x
  • Acknowledgements
  • p. xi
  • Notes on Contributors
  • p. xii
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • Why research children's literature?
  • p. 1
  • What do researchers in children's literature study?
  • p. 3
  • The child(ren) in children's literature
  • p. 4
  • Literature for children
  • p. 5
  • Why a specialist research methods handbook?
  • p. 7
  • 1
  • Basic Children's Literature Research Skills
  • p. 11
  • 1.1
  • Choosing your project
  • p. 13
  • 1.2
  • Beginning your research
  • p. 16
  • 1.3
  • Sample research proposals
  • p. 19
  • 1.4
  • Conducting your research
  • p. 24
  • 1.5
  • Writing up your research
  • p. 28
  • 1.6
  • Children's literature research-specific issues
  • p. 35
  • 2
  • Children's Literature Archives, Collections and Resources
  • p. 43
  • 2.1
  • Using research libraries, archives and collections
  • p. 45
  • 2.2
  • Case study - working in the British Library
  • p. 53
  • 2.3
  • Using manuscripts to research children's literature
  • p. 56
  • 2.4
  • Case study - working with the Seven Stories archive
  • p. 60
  • 2.5
  • Finding secondary material
  • p. 62
  • 3
  • Visual Texts
  • p. 71
  • 3.1
  • Practical advice for researchers
  • p. 73
  • 3.2
  • A practical case study - Little Red Riding Hood
  • p. 78
  • 3.3
  • Analysing visual texts - tools and terminologies
  • p. 82
  • 3.4
  • Case study - The Island by Armin Greder
  • p. 91
  • 4
  • Historical Research
  • p. 97
  • 4.1
  • Researching historical children's literature
  • p. 99
  • 4.2
  • Text and context
  • p. 102
  • 4.3
  • Histories, politics and children's literature
  • p. 107
  • 5
  • Research and Theory
  • p. 121
  • 5.1
  • Introduction
  • p. 123
  • 5.2
  • Child-oriented criticism
  • p. 128
  • 5.3
  • Reader response
  • p. 133
  • 5.4
  • Comparative children's literature
  • p. 142
  • 5.5
  • Gender
  • p. 151
  • 5.6
  • Multiculturalism and post-colonialism
  • p. 162
  • 5.7
  • Psychological approaches to children's literature
  • p. 171
  • 5.8
  • Postmodernism
  • p. 178
  • 6
  • Changing Forms and Formats
  • p. 185
  • 6.1
  • Textual transformations: The case of Robinson Crusoe
  • p. 187
  • 6.2
  • Film adaptation: The case of The Secret Garden
  • p. 195
  • Afterword
  • p. 206
  • Glossary
  • p. 209
  • Works Cited
  • p. 213
  • Index
  • p. 229