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Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults |
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Author | : Naomi Miller |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 304 | |
| Isbn | : 1135363358 | |
| Release | : 2013-10-15 | |
Book Summary:First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
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Adaptation in Young Adult Novels |
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Author | : Dana E. Lawrence,Amy L. Montz |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 256 | |
| Isbn | : 1501361783 | |
| Release | : 2020-09-03 | |
Book Summary:Adaptation in Young Adult Novels argues that adapting classic and canonical literature and historical places engages young adult readers with their cultural past and encourages them to see how that past can be rewritten. The textual afterlives of classic texts raise questions for new readers: What can be changed? What benefits from change? How can you, too, be agents of change? The contributors to this volume draw on a wide range of contemporary novels – from Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series and Megan Shepherd’s Madman’s Daughter trilogy to Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones – adapted from mythology, fairy tales, historical places, and the literary classics of Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others. Unpacking the new perspectives and critiques of gender, sexuality, and the cultural values of adolescents inherent to each adaptation, the essays in this volume make the case that literary adaptations are just as valuable as original works and demonstrate how the texts studied empower young readers to become more culturally, historically, and socially aware through the lens of literary diversity. |
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Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts |
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Author | : Mark Thornton Burnett |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 588 | |
| Isbn | : 0748635246 | |
| Release | : 2011-10-12 | |
Book Summary:Explores the place of Shakespeare in relation to artistic practices and activities, past and presentThis substantial reference work explores the place of Shakespeare in relation to cultural processes that take in publishing, exhibiting, performing, reconstructing and disseminating.The 30 newly commissioned chapters are divided into 6 sections: * Shakespeare and the Book* Shakespeare and Music* Shakespeare on Stage and in Performance* Shakespeare and Youth Culture* Shakespeare, Visual and Material Culture* Shakespeare, Media and Culture. Each chapter provides both a synthesis and a discussion of a topic, informed by current thinking and theoretical reflection. |
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Shakespeare for Young People |
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Author | : Abigail Rokison-Woodall |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 256 | |
| Isbn | : 1441188053 | |
| Release | : 2015-01-01 | |
Book Summary:The search to find engaging and inspiring ways to introduce children and young adults to Shakespeare has resulted in a wide variety of approaches to producing and adapting Shakespeare’s plays and the stories and characters at their heart. This book explores the range of productions, versions, and adaptations of Shakespeare aimed particularly at children or young people. It is the only comprehensive overview of its kind, engaging with a range of genres – drama, prose narrative, television and film – and including both British and international examples. Abigail Rokison covers stage and screen productions, shortened versions, prose narratives and picture books (including Manga), animations and original novels, plays and films rewriting Shakespeare. The book combines an informative guide to the productions and adaptations discussed with critical analysis of their relative strengths. It also has a practical focus including quotes from directors, actors, writers, teachers and young people who worked on or experienced the projects discussed. |
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Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults |
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Author | : Carrie Hintz,Elaine Ostry |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 256 | |
| Isbn | : 1135373361 | |
| Release | : 2013-10-11 | |
Book Summary:This volume examines a variety of utopian writing for children from the 18th century to the present day, defining and exploring this new genre in the field of children’s literature. The original essays discuss thematic conventions and present detailed case studies of individual works. All address the pedagogical implications of work that challenges children to grapple with questions of perfect or wildly imperfect social organizations and their own autonomy. The book includes interviews with creative writers and the first bibliography of utopian fiction for children. |
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The Politics of Performing Shakespeare for Young People |
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Author | : Jan Wozniak |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing | |
| Category | : Drama | |
| Number of Pages | : 304 | |
| Isbn | : 1474234860 | |
| Release | : 2016-03-10 | |
Book Summary:This book examines performance projects of Shakespeare’s plays for young people in terms of their value for their young audiences. Using interviews with theatre workers and workshops with young people, the book argues that it is by trusting young people’s experience of performances, rather than promoting a range of pre-determined textual understandings of the plays, that they might gain most benefit. It argues that by privileging the meanings young people make of Shakespeare, new and exciting interpretations of his work might be found. |
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Adapting Canonical Texts in Children’s Literature |
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Author | : Anja Müller |
| Publisher | : A&C Black | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 256 | |
| Isbn | : 1441152814 | |
| Release | : 2013-02-14 | |
Book Summary:Adaptations of canonical texts have played an important role throughout the history of children’s literature and have been seen as an active and vital contributing force in establishing a common ground for intercultural communication across generations and borders. This collection analyses different examples of adapting canonical texts in or for children’s literature encompassing adaptations of English classics for children and young adult readers and intercultural adaptations of children’s classics across Europe. The international contributors assess both historical and transcultural adaptation in relation to historically and regionally contingent concepts of childhood. By assessing how texts move across age-specific or national borders, they examine the traces of a common literary and cultural heritage in European children’s literature. |
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Shakespeare in Children’s Literature |
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Author | : Erica Hateley |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis | |
| Category | : Drama | |
| Number of Pages | : 218 | |
| Isbn | : 0415888883 | |
| Release | : 2010-12-21 | |
Book Summary:Shakespeare in Children’s Literature looks at the genre of Shakespeare-for-children, considering both adaptations of his plays and children’s novels in which he appears as a character. Drawing on feminist theory and sociology, Hateley demonstrates how Shakespeare for children utilizes the ongoing cultural capital of “Shakespeare,” and the pedagogical aspects of children’s literature, to perpetuate anachronistic forms of identity and authority. |
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Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations |
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Author | : Marina Gerzic,Aidan Norrie |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 280 | |
| Isbn | : 1000073122 | |
| Release | : 2021-12-31 | |
Book Summary:Four hundred years after William Shakespeare’s death, his works continue to not only fill playhouses around the world, but also be adapted in various forms for consumption in popular culture, including in film, television, comics and graphic novels, and digital media. Drawing on theories of play and adaptation, Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations demonstrates how the practices of Shakespearean adaptations are frequently products of playful, and sometimes irreverent, engagements that allow new ‘Shakespeares’ to emerge, revealing Shakespeare’s ongoing impact in popular culture. Significantly, this collection explores the role of play in the construction of meaning in Shakespearean adaptations—adaptations of both the works of Shakespeare, and of Shakespeare the man—and contributes to the growing scholarly interest in playfulness both past and present. The chapters in Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations engage with the diverse ways that play is used in Shakespearean adaptations on stage, screen, and page, examining how these adaptations draw out existing humour in Shakespeare’s works, the ways that play is used as a pedagogical aid to help explain complex language, themes, and emotions found in Shakespeare’s works, and more generally how play and playfulness can make Shakespeare ‘relatable,’ ‘relevant,’ and entertaining for successive generations of audiences and readers. |
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Making Sense of Shakespeare |
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Author | : Charles H. Frey |
| Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press | |
| Category | : Drama | |
| Number of Pages | : 210 | |
| Isbn | : 9780838638316 | |
| Release | : 1999 | |
Book Summary:He argues that Lear’s “howl,” for example, targets and rewards physical hearing, physical speaking, and their accompanying emotions as somatically connected to current or remembered sensations in mouth, throat, and lungs.”–BOOK JACKET. |
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The Shakespearean World |
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Author | : Jill L Levenson,Robert Ormsby |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 654 | |
| Isbn | : 1317696190 | |
| Release | : 2017-03-27 | |
Book Summary:The Shakespearean World takes a global view of Shakespeare and his works, especially their afterlives. Constantly changing, the Shakespeare central to this volume has acquired an array of meanings over the past four centuries. “Shakespeare” signifies the historical person, as well as the plays and verse attributed to him. It also signifies the attitudes towards both author and works determined by their receptions. Throughout the book, specialists aim to situate Shakespeare’s world and what the world is because of him. In adopting a global perspective, the volume arranges thirty-six chapters in five parts: Shakespeare on stage internationally since the late seventeenth century; Shakespeare on film throughout the world; Shakespeare in the arts beyond drama and performance; Shakespeare in everyday life; Shakespeare and critical practice. Through its coverage, The Shakespearean World offers a comprehensive transhistorical and international view of the ways this Shakespeare has not only influenced but has also been influenced by diverse cultures during 400 years of performance, adaptation, criticism, and citation. While each chapter is a freshly conceived introduction to a significant topic, all of the chapters move beyond the level of survey, suggesting new directions in Shakespeare studies – such as ecology, tourism, and new media – and making substantial contributions to the field. This volume is an essential resource for all those studying Shakespeare, from beginners to advanced specialists. |
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Textual Transformations in Children’s Literature |
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Author | : Benjamin Lefebvre |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 224 | |
| Isbn | : 1136227164 | |
| Release | : 2013-01-04 | |
Book Summary:This book offers new critical approaches for the study of adaptations, abridgments, translations, parodies, and mash-ups that occur internationally in contemporary children’s culture. It follows recent shifts in adaptation studies that call for a move beyond fidelity criticism, a paradigm that measures the success of an adaptation by the level of fidelity to the “original” text, toward a methodology that considers the adaptation to be always already in conversation with the adapted text. This book visits children’s literature and culture in order to consider the generic, pedagogical, and ideological underpinnings that drive both the process and the product. Focusing on novels as well as folktales, films, graphic novels, and anime, the authors consider the challenges inherent in transforming the work of authors such as William Shakespeare, Charles Perrault, L.M. Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and A.A. Milne into new forms that are palatable for later audiences particularly when—for perceived ideological or political reasons—the textual transformation is not only unavoidable but entirely necessary. Contributors consider the challenges inherent in transforming stories and characters from one type of text to another, across genres, languages, and time, offering a range of new models that will inform future scholarship. |
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Childhood and Children’s Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800 |
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Author | : Andrea Immel,Michael Witmore |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 352 | |
| Isbn | : 1135473323 | |
| Release | : 2013-11-05 | |
Book Summary:First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
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National Character in South African English Children’s Literature |
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Author | : Elwyn Jenkins |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 240 | |
| Isbn | : 1135869561 | |
| Release | : 2006-11-01 | |
Book Summary:This is the first full-length study of South African English youth literature to cover the entire period of its publication, from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. Jenkins’ book focuses on what made the subsequent literature essentially South African and what aspects of the country and its society authors concentrated on. What gives this book particular strength is its coverage of literature up to the 1960s, which has until now received almost no scholarly attention. Not only is this earlier literature a rewarding subject for study in itself, but it also throws light on subsequent literary developments. Another exceptional feature is that the book follows the author’s previous work in placing children’s literature in the context of adult South African literature and South African cultural history (e.g. cinema). He also makes enlightening comparisons with American, Canadian and Australian children’s literature. |
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Remediating Shakespeare in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries |
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Author | : Howard Marchitello |
| Publisher | : Springer | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 230 | |
| Isbn | : 3030228371 | |
| Release | : 2019-07-01 | |
Book Summary:Remediating Shakespeare in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries analyzes literary remediations of Shakespeare’s works, particularly those written for young readers. This book explores adaptations, revisions, and reimaginings by Lewis Theobald, the Bowdlers, the Lambs, and Mary Cowden Clarke, among others, to provide a theoretical account of the poetics and practices of remediating literary texts. Considering the interplay between the historical fascination with Shakespeare and these practices of adaptation, this book examines the endless attempt to mediate our relationship to Shakespeare. Howard Marchitello investigates the motivations behind various forms of remediation, ultimately expanding theories of literary adaptation and appropriation. |
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Russian Children’s Literature and Culture |
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Author | : Marina Balina,Larissa Rudova |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 352 | |
| Isbn | : 1135865574 | |
| Release | : 2013-02-01 | |
Book Summary:Soviet literature in general and Soviet children’s literature in particular have often been labeled by Western and post-Soviet Russian scholars and critics as propaganda. Below the surface, however, Soviet children’s literature and culture allowed its creators greater experimental and creative freedom than did the socialist realist culture for adults. This volume explores the importance of children’s culture, from literature to comics to theater to film, in the formation of Soviet social identity and in connection with broader Russian culture, history, and society. |
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Locating Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century |
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Author | : Gabrielle Malcolm,Kelli Marshall |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing | |
| Category | : Drama | |
| Number of Pages | : 210 | |
| Isbn | : 1443838586 | |
| Release | : 2012-03-15 | |
Book Summary:The first decade of the new century has certainly been a busy one for diversity in Shakespearean performance and interpretation, yielding, for example, global, virtual, digital, interactive, televisual, and cinematic Shakespeares. In Locating Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century, Gabrielle Malcolm and Kelli Marshall assess this active world of Shakespeare adaptation and commercialization as they consider both novel and traditional forms: from experimental presentations (in-person and online) and literal rewritings of the plays/playwright to televised and filmic Shakespeares. More specifically, contributors in Locating Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century examine the BBC’s ShakespeaRE-Told series, Canada’s television program Slings and Arrows, the Mumbai-based film Maqbool, and graphic novels in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series, as well as the future of adaptation, performance, digitization, and translation via such projects as National Theatre Live, the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Archive of Digital Performance, and the British Library’s online presentation of the complete Folios. Other authors consider the place of Shakespeare in the classroom, in the Kenneth Branagh canon, in Jewish revenge films (Quentin Tarantino’s included), in comic books, in Young Adult literature, and in episodes of the BBC’s popular sci-fi television program Doctor Who. Ultimately, this collection sheds light, at least partially, on where critics think Shakespeare is now and where he and his works might be going in the near future and long-term. One conclusion is certain: however far we progress into the new century, Shakespeare will be there. |
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Power, Voice and Subjectivity in Literature for Young Readers |
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Author | : Maria Nikolajeva |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 232 | |
| Isbn | : 1135238227 | |
| Release | : 2009-09-10 | |
Book Summary:This book considers one of the most controversial aspects of children’s and young adult literature: its use as an instrument of power. Children in contemporary Western society are oppressed and powerless, yet they are allowed, in fiction written by adults for the enlightenment and enjoyment of children, to become strong, brave, rich, powerful, and independent — on certain conditions and for a limited time. Though the best children’s literature offers readers the potential to challenge the authority of adults, many authors use artistic means such as the narrative voice and the subject position to manipulate the child reader. Looking at key works from the eighteenth century to the present, Nikolajeva explores topics such as genre, gender, crossvocalization, species, and picturebook images. Contemporary power theories including social and cultural studies, carnival theory, feminism, postcolonial and queer studies, and narratology are also considered, in order to demonstrate how a balance is maintained between the two opposite inherent goals of children’s literature: to empower and to educate the child. |
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Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins |
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Author | : Giorgia Grilli |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Juvenile Fiction | |
| Number of Pages | : 224 | |
| Isbn | : 1135868018 | |
| Release | : 2013-10-18 | |
Book Summary:The Mary Poppins that many people know of today–a stern, but sweet, loveable, and reassuring British nanny–is a far cry from the character created by Pamela Lyndon Travers in the 1930’s. Instead, this is the Mary Poppins reinvented by Disney in the eponymous movie. This book sheds light on the original Mary Poppins, Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins is the only full-length study that covers all the Mary Poppins books, exposing just how subversive the pre-Disney Mary Poppins character truly was. Drawing important parallels between the character and the life of her creator, who worked as a governess herself, Grilli reveals the ways in which Mary Poppins came to unsettle the rigid and rigorous rules of Victorian and Edwardian society that most governesses embodied, taught, and passed on to their charges. |
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International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature |
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Author | : Peter Hunt |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 1416 | |
| Isbn | : 1134436831 | |
| Release | : 2004-08-02 | |
Book Summary:Children’s literature continues to be one of the most rapidly expanding and exciting of interdisciplinary academic studies, of interest to anyone concerned with literature, education, internationalism, childhood or culture in general. The second edition of Peter Hunt’s bestselling International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature offers comprehensive coverage of the subject across the world, with substantial, accessible, articles by specialists and world-ranking experts. Almost everything is here, from advanced theory to the latest practice – from bibliographical research to working with books and children with special needs. This edition has been expanded and includes over fifty new articles. All of the other articles have been updated, substantially revised or rewritten, or have revised bibliographies. New topics include Postcolonialism, Comparative Studies, Ancient Texts, Contemporary Children’s Rhymes and Folklore, Contemporary Comics, War, Horror, Series Fiction, Film, Creative Writing, and ‘Crossover’ literature. The international section has been expanded to reflect world events, and now includes separate articles on countries such as the Baltic states, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Iran, Korea, Mexico and Central America, Slovenia, and Taiwan. |
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Literary Cultures and Medieval and Early Modern Childhoods |
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Author | : Naomi J. Miller,Diane Purkiss |
| Publisher | : Springer | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 394 | |
| Isbn | : 3030142116 | |
| Release | : 2019-07-17 | |
Book Summary:Building on recent critical work, this volume offers a comprehensive consideration of the nature and forms of medieval and early modern childhoods, viewed through literary cultures. Its five groups of thematic essays range across a spectrum of disciplines, periods, and locations, from cultural anthropology and folklore to performance studies and the history of science, and from Anglo-Saxon burial sites to colonial America. Contributors include several renowned writers for children. The opening group of essays, Educating Children, explores what is perhaps the most powerful social engine for the shaping of a child. Performing Childhood addresses children at work and the role of play in the development of social imitation and learning. Literatures of Childhood examines texts written for children that reveal alternative conceptions of parent/child relations. In Legacies of Childhood, expressions of grief at the loss of a child offer a window into the family’s conceptions and values. Finally, Fictionalizing Literary Cultures for Children considers the real, material child versus the fantasy of the child as a subject. |
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Shakespeare’s World/world Shakespeares |
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Author | : International Shakespeare Association. World Congress |
| Publisher | : Associated University Presse | |
| Category | : Literary Collections | |
| Number of Pages | : 436 | |
| Isbn | : 9780874139891 | |
| Release | : 2008 | |
Book Summary:This collection offers 29 essays by many of the world’s major scholars of the extraordinary diversity and richness of Shakespeare studies today. It ranges from examinations of the society Shakespeare himself lived in, to recent films, plays, novels and operatic adaptations in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Middle East. |
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The Feminine Subject in Children’s Literature |
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Author | : Christine Wilkie-Stibbs |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 220 | |
| Isbn | : 1136699929 | |
| Release | : 2013-12-16 | |
Book Summary:This book builds upon and contributes to the growing academic interest in feminism within the field of children’s literature studies. Christie Wilkie-Stibbs draws upon the work of Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Lacan in her analysis of particular children’s literature texts to demonstrate how a feminist analysis opens up textual possibilities that may be applied to works of children’s fiction in general, extending the range of textual engagements in children’s literature through the application of a new poststructural critical apparati. |
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Representations of Technology in Science Fiction for Young People |
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Author | : Noga Applebaum |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 214 | |
| Isbn | : 1135255164 | |
| Release | : 2009-09-10 | |
Book Summary:In this new book, Noga Applebaum surveys science fiction novels published for children and young adults from 1980 to the present, exposing the anti-technological bias existing within a genre often associated with the celebration of technology. Applebaum argues that perceptions of technology as a corrupting force, particularly in relation to its use by young people, are a manifestation of the enduring allure of the myth of childhood innocence and result in young-adult fiction that endorses a technophobic agenda. This agenda is a form of resistance to the changing face of childhood and technology’s contribution to this change. Further, Applebaum contends that technophobic literature disempowers its young readers by implying that the technologies of the future are inherently dangerous, while it neglects to acknowledge children’s complex, yet pleasurable, interactions with technology today. The study looks at works by well-known authors including M.T. Anderson, Monica Hughes, Lois Lowry, Garth Nix, and Philip Reeve, and explores topics such as ecology, cloning, the impact of technology on narrative structure, and the adult-child hierarchy. While focusing on the popular genre of science fiction as a useful case study, Applebaum demonstrates that negative attitudes toward technology exist within children’s literature in general, making the book of considerable interest to scholars of both science fiction and children’s literature. |
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Enterprising Youth |
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Author | : Monika Elbert |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 312 | |
| Isbn | : 1135898545 | |
| Release | : 2008-06-09 | |
Book Summary:“Recommended” by Choice Enterprising Youth examines the agenda behind the shaping of nineteenth-century children’s perceptions and world views and the transmission of civic duties and social values to children by adults. The essays in this book reveal the contradictions involved in the perceptions of children as active or passive, as representatives of a new order, or as receptacles of the transmitted values of their parents. The question, then, is whether the business of telling children’s stories becomes an adult enterprise of conservative indoctrination, or whether children are enterprising enough to read what many of the contributors to this volume see as the subversive potential of these texts. This collection of literary and historical criticism of nineteenth-century American children’s literature draws upon recent assessments of canon formations, gender studies, and cultural studies to show how concepts of public/private, male/female, and domestic/foreign are collapsed to reveal a picture of American childhood and life that is expansive and constrictive at the same time. |
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Shakespeare and the Victorians |
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Author | : Stuart Sillars |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford | |
| Category | : Literary Collections | |
| Number of Pages | : 228 | |
| Isbn | : 0191645087 | |
| Release | : 2013-11-28 | |
Book Summary:OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. The book shows how the reception and remodelling of the works and the man directed the Victorian construction of identity, personal, national and aesthetic, as well as laying foundations that later Shakespeareans could continue, extend or reject. Shakespeare was one of the most pervasive intellectual, aesthetic, and social forces of the Victorian period, with the plays in print, performance, and as moral examples penetrating to every aspect of life in every social class and situation. Shakespeare and the Victorians offers an analytical survey of the main forms and paths of this presence. It begins with a discussion of the processes of editing and publishing the plays, embracing both cholarly and popular editions. It moves to consider performance styles, quoting original reviews to assess methods of acting and production. Music for the Shakespearean stage, now largely forgotten, is reassessed, as is the varied tradition of Shakespeare painting that extends far beyond the familiar images of the Pre-Raphaelites. Shakespearian themes dominate in the novel, especially the conflict between town and country and the changing status of women; poetry shows the power of Shakespeare in the use of iambic pentameter and the sonnet form. The plays are fragmented through the study of individual character and their use as moral compendia, and the search for ‘Shakespeare the man’ in biographies, portraiture and pilgrimages to the birthplace. A concluding chapter looks at the last two decades in terms of editing, performance, the renewed importance of the Sonnets, and new performance styles. |
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Representing Africa in Children’s Literature |
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Author | : Vivian Yenika-Agbaw |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 168 | |
| Isbn | : 1135923671 | |
| Release | : 2007-12-13 | |
Book Summary:Representing Africa in Children’s Literature explores how African and Western authors portray youth in contemporary African societies, critically examining the dominant images of Africa and Africans in books published between 1960 and 2005. The book focuses on contemporary children’s and young adult literature set in Africa, examining issues regarding colonialism, the politics of representation, and the challenges posed to both “insiders” and “outsiders” writing about Africa for children. |
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The Family in English Children’s Literature |
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Author | : Ann Alston |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Education | |
| Number of Pages | : 176 | |
| Isbn | : 1135858578 | |
| Release | : 2008-06-03 | |
Book Summary:From the trials of families experiencing divorce, as in Anne Fine’s Madame Doubtfire, to the childcare problems highlighted in Jacqueline Wilson’s Tracy Beaker, it might seem that the traditional family and the ideals that accompany it have long vanished. However, in The Family in English Children’s Literature, Ann Alston argues that this is far from the case. She suggests that despite the tales of family woe portrayed in children’s literature, the desire for the happy, contented nuclear family remains inherent within the ideological subtexts of children’s literature. Using 1818 as a starting point, Alston investigates families in children’s literature at their most intimate, focusing on how they share their spaces, their ideals of home, and even on what they eat for dinner. What emerges from Alston’s study are not so much the contrasts that exist between periods, but rather the startling similarities of the ideology of family intrinsic to children’s literature. The Family in English Children’s Literature sheds light on who maintains control, who behaves, and how significant children’s literature is in shaping our ideas about what makes a family “good.” |
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The Gothic in Children’s Literature |
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Author | : Anna Jackson,Roderick McGillis,Karen Coats |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 264 | |
| Isbn | : 113590281X | |
| Release | : 2013-10-11 | |
Book Summary:From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode of entertainment for young readers. The last two decades have seen an enormous growth in the critical study of two very different genres, the Gothic and children’s literature. The Gothic, concerned with the perverse and the forbidden, with adult sexuality and religious or metaphysical doubts and heresies, seems to represent everything that children’s literature, as a genre, was designed to keep out. Indeed, this does seem to be very much the way that children’s literature was marketed in the late eighteenth century, at exactly the same time that the Gothic was really taking off, written by the same women novelists who were responsible for the promotion of a safe and segregated children’s literature. This collection examines the early intersection of the Gothic and children’s literature and the contemporary manifestations of the gothic impulse, revealing that Gothic elements can, in fact, be traced in children’s literature for as long as children have been reading. |
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The Shakespearean International Yearbook |
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Author | : Stuart Sillars |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 310 | |
| Isbn | : 135196349X | |
| Release | : 2017-05-15 | |
Book Summary:This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on ‘European Shakespeares’, proceeding from the claim that Shakespeare’s literary craft was not just native English or British, but was filtered and fashioned through a Renaissance awareness that needs to be recognized as European, and that has had effects and afterlives across the Continent. Guest editors Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo have constructed this section to highlight both how the spread of ‘Shakespeare’ throughout Europe has brought together the energies of a wide variety of European cultures across several centuries, and how the inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a European but also a world affair. The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. Contributors to this issue come from the US and the UK, Spain, Switzerland and South Africa, Canada, The Netherlands, India, Portugal, Greece, France, and Hungary. In addition to the section on European Shakespeares, this volume includes essays on the genre of romance, issues of character, and other topics. |
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The Fantasy of Family |
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Author | : Elizabeth Thiel |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 216 | |
| Isbn | : 1135861161 | |
| Release | : 2013-06-17 | |
Book Summary:The myth of the Victorian family remains a pervasive influence within a contemporary Britain that perceives itself to be in social crisis. Nostalgic for a golden age of “Victorian values” in which visions of supportive, united families predominate, the common consciousness, exhorted by social and political discourse, continues to vaunt the “traditional, natural” family as the template by which all other family forms are gauged. Yet this fantasy of family, nurtured and augmented throughout the Victorian era, was essentially a construct that belied the realities of a nineteenth-century world in which orphanhood, fostering, and stepfamilies were endemic. Focusing primarily on British children’s texts written by women and drawing extensively on socio-historic material, The Fantasy of Family considers the paradoxes implicit to the perpetuation of the domestic ideal within the Victorian era and offers new perspectives on both nineteenth-century and contemporary society. |
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From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood |
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Author | : Elizabeth Galway |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 216 | |
| Isbn | : 113590393X | |
| Release | : 2010-12-22 | |
Book Summary:As Canada came to terms with its role as an independent nation following Confederation in 1867, there was a call for a literary voice to express the needs and desires of a new country. Children’s literature was one of the means through which this new voice found expression. Seen as a tool for both entertaining and educating children, this material is often overtly propagandistic and nationalistic, and addresses some of the key political, economic, and social concerns of Canada as it struggled to maintain national unity during this time. From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood studies a large variety of children’s literature written in English between 1867 and 1911, revealing a distinct interest in questions of national unity and identity among children’s writers of the day and exploring the influence of American and British authors on the shaping of Canadian identity. The visions of Canada expressed in this material are often in competition with one another, but together they illuminate the country’s attempts to define itself and its relation to the world outside its borders. |
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Crossover Fiction |
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Author | : Sandra L. Beckett |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Collections | |
| Number of Pages | : 360 | |
| Isbn | : 1135861307 | |
| Release | : 2010-11-24 | |
Book Summary:In Crossover Fiction, Sandra L. Beckett explores the global trend of crossover literature and explains how it is transforming literary canons, concepts of readership, the status of authors, the publishing industry, and bookselling practices. This study will have significant relevance across disciplines, as scholars in literary studies, media and cultural studies, visual arts, education, psychology, and sociology examine the increasingly blurred borderlines between adults and young people in contemporary society, notably with regard to their consumption of popular culture. |
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Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism |
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Author | : Alison Waller |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 240 | |
| Isbn | : 1135904634 | |
| Release | : 2010-12-22 | |
Book Summary:Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism examines those fundamental themes which inform our understanding of “the teenager”—themes that emerge in both literary and cultural contexts. Models of adolescence do not arise solely from discourses of psychology, sociology, and education. Rather, these models—frameworks including developmentalism, identity formation, social agency, and subjectivity in cultural space—can also be found represented symbolically in fantastic tropes such as metamorphosis, time-slip, hauntings, doppelgangers, invisibility, magic gifts, and witchcraft. These are the incredible, supernatural, and magical elements that invade the everyday and diurnal world of fantastic realism. In this original study, Alison Waller proposes a new critical term to categorize a popular and established genre in literature for teenagers: young adult fantastic realism. Though fantastic realism plays a crucial part in the short history of young adult literature, up until now this genre has typically been overlooked or subsumed into the wider class of fantasy. Touching on well-known authors including Robert Cormier, Melvin Burgess, Gillian Cross, Margaret Mahy, K.M. Peyton and Robert Westall, as well as previously unexamined writers, Waller explores the themes and ideological perspectives embedded in fantastic realist novels in order to ask whether parallel realities and fantastic identities produce forms of adolescence that are dynamic and subversive. One of the first studies to deal with late twentieth-century fantastic literature for young adults, this book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of adult attitudes toward adolescent identity. |
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Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre |
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Author | : Mike Cadden |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 224 | |
| Isbn | : 1135873615 | |
| Release | : 2005-07-08 | |
Book Summary:This book critically examines Le Guin’s fiction for all ages, and it will be of great interest to her many admirers and to all students and scholars of children’s literature. |
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Picturing the Wolf in Children’s Literature |
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Author | : Debra Mitts-Smith |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 202 | |
| Isbn | : 1135765715 | |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 | |
Book Summary:From the villainous beast of “Little Red Riding Hood” and “The Three Little Pigs,” to the nurturing wolves of Romulus and Remus and Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, the wolf has long been a part of the landscape of children’s literature. Meanwhile, since the 1960s and the popularization of scientific research on these animals, children’s books have begun to feature more nuanced views. In Picturing the Wolf in Children’s Literature, Mitts-Smith analyzes visual images of the wolf in children’s books published in Western Europe and North America from 1500 to the present. In particular, she considers how wolves are depicted in and across particular works, the values and attitudes that inform these depictions, and how the concept of the wolf has changed over time. What she discovers is that illustrations and photos in works for children impart social, cultural, and scientific information not only about wolves, but also about humans and human behavior. First encountered in childhood, picture books act as a training ground where the young learn both how to decode the “symbolic” wolf across various contexts and how to make sense of “real” wolves. Mitts-Smith studies sources including myths, legends, fables, folk and fairy tales, fractured tales, fictional stories, and nonfiction, highlighting those instances in which images play a major role, including illustrated anthologies, chapbooks, picture books, and informational books. This book will be of interest to children’s literature scholars, as well as those interested in the figure of the wolf and how it has been informed over time. |
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Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama |
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Author | : Leslie C. Dunn |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 327 | |
| Isbn | : 3030572080 | |
| Release | : 2021-01-04 | |
Book Summary:Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama investigates the cultural work done by early modern theatrical performances of disability. Proffering an expansive view of early modern disability in performance, the contributors suggest methodologies for finding and interpreting it in unexpected contexts. The volume also includes essays on disabled actors whose performances are changing the meanings of disability in Shakespeare for present-day audiences. By combining these two areas of scholarship, this text makes a unique intervention in early modern studies and disability studies alike. Ultimately, the volume generates a conversation that locates and theorizes the staging of particular disabilities within their historical and literary contexts while considering continuity and change in the performance of disability between the early modern period and our own. |
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The Outside Child, In and Out of the Book |
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Author | : Christine Wilkie-Stibbs |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 216 | |
| Isbn | : 1135867100 | |
| Release | : 2008-03-25 | |
Book Summary:The Outside Child, In and Out of the Book is situated at the intersection between children’s literature studies and childhood studies. In this provocative book, Christine Wilkie-Stibbs juxtaposes the narratives of literary and actual children/young adults to explore how Western culture has imagined, defined, and dealt with their outsider status – whether orphaned, homeless, refugee, victims of abuse, or exploited – and how processes of economic, social, or political impoverishment are sustained and naturalized in regimes of power, authority, and domination. In five chapters titled: “Outsider,” “Displaced,” “Erased,” “Abject,” “Unattached,” and “Colonized,” the book situates and repositions a range of pre- and post-millennium children’s/young adult fictions, autobiographies, policy documents, and reports in the current climate of rabid globalization, new “out-group” definitions, and prescribed normativity. Children’s/young adult fictions considered include: Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses trilogy; Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Jacqueline Wilson’s The Illustrated Mum; Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy; Ann Provoost’s Falling; Meg Rosoff’s, How I Live Now; Elizabeth Laird’s A Little Piece of Ground. Autobiographical works include Zlata Filipovic’s Zlata’s Diary; Kevin Lewis’s The Kid; Latifa’s My Forbidden Face; and Valérie Zenatti’s When I Was a Soldier. |
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Voracious Children |
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Author | : Carolyn Daniel |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Fiction | |
| Number of Pages | : 280 | |
| Isbn | : 1135504407 | |
| Release | : 2006-02-22 | |
Book Summary:First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
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Representing the Holocaust in Children’s Literature |
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Author | : Lydia Kokkola |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 216 | |
| Isbn | : 1135354049 | |
| Release | : 2013-10-15 | |
Book Summary:First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
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