Download Media, Margins and Popular Culture by Heather Savigny,Einar Thorsen,Daniel Jackson,Jenny Alexander PDF

By Heather Savigny,Einar Thorsen,Daniel Jackson,Jenny Alexander

This assortment brings jointly prime learn on modern and pop culture, focussing on marginalised voices and representations; socially marginalised, marginalised in media and media scholarship. It spans 5 continents, with contributions on subject matters like gender, sexuality, country, incapacity, disciplinary barriers, adolescence and age.

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Download Deconstructing the Hero: Literary Theory and Children's by Margery Hourihan PDF

By Margery Hourihan

This ebook units out to discover the constitution and meanings in the hottest of all literary genres - the journey tale. Deconstructing the Hero bargains analytical readings of a few of the main extensively learn experience tales comparable to Treasure Island , the James Bond tales and Star Wars. The e-book describes how experience tales are influential in shaping kid's belief and setting up values.
while lots of those tales outline non-white, non-European humans as inferior, and girls as marginal or incapable, we should always be anxious approximately what they're instructing our kids to imagine. Margery Hourihan indicates how educating teenagers to learn books severely will help to avoid the institution of adverse attitudes, discourage aggression and advertise values of emotion and creativity.

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Download Suffer the Little Children: Uses of the Past in Jewish and by Jodi Eichler-Levine PDF

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

This
compelling paintings examines vintage and modern Jewish and African American
children’s literature. via shut readings of chosen titles published
since 1945, Jodi Eichler-Levine analyzes what's at stake in portraying religious
history for kids, rather whilst the histories in query are
traumatic ones. within the wake of the Holocaust and lynchings, of the Middle
Passage and flight from japanese Europe's pogroms, children’s literature
provides varied and complex responses to the problem of representing difficult
collective pasts.
 
In reading
the paintings of assorted favorite authors, together with Maurice Sendak, Julius Lester,
Jane Yolen, Sydney Taylor, and Virginia Hamilton, Eichler-Levine alterations our
understanding of North American religions. She illuminates how narratives of
both pain and nostalgia graft destiny voters into beliefs of American
liberal democracy, and into spiritual groups that may be understood
according to recognizable notions of interpreting, household respectability, and
national sacrifice.
 
If
children are the idealized recipients of the previous, what does it suggest to tell
tales of pain to kids, and will we think modes of reminiscence that move
past utopian notions of kids as our destiny? Suffer the Little Children
asks readers to change their worldviews approximately children’s literature as an
“innocent” company, revisiting the style in a darker and extra unsettled
light.

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Download Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's by Tison Pugh PDF

By Tison Pugh

Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children’s Literature examines exceptional classics of children’s literature either outdated and new—including L. Frank Baum’s Oz books, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House sequence, J. ok. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, Lemony Snicket’s a sequence of unlucky Events, and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series—to discover the queer tensions among innocence and heterosexuality inside of their pages. Pugh argues that youngsters can't hold their innocence of sexuality whereas studying approximately normative heterosexuality, but this inherent paradox runs all through many vintage narratives of literature for younger readers. Children’s literature quite often endorses heterosexuality via its invisible presence because the de facto sexual identification of numerous protagonists and their households, but heterosexuality’s ubiquity is counterbalanced by way of its occlusion whilst authors protect their readers from forthright issues of 1 of humanity’s most simple and primal instincts.



The e-book demonstrates that tensions among innocence and sexuality render a lot of children’s literature queer, specifically whilst those texts disavow sexuality via celebrations of innocence. during this unique examine, Pugh develops interpretations of sexuality that few critics have not begun ventured, paving the way in which for destiny scholarly engagement with greater questions on the ideological function of kid's literature and representations of kid's sexuality.



Tison Pugh is affiliate Professor within the division of English on the college of primary Florida. he's the writer of Queering Medieval Genres and Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in center English Literature and has released on children’s literature in such journals as Children’s Literature, The Lion and the Unicorn, and Marvels and Tales.

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Download More Words about Pictures: Current Research on Picturebooks by Perry Nodelman,Naomi Hamer,Mavis Reimer PDF

By Perry Nodelman,Naomi Hamer,Mavis Reimer

This quantity represents the present nation of analysis on photo books and different adjoining hybrid kinds of?visual/verbal texts equivalent to comics, photograph novels, and e-book apps, with a selected specialize in texts produced for and?about teenagers. while Perry Nodelman’s Words approximately photos: the Narrative artwork of Children’s photo Books?was released nearly 3 a long time in the past, it was once greeted as an immense contribution to experiences in children’s?picture books and representation across the world; and established considerably on it, Nodelman has lately been named the 2015 recipient of the foreign Grimm Award for children’s literature feedback. within the years considering that Words approximately Pictures seemed, students have outfitted on Nodelman’s groundbreaking textual content and feature constructed a number different ways, either to photo books and to more recent varieties of visual/verbal texts that experience entered and develop into well liked by children. The essays during this ebook supply 'more phrases' approximately validated and rising kinds of photograph books, supplying an outline of the present country of stories in visual/verbal texts and collecting in a single position the paintings being produced at quite a few destinations and throughout disciplines. Essays exploring components reminiscent of semiological and structural features of traditional photograph books, photograph narratives and new media types, and the fabric and performative cultures of photo books signify present paintings not just from literary reports but in addition media stories, paintings heritage, ecology, center japanese reviews, library and knowledge experiences, and academic study. as well as paintings by way of overseas students together with William Moebius, Erica Hateley, Nathalie op de Beeck, and Nina Christensen that includes on and demanding situations the conclusions of Words approximately Pictures, the gathering additionally contains a wide-ranging mirrored image through Perry Nodelman on continuities and alterations within the present interdisciplinary box of analysis of visual/verbal texts for young?readers. offering a glance again over the heritage of photograph books and the improvement of photograph ebook scholarship, More phrases approximately photos also deals an summary of our present knowing of those interesting texts.?

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Download Life Lessons Harry Potter Taught Me: Discover the Magic of by Jill Kolongowski PDF

By Jill Kolongowski

An approachable and encouraging sequence of brief essays that examines the best YA sequence ever with a mixture of grownup literary feedback and formative years curiosity

The books will continually join you. Now, revisit outdated Hogwarts haunts. Reconnect with favourite characters. And examine excess of the proper pronunciation of “Wingardium Leviosa.” With Life classes Harry Potter Taught Me, you’ll detect how the common subject matters and classes of the sequence observe in your Muggle existence, including:

• Drawing energy from pals • studying from mentors and heroes • hard traditional principles • Overcoming hindrances and setbacks • Trusting your self while others don’t

The writer makes use of a mixture of literary feedback and private essays to discover matters that everybody faces, from braveness and worry to the significance of woman strength and the complexity of relationships.

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Download Ravenclaw Reader: Seeking the Meaning and Artistry of J.K. by John Patrick Pazdziora,Micah Snell PDF

By John Patrick Pazdziora,Micah Snell

In Ravenclaw Reader, a world accumulating of students debate the literary advantages and demerits of the Harry Potter sequence. each one bankruptcy is dialog, with the most argument by way of a answer from one other critic. Representing a variety of severe and cultural voices, the dialogue contains questions on the portrayal of schooling within the e-book, the function of Snape, the panorama round Hogwarts, the constitution of the sequence, the Wizarding global as dystopia, the matter of the Dursleys, and the canonization of Neville Longbottom. Perceptive, incisive, and thought-provoking, this in-depth dialog will have interaction enthusiasts, scholars, and lecturers alike. Ravenclaw Reader units a brand new typical for Harry Potter criticism.

Developed from the old St Andrews collage Harry Potter convention, Ravenclaw Reader positive aspects contributions by way of Jessica Tiffin, John Granger, Amy Sturgis, Maria Nilson, Vinita Chandra, Joel Hunter, Travis Prinzi, Gabrielle Ceraldi, Joshua Richards, Amy Sonheim, and more.

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Download Percorsi della letteratura per l'infanzia: Tra leggere e by Flavia Bacchetti PDF

By Flavia Bacchetti

l. a. letteratura consistent with l’infanzia, soprattutto nel corso degli ultimi decenni, ha acquisito una identità disciplinare ben precisa e poliedrica. Rappresenta da un lato un ambito in evidente espansione editoriale e dall’altro lato un campo polisemico di ricerca. È certamente una fonte sia in step with los angeles ricostruzione della storia della società e della cultura di ieri e di oggi, sia dei processi e delle pratiche formative dell’infanzia e dell’adolescenza. los angeles letteratura according to l’infanzia, tuttavia, si propone anche come un campo di studio e di ricerca complesso e variegato. Se è fonte storica ha anche una connotazione didattico-metodologica in quanto a pratiche di lettura e conseguentemente di formazione dell’immaginario individuale e collettivo.
Nel quantity il rapporto tra letteratura e pedagogia, storia e società viene affrontato attraverso alcuni zoom sui classici, tra gli altri da Collodi a Dickens, da Anguissola a Lindgren, a Dahl, sino al linguaggio poetico di Zanzotto in un’ottica di proposta di rilettura critica e motivazionale da parte dei più noti studiosi italiani.

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