Aesthetic Approaches to Children's Literature An Introduction |
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| Author:
| Nikolajeva, Maria |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4616-5615-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2005 |
| Publisher: | Scarecrow Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $59.99 |
Book Description:
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This work provides students of children's literature with a comprehensible and easy-to-use analytical tool kit, showing through concrete demonstration how each tool might best be used to examine aesthetic rather than educational approaches to children's literature. Contemporary literary theories discussed include semiotics, hermeneutics, structuralism, narratology, psychoanalysis, reader-response, feminist, and postcolonial theory, each adjusted to suit the specifics of children's literature.
This work provides students of children's literature with a comprehensible and easy-to-use analytical tool kit, showing through concrete demonstration how each tool might best be used to examine aesthetic rather than educational approaches to children's literature. Contemporary literary theories discussed include semiotics, hermeneutics, structuralism, narratology, psychoanalysis, reader-response, feminist, and postcolonial theory, each adjusted to suit the specifics of children's literature.