Global Perspectives on Death in Children's Literature
Herausgeber: Clement, Lesley D; Jamali, Leyli
Global Perspectives on Death in Children's Literature
Herausgeber: Clement, Lesley D; Jamali, Leyli
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This book visits death in children's literature from around the world, contributing to the fields of Childhood Studies, Children's Literature, and Death Studies. Considering textual and pictorial representations of death, contributors focus on death as a physical reality, a philosophical concept, a psychologically challenging adjustment, and/or a social construct, offering a diverse range of theoretical and cultural perspectives. Sections interrogate how classic texts have been adapted for the 21st century, how death has been politicized, ritualized, or metaphorized, visual strategies for…mehr
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This book visits death in children's literature from around the world, contributing to the fields of Childhood Studies, Children's Literature, and Death Studies. Considering textual and pictorial representations of death, contributors focus on death as a physical reality, a philosophical concept, a psychologically challenging adjustment, and/or a social construct, offering a diverse range of theoretical and cultural perspectives. Sections interrogate how classic texts have been adapted for the 21st century, how death has been politicized, ritualized, or metaphorized, visual strategies for representing death, and how death has been represented within the context of sport or play.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- Seitenzahl: 298
- Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2015
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 544g
- ISBN-13: 9781138815247
- ISBN-10: 1138815241
- Artikelnr.: 42457580
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- Seitenzahl: 298
- Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2015
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 544g
- ISBN-13: 9781138815247
- ISBN-10: 1138815241
- Artikelnr.: 42457580
Lesley D. Clement is currently at Lakehead-Orillia (Ontario, Canada). She is the author of Learning to Look: A Visual Response to Mavis Gallant's Fiction (2000). Her most recent research explores visual literacy, the visual imagination, empathy, and death in children's literature. Forthcoming is L.M. Montgomery's Rainbow Valleys: The Ontario Years, 1911-1942 (2015). Leyli Jamali is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literature and Translation Studies at Islamic Azad University in Tabriz, Iran. She is an editorial board member of Plath Profiles and IJALEL. She has published Daniel Defoe Revisited in Light of Lacan and Kristeva (2012) and Isms in Literature: A Conceptual Glossary (2013).
Introduction: Flying Kites and Other Life-Death Matters Lesley D. Clement
Part 1: Adapting Death for Changing Contexts 1.Thus did hearth-companions
grieve their lord's fall: Death, Mourning, and the Children's Beowulf
Daniel Pinti 2. Loyalty, Honor, and Death in Rick Riordan's Olympus Series
Ginger Stelle 3. A Deathly Underworld: Bulgarian Literature for Children of
the Early Twentieth Century Margarita Georgieva Part 2: Ritualizing Death
and Life after Death 4. Holy Death: Constructions of Martyrdom in Persian
Children's Literature on the Eight-Year War between Iraq and Iran Hossein
Sheykh Rezaee 5. Deadly Celebrations: Realistic Fiction Picture Books and
el Día de los Muertos Denise Dávila 6. The Soul in Contemporary YA
Literature Sonja Loidl Part 3: Politicizing Death 7. From Ultimate
Punishment to Heroic Sacrifice, and After: Representations of Death in
Bengali Children's Literature from the Colonial Era Urvi Mukhopadhyay 8. A
New Normal: Death and Dying in a Soviet Children's Magazine, 1941-1945
Julie deGraffenried 9. Contemporary Coming of Age(ncy) Narratives of
Political Violence and Death in El Salvador and Guatemala: "So that future
generations may be aware" Susana S. Martínez Part 4: Picturing Death 10.
The Last Resort: Death and Liminality in Children's Picture Books on Emily
Dickinson Lesley D. Clement 11. Old Age and Death in Northern European
Picture Books: Achieving Empathy through Textual and Filmic Images of
Sweden's Kan du Vissla Johanna Penni Cotton 12. Visual Narratives of Death
and Memory: The Holocaust in Two Contemporary European Picture Books
Magdalena Sikorska and Katarzyna Smyczy¿ska Part 5: Metaphorizing Death
13. Death, Politics, and Production of Childhoods through Children's
Literature Marek Tesar 14. Michael Ende's Philosophy of Death, Life, and
Time Maria Luisa Alonso 15. From the Ecological to the Digital: Salman
Rushdie's Many Lives of Storytelling Frans Weiser Part 6: Playing with
Death 16. Mocking Death in Brazilian Children's Folk Literature Rosana Kohl
Bines 17. Battling School: Death as Education in Ender's Game Susan Shau
Ming Tan 18. Machinic Liaisons: Death's Dance with Children in Markus
Zusak's The Book Thief Markus P.J. Bohlmann
Part 1: Adapting Death for Changing Contexts 1.Thus did hearth-companions
grieve their lord's fall: Death, Mourning, and the Children's Beowulf
Daniel Pinti 2. Loyalty, Honor, and Death in Rick Riordan's Olympus Series
Ginger Stelle 3. A Deathly Underworld: Bulgarian Literature for Children of
the Early Twentieth Century Margarita Georgieva Part 2: Ritualizing Death
and Life after Death 4. Holy Death: Constructions of Martyrdom in Persian
Children's Literature on the Eight-Year War between Iraq and Iran Hossein
Sheykh Rezaee 5. Deadly Celebrations: Realistic Fiction Picture Books and
el Día de los Muertos Denise Dávila 6. The Soul in Contemporary YA
Literature Sonja Loidl Part 3: Politicizing Death 7. From Ultimate
Punishment to Heroic Sacrifice, and After: Representations of Death in
Bengali Children's Literature from the Colonial Era Urvi Mukhopadhyay 8. A
New Normal: Death and Dying in a Soviet Children's Magazine, 1941-1945
Julie deGraffenried 9. Contemporary Coming of Age(ncy) Narratives of
Political Violence and Death in El Salvador and Guatemala: "So that future
generations may be aware" Susana S. Martínez Part 4: Picturing Death 10.
The Last Resort: Death and Liminality in Children's Picture Books on Emily
Dickinson Lesley D. Clement 11. Old Age and Death in Northern European
Picture Books: Achieving Empathy through Textual and Filmic Images of
Sweden's Kan du Vissla Johanna Penni Cotton 12. Visual Narratives of Death
and Memory: The Holocaust in Two Contemporary European Picture Books
Magdalena Sikorska and Katarzyna Smyczy¿ska Part 5: Metaphorizing Death
13. Death, Politics, and Production of Childhoods through Children's
Literature Marek Tesar 14. Michael Ende's Philosophy of Death, Life, and
Time Maria Luisa Alonso 15. From the Ecological to the Digital: Salman
Rushdie's Many Lives of Storytelling Frans Weiser Part 6: Playing with
Death 16. Mocking Death in Brazilian Children's Folk Literature Rosana Kohl
Bines 17. Battling School: Death as Education in Ender's Game Susan Shau
Ming Tan 18. Machinic Liaisons: Death's Dance with Children in Markus
Zusak's The Book Thief Markus P.J. Bohlmann
Introduction: Flying Kites and Other Life-Death Matters Lesley D. Clement
Part 1: Adapting Death for Changing Contexts 1.Thus did hearth-companions
grieve their lord's fall: Death, Mourning, and the Children's Beowulf
Daniel Pinti 2. Loyalty, Honor, and Death in Rick Riordan's Olympus Series
Ginger Stelle 3. A Deathly Underworld: Bulgarian Literature for Children of
the Early Twentieth Century Margarita Georgieva Part 2: Ritualizing Death
and Life after Death 4. Holy Death: Constructions of Martyrdom in Persian
Children's Literature on the Eight-Year War between Iraq and Iran Hossein
Sheykh Rezaee 5. Deadly Celebrations: Realistic Fiction Picture Books and
el Día de los Muertos Denise Dávila 6. The Soul in Contemporary YA
Literature Sonja Loidl Part 3: Politicizing Death 7. From Ultimate
Punishment to Heroic Sacrifice, and After: Representations of Death in
Bengali Children's Literature from the Colonial Era Urvi Mukhopadhyay 8. A
New Normal: Death and Dying in a Soviet Children's Magazine, 1941-1945
Julie deGraffenried 9. Contemporary Coming of Age(ncy) Narratives of
Political Violence and Death in El Salvador and Guatemala: "So that future
generations may be aware" Susana S. Martínez Part 4: Picturing Death 10.
The Last Resort: Death and Liminality in Children's Picture Books on Emily
Dickinson Lesley D. Clement 11. Old Age and Death in Northern European
Picture Books: Achieving Empathy through Textual and Filmic Images of
Sweden's Kan du Vissla Johanna Penni Cotton 12. Visual Narratives of Death
and Memory: The Holocaust in Two Contemporary European Picture Books
Magdalena Sikorska and Katarzyna Smyczy¿ska Part 5: Metaphorizing Death
13. Death, Politics, and Production of Childhoods through Children's
Literature Marek Tesar 14. Michael Ende's Philosophy of Death, Life, and
Time Maria Luisa Alonso 15. From the Ecological to the Digital: Salman
Rushdie's Many Lives of Storytelling Frans Weiser Part 6: Playing with
Death 16. Mocking Death in Brazilian Children's Folk Literature Rosana Kohl
Bines 17. Battling School: Death as Education in Ender's Game Susan Shau
Ming Tan 18. Machinic Liaisons: Death's Dance with Children in Markus
Zusak's The Book Thief Markus P.J. Bohlmann
Part 1: Adapting Death for Changing Contexts 1.Thus did hearth-companions
grieve their lord's fall: Death, Mourning, and the Children's Beowulf
Daniel Pinti 2. Loyalty, Honor, and Death in Rick Riordan's Olympus Series
Ginger Stelle 3. A Deathly Underworld: Bulgarian Literature for Children of
the Early Twentieth Century Margarita Georgieva Part 2: Ritualizing Death
and Life after Death 4. Holy Death: Constructions of Martyrdom in Persian
Children's Literature on the Eight-Year War between Iraq and Iran Hossein
Sheykh Rezaee 5. Deadly Celebrations: Realistic Fiction Picture Books and
el Día de los Muertos Denise Dávila 6. The Soul in Contemporary YA
Literature Sonja Loidl Part 3: Politicizing Death 7. From Ultimate
Punishment to Heroic Sacrifice, and After: Representations of Death in
Bengali Children's Literature from the Colonial Era Urvi Mukhopadhyay 8. A
New Normal: Death and Dying in a Soviet Children's Magazine, 1941-1945
Julie deGraffenried 9. Contemporary Coming of Age(ncy) Narratives of
Political Violence and Death in El Salvador and Guatemala: "So that future
generations may be aware" Susana S. Martínez Part 4: Picturing Death 10.
The Last Resort: Death and Liminality in Children's Picture Books on Emily
Dickinson Lesley D. Clement 11. Old Age and Death in Northern European
Picture Books: Achieving Empathy through Textual and Filmic Images of
Sweden's Kan du Vissla Johanna Penni Cotton 12. Visual Narratives of Death
and Memory: The Holocaust in Two Contemporary European Picture Books
Magdalena Sikorska and Katarzyna Smyczy¿ska Part 5: Metaphorizing Death
13. Death, Politics, and Production of Childhoods through Children's
Literature Marek Tesar 14. Michael Ende's Philosophy of Death, Life, and
Time Maria Luisa Alonso 15. From the Ecological to the Digital: Salman
Rushdie's Many Lives of Storytelling Frans Weiser Part 6: Playing with
Death 16. Mocking Death in Brazilian Children's Folk Literature Rosana Kohl
Bines 17. Battling School: Death as Education in Ender's Game Susan Shau
Ming Tan 18. Machinic Liaisons: Death's Dance with Children in Markus
Zusak's The Book Thief Markus P.J. Bohlmann