Maria Nikolajeva, Carole Scott

How Picturebooks Work

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Looks at the interplay between text and image in picturebooks. This book explores picturebooks as a specific medium or genre in literature and culture, one that prepares children for other media of communication, and argues that picturebooks may be the most influential media of all in the socialization and representation of children.

Produktdetails

• Children's Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9780415979689
• ISBN-10: 0415979684
• Artikelnr.: 21764548

Autorenporträt

Maria Nikolajeva is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at both Stockholm University and Åbo Academy University. Carole Scott is Professor of English and Former Dean of Undergraduate Studies at San Diego State University. She supervises the Graduate Specialization in Children's Literature at SDSU.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor's Foreword. Acknowledgments. Illustration Acknowledgments.
Introduction. 1. Whose book is it? 2. Setting 3. Characterization 4.
Narrative Perspective 5. Time and Movement 6. Mimesis and Modality 7.
Figurative Language, Metafiction, and Intertext 8. Picturebook Parents
Conclusion. Bibliography. Index of Names. Index of Titles. Subject Index