C. Bradford

Gebundenes Buch

The Middle Ages in Children's Literature

Beschreibung

Children grow up surrounded by stories, motifs, characters and themes which respond to the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages in Children's Literature explores the use and abuse of the medieval in children's literature, the many forms in which it appears, and its enduring capacity to enchant the young.

Autor

Clare Bradford is Professor of Literary Studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Her books include Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature (2001), Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature (2007), and New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature: Utopian Transformations (with Kerry Mallan, John Stephens and Robyn McCallum, 2008).

Produktdetails

• Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-03538-7
• 2015
• Seitenzahl: 209
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 144mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9781137035387
• ISBN-10: 1137035382
• Artikelnr.: 41396060

Rezensionen

"In The Middle Ages in Children's Literature, Clare Bradford analyzes how the Middle Ages is depicted in children's literature ... . the broad and impressive scope of her work shows the exciting ways that critical theory can help enrich the scholarship in children's literature. ... offer readers not only a world of enchantment, but also a way to confront contemporary social questions in a space distant from the present in the present past." (Johanna Denzin, The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol. 40 (3), September, 2016)

"With admirable economy, Bradford covers a great deal of theoretical ground, applying to children's literature ideas about temporality, spatiality, and the monstrous, as well as concepts drawn from disability studies, animal studies, and humor theory. ... Full of useful insights, the book will be of much more value to those interested in Contemporary critical theory than to readers who want to know about the Middle Ages in children's literature." (Rebecca Barnhouse, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Vol. 42, (4),2014)