Ann Lucas

The Presence of the Past in Children's Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Time is one of the most prominent themes in the relatively young genre of children's literature, for the young, like adults, want to know about the past. This book explores how children's writers have treated the theme and concept of time. The volume starts with the application of literary theory and additionally analyzes examples of the juvenile historical novel. In doing so, it also examines changing fashions in criticism and publishing and the pressure they exert on writers. It then considers literary adaptations of myths and archetypes, constructions of history in children's literature, colonial and postcolonial children's fiction, and the treatment of the past in the postmodern era. The book looks at literature from around the world, and the expert contributors are from diverse countries and backgrounds. While the book looks primarily at literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, it considers a broad range of historical material treated in works from that period. Included are discussions of such topics as Joan of Arc in children's literature, the legacy of Robinson Crusoe, colonial and postcolonial children's literature, the Holocaust, and the supernatural. International in scope, the volume examines history and collective memory in Portuguese children's fiction, Australian history in picture books, Norwegian children's literature, and literary treatments of the great Irish famine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 569g
• ISBN-13: 9780313324833
• ISBN-10: 0313324832
• Artikelnr.: 21969266

Autorenporträt

ANN LAWSON LUCAS is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Hull.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Past in the Present of Children's Literature by Ann
Lawson Lucas Presenting the Past--Writers, Books, Critics: Theoretical
Approaches Fiction versus History: History's Ghosts by Danielle Thaler From
Literary Text to Literary Field: Boys' Fiction in Norway between the Two
World Wars: a Re-reading by Rolf Romøren Historical Friction: Shifting
Ideas of Objective Reality in History and Fiction by Deborah Stevenson
Myths Modernized: Adapting Archetypes from Fact and Fiction In and Out of
History: Jeanne d'Arc by Maurice Boutet de Monvel by Isabelle
Nières-Chevrel Re-inventing the Maid: Images of Joan of Arc in French and
English Children's Literature by Penny Brown History and Collective Memory
in Contemporary Portuguese Literature for the Young by Francesca Blockeel
The Descendants of Robinson Crusoe in North American Children's Literature
by Tina L. Hanlon Adventures in History Constructions of History in
Victorian and Edwardian Children's Books by Thomas Kullmann 'Tis a Hundred
Years Since: G. A. Henty's With Clive in India (1884) and Philip Pullman's
The Tin Princess (1994) by Dennis Butts Colonial, Postcolonial Doctor
Dolittle and the Empire: Hugh Lofting's Response to British Colonialism by
David Steege Picturing Australian History: Visual Texts in Nonfiction for
Children by Clare Bradford Narrative Tensions: Telling Slavery, Showing
Violence by Paula T. Connolly Narrative Challenges: The Great Irish Famine
in Recent Stories for Children by Celia Keenan War, Postwar On the Use of
Books for Children in Creating the German National Myth by Zohar Shavit
Reverberations of the Anne Frank Diaries in Contemporary German and British
Children's Literature by Susan Tebbutt War Boys: The Autobiographical
Representation of History in Text and Image in Michael Foreman's War Boy
and Tomi Ungerer's Die Gedanken sind frei (1993) by Gillian Lathey Modern,
Postmodern: Questions of Time and Place "House and Garden": The Time-Slip
Story in the Aftermath of the Second World War by Linda Hall The Past
Re-Imagined: History and Literary Creation in British Children's Novels
after World War Two by Adrienne E. Gavin England's Dark Ages? The
North-East in Robert Westall's The Wind Eye and Andrew Taylor's The Coal
House by Pamela Knights Masculine, Feminism--and the History of Fantasy
Re-Presenting a History of the Future: Dan Dare and Eagle by Tony Watkins
The "Masculine Mystique" Revisioned in The Earthsea Quartet by Yoshida
Junko Witch-figures in Recent Children's Fiction: The Subarltern and the
Subversive by John Stephens The Future for Children's Literature The Duty
of Internet Internationalism: Roald Dahls of the World, Unite! by Jean
Perrot Selected Bibliography Index