Claudia Mills

Ethics and Children's Literature (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about children's literature, this collection examines the way texts intended for children raise questions of value, depict the moral development of their characters, and call into attention shared moral presuppositions. Even as children's literature has evolved in opposition to its origins in didactic Sunday school tracts and moralizing fables, authors, parents, librarians, and scholars remain sensitive to the values conveyed to children through the texts they choose to share with them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317141396
• Artikelnr.: 45095677

Autorenporträt

Claudia Mills is Associate Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. She is the author of many books for children, most recently Zero Tolerance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I The Dilemma of Didacticism: Attempts to Shape Children as Moral
Beings
1 Transmitting Ethics through Books of Golden Deeds for Children Claudia
Nelson
2 Sermonizing in New York: The Children's Magazines of Mary Mapes Dodge and
Jose Marti Emma Adelaida Otheguy
3 Talking to Children about Race: Children's Literature in a Segregated
Era, 1930-1945 Moira Hinderer
Part II Ethical Themes in Classic and Contemporary Texts
4 Discernment and the Moral Life in Prince Caspian and the Later Narnia
Chronicles Emanuelle Burton
5 Making a Difference: Ethical Recognition through Otherness in Madelein
L'Engle's Fiction Mary Jeanette Moran
6 A Prosaics of the Hundred Acre Wood: Ethics in A. A. Milne's Winnie the
Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner Niall Nance-Carroll
7 Virtuous Transgressors, Not Moral Saints: Protagonists in Contemporary
Children's Literature Jani L. Barker
8 Model Children, Little Rebels, and Moral Transgressors: Virtuous
Childhood Images in Taiwanese Juvenile Fiction in the 1960s Andrea Mei-Ying
Wu
Part III Ethical Criticism of Children's Literature
9 The Rights and Wrongs of Anthropomorphism in Picture Books Lisa Rowe
Fraustino
10 Lewis, Tolkien, and the Ethics of Imaginary Wars Suzanne Rahn
11 Heeding Rousseau's Advice: Some Ethical Reservations about Addressing
Prejudice through Children's Literature Claudia Mills
Part IV Ethical Responses to Children's Literature: Identification,
Recognition, Adaptation, Conversation
12 The Ethics of Reading Narrative Voice: An Anti-Bakhtinian View Leona W.
Fisher
13 Prizing Social Justice: The Jane Addams Children's Book Award Ramona
Caponegro
14 Katniss Everdeen's Emerging Moral Consciousness in The Hunger Games
Martha Rainbolt
15 Using Children's Literature as a Spark for Ethical Discussion: Stories
that Deal with Death Sara Goering