Poetics of Children's Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poetics of Children's Literature write by Zohar Shavit. This book was released on 2009-11-01. Poetics of Children's Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since its emergence in the seventeenth century as a distinctive cultural system, children's literature has had a culturally inferior status resulting from its existence in a netherworld between the literary system and the educational system. In addition to its official readership—children—it has to be approved of by adults. Writers for children, explains Zohar Shavit, are constrained to respond to these multiple systems of often mutually contradictory demands. Most writers do not try to bypass these constraints, but accept them as a framework for their work. In the most extreme cases an author may ignore one segment of the readership. If the adult reader is ignored, the writer risks rejection, as is the case of popular literature. If the writer utilizes the child as a pseudo addressee in order to appeal to an adult audience, the result can be what Shavit terms an ambivalent work. Shavit analyzes the conventions and the moral aims that have structured children's literature, from the fairy tales collected and reworked by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm—in particular, “Little Red Riding Hood”—through the complex manipulations of Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, to the subversion of the genre's canonical requirements in the chapbooks of the eighteenth century, and in the formulaic Nancy Drew books of the twentieth century. Throughout her study Shavit, explores not only how society has shaped children's literature, but also how society has been reflected in the literary works it produces for its children.
The Poetics of Childhood
The Poetics of Childhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Poetics of Childhood write by Roni Natov. This book was released on 2014-06-03. The Poetics of Childhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry
The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry write by Katherine Wakely-Mulroney. This book was released on 2017-11-01. The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection gives sustained attention to the literary dimensions of children’s poetry from the eighteenth century to the present. While reasserting the importance of well-known voices, such as those of Isaac Watts, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, A. A. Milne, and Carol Ann Duffy, the contributors also reflect on the aesthetic significance of landmark works by less frequently celebrated figures such as Richard Johnson, Ann and Jane Taylor, Cecil Frances Alexander and Michael Rosen. Scholarly treatment of children’s poetry has tended to focus on its publication history rather than to explore what comprises – and why we delight in – its idiosyncratic pleasures. And yet arguments about how and why poetic language might appeal to the child are embroiled in the history of children’s poetry, whether in Isaac Watts emphasising the didactic efficacy of “like sounds,” William Blake and the Taylor sisters revelling in the beauty of semantic ambiguity, or the authors of nonsense verse jettisoning sense to thrill their readers with the sheer music of poetry. Alive to the ways in which recent debates both echo and repudiate those conducted in earlier periods, The Aesthetics of Children’s Poetry investigates the stylistic and formal means through which children’s poetry, in theory and in practice, negotiates the complicated demands we have made of it through the ages.
A Child's Book of Poems
A Child's Book of Poems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Child's Book of Poems write by . This book was released on 2007. A Child's Book of Poems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood.
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Random House Book of Poetry for Children write by Jack Prelutsky. This book was released on 1983-09-12. The Random House Book of Poetry for Children available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The most accessible and joyous introduction to the world of poetry! The Random House Book of Poetry for Children offers both funny and illuminating poems for kids personally selected by the nation's first Children's Poet Laureate, Jack Prelutsky. Featuring a wealth of beloved classic poems from the past and modern glittering gems, every child who opens this treasury will finda world of surprises and delights which will instill a lifelong love of poetry. Featuring 572 unforgettable poems, and over 400 one-of-a-kind illustrations from the Caldecott-winning illustrator of the Frog and Toad series, Arnold Lobel, this collection is, quite simply, the perfect way to introduce children to the world of poetry.
