Playing with Picturebooks

Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-34004-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 201 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 274 g

Reihe: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature

Offers new insights into the continuing influence of postmodernism on a wide range of international picture books for children published between 1963 and 2008. Its chapters include metafiction; disruption to narrative conventions; interrogation of 'truths'; historiographic metafiction; difference and ex-centricity; globalisation and media.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allan, C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Looking Back Looking Beneath the Surface Destabilising Modes of Representation Disturbing the Air of Reality Interrogating Representations of the Past Problematising Unity through Ex-centricity and Difference Towards the Postmodernesque Picturebook (In)Conclusion: Looking Forward Notes References Index

Über Autor(innen)

CHERIE ALLAN is a Lecturer in Children's Literature at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She has also worked on a number of research projects for AustLit: the Australian Literature Resource and is affiliated with the Children and Youth Research Centre at QUT.