Theorising Oliver Jeffers' Picturebooks

From How to Catch a Star to Now
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-68941-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Literature

Theorising Oliver Jeffers’ Picturebooks examines semiotic, affective, and metafictive storytelling in Oliver Jeffers’ postmodern picturebooks from a multi-theoretical approach. This volume provides fresh insight into Jeffers’ iconotextual narratives through textual and visual analysis, exploring how his multimodal texts construct childhood and evoke emotional resonances. The book deconstructs the postmodernity of these narratives, highlighting Jeffers' contemporary methods of storytelling through an exploration of the texts’ metafictive and self-reflective elements. From How to Catch a Star (2004) to Where to Hide a Star (2024), this book journeys through the mindscapes of Jeffers’ design and analyses the nuances of metafictive storytelling from a postmodern perspective.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dillon-Craig, Jade

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. From How to Catch a Star to Now

The importance of Oliver Jeffers as an Irish author in the picturebook canon

Oliver Jeffers’ picturebook career… so far

A multi-theoretical approach to Oliver Jeffers’ picturebooks

2. Theorising Visual Aesthetics

What is a picturebook?

Reading the Visual

3. Exploring Semiotics and Curiosities

Semiotic curiosities in “The Boy” series

Semiotics of child cognition in Stuck

Curious semiotics in “The Hueys” series

4. Affective Spaces and Mindscapes Space, Place and Non-Place in The Heart and the Bottle

Affective (mis)Understandings and Cognitive Growth in This Moose Belongs to Me

Affective Semiotics in Jeffers’ Picturebooks

5. Embodied Metafiction

Blurring Textual Boundaries

Playfulness as Form

Intertextuality, Interpictoriality, and Self-Referentiality

Postmodern Picturebooks and Metafictional Synergy

6. Pedagogical Perspectives

Pedagogical Approaches for using Picturebooks in Primary School Contexts

Exploring Thematic Content and Deep-Dialogic Reading through Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth

Engaging with Multimodality and Aesthetic (Visual) Reading through The Great Paper Caper

Learning through Metafiction and Metacognition

Epilogue: Where to Next?

Über Autor(innen)

Jade Dillon-Craig is Associate Professor of Children’s Literature and Young Learners at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. She is the co-editor of Family in Children’s and Young Adult Literature (Routledge, 2023) and has published several book chapters and articles related to children’s literature, Alice studies, fairy tales, and visual texts for young readers. She is editor of the Children’s Literature in English Language Education journal and a founding board member of the Association for Research on Children’s Literature in English in Norway. Originally from Co. Limerick in Ireland, Jade now resides in Trondheim, Norway with her husband, Marcus, and their ragdoll cat, Mona.