Mallan Contemporary Children's Literature and Film

Engaging with Theory
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-34530-0
Verlag: Macmillan Education
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Ebook (PDF)

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book argues for the significance of theory for reading texts written and produced for young people. Integrating perspectives from across feminism, ecocriticism, postcolonialism and poststructuralism, it demonstrates how these inform approaches to a range of contemporary literature and film.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mallan, Kerry

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures.- Notes on Contributors.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Bringing Back Theory; K.Mallan & C.Bradford.- Schemas and Scripts: Cognitive Instruments and the Representation of Cultural Diversity in Children's Literature; J.Stephens.- Journeying Subjects: Spatiality and Identity in Children's Texts; C.Bradford & R.Baccolini.- Local and Global: Cultural Globalisation, Consumerism and Children's Fiction; E.Bullen & K.Mallan.- Monstrous Women: Gothic Misogyny in Monster House; M.Takolander.- Splitting the Difference: Pleasure, Desire and Intersubjectivity in Children's Literature and Film; C.Wilkie-Stubbs.- Children as Ecocitizens: Ecocriticism and Environmental Texts; G.Massey & C.Bradford.- From 'Wizard' to 'Wicked': Adaptation Theory and Young Adult Fiction; D.Buchbinder.- All That Matters: Technoscience, Critical Theory and Children's Fiction; K.Mallan.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

KERRY MALLAN is Professor in Education at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Her co-edited book Youth Cultures: Texts, Images and Identities is an IRSCL Honour Book (2003). She is a co-author of New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature (2008). Her most recent book is Gender Dilemmas in Children's Fiction (2009). CLARE BRADFORD is Professor of Literature at Deakin University, Australia. Her 2001 book, Reading Race, won both the ChLA Book Award and the IRSCL Award. She is a co-author of New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature (2008). Her most recent book is Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature (2007).