O'Sullivan Comparative Children's Literature

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-134-40485-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten

WINNER OF THE 2007 CHLA BOOK AWARD!

Children's literature has transcended linguistic and cultural borders since books and magazines for young readers were first produced, with popular books translated throughout the world.

Emer O'Sullivan traces the history of comparative children's literature studies, from the enthusiastic internationalism of the post-war period – which set out from the idea of a supra-national world republic of childhood – to modern comparative criticism. Drawing on the scholarship and children's literature of many cultures and languages, she outlines the constituent areas that structure the field, including contact and transfer studies, intertextuality studies, intermediality studies and image studies. In doing so, she provides the first comprehensive overview of this exciting new research area. Comparative Children's Literature also links the fields of narratology and translation studies, to develop an original and highly valuable communicative model of translation.

Taking in issues of children's 'classics', the canon and world literature for children, Comparative Children's Literature reveals that this branch of literature is not as genuinely international as it is often fondly assumed to be and is essential reading for those interested in the consequences of globalization on children's literature and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Sullivan, Emer

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Comparative Literature and Children's Literature The comparative context Paul Hazard: a comparatist turns to children's literature Approaches to comparative children's literature Constituent Areas of Comparative Children's Literature 2. Theory of children's literature Narrative communication The addressees Status 3. Contact and transfer studies Contact, transfer and reception International mediators Specifics of the translation of children's literature Non-translation and delayed reception Cross-cultural development of literary traditions 4. Comparative poetics Literary children's literature Humour Themes and motifs 5. Intertextuality studies 6. Intermediality studies 7. Image studies Culture-specific topographies The extra-textual function of images Poetological aspects of the representation of foreigners Constancy and change in the representation of other nations 8. Comparative genre studies 9. Comparative historiography of children's literature 10. Comparative history of children's literature studies 11. The interlinking of different areas of comparative study 12. The Development, Culture-specific Status and International Exchange of Children's Literatures A model of the development of children's literature The North West European model Contravening the standard model (I): Black Africa Contravening the standard model (II): Ireland The culture-specific status of children's literature Concepts of childhood Status-relevant functions of children's literature The international exchange of children's literature The economic dimension: a historic example Translations in Europe and the USA The imbalance of international exchange Western classics 13. Children's Literature in Translation From translation theory to translation studies A child-centred theory of translation A functionalist and narratological approach The influence of cultural and linguistic norms in translation Changes of characterization and conduct Physicality and prudery Conflict of linguistic norms Assumptions about the competence of young readers Foreignness Adaptation of references Levelling out cultural differences in international coproductions 14. The implied Translator and the implied Reader in Translated Children's Literature Agencies of communication in translated narratives The voice of the translator and the voice of the narrator of the translation The voice of the translator in paratexts The narrator of the translation Amplifying narration Reductive narration Drowning out the narrator of the source text The translation of Edward Lear's The Story of the Four Little Children who went round the World by Josef Guggenmos The translation of Michel Gay's Papa Vroum by Margo Lundell The translation of Leo Lionni's Swimmy by James Krüss The translation of John Burningham's Granpa by Irina Korschunow 15. World Literature and Children's Classics 'Weltliteratur' and the canon Children's classics Selection and reception of children's classics The transmission of classics: Pinocchio Pinocchio in the German-speaking countries Pinocchio in the USA Pinocchio in mass culture The range of transmission of Pinocchio The transmission of classics of children's literature Children's literature and comparative children's literature in the age of globalization 16. Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources List of Figures Fig. 1: Six-part model of narrative communication, based on Chatman 1978. Fig. 2: Seated goat without udder from A Squash and a Squeeze (Donaldson/Scheffler 1993). Fig. 3: The Scissors of International Coproduction. Drawing by Axel Scheffler in Die Zeit 46, 6 November 1992. Fig. 4. Illustration with inconsistent bilingual text from Kästner 1980. Fig. 5. Translation in narrative communication, incorporating the implied translator and the implied reader of the translation ['' denotes narrator and narratee]. Fig. 6. Scheme of the translated narrative text and all its agencies (st = source text, tt = target text)

Über Autor(innen)

Emer O'Sullivan is Professor for Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Lüneburg, Germany. Her book, Kinderliterarische Komparastik, on which this book is based, won the International Research Society for Children's Literature Award for Outstanding Research in August 2001.