Binding: Paperback
Description: How has children's literature been defined? In what ways has it changed over time? How are the classics of children's literature established? What is the impact of digital media and globalization on books for children? Children's Literature: Approaches and Territories provides a social and literary overview of the field of Anglophone children's literature: its history and genres its current concerns and its possible future directions. Emphasising how children's literature is embedded in the social life of children and adults the collection brings together lively and accessible scholarly essays by leading scholars some reprinted and others newly commissioned. It includes sections on poetry drama and picture books and is supported by detailed introductory material suggestions for further reading and a colour plate section reproducing illustrations from key children's texts.
Title: Children's Literature: Approaches And Territories
Author(s): Watson Nicola J.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9780230227132
Pages: 432 Pages, 432 P.
Publication Date: 9/1/2009
Category: Children's & Teenage Literature Studies: General