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Four British Fantasists
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Author : Catherine Butler
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2006
Four British Fantasists written by Catherine Butler and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Children's stories, English categories.
Explores the work of four of the successful of the generation of fantasy writers who rose to prominence in the second Golden Age of children's literature in Britain.
Four British Fantasists
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Author : Charles Butler
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2006-04-25
Four British Fantasists written by Charles Butler and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Four British Fantasists explores the work of four of the most successful and influential of the generation of fantasy writes who rose to prominence in the "second Golden Age" of children's literature in Britain: Susan Cooper, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Penelope Lively.
Four British Fantasists
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Author : Charles Butler
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2006-04-01
Four British Fantasists written by Charles Butler and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Children S Literature And British Identity
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Author : Rebecca Knuth
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2012-04-12
Children S Literature And British Identity written by Rebecca Knuth and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
For more than 250 years, English children’s literature has transmitted values to the next generation. The stories convey to children what they should identify with and aspire to, even as notions of “goodness” change over time. Through reading, children absorb an ethos of Englishness that grounds personal identity and underpins national consciousness. Such authors as Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien, and J. K. Rowling have entertained, motivated, confronted social wrongs, and transmitted cultural mores in their works—functions previously associated with folklore. Their stories form a new folklore tradition that provides social glue and supports a love of England and English values. In Children’s Literature and British Identity: Imagining a People and a Nation, Rebecca Knuth follows the development of the genre, focusing on how stories inspire children to adhere to the morals of society. This book examines how this tradition came to fruition, exploring the works of several authors, including: Robert Baden-Powell Robert Ballantyne J. M. Barrie Enid Blyton Angela Brazil Frances Hodgson Burnett Randolph Caldecott Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Daniel Defoe Charles Dickens Maria Edgeworth Kenneth Grahame Kate Greenaway G. A. Henty Thomas Hughes Charles Kingsley Rudyard Kipling C.S. Lewis A. A. Milne Hannah More E. Nesbit John Newbery George Orwell Beatrix Potter Arthur Ransome Frank Richards J. K. Rowling Anna Sewell Robert Louis Stevenson J. R. R. Tolkien P. L. Travers Sarah Trimmer Charlotte Yonge Evaluating the connection between children’s literature and the dissemination and formation of identity, this book will appeal to both general readers and academics who are interested in librarianship, English culture, and children’s literature.
British Children S Literature In Japanese Culture
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Author : Catherine Butler
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-09-21
British Children S Literature In Japanese Culture written by Catherine Butler and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
Whether watching Studio Ghibli adaptations of British children's books, visiting Harry Potter sites in Britain or eating at Alice in Wonderland-themed restaurants in Tokyo, the Japanese have a close and multifaceted relationship with British children's literature. In this, the first comprehensive study to explore this engagement, Catherine Butler considers its many manifestations in print, on the screen, in tourist locations and throughout Japanese popular culture. Taking stock of the influence of literary works such as Gulliver's Travels, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Tom's Midnight Garden, and the Harry Potter series, this lively account draws on literary criticism, translation, film and tourist studies to explore how British children's books have been selected, translated, understood, adapted and reworked into Japanese commercial, touristic and imaginative culture. Using theoretically informed case studies this book will consider both individual texts and their wider cultural contexts, translations and adaptations (such as the numerous adaptations of British children's books by Studio Ghibli and others), the dissemination of distinctive tropes such as magical schools into Japanese children's literature and popular culture, and the ways in which British children's books and their settings have become part of way that Japanese people understand Britain itself.
Four Christian Fantasists
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Author : Richard Sturch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Four Christian Fantasists written by Richard Sturch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Christian fiction, English categories.
British Working Class Writing For Children
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Author : Haru Takiuchi
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-08-21
British Working Class Writing For Children written by Haru Takiuchi and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores how working-class writers in the 1960s and 1970s significantly reshaped British children’s literature through their representations of working-class life and culture. Aidan Chambers, Alan Garner and Robert Westall were examples of what Richard Hoggart termed ‘scholarship boys’: working-class individuals who were educated out of their class through grammar school education. This book highlights the role these writers played in changing the publishing and reviewing practices of the British children's literature industry while offering new readings of their novels featuring scholarship boys. As well as drawing on the work of Raymond Williams and Pierre Bourdieu, and referring to studies of scholarship boys in the fields of social science and education, this book also explores personal interviews and previously-unseen archival materials. Yielding significant insights on British children’s literature of the period, this book will be of particular interest to scholars and students in the fields of children’s and working-class literature and of British popular culture.
Fantasy And The Real World In British Children S Literature
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Author : Caroline Webb
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-09-15
Fantasy And The Real World In British Children S Literature written by Caroline Webb and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study examines the children’s books of three extraordinary British writers—J.K. Rowling, Diana Wynne Jones, and Terry Pratchett—and investigates their sophisticated use of narrative strategies not only to engage children in reading, but to educate them into becoming mature readers and indeed individuals. The book demonstrates how in quite different ways these writers establish reader expectations by drawing on conventions in existing genres only to subvert those expectations. Their strategies lead young readers to evaluate for themselves both the power of story to shape our understanding of the world and to develop a sense of identity and agency. Rowling, Jones, and Pratchett provide their readers with fantasies that are pleasurable and imaginative, but far from encouraging escape from reality, they convey important lessons about the complexities and challenges of the real world—and how these may be faced and solved. All three writers deploy the tropes and imaginative possibilities of fantasy to disturb, challenge, and enlarge the world of their readers.
Pagan Themes In Modern Children S Fiction
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Author : P. Bramwell
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-03-31
Pagan Themes In Modern Children S Fiction written by P. Bramwell and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-31 with Fiction categories.
Applying a range of critical approaches to works by authors including Susan Cooper, Catherine Fisher, Geraldine McCaughrean, Anthony Horowitz and Philip Pullman, this book looks at the formative and interrogative relationship between recent children's literature and fashionable but controversial aspects of modern Paganism.
The Making Of Modern Children S Literature In Britain
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Author : Lucy Pearson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03
The Making Of Modern Children S Literature In Britain written by Lucy Pearson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Lucy Pearson’s lively and engaging book examines British children’s literature during the period widely regarded as a ’second golden age’. Drawing extensively on archival material, Pearson investigates the practical and ideological factors that shaped ideas of ’good’ children’s literature in Britain, with particular attention to children’s book publishing. Pearson begins with a critical overview of the discourse surrounding children’s literature during the 1960s and 1970s, summarizing the main critical debates in the context of the broader social conversation that took place around children and childhood. The contributions of publishing houses, large and small, to changing ideas about children’s literature become apparent as Pearson explores the careers of two enormously influential children’s editors: Kaye Webb of Puffin Books and Aidan Chambers of Topliner Macmillan. Brilliant as an innovator of highly successful marketing strategies, Webb played a key role in defining what were, in her words, ’the best in children’s books’, while Chambers’ work as an editor and critic illustrates the pioneering nature of children's publishing during this period. Pearson shows that social investment was a central factor in the formation of this golden age, and identifies its legacies in the modern publishing industry, both positive and negative.