By Shelby Wolf, Karen Coats, Patricia Enciso, Christine Jenkins
ISBN-10: 0415965055
ISBN-13: 9780415965057
This landmark quantity is the 1st to assemble prime scholarship on children’s and younger grownup literature from 3 intersecting disciplines: schooling, English, and Library and knowledge technological know-how. distinct by way of its multidisciplinary technique, it describes and analyzes different features of literary studying, texts, and contexts to light up how the ebook is reworked inside and throughout diverse educational figurations of interpreting and studying children’s literature.
- Part one considers views on readers and studying literature in domestic, college, library, and group settings.
- Part two introduces analytic frames for learning younger grownup novels, picturebooks, indigenous literature, picture novels, and different genres. Chapters contain statement on literary stories and artistic construction from well known authors and illustrators.
- Part three makes a speciality of the social contexts of literary research, with chapters on censorship, awards, advertising and marketing, and literary museums.
The singular contribution of this Handbook is to put the foundation for colleagues throughout disciplines to redraw the map in their individually figured worlds, hence to amplify the scope of scholarship and discussion in addition to push forward into uncharted territory.