Literature's children : the critical child and the art of idealization / Louise Joy.
Literature's children : the critical child and the art of idealization / Louise Joy.
Literature's children : the critical child and the art of idealization / Louise Joy.
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Publisher
London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.
Call Numbers
G 2020/1753
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Language
English
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Physical content
vii, 247 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction. Didacticism -- The child as critic -- Critical thinking -- The child in thought -- Practical criticism -- Literature's children -- Part 1. The critical child. Eighteenth-century children's poetry and the complexity of the child's mind -- Laughter and the permission to critique -- Part...
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Publisher
London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2019.
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Summary
"Literature's Children offers a new way of thinking about how literature for children functions didactically. It analyses the nature of the practical critical activity which the child reader carries out, emphasising what the child does to the text rather than what he or she receives from it. Through close readings of a range of so-called 'Golden Ag...
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Literature's children : the critical child and the art of idealization / Louise Joy.
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Bloomsbury perspectives on children's literature
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-237) and index.
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©2019
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G 2020/1753
Record Identifier
74VKaDrL2EOg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaDrL2EOg
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ISBN
9781472577191
DDC
809.89282
MMS ID
991024298614202626
