1st Edition
Fundamental Concepts of Children’s Literature Research Literary and Sociological Approaches
Series Editor’s Foreword
Introduction
Part I: Literary Communication with Children and Young People
1. Children’s Literary Communication
2. Different Forms of Children’s Literary Messages
3. Children’s Literature as Literature for Mediators
4. Children’s Literature as Twofold Communication
5. Children’s Literature as Reading Material for Adults
Part II: Children’s Literary Distribution and Evaluation Systems
6. Children’s Literary Action Systems
7. The Market for Children’s Books and Media
8. Children’s Books and Media as an Action System in Public Libraries
9. "School Reading" as a Selection and Distribution System
10. The "children’s book" pedagogic action system
11. The "children’s public literary forum" Action System
12. Historical Change in Distribution and Evaluation Systems for Children’s Literature.
13. Children’s Literary Polysystems and their Providers
Part III: Semiotics of Children’s and Young Adult Literature
14. Children’s Literary Symbol Systems
15. Fundamental Children’s Literary Norms
16. Children’s Literary Concepts
17. Children’s Literary Discourse
Part IV: Children’s Literature as Literature Suitable for Children and Young People
18. Child Suitability: Accommodation and Assimilation
19. Forms of Child Suitability: Forms of Accommodation
20. Child Suitability as a Basis for Textual Analysis
21. External and Internal Suitability
Notes
Index
Biography
Ewers is Professor of German Literature with a focus on Children's Literature at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt/Main and Director of the "Institut für Jugendbuchforschung" (Institute for Children's Literature Research).
