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Picturebooks: Representation and Narration
Introduction: Picturebooks between Representation and Narration Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer Part 1: Crossing Genre Boundaries: Artists’ Books, Wordless Picturebooks and Picturebooks for Adults 1. Picturebooks for Adults Åse Marie Ommundsen 2. Artists’ Books, Altered Books and Picturebooks Carole Scott 3. The Art of Visual Storytelling: Formal Strategies in Wordless Picturebooks Sandra L. Beckett 4. Texts and Peritexts in Wordless and Almost Wordless Picturebooks Emma Bosch 5. Wordless Picturebooks: Critical and Educational Perspectives on Meaning-making Evelyn Arizpe Part 2: Change, Emotions, and Hybridity: Characters in Picturebooks 6. 'Thought and dream are heavenly vehicles'. Character, Bildung, and Aesthetics in Stian Hole's Garmann Triology (2006-2010) Nina Christensen 7. "The Penguin Looked Sad": Picturebooks, Empathy, and Theory of Mind Maria Nikolajeva 8. Understanding the Matchstick Man. Aesthetic and Narrative Properties of a Hybrid Picturebook Character Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Jörg Meibauer Part 3: Interpictoriality and Visual Clues in Picturebooks 9. An Approximation to Intertextuality in Picturebooks: Anthony Browne and his Hypotexts Maria José Lobato and Beatriz Hoster Cabo 10. Audience, Theme, and Symbolism in Wolf Erlbruch’s Picturebook "Duck, Death and th Tulip" Janet Evans 11. Learn to Read. Learn to Live. The Role of Books and Book Collections in Picturebooks Nina Goga 12. Prologue and Epilogue Pictures s in Astrid Lindgren’s Picturebooks Agnes-Margrethe Bjorvand
Biography
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer is Professor in the German Department at the University of Tübingen, Germany. She held the position of guest professor for children’s literature at the University of Växjö, Sweden, and the University of Vienna, Austria. She is editor of Emergent Literacy. Children’s books from 0 to 3 (2011), and co-editor of New Directions in Picturebook Research (2010), and Beyond Pippi Longstocking. Intermedial and International Aspects of Astrid Lindgren’s Works (2011).
"Overall, this collection offers valuable scholarship on picturebooks, narratives, and visual literacies. Each essay is immensely readable and offers news ideas for deliberation, which is essential as visual and mutlimodal literacies continue their segue as communication media." -- Rachel Skrlac Lo, University of Pennsylvania, Bookbird, Vol. 53, No. 1, 2015
