302 Pages
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Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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Children's literature provides a medium through which writers re-create or approximate the sensibility of a child. But what exactly is this sensibility, and how does it find creative expression in adulthood? What language can portray the seemingly untranslatable experience of a child?
The Poetics of Childhood , winner of the 2005 International Research Society for Children's Literature Award,... Read more
Introduction Chapter 1: Constructions of Innocence Chapter 2: Carroll and Grahame: Two Versions of Pastoral Chapter 3: The Body of the Mother Chapter 4: Childhood and the Green World Chapter 5: The Dark Pastoral Chapter 6: The Antipastoral Chapter 7: The Contemporary Child in Adult Literature Chapter 8: The Contemporary Child in Children's Literature
Biography
Roni Natov
"The Poetics of Childhood is a sterling contribution to the internationally renowned Children's Literature and Culture series... Natov's commanding work ... demonstrates for me the power of the fine art of close reading in the hands of an experienced reader and writer of literary criticism." -- Children's Literature Association Quarterly
"The Poetics of Childhood is likely to become one of those essential reference books all scholars of children's literature and the literature of childhood will need to have on their shelves." -- Lydia Kokkola
