Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog.
Note: Contents data are machine generated based on pre-publication provided by the publisher. Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete or contain other coding.
Contents Preface Introduction: Do We Need a Separate Aesthetics for Children's Literature? 1 The Aesthetic of the Author The Person Behind the Book (traditional biographical approaches) The Author on the Analyst's Couch (psychoanalysis) What Does It Mean: "To Write Like a Woman"? (gender studies) 2 The Aesthetic of the Work Interpreting the Signs (semiotics) From the Whole to Details--and Back (hermeneutics) Textual Crossroads (intertextuality) 3 The Aesthetic of the Genre Labeling (traditional approaches) Literature as Displacement of Myth (archetypal theory) 4 The Aesthetic of the Content Literature as a Mirror (mimetic approaches) Literature as an Inner Journey (Jungian theory) Literature as Time-Out (carnival theory) 5 The Aesthetic of Composition Beginning, Middle, and End (traditional approaches) A Grammar of Stories (formalism and structuralism) What Makes a Story? (narrative theory) 6 The Aesthetic of the Scene Time and Place (traditional approaches) Timespace (chronotope theory) 7 The Aesthetic of Character Characters as Actors (structural approaches) Characters as People (mimetic approaches) From Gender Roles to Gender Performance (gender theories) The Patricidal Child (Freudian theory) Characters as Design (narrative theory) 8 The Aesthetic of Narration Who Is Telling the Story? (traditional approaches) The Voice and the View (narrative theory) 9 The Aesthetic of Language Elements of Style (literary stylistics) Language as Power (sociolinguistics) Imaginary and Symbolic Language (Lacanian theory) 10 The Aesthetic of the Medium What Can Pictures Do? (picture theory) From Book to Screen (transmediation) Crossing the Borders (translation theory) 11 The Aesthetic of the Reader What Do Children Really Read? (empirical reader research) The Reader in the Text (reader-response theory) Double Address, Dual Address, and Crosswriting 12 Conclusion: Which Tool Shall I Choose? Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Name Index Title Index Subject Index About the Author
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Children's literature, American -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Children's literature, English -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Children -- Books and reading -- North America.