The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture

Focusing on significant and cutting-edge preoccupations within children's literature scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture presents a comprehensive overview of the print, digital, and electronic texts for children.

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Claudia Nelson is Professor Emerita of English at Texas A&M University, USA.

Elisabeth Wesseling is Professor of Cultural Memory, Gender and Diversity and at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

Andrea Mei-Ying Wu is Director of the Chinese Language Center and Professor of Children's Literature and Taiwanese Literature at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.

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Focusing on significant and cutting-edge preoccupations within children's literature scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture presents a comprehensive overview of the print, digital, and electronic texts for children.

Inhalt

Introduction

PART I Concepts and tools

Section introduction

1 Theory Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

2 Poetics and Pedagogy Karen Coats

3 Ethics and Historical Perspectives Amanda K. Allen

4 Children's Literary Geography Björn Sundmark and Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang

5 The Monster at the End of This Book:

Posthumanism and New Materialism in the Scholarship of Children's Literature Megan L. Musgrave

6 Digital Humanities and Children's Literature * Deanna Stover

7 Research with Young Readers: Participatory Approaches in Children's Literature Studies Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak *

** PART II

Media and genres ** Section introduction

8 Picturebooks Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer

9 Books for Beginners *Annette Wannamaker and Jennifer Miskec*

10 Magazines Kristine Moruzi

11 Comics for Children Across Cultures * Joseph Michael Sommers

12 Children's Fiction: The Possibilities of Reality and Imagination Deborah Stevenson *

13 Nonfiction * Giorgia Grilli

14 Children's Poetry Michael Joseph

15 Theatre and Drama: Global Perspectives Manon van de Water

16 Film Christine Lötscher *

17 Television Debbie Olson

18 Playful Possibilities: The Rights of the Reader in a Digital Age Angela Colvert

** PART III

Identities ** Section introduction

19 Age Vanessa Joosen

20 Gender * Mia Österlund and Åsa Warnqvist

21 Nation and Citizenship Sara Van den Bossche *

22 Religion and Children's Literature Gabriele von Glasenapp

23 Whatever Common People Do: Social Class in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Children's Fiction *Kimberley Reynolds and Jane Rosen*

24 Race and Ethnicity in Children's Literature Trevor Boffone and Cristina Herrera 25 LGBTQ+ Discourses in Eastern and Central European Children's Literature * Mateusz Swietlicki 26 Disability and Children's Literature Kimura Toshio and Yoshida Junko * PART IV

Border crossings ** Section introduction

27 Translation Emer O'Sullivan 28 Retranslation Virginie Douglas

29 Adaptation Anja Müller

30 Fairy Tales and Circulation: A Case Study in Poland * Weronika Kostecka * 31 Children's Literature and Transnationalism Clare Bradford, Kristine Moruzi, and Michelle J. Smith

32 Transcultural Comparison as Method:

Korean and Hebrew Children's Poetry in the Early Twentieth Century * Dafna Zur and Rachel Feldman

33 Marketing and Franchising Naomi Hamer *

34 Children's Literature Websites and Fandom Sara K. Day and Carrie Sickmann ** PART V

Institutions ** Section introduction

35 Book Publishing and the British Sphere of Influence in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Courtney Weikle-Mills 36 Children's Book Publishing in Europe: A Historical Approach *Emily Bruce*

37 Contemporary Asian Book Publishing Shih-Wen Sue Chen 38 From Canon-Making to Participatory Prizing: Children's Book and Media Awards Ramona Caponegro and Kenneth B. Kidd

39 Children's Literature in Schools Etti Gordon Ginzburg 40 Libraries Margaret Mackey

41 Book Clubs Julie Fette and Anne Morey

42 Promoting Children's Reading Internationally Valerie Coghlan 43 Censorship and Shifting Contexts in Children's Literature Andrew Zalot