International companion encyclopedia of children's literature
The Encyclopedia offers comprehensive and international coverage of children's literature from a number of perspectives - theory and critical approaches, types and genres, context, applications and individual country essays
encyclopedias
1 online resource (xv, 923 pages)
9780203168127, 0203168127
252938107
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Editor's Preface; Contributors; Introduction; THEORY AND CRITICAL APPROACHES; Defining Children's Literature and Childhood; History, Culture and Children's Literature; Ideology; Linguistics and Stylistics; Reader-Response Criticism; Psychoanalytical Criticism; Feminist Criticism: From Sex-Role Stereotyping to Subjectivity; Illustration and Picture Books; A Note on Bibliography; Intertextuality; TYPES AND GENRES; Early Texts Used by Children; Fairy Tales and Folk-tales; Myth and Legend; Playground Rhymes and the Oral Tradition; Poetry for Children; Drama