| Description |
vii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Contributions to the study of world literature,
0738-9345 ;
no. 126
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Contributions to the study of world literature ; no. 126.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Renewing stories of childhood: children's literature as a creative art / Rosemary Johnstone -- When everything old is new again: aboriginal texts and the politics of renewal / Clare Bradford -- Space and race in contemporary South African English youth literature / Judith Inggs -- Exploring otherness: changes in the child-animal metamorphosis motif / Maria Lassén-Seger -- A happy blend of universality and novelty: Julie of the wolves and A ring of endless light as stories crossing the animal-human boundary / Darja Mazi-Leskovar -- Me, myself, and him, the changing face of female cross-dressing in contemporary children's literature / Victoria Flanagan -- Voyeurism and power: change and renewal of the eroticized figure in Australian books for teenagers / Margot Hillel -- Fostering controlled dissent: democratic values and children's literature / Eva-Maria Metcalf -- Childhood as the sign of change: Hans Christian Andersen's retellings of the concept of childhood in the light of romanticism, modernism, and children's own cultures / Helen Hyrup -- Continuity and change in the fantasy tale, with a focus on recent Danish works / Anna Karlskov Skyggebjerg -- Blytons, noddies, and denoddification centres: the changing constructions of a culture icon / David Rudd -- Changing perspectives: Tarzan recalled and retold at the turn of the millennium / Rolf Romåren -- Spell-binding Dahl: considering Roald Dahl's fantasy / Eileen Donaldson -- "Never lonely, always on the go": the merry-go-round as kinetic metonym, in text and illustration, in Tove Jansson's short story, "The hemulen who loved silence" / Sirke Happonen -- The beginning of all poetry: some observations about lullabies from oral traditions / Anne de Vries -- Change and renewal: translating the visual in picture books / Riita Oittinen -- Change and renewal of a famous German classic -- Klaus Doderer -- Too many elephants? endangered discourses in the field of children's literature / Nancy Huse. |
| Subject |
Children's literature -- History and criticism.
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Children's literature. |
| Added Author |
Van der Walt, Thomas.
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Fairer-Wessels, Felicité.
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Inggs, Judith.
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| ISBN |
0275981851 alkaline paper |
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