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| Children in Literature – Children’s Literature Paul Neubauer (ed) Frankfurt/M, Berlin: Peter Lang Verlag, 2002 | Book Synopsis
The focus of the papers selected for this volume ranges from the
establishment of regional and national literatures for the young to the
presentation and characterization of youth and adolescence in diverse
forms and formats of literature. The changing goals of canonized texts
for educational as well as inspirational purposes are reflected in the
diversity of historical and cultural policies of instruction and
emancipation through literary and poetical works; historical and
sociological aspects dominate these questions addressed to individual
works as well as to whole literatures designed for children.
On the
other hand, the structural properties of children's literature and the
actual reception of representative texts by child readers provide an
equally fruitful area of psychological, pedagogical or aesthetic
investigation. Here the rewriting of different kinds of literatures for
the use of children receives as much attention as the creation of works
aiming especially at the youthful readership of a given age and area; in
this context of critical evaluations a variety of adaptations and
reconceptualizations is presented - from medieval Portuguese
historiography to Michel Tournier's changing configurations of his own
works for different audiences.
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