Toni Morrison (Twaynes united states author, no 559)
by Wilfred D. Samuels and Clenora Hudson-Weems
Paul Bowles (Twayne's United States author, TUSAS 706)
by Gena Dagel Caponi
Carolyn G. Heilbrun (Twayne's United States authors, TUSAS 672)
by Julia B Boken
Fictions and Metafictions of Evil
This volume contains sixteen essays of literary criticism, comparative literature and interdisciplinary studies by Polish, German, Welsh, French and American scholars. It features a voyage through the sea of evil from the beginning of time to the present, from the creation of the world (Hughes) to contemporary terrorism (Wajdi Mouawad). It examines all genres of literature, from Shakespeare to Hopkins and Roethke, to Dickens and Orzeszkowa, Faulkner and McCarthy, Baldwin and Burdekin. The Gesamt...
Deutsch-Judische Kinder- Und Jugendliteratur (Kompendien Zur Judischen Kinderkultur)
by Annegret Voelpel and Zohar Shavit
Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development (Modernist Literature & Culture)
by Associate Professor Jed Esty
Laurie Halse Anderson (Studies in Young Adult Literature, #36) (Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature)
by Wendy J. Glenn
Laurie Halse Anderson's path to writing for young adult readers was indirect, unintentional, and difficult. Although Anderson may never have set out to write for teens, her commitment to creating stories that enrich, disquiet, and guide the teens she admires led to her selection as the 2009 recipient of the prestigious Margaret A. Edwards Award. The author of several highly acclaimed novels-including Speak, Fever 1793, Prom, Chains and Wintergirls-Anderson channels the lives of real readers thro...
BL Translated from German with additions and amendments The writings preserved in Wittgenstein's manuscripts from 1945 to 1949, after he had completed the first part of Philosophical Investigations, chiefly concern the nature of certain psychological concepts. Joachim Schulte here uses these manuscripts - not just the selections from them published so far - as a basis for reconstructing the central arguments and conceptual elucidations developed by Wittgenstein during that period.
The Sixth Bristol Conference "Twentieth-Century Schoolgirls and their Books" (The Bristol Conference "Twentieth-Century Schoolgirls and their Books)
by Harriet Jordan, Ruth Allen, Sarah Burn, Kay Whalley, Elizabeth Williams, Sally Dore, Louise Plewes, Barbara Robertson, and Stephen Bigger
Thinking whimsically makes serious science accessible. That’s a message that should be taken to heart by all readers who want to learn about evolution. Do Elephants Have Knees? invites readers into serious appreciation of Darwinian histories by deploying the playful thinking found in children’s books. Charles R. Ault Jr. weds children’s literature to recent research in paleontology and evolutionary biology. Inquiring into the origin of origins stories, Ault presents three portraits of Charles Da...
What Books to Lend and What to Give.
by Charlotte Mary 1823-1901 Yonge
New Directions in Children's Gothic (Children's Literature and Culture)
Children's literature today is dominated by the gothic mode, and it is in children's gothic fictions that we find the implications of cultural change most radically questioned and explored. This collection of essays looks at what is happening in the children's Gothic now when traditional monsters have become the heroes, when new monsters have come into play, when globalisation brings Harry Potter into China and yaoguai into the children's Gothic, and when childhood itself and children's literatu...
Children's Literature: Criticism and the Fictional Child is an original and lucid study of the figure of the `child' as it is presented in the rapidly expanding field of the criticism of children's literature. The book argues that in fact, this same body of criticism - through often contradictory versions of the `child' - revels the realm of `childhood' as one constructed by the adult reader. Karin Lesnik-Oberstein demonstrates that both this criticism and the texts it studies are underpinned b...
Two little children meet adventure in such places as Dogland, Outland, and Elfland.
Von Mund- und Handwerk (Studien zu Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und -medien, #11)
Im Zentrum des Sammelbandes steht das produktive Spannungs- und Beeinflussungsverhältnis von Schriftlichkeiten und Mündlichkeiten in Kinder- und Jugendmedien. Obwohl mündliches und schriftliches Erzählen kategorial anders verlaufen, sind auch die buch- und schriftbasierten Texte poetologisch durch Konzepte des Mündlichen beeinflusst. Dies gilt in besonderer Weise für kinder- und jugendliterarische Texte, wie die Beiträge des Bandes in ausgewählten Fallanalysen belegen.
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