Del i serien Children's Literature and Culture

Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

AvBettina Kümmerling-Meibauer,Anja Muller

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This volume focuses on the (de)canonization processes in children’s literature, considering the construction and cultural-historical changes of canons in different children’s literatures. Chapters by international experts in the field explore a wide range of different children’s literatures from Great Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Eastern and Central Europe, as well as from Non-European countries such as Australia, Israel, and the United States. Situating the inquiry within larger literary and cultural studies conversations about canonicity, the contributors assess representative authors and works that have encountered changing fates in the course of canon history. Particular emphasis is given to sociological canon theories, which have so far been under-represented in canon research in children’s literature. The volume therefore relates historical changes in the canon of children’s literature not only to historical changes in concepts of childhood but to more encompassing political, social, economic, cultural, and ideological shifts. This volume’s comparative approach takes cognizance of the fact that, if canon formation is an important cultural factor in nation-building processes, a comparative study is essential to assessing transnational processes in canon formation. This book thus renders evident the structural similarities between patterns and strategies of canon formation emerging in different children’s literatures.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-05-21
Mått155 x 226 x 15 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieChildren's Literature and Culture
Antal sidor268
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367346270

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ContentsList of FiguresSeries Editor’s ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Canon Studies and Children’s LiteratureBettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Anja MüllerPrelude: A Tale of Canons and Classics – Definition Impossible?Peter Hunt Part I Canons, Cultural Capital and Policies of Community BuildingChapter 1 Nation Building and Children’s Literary Canons: The Israeli Test-Case Yael DarrChapter 2 Canon Formation and Social Imaginaries in British Children’s LiteratureAnja Müller, Simone Herrmann and Franziska BurstynChapter 3 Firing the Canon! Geoffrey Trease’s Campaign for an Alternative Children’s Canon in 1930’s BritainKimberley ReynoldsChapter 4 Canon Formation in the Soviet Union: The Case of Swift as an Author of a Children’s ClassicMichael DüringChapter 5 Historical Twists and Turns in the Polish Canon of Children’s LiteratureAnna Maria Czernow and Dorota MichułkaPart II The Challenges of the Canon: Genre, Gender, Avant-garde Chapter 6 The Origins of Modernism in Fairy Tale: Hans Christian Andersen’s Authorship and Canon StudiesHelene HøyrupChapter 7 Canon and German Avant-garde Children’s Literature of the 1920s and 1930s: A Paradoxical Relationship Bettina Kümmerling-MeibauerChapter 8 Genre, Gender and Canon Formation: The Case of Laura RichardsEtti Gordon GinzburgChapter 9 "Girls Like it Most": Challenging Gendered Canons and Paracanons in the Case of The Secret GardenAlison WallerPart III Keeping the Gate – Agents in Canon FormationChapter 10 The Perks of Being Talked About: Norms of Evaluation Informing the Canonization of Astrid Lindgren’s Oeuvre in the Dutch Language AreaSara Van den BosscheChapter 11 The Junior Literary Guild and the Making of New Canonical Works: The Case of Waterless MountainAnne Morey Chapter 12 Visions and Values: The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Prizing of Picture Books in the Twenty-First CenturyErica HateleyChapter 13 Finally Coming Together? The Bridging Role of the Adolescent Novel in the NetherlandsHelma Lierop-DebrauwerEditors and ContributorsIndex