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Rereading Childhood Books

A Poetics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvAlison Waller,Lisa Sainsbury

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2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title and shortlisted for the ESSE book awards 2020, for Literatures in the English LanguageChildhood books play a special role in reading histories, providing touchstones for our future tastes and giving shape to our ongoing identities. Bringing the latest work in Memory Studies to bear on writers’ memoirs, autobiographical accounts of reading, and interviews with readers, Rereading Childhood Books explores how adults remember, revisit, and sometimes forget, these significant books. Asking what it means to return to familiar works by well-known authors such as Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis and Enid Blyton, as well as popular and ephemeral material not often considered as part of the canon, Alison Waller develops a poetics of rereading and presents a new model for understanding lifelong reading. As such she reconceives the history of children’s literature through the shared and individual experiences of the readers who carry these books with them throughout their lives.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-02-07
Mått164 x 238 x 20 mm
Vikt533 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature
Antal sidor248
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781474298285
UtmärkelserShort-listed for ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) Book Award 2021 (UK)

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction: ExcavatingParacanons and the lifelong reading actNostalgia, memoirs and re-memoryingExperiments in rereadingRereading Childhood Books: A Poetics1. The reading sceneMemory and the reading sceneChildhood reading and reminiscenceChildhood books and recollectionRereading and recognitionReconstructing through rereadingConclusion2. The life spaceThe life space and autotopographyCo-readingLearning to readSchool and homeReading spacesMapping readingConclusion3. Affective tracesAffective traces and resonancePleasuresPassionsGriefFearDesire and boredomConclusion 4. Rereading attitudesThe uses of childhood books and rereading attitudesNostalgiaRereading with childrenAs scholarsUnderstanding literary lifeConclusion5. Transforming, misremembering, forgettingTransformed textsMaterial mismatchesTranslations and transmediationsForgetting and anamnesisConclusionConclusion: The lifelong reading actFuture directionsFinal wordsAppendix: ParicipantsNotesBibliographyIndex

Rereading Childhood Books offers a rich and sophisticated account of the many ways in which our reading lives are woven into our regular daily existence, not just at any particular moment but over a reading lifetime…[Waller’s] evocation of the reading scene, the life space, and the affective traces that allow a childhood book to resonate throughout a lifetime is potent and persuasive. Her argument that children's literature (using the term broadly to include that paracanon as well as the masterpieces) may resonate throughout a lifespan, through both memory and re-engagement in multiple readings, is highly significant and demonstrates the intellectual value of talking with readers as well as engaging with the texts…This is a volume that I am very glad to add to my shelf.