The Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature (Edinburgh Companions to Literature) (Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities)

Time has passed since having a PhD in children s literature was a funny joke in You ve Got Mail. Children s literature research is now one of the most dynamic fields of literary criticism and of education, and has a bright future ahead as children s writers and publishers invent yet more forms of literature for young people, and researchers find yet more sophisticated ways of exploring them. This collection takes informed and scholarly readers to the utmost frontier of children s literature criticism, from the intricate worlds of children s poetry, picturebooks and video games to the new theoretical constellations of critical plant studies, non-fiction studies and big data analyses of literature. Time has passed since 'having a PhD in children's literature' was a funny joke in You've Got Mail . Children's literature research is now one of the most dynamic fields of literary criticism and of education, and has a bright future ahead - as children's writers and publishers invent yet more forms of literature for young people, and researchers find yet more sophisticated ways of exploring them. This collection takes informed and scholarly readers to the utmost frontier of children's literature criticism, from the intricate worlds of children's poetry, picturebooks and video games to the new theoretical constellations of critical plant studies, non-fiction studies and big data analyses of literature. Introduction, Maria Nikolajeva and Clmentine Beauvais Part I: Contemporary directions in childrens literature scholarship 1. Teaching the conflicts: Diverse responses to diverse childrens books, Karen Coats 2. Posthumanism: Rethinking the human in modern childrens literature, Victoria Flanagan 3. Animal studies, Zoe Jaques 4. Spatiality in fantasy for children, Jane Carroll 5. A question of scale: Zooming out and zooming in on feminist ecocriticism, Alice Curry 6. Age studies and childrens literature, Vanessa Joosen 7. Carnality in adolescent literature, Lydia Kokkola 8. Cognitive narratology and adolescent fiction, Roberta Seelinger Trites 9. Empirical approaches to place and the construction of adolescent identities, Erin Spring 10. Picturebooks and situated readers: The intersections of text, image, culture and response, Evelyn Arizpe 11. Re-memorying: A new phenomenological methodology in childrens literature studies, Alison Waller Part II: Contemporary trends in childrens and young adult literature 12. Canons and canonicity, Anja Mller 13. Seriality in childrens literature, Bettina Kmmerling-Meibauer 14. Counterfactual historical fiction for children and young adults, Catherine Butler 15. Pattern, texture and print: New technology, old aesthetic in contemporary picturebook-making, Martin Salisbury 16. Telling stories in different formats: New directions in digital stories for children, Junko Yokota 17. Multimodality and multiliteracies: Production and reception, Margaret Mackey 18. Serendipity, independent publishing and translation flow: Recent translations for children in the UK, Gillian Lathey 19. The picturebook in instructed foreign language learning contexts, Sandie Mouro Part III: Unmapped territories 20. Next of kin: The child and the adult in childrens literature theory today and tomorrow, Clmentine Beauvais 21. Critical plant studies and childrens literature, Lydia Kokkola 22. Health, sickness and literature for children, Jean Webb 23. Evolutionary criticism and childrens literature, Maria Nikolajeva 24. The genetic study of childrens literature, Vanessa Joosen 25. Distant reading and thin description, Eugene Giddens 26. Hogwarts versus Svalbard: Cultures, literacies and game adaptations of childrens literature, Andrew Burn 27. Hybrid novels for children and young adults, Eve Tandoi, 28. Cyberspace and story: The impact of digital media on printed childrens books, Victoria Flanagan.