Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature
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- ISBN 9780415965057
- Weight: 1560g
- Dimensions: 210 x 280mm
- Publication Date: 19 Oct 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This landmark volume is the first to bring together leading scholarship on children’s and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education, English, and Library and Information Science. Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach, it describes and analyzes the different aspects of literary reading, texts, and contexts to illuminate how the book is transformed within and across different academic figurations of reading and interpreting children’s literature.
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- Part one considers perspectives on readers and reading literature in home, school, library, and community settings.
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- Part two introduces analytic frames for studying young adult novels, picturebooks, indigenous literature, graphic novels, and other genres. Chapters include commentary on literary experiences and creative production from renowned authors and illustrators.
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- Part three focuses on the social contexts of literary study, with chapters on censorship, awards, marketing, and literary museums.
The singular contribution of this Handbook is to lay the groundwork for colleagues across disciplines to redraw the map of their separately figured worlds, thus to enlarge the scope of scholarship and dialogue as well as push ahead into uncharted territory.
Shelby A. Wolf is Professor of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Karen Coats is Professor of English and Director of English Education at Illinois State University.
Patricia Enciso is Associate Professor of Literature, Literacy, and Equity Studies at The Ohio State University.
Christine A. Jenkins is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
