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- ISBN 9780313301452
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 1997
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Over the past fifty years, children's literature has freed itself of many traditional restrictions and become a field of exciting innovations in both form and content. The new status of children's literature has been accompanied by an unprecedented growth in research on children's literature internationally. This volume explores the many changes that have taken place in the past half-century in children's literature, showing how those changes reflect our rapidly-changing world and attempt to prepare children for the new millennium. Among the issues discussed are the shifting boundaries between children's literature and adult literature, postmodern trends, paradigm shifts, national literatures, and the reconceptualization of the past.
SANDRA L. BECKETT is Professor of French at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. She has served as the Vice-President of the International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL). Her research focuses on contemporary French fiction for adults as well as children. She is the author of three books on Henri Bosco, and has recently completed a book entitled Les grands romanciers écrivent pour les enfants, 1945-1995. She has also published numerous articles on the contemporary French novel, as well as French and French-Canadian children's literature.
