Book
The hidden adult : defining children's literature / Perry Nodelman.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780801889806
- ISBN: 0801889804
- Physical Description: x, 390 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-377) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Six texts. Different texts, same genre -- Language : the text and its shadows -- Focalization : who sees and what they know -- Desire confronts knowledge -- Home and away : essential doubleness -- Variation -- Summary -- 2. Exploring assumptions. Reading as an adult -- Making choices : exploring representativeness -- Assumptions about genre -- Genre and field -- Genre and genres -- 3. Children's literature as a genre. Defining children's literature -- No genre -- Different but not distinct -- Literature and children -- For the good of children -- Literature for boys and literature for girls -- Middle-class subjectivity -- Doubleness -- Specific markers -- About children -- The eyes of children -- Simplicity and sublimation -- The hidden adult -- Narrator and narratee -- Showing, not telling -- Happy endings -- Achieving utopia -- Binaries -- Repetition -- Variation -- A comprehensive statement -- 4. The genre in the field. Sameness and difference -- The sameness of children's literature -- Different children's literatures : the effects of personality and history -- Different children's literatures : the effects of nationality -- The genre in the field -- Distinctive texts in the genre -- Conclusion : children's literature as nonadult. |
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| Subject: | Children's literature > History and criticism. Children > Books and reading. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Cranbrook Campus | Z 1037 .A1 N625 2008 (Text) | 31111000134799 | CRANBROOK | Volume hold | Available | - |
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| 245 | 1 | 4. | ‡aThe hidden adult : ‡bdefining children's literature / ‡cPerry Nodelman. |
| 260 | . | ‡aBaltimore, Md. : ‡bJohns Hopkins University Press, ‡c2008. | |
| 300 | . | ‡ax, 390 p. ; ‡c24 cm. | |
| 504 | . | ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [359]-377) and index. | |
| 505 | 0 | . | ‡a1. Six texts. Different texts, same genre -- Language : the text and its shadows -- Focalization : who sees and what they know -- Desire confronts knowledge -- Home and away : essential doubleness -- Variation -- Summary -- 2. Exploring assumptions. Reading as an adult -- Making choices : exploring representativeness -- Assumptions about genre -- Genre and field -- Genre and genres -- 3. Children's literature as a genre. Defining children's literature -- No genre -- Different but not distinct -- Literature and children -- For the good of children -- Literature for boys and literature for girls -- Middle-class subjectivity -- Doubleness -- Specific markers -- About children -- The eyes of children -- Simplicity and sublimation -- The hidden adult -- Narrator and narratee -- Showing, not telling -- Happy endings -- Achieving utopia -- Binaries -- Repetition -- Variation -- A comprehensive statement -- 4. The genre in the field. Sameness and difference -- The sameness of children's literature -- Different children's literatures : the effects of personality and history -- Different children's literatures : the effects of nationality -- The genre in the field -- Distinctive texts in the genre -- Conclusion : children's literature as nonadult. |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aChildren's literature ‡xHistory and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aChildren ‡xBooks and reading. | |
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