Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415965064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 556 str.

Shelby Wolf;Karen Coats;Patricia Encisco

Opis

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.

• Part one considers perspectives on readers and reading literature in home, school, library, and community settings.
• 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.
• 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.

This multidisciplinary Handbook is the first attempt to pull together in one volume the research on children’s and young adult literature which is currently scattered across three intersecting disciplines: education, English, and library and information science. The book’s organization reflects the special interests of each of these disciplines. Section one focuses on readers, the province of education; section two on the analysis of text, the province of English and literature; and section three looks at the social contexts surrounding and influencing the intersections of readers and texts.

O autorze

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.