Irish Children's Literature and Culture: New Perspectives on Contemporary Writing

ISBN-13: 9780415877893 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 228 str.

Keith O'Sullivan;Valerie Coghlan;¬Abar

Opis

This volume looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with all the major forms and genres. Topics include the gothic, the speculative, poetry, picturebooks, post-colonial discourse, identity and ethnicity, and globalization.

Recenzje

"A fresh and inspiring collection of essays. This study offers indispensable insight into topical questions and developments for both acacdemics and the general children's literature aficionado."
- Bookbird

Spis treści

Selected Contents:  Introduction  1: Mythologizing Ireland, Ciara Ní Bhroin  2: Borderlands: Dead Bog and Living Landscape, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne  3: Cleaning up the Mess?: The Child and Nation in Historical Fiction Set between 1890 and 1922, Susan Cahill  4: ‘What Foot Does He Dig With?’: Inscriptions of Religion and Cultural Identity, Valerie Coghlan  5: Young Adult Fiction and Youth Culture, Pádraic Whyte  6: Fictionalizing Family, Amanda Piesse  7: ‘Binding with Briars’: Romanticizing the Child, Keith O’Sullivan  8: Evil Innocence: The Child and Adult in Fiction, Jarlath Killeen  9: ‘Walking … into the Night’: Growing Up with the Gothic, Anne Markey  10: Contemplating Otherness: Imagining the Future in Speculative Fiction, Patricia Kennon  11 Meanings and Means: Children’s Poetry Now, Mary Shine Thompson  12: Picturebooks that Transcend Boundaries, Sandra L Beckett  13: Insularity and Internationalism: Between Local Production and the Global Marketplace, Emer O’Sullivan

O autorze

Valerie Coghlan is Librarian at Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin, Ireland. Keith O'Sullivan is Lecturer in English at Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin, Ireland.