The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry: A Study of Children's Verse in English

ISBN-13: 9780367880248 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 264 str.

Katherine Wakely-Mulroney; Louise Joy

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Focusing on the literary, aesthetic, theoretical, and philosophical dimensions of children's poetry from the eighteenth century to the present, this collection encompasses central figures like Watts, Carroll, Rossetti, Milne, and Duffy, reasserting the literary significance of landmark but often marginalized authors from the past three centuries

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PART I INTRODUCTION

1 Introduction

Katherine Wakely-Mulroney and Louise Joy

　

PART II FORM

2 Rhythm

Derek Attridge

3 Free Play Revisited: the Poetics of Repetition in Blake’s Songs of Innocence

Corinna Russell

4 Play

James Williams

5 Poetry in Prose: Lewis Carroll’s Sylvie and Bruno Books

Katherine Wakely-Mulroney

6 The Rational Gothic: The Case of Ann Taylor’s "The Hand-Post"

Donelle Ruwe

　

PART III EMBODIMENT

7 The Laughing Child: Children’s Poetry and the Comic Mode

Louise Joy

8 "We may not know, we cannot tell": Religion and Reserve in Victorian Children’s Poetics

Kirstie Blair

9 Nursery Rhymes: Poetry, Language, and the Body

Debbie Pullinger

10 "That Terrible Bugaboo": The Role of Music in Poetry for Children

Michael Heyman

11 Cognitive Poetics and The Aesthetics of Children’s Poetry: A Primer of Possibilities

Karen Coats

12 Inner Animals: Nature in Ted Hughes’s Poems for Children

David Whitley

　

PART IV TASTE

13 Children, Poetry, and the Eighteenth-Century School Anthology

Andrew O’Malley

14 Selection

Andrea Immel

15 Anthologies

Seth Lerer

　

Index

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Katherine Wakely-Mulroney is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Louise Joy is a Fellow and College Lecturer in English at Homerton College, Cambridge, UK.