Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction: Palimpsests, Maps, and Fractals

ISBN-13: 9780198846031 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 288 str.

Claudia Nelson; Anne Morey

Recenzje

this book provides an interesting and thought-provoking mode of considering literature in general and children's literature in particular, and the insights and analyses of the individual texts, the strongest element of the work, are engaging and illuminating. Nelson and Morey have produced a book that will be of interest and use to scholars of children's literature, classical reception, and those interested in cognitive poetics, and have provided a springboard into this latter approach that will surely provide a stimulus for further work.

O autorze

Claudia Nelson has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American children's literature and family studies. Her book Little Strangers: Portrayals of Adoption and Foster Care in America, 1850-1929 (Indiana University Press, 2003) won the Children's Literature Association award for the best scholarly book in the field of children's studies. A professor of English at Texas A&M University, she is a former president of the Children's Literature Association and a former editor of the Children's Literature Association Quarterly. Anne Morey is an associate professor of English at Texas A&M University. Her book Hollywood Outsiders: The Adaptation of the Film Industry, 1913-1934 (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) deals with Hollywood's critics and co-opters, and she has also edited a volume on Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" phenomenon, Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the 'Twilight' Series (Routledge, 2012). She is currently at work on a book about the Junior Literary Guild and children's reading from 1929-1955 and is co-writing a book with Shelley Stamp on women in American silent cinema.