Aesthetic Approaches to Children's Literature

Aesthetic Approaches to Children's Literature
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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Total Pages : 335
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ISBN-10 : 9781461656159
ISBN-13 : 146165615X
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Book Synopsis Aesthetic Approaches to Children's Literature by : Maria Nikolajeva

Download or read book Aesthetic Approaches to Children's Literature written by Maria Nikolajeva and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005-05-12 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides students of children's literature with a comprehensible and easy-to-use analytical tool kit, showing through concrete demonstration how each tool might best be used to examine aesthetic rather than educational approaches to children's literature. Contemporary literary theories discussed include semiotics, hermeneutics, structuralism, narratology, psychoanalysis, reader-response, feminist, and postcolonial theory, each adjusted to suit the specifics of children's literature.


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