Download PDF by Emer O'Sullivan: Comparative Children's Literature

By Emer O'Sullivan

ISBN-10: 0415305519

ISBN-13: 9780415305518

ISBN-10: 0415564123

ISBN-13: 9780415564120

WINNER OF THE 2007 CHLA publication AWARD!


Children's literature has transcended linguistic and cultural borders considering that books and magazines for younger readers have been first produced, with renowned books translated through the world.


Emer O'Sullivan lines the background of comparative kid's literature reviews, from the enthusiastic internationalism of the post-war interval – which set out from the assumption of a supra-national global republic of youth – to trendy comparative feedback. Drawing at the scholarship and kid's literature of many cultures and languages, she outlines the constituent parts that constitution the sector, together with touch and move experiences, intertextuality reports, intermediality experiences and photograph reports. In doing so, she presents the 1st finished evaluation of this fascinating new learn quarter. Comparative kid's Literature additionally hyperlinks the fields of narratology and translation reviews, to advance an unique and hugely useful communicative version of translation.


Taking in problems with kid's 'classics', the canon and international literature for kids, Comparative kid's Literature finds that this department of literature isn't as surely foreign because it is usually fondly assumed to be and is vital studying for these attracted to the implications of globalization on kid's literature and culture.

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