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020			_a9781472577191
040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a809.89282 _bJ84l
100			_aJoy, Louise
245			_aLiterature's children _bthe critical child and the art of idealization _cLouise Joy
260			_bBloomsbury _c2019 _aLondon
300			_avii, 247p
440			_aBloomsbury perspectives on children's literature
490			_a/ edited by Lisa Sainsbury
520			_aLiterature's Children offers a new way of thinking about how literature for children functions didactically. It analyzes the nature of the practical critical activity which the child reader carries out, emphasizing what the child does to the text rather than what he or she receives from it. Through close readings of a range of works for children which have shaped our understanding of what children's literature entails, including works by Isaac Watts, John Newbery, Kate Greenaway, E. Nesbit, Kenneth Grahame, J.R.R. Tolkien and Malcolm Saville, it demonstrates how the critical child resists the processes of idealization in operation in and through such texts. Bringing into dialogue ideas from literary theory and the philosophy of education, drawing in particular on the work of the philosopher John Dewey, it provides a compelling new account of the complex relations between literary aesthetics and literary didacticism.
650			_aChildren's Literature
650			_aChildren -- Books and reading -- History
942			_cBK
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