Postmodern picturebooks; play, parody, and self-referentiality.9780415962100 Postmodern post·mod·ern adj. Of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes: picturebooks; play, parody, and self-referentiality. Ed. by Lawrence R. Sipe and Sylvia Pantaleo. Routledge 2008 268 pages $95.00 Hardcover Routledge research in education; 16 PN1009 Children's literature children's literature, writing whose primary audience is children. See also children's book illustration. The Beginnings of Children's Literature The earliest of what came to be regarded as children's literature was first meant for adults. , along with all the other genres in the past fifty years, has taken on an appreciation for the tenets of postmodernism, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the contributors of these 16 essays. Lest we worry that small children may not fully grasp the presence of irony or ambivalence, the contributors speak primarily to adult readers, describing the evolution of form and substance in children's picture books, defining the role of the artist in such books, and applying radical change theory. They describe how play and playfulness work in postmodern picture books, global postmodernism in Australia's picture books, postmodern picture books and the material conditions of reading, the paradox of space, anxieties in imagination and multi-modality, picture books as artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. , the work of Lauren Child and Ed Vere, true fairy tales This is a list of fairy tales, the dates of their earliest known printed version, the author and, if known, the collection of tales in which it was published. It should be noted, however, that not all stories listed below would be categorized as fairy tales by a strict definition , third-graders' collaborative sense-making, and children's responses to postmodern picture books. The case study on responses to Wiesner's The Three Pigs is especially interesting. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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