CHILDREN'S LITERATURE by Karin Lesnik-Oberstein ( 9780198119982 )

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Title:

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
CRITICISM AND THE FICTIONAL CHILD

By:

Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

5 May, 1994

Pages:

258

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Children's Literature is an original and lucid study of the figure of the `child' as it is presented in the rapidly expanding field of the criticism of children's literature. The book argues that, in fact, this same body of criticism reveals the realm of `childhood' as one constructed by the adult reader, and that it is underpinned by the narratives of the liberal arts' educational ideals. This lively polemic places literary discussion into the current wider debatesabout childhood in psychology and psychotherapy, and represents a significant re-thinking of `childhood' and approaches to children's literature.

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Children's Literature: Criticism and the Fictional Child is an original and lucid study of the figure of the 'child' as it is presented in the rapidly expanding field of the criticism of children's literature. The book argues that in fact, this same body of criticism - through often contradictory versions of the 'child' - revels the realm of 'childhood' as one constructed by the adult reader. Karin Lesnik-Oberstein demonstrates that both this criticism and the texts it studies are underpinned by the narratives of the liberal arts' educational ideals and their attendant socio-political and personal ideologies. The author places literary discussion into the current wider debates about childhood in psychology and psychotherapy. This lively polemic represents a significant re-thinking of 'childhood' and approaches to children's literature.

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Clarendon Press

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