Responding to the constructions of age in children's literature An intergenerational approach
"In recent decades, there has been an uptick in intergenerational animosity, creating a need to deepen our understanding of how society constructs age, and how individuals position themselves vis-à-vis such constructs. Children’s literature is particularly suitable for this kind of research due...
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| Format: | Abschlussarbeit Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Antwerp
University of Antwerp
2023
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| Online-Zugang: | https://repository.uantwerpen.be/docman/irua/11e0d6motoMe5 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | "In recent decades, there has been an uptick in intergenerational animosity, creating a need to deepen our understanding of how society constructs age, and how individuals position themselves vis-à-vis such constructs. Children’s literature is particularly suitable for this kind of research due to it not only being a product predominantly written, marketed, and published by adults for children, but also because it tends to contain characters of a range of ages who interact with one another. Using insights from children’s literature criticism, reader-response studies and age studies, this thesis explores how the age of the real reader affects the understanding of age in literature for young readers. It does this via an empirical, reader-response research project centred on three books: Iep! (1996), written by Joke van Leeuwen, Voor altijd samen, amen (1999), written by Guus Kuijer, and My Name Is Mina (2011), written by David Almond. " -- Summary, S. 6 |
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| Beschreibung: | "PhD thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor in Literary Studies at the University of Antwerp to be defended by Leander Duthoy. - Supervisor(s): Prof. dr. Vanessa Joosen, Prof. dr. Mathea Simons" |
| Beschreibung: | 347 Seiten Illustrationen 26 cm |