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The Hidden Adult

Name: The Hidden Adult
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780801889806
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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780801889806

Defining Children's Literature

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By Perry Nodelman
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: November 14, 2008
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 408

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What exactly is a children's book? How is children's literature defined as a genre? A leading scholar presents close readings of six classic stories to answer these questions and offer a clear definition of children's writing as a distinct literary form. Perry Nodelman begins by considering the plots, themes, and structures of six works: ''The Purple Jar,'' Alice in Wonderland, Dr. Doolittle, Henry Huggins, The Snowy Day, and Plain Cityall written for young people of varying ages in different times and placesto identify shared characteristics. He identifies markers in each work that allow the adult reader to understand it as a children's story, shedding light on ingrained adult assumptions and revealing the ways in which adult knowledge and experience remain hidden in apparently simple and innocent texts. Nodelman then engages a wide range of views of children's literature from authors, literary critics, cultural theorists, and specialists in education and information sciences. Through this informed dialogue, Nodelman develops a comprehensive theory of children's literature, exploring its commonalities and shared themes. The Hidden Adult is a focused and sophisticated analysis of children's literature and a major contribution to the theory and criticism of the genre.

Acknowledgments1. Six TextsDifferent Texts, Same GenreLanguage: The Text and Its ShadowsFocalization: Who Sees and What They KnowDesire Confronts KnowledgeHome and Away: Essential DoublenessVariationSummary2. Exploring AssumptionsReading as an AdultMaking Choices: Exploring RepresentativenessAssumptions about GenreGenre and FieldGenre and Genres3. Children's Literature as a GenreDefining Children's LiteratureNo GenreDifferent but Not DistinctLiterature and ChildrenFor the Good of ChildrenLiterature for Boys and Literature for GirlsMiddle-Class SubjectivityDoublenessSpecific MarkersAbout ChildrenThe Eyes of ChildrenSimplicity and SublimationThe Hidden AdultNarrator and NarrateeShowing, Not TellingHappy EndingsAchieving UtopiaBinariesRepetitionVariationA Comprehensive Statement?The Genre in the FieldSameness and DifferenceThe Sameness of Children's LiteratureDifferent Children's Literatures: The Effects of Personality and HistoryDifferent Children's Literatures: The Effects of Nationality4. The Genre in the FieldDistinctive Texts in the GenreConclusion: Children's Literature as Nonadult?NotesBibliographyIndex

""Orbiting around children and their books are hundreds of academic books and courses, puzzling out what children's literature is, and what it does, and how it works. A lot has been thought and written about this (some good, some bad) GÇô and Perry Nodelman's brilliantly comprehensive and accessible analysis pulls it all together. No need to keep re-inventing the wheel of defining children, children's books, response, literature, value, or why and how we talk about these books... it's all here. This book shows the kind of knowledge that I only wish I had GÇô and it's a model of readability and generosity of spirit. Anyone who wants to know what has been thought about children and books GÇô from the absolutely essential to the rather strange GÇô could not find a better place to start.""

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