Kümmerling-Meibauer / Müller / Muller Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children’s Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-39702-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 266 Seiten

Reihe: Children's Literature and Culture

This volume focuses on the (de)canonization processes in children’s literature, considering the construction and cultural-historical changes of canons in different children’s literatures. Chapters by international experts in the field explore a wide range of different children’s literatures from Great Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Eastern and Central Europe, as well as from Non-European countries such as Australia, Israel, and the United States. Situating inquiry within larger literary and cultural studies conversations about canonicity, contributors assess representative authors and works that encountered changing fates in the course of canon history. Particular emphasis is given to sociological canon theories, which have so far been under-represented in canon research in children’s literature. The volume therefore relates historical changes in the canon of children’s literature not only to historical changes in concepts of childhood but to more encompassing political, social, economic, cultural, and ideological shifts. This volume’s comparative approach takes cognizance of the fact that, if canon formation is an important cultural factor in nation-building processes, a comparative study is essential to assessing transnational processes in canon formation. This book thus renders evident the structural similarities between patterns and strategies of canon formation emerging in different children’s literatures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina

Müller, Anja

Muller, Anja

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Anja Müller Part I: Canons, Cultural Capital and Community Building 1. The Case of Canon and Classics: The Impossibility of Definitions? Peter Hunt 2. The Cultural Capital of Canon Formation: Some Principles for the Study of Children’s Literature Helene Høyrup 3. Canon Formation and Social Imaginaries in British Children’s Literature Anja Müller, Franziska Burstyn, and Simone Herrmann 4. Nation Building and the Literary Canon for Children: The Test-Case of the Israeli Canon for Children Yael Darr 5. Remembering, Rereading and Reviewing the Canon: The Case of The Secret Garden and Forgotten Fiction Alison Waller Part II: The Political Work of Canonization – Case Studies in Communist Canon Formations 6. Firing the Canon! Geoffrey Trease’s Campaign for an Alternative Children’s Canon in 1930’s Britain Kimberley Reynolds 7. Canon Formation in the Soviet Union: The Case of Swift as Author of a Children’s Classic Michael Düring 8. Communist Children’s Literature or Canonization and De-Canonization in Twentieth-Century Germany Jana Mikota 9. Historical Twists and Turns in the Polish Canon of Children’s Literature Anna Czernow-Dreger and Dorota Michulka 10. Changing Criteria for Canonicity – the Case of Montenegrin Children’s Novels Svetlana Kalezic-Randonjic Part III: Agents in Canon Formation – Aesthetics and Ideologies 11. Canon and Avant-Garde – a Paradoxical Relationship Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer 12. Women’s Nonsense vs. Literary Nonsense: Genre, Gender, and Canon Formation – The Case of Laura Richards Etti Gordon Ginzburg 13. The Perks of Being Talked About: On Patterns in the Canonization Processes Involving Astrid Lindgren’s Works in the Low Countries Sara Van den Bossche 14. The Junior Literary Guild and the Making of New Canonical Works Anne Morey 15. Visions and Values: The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Prizing of Picturebooks in the Twenty-First Century Erica Hateley 16. Finally Coming Together? The Bridging Role of Adolescent Literature Helma Lierop-Debrauwer

Über Autor(innen)

Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer is Professor in the German Department at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Anja Müller is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Siegen, Germany.