International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
because of, and for, ‘children’, and it is these ‘children’ who remain the passion of—and therefore the source of conflict for— ...
Mathis, S.B. (1977) ‘The Slave Dancer is an insult to Black children’, in MacCann, D. and Woodard, G. (eds) Cultural Conformity ...
Hunt, P. (ed.) (1990) Children’s Literature: The Development of Criticism, London: Routledge. ——(ed.) (1991) Criticism, Theory a ...
3 History, Culture and Children’s Literature Tony Watkins Until the late 1970s, there was (outside Marxist criticism) a generall ...
History is always in practice a reading of the past. We make a narrative out of the available ‘documents’, the written texts (an ...
Not everyone, however, would agree with the implied radical political stance of the new historicist movements. H.Aram Veeser, in ...
kinds of cultural work, from satisfying authorial fantasies to legitimating or subverting dominant class and gender ideologies.. ...
1987:254). An anthology published in 1992 suggests the following major categories of current work in the field: the history of c ...
so on, as well as gender. Third, cultural studies has tried to theorise subjectivity as a socio-cultural construction. Some theo ...
However, ideology can also be used in a neutral sense (Ricoeur 1986) and this is reflected in the work of Fred Inglis, who has w ...
Belsey, C. (1991) ‘Making histories then and now: Shakespeare from Richard II to Henry V, in Barker, E, Hulme, P. and Iversen, M ...
Rose, J. (1984) The Case of Peter Pan, or, The Impossibility of Children’s Fiction, London: Macmillan. Thompson, J.B. (1984) Stu ...
4 Ideology Charles Sarland Introduction Discourse on children’s fiction sits at the crossroads of a number of other discourses. ...
Moral Purpose and Didacticism It is useful, in the first instance, to recognise the historical nature of the debate, a debate th ...
while ‘our’ side is again merely applying common sense. In the history of Marxist thought there has been a convoluted developmen ...
demonstrated the almost universally reactionary views on race, gender and class, together with a political conservatism, that in ...
However, a developing body of work did start to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s which was directly concerned with confronting the ...
the question of the role that this liberal humanist discourse plays ideologically in a late capitalist world, and it is such a c ...
Such structuralist approaches need not be limited to popular texts, and can be applied with equal usefulness to the work of auth ...
humanism conceals its reactionary political role, though the idealist nature of its position is often clear enough in its claim ...
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