The rhetorical power of children's literature

The rhetorical power of children's literature / edited by John H. Saunders.

This book offers case studies analyzing a full array of genres in children's literature, from picture books to young adult novels. This volume's contributions interrogate how children's literature is a powerful yet under examined space of rhetorical discourse that influences one of th...

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Other Authors: Saunders, John H. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
Series:Children and youth in popular culture.
Subjects:
Children's literature > History and criticism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Children's literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Bedtime rhetoric
  • Part I: PICTURE BOOKS: TSZ, TSZ, TSZ to industrial "cap"italism
  • Pigs and wolves
  • The cat in the hat
  • Mommy and daddy were married, and other creation myths in children's books about sex
  • Part II: YA LITERATURE
  • "Good readers' in Narnia
  • "Why do you hurt these children?" the rhetoric of "risky stories" in children's literature
  • Subversive identification and the coincidentia opositorum in Ursula Le Guin's a wizard of earthsea
  • The multi-gaze perspective of Harry Potter
  • Conclusion
  • Index.

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