Language, gender and children's fiction

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This is an original, scholarly yet accessible contribution to the field of children's fiction. It focuses on gender in relation to children's fiction and the role that language plays in this relationship. Girls' and boys' reading itself is looked at, as well as the books that they encounter - including the Harry Potter series, Louis Sachar's prizewinning Holes , fairy tales and school reading schemes. The book treats fiction as fiction, using as its guiding principles the multimodality of much children's fiction; that fiction is almost always dialogic; that the feminist movement has had consid

כותר Language, gender and children's fiction / Jane Sunderland.
מהדורה 1st ed.
מוציא לאור London
New York : Continuum
שנה 2010
הערות Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
הערת תוכן ותקציר Introduction -- Language and gender: issues and applications -- Content analysis: the early days -- The importance of language and of linguistic analysis of fiction -- Happily ever after? -- More than fifty years of reading schemes -- Stories about two-mum and two-dad families (written with Mark McGlashan) -- Miss Katherine shot the sheriff: the literary affordance of achronological intertextuality -- Hermione, Harry and gender relations at Hogwarts -- Conclusion.
היקף החומר 1 online resource (268 p.)
שפה אנגלית
מספר מערכת 997010715989205171
תצוגת MARC

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