Stuttering in Children's Literature

1988 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahirih Bushey ◽  
Richard Martin
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Children’S Fiction ◽  
Children's Fiction

In this paper, the authors present brief reviews of 20 works of children's fiction in which a character stutters. The purposes of the reviews were (a) to provide speech-language clinicians with synopses of most of the currently available children's fiction involving characters who stutter, and (b) to explore how the authors of children's fiction portray certain aspects of stuttering, such as symptomatology, causation, and treatment.

scholarly journals Syntax, Readability and Ideology in Children's Literature

2002 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 524-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiina Puurtinen
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Literary Systems ◽  
Children’S Fiction ◽  
Initial Focus ◽  
Children's Fiction

Abstract This article outlines the aims and methodology of a new study in the field of children's literature. The research makes use of a composite corpus representing original English, original Finnish and translated Finnish from English. The initial focus of this investigation is the analysis of nonfinite constructions, taken as a measure of readability of children's books. Ultimately its aim is to infer, through the interpretation of the lexico-grammatical patterns emerging in the corpus, the ideological norms prevailing in the literary systems of English and Finnish children's fiction.

Queer Theory's Child and Children's Literature Studies

PMLA ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Peter Pan ◽  
Poststructuralist Theory ◽  
Children’S Fiction ◽  
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ◽  
Children's Fiction

In 2002 Karín Lesnik-Oberstein and Stephen Thomson published an essay entitled “what is queer theory doing with the child?,” addressing work in the 1990s by Michael Moon and the late, great Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on the “protogay” child. Something inappropriate, even scandalous, was their answer, as one might surmise from the accusatory shape of the question. In their reading, Moon and Sedgwick essentialize rather than interrogate the protogay child, such that said child becomes “an anti-theoretical moment, resistant to analysis, itself the figure deployed as resistance” (36). For Lesnik-Oberstein and Thomson, queer theory is insufficiently alert to the lessons of poststructuralist theory and especially to the ongoing interrogation of “child” and “childhood.” Lesnik-Oberstein and Thomson specialize in childhood studies, and Lesnik-Oberstein is a well-known scholar of children's literature. Her 1994 Children's Literature: Criticism and the Fictional Child extends and takes inspiration from Jacqueline Rose's The Case of Peter Pan; or, The Impossibility of Children's Fiction (1984), which ushered into children's literature studies a powerful and lasting skepticism about “childhood” and “children's literature.”

scholarly journals The Case of The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Childhood, Animality

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-257
Author(s):  
Karín Lesnik-Oberstein
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Social Constructivism ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Peter Pan ◽  
Shared Interest ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Children’S Fiction ◽  
Biological Entities ◽  
Children's Fiction

This article argues a different understanding to that in children's literature studies more widely of the implications of the work of Jacqueline Rose in The Case of Peter Pan or: The Impossibility of Children's Fiction (1984) for thinking about childhood, animality and children's literature and links these implications to the similar implications of Jacques Derrida's thinking about the child and animality. In both cases, the child and the animal are seen not as psycho-biological entities nor as products of social constructivism nor as categories that must be seen as inclusive of variety, but as memories, where memory is understood in the psychoanalytic sense as a present production of a past, including ‘observation’ as remembered. The implications of the arguments are demonstrated in relation to readings of Jessica Love's award-winning picture book Julián is a Mermaid (2018) as well as several reviews of the text in relation specifically to ideas of (trans) sexuality, gender, childhood, ethnicity and mermaids. Key here is what is understood to be the shared interest of psychoanalysis and deconstructive thinking in not stabilising definitions but instead in reading them as shifting in perspective.

My Crazy Uncles: C.S. Lewis and Tolkien as Writers for Children

1998 ◽  
pp. 60-74
Author(s):  
Gwyneth Jones
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Lord Of The Rings ◽  
Chronicles Of Narnia ◽  
York Review ◽  
Children’S Fiction ◽  
Children's Fiction

‘My Crazy Uncles’ was originally read at a meeting of the C.S. Lewis Society in June 1994, and later published in the New York Review of Science Fiction in November 1995. It provides a retrospective discussion on the speaker’s first introduction to science fiction through imaginary worlds in children’s literature. The essay analyses the conventions and tropes used in children’s fiction and describes the ways in which they work together to ‘convince’ the reader of alternative realities. Jones also describes her own joy of reading as a child and reflects on the Chronicles of Narnia and Lord of the Rings series’ influence on her writing.

scholarly journals Traversing and contesting the textuality of gender in mainstream children's fiction

2003 ◽  
Vol 36 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 153-162
Author(s):  
Lilijana Burcar
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Children’S Fiction ◽  
Literary Devices ◽  
Mainstream Literature ◽  
Children's Fiction ◽  
The Way

The article first outlines the way in which mainstream children's fiction has traditionally sought to address and underrnine the artificiality of oppositional and hierarchical gender paradigms. Pro-ferninist texts that abound in mainstream children's literature have never really extricated themselves from the bonds of gender-related binarisations and hierarchizations because their approach in delineating girl protagonists hasbeen premised primarily upon a mere reverslil of masculine and ferninine defined attributes. By insisting only on the exarnination and reversal of attributes, mainstream children's fiction has fallen short of investigating narrative mechanisms which are essential to the understanding of how subjectivities, regardless of their feminine or masculine inflections,  are constituted in the first place. To address this issue, it is argued that children's mainstream literature should embrace such literary devices as metafiction and genre mixing. The article goes on to demonstrate the kind of impact these devices have in challenging and underrnining the socially constructed notions of oppositional and hierarchical gender paradigms on those children who have been subject to traditionalliterary socialization.

scholarly journals Indication of Moral Erosion in Children’s Fiction

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-50
Author(s):  
Wahyu Wiji Astuti ◽  
M Anggie J Daulay ◽  
M Oky F Gafary
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Reading Habit ◽  
Children’S Fiction ◽  
Children Development ◽  
Children's Fiction

Children literature has an important role in children development. Based on the research, there is a different between intellectual and character from child who is a bookworm and who is not. Reading fiction is a favorite of children. Children tend to identify themselves into a character in a fiction, therefore proper rules needs to be put into consideration. This paper aims at underlining problems in children fiction which are potentially eroding children’s morality. Analysis is done by studying the value and structure in children’s literature. It needs to be reconstructed, so reading habit of children will not drop them down to moral erosion.

scholarly journals Eyes and speech in English, Finnish and Czech children’s literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-208
Author(s):  
Anna Čermáková ◽  
Markéta Malá
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Word Order ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Relative Weight ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
Semantic Roles ◽  
Narrative Functions ◽  
Fictional Worlds ◽  
Children’S Fiction

This study explores cross-linguistically, in English, Czech and Finnish, eye-behaviour that occurs in children’s fiction in the vicinity of character speech. We explore how authentic eye behaviour, as an important part of non-verbal communication, is rendered in fictional worlds. While there are more similarities than differences across the languages in the characteristics and narrative functions of fictional eye-behaviour, the linguistic encoding differs substantially due to typological differences between the languages. The same semantic roles are often expressed by divergent syntactic means. The divergence is reflected primarily in the relative weight of different word-order principles, the different means of indicating simultaneity, as well as the role of inflection in Finnish and Czech.

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