scholarly journals The Treatment of Disability in 19th and Early 20th Century Children's Literature

2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Dowker
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Early 20Th Century

scholarly journals A barbaric country or a police kingdom: a negative image of Russia in the children’s literature of Great Britain of the late 19th – the early 20th century

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 155-160
Author(s):  
George A. Veligorsky
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Political Prisoners ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
History Of

In the children’s literature of Great Britain in the late 19th – early 20th centuries, during its greatest heyday, also known as the “golden age of children’s literature,” is forming a negative myth about Russia. Initially, Russia appears to be a country of barbarians, murderers and thugs, later – as a “police state”, a country of jails, cold dungeons, political prisoners, where injustice rules, a tyrant triumphs, and truth is trampled and suppressed. In our article we will try to trace the genesis of this myth, the history of its development, the main works in which it appears – and the possible tendencies of its further existence. It is obvious, that the children’s literature forms the reader’s consciousness in its early stages, and therefore the emergence of a pronounced – and even more negative – myth can have significant consequences and a colossal impact on the further way of thinking and perception of the reading audience.

scholarly journals The Pedagogic Role of Children’s Literature Walter Benjamin’s Theory in Modern Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 395
Author(s):  
Anastasia Chournazidi Ph.D
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
The World ◽  
German Philosopher ◽  
The Way

<p><em>This article focuses on the theory of German philosopher and literature critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) on the role of children</em><em>’</em><em>s literature and the degree by which his aesthetical theory, as expressed in the early 20th century, may be applied in modern education. Particularly in preschool ages, children’s literature plays a defining role in children</em><em>’</em><em>s development, stimulating learning memory and providing the foundations for the child</em><em>’</em><em>s perception of the world around him/her. Children</em><em>’</em><em>s literature and illustrations of children’s books, introduce children in learning and writing. In his theory, Benjamin describes how literature, and in particular the magic perceived by children’s mentality in fairytale, can and should be an integral part of education that does not apply standardized pedagogic norms or psychological interpretations, but promotes the way in which the child observes the world, imagination and intuitive perception.</em></p>

Asian American Children’s Literature

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Park Dahlen
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
Asian Diaspora

Asian American children’s literature includes books of many different genres that depict some aspect of the Asian diaspora. In total, the books should depict the breadth and depth of Asian diasporic experiences. Children’s books published in the early 20th century include mostly folktales, while books published after the 1965 Immigration Act tend to include contemporary fiction, poetry, and biographies. They address topics such as immigration and acculturation as well as capture landmark moments and experiences in Asian American history, such as the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and the transnational, transracial adoption of Asian children to the United States. Books published at the turn of the 20th century have broached newer topics, such as mixed-race identities, and are written in a variety of genres including fantasy. As noted by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, the number of books by and/or about Asian Americans published is disproportionate to the total number of books published each year and to the population of Asians in the Americas. Also some Asian American writers continue to publish on topics unrelated to their identities. Academic researchers, practitioners, and writers have addressed various aspects of how this body of literature represents Asian Americans, mostly noting distortions and erasure and offering suggestions for improvement, emerging topics, and engagement with young people.

scholarly journals Materiality in Bruno Munari’s book objects

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-379
Author(s):  
Marnie Campagnaro
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Construction Paper ◽  
Educational Potential ◽  
Do So

This paper reviews the primacy of materiality in Bruno Munari’s work based on the case study of two of his picturebooks. Bruno Munari was one of 20th-century Italy’s most eclectic figures. Over the course of his lengthy career as an artist and designer, Munari explored the field of materiality in children’s books with exceedingly favourable results. His picturebooks set a precedent in the field of children’s literature, and they are highly valued even today. Children are fascinated by the opportunity to organise the experience of reading more freely thanks to innovative graphic and typographic mechanisms that fully exploit the editorial potential of materials such as paper, construction paper, and cardboard, but also transparent or semi-transparent sheets of acetate film, wood, plastic, sponge, and so on. In this paper, I describe the exclusive relationship that Munari developed over the years with the book as an object in all its various components (text and paratext). To do so, I discuss two of Munari’s significant editorial projects, the picturebook entitled Nella notte buia [In the Dark of the Night] (1956) and I Prelibri [Prebooks] (1980). I analyse the ways in which the Milanese artist succeeded in exploiting all the communicative, aesthetic and educational potential of these books’ material dimension.

scholarly journals From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood: Children’s Literature and the Construction of Canadian Identity by Elizabeth A. Galway

2018 ◽  
pp. 83-84
Author(s):  
Jon D. Lee
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Canadian Identity ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
The Many ◽  
19Th And 20Th Century

Focusing on children’s literature from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood provides scholars of folklore, literature and history with a much-needed text that examines the role children’s literature played in forming Canadian national identity. As a whole, the book is well-written and free of academic jargon, and Galway, using 115 primary sources (i.e. 19th and 20th century children’s literature) and at least twice as many secondary sources (largely contemporary academic texts from various disciplines, including history and English), details well the many themes and ideals that permeated children’s literature in this formative era.

In Search of a Cultural Code

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-297
Author(s):  
Olga Velikanova
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Soviet Culture ◽  
Cultural Code

Abstract From the plethora of big and small achievements that the author celebrates in the book, my essay addresses such subjects as the continuity of cultural creativity in the 19th and 20th centuries, children’s literature, the sociology of reading, and the place of goodness in literature and life under Stalinism – all within the span of the 20th century. Sharing with the author my admiration of accomplishments of Russian and Soviet culture, I try here to historicize the themes and expand slightly on some of them, like perceptions of the cultural products.

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