scholarly journals “Nobody should Take the History of the World as if Written for Mere Diversion” – Historical Fiction in Children’s and Young Adult Literature by Gustav Nieritz (1795-1876)

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-44
Author(s):  
Sebastian Schmideler
2020 ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Vadym Skurativskyi

The genesis of cinema (in 1890) is immediately accompanied by the almost global resonance around the "moving picture", a rather unusual communicative phenomenon. Unfortunately, all the root causes of the resonance have not yet been sufficiently studied. Today, however, given the achievements of a whole range of humanities and (not only) scientific disciplines, it becomes obvious that the "moving picture" invented by engineers Edison and the Lumière brothers arises, above all, as an upgrade to completely new aesthetic, technological and other settings of human culture of the ancient phenomenon of socalled "original syncretism". It is as if the breakdawn of the artistic and generally semiotic-communicative culture of the humanity. That syncretism combines all the receptive means of a man to create a holistic space-and-time picture of the world. The "moving picture", which characteristically arose almost synchronously with the advent of the efforts of the science of the time (the school of Academician Alexander Veselovsky and others) around the phenomenon of original syncretism with a surprising sequence restores decisively the whole semiotic sum of it — but clearly, on a completely new so-called technological basis. Accordingly, this circumstance immediately casts a new cognitive light on the whole history of the "moving picture" — from its debut to our present.


Author(s):  
Elena A. Pogorelaya

The article offers a variant of updating the modern school literature program by including modern texts aimed at “young adult literature”. In contrast to the foreign practice of publishing and discussing literature for teenagers and “young adults”, in which new children’s literature has long been working with the established taboos of the adult world (themes of death, sex, bullying in the collective, domestic violence, etc.), in Russia the value of such literature is a debatable issue, although a number of popular texts (P. Sanaev, N. Abgaryan, D. Sabitova et al.), obviously, correspond to this trend. Based on an experiment with grade 8 students, who were offered modern works of three thematic blocks (texts dedicated to unknown and tragic pages of the history of the XX century, family themes and topical issues of relations between peers), the potential of modern domestic and foreign literature young adult to encourage interested reading and dialogue with the student is shown. The article presents comments on excerpts from school essays, in which they tell about the texts they read and offer to include in the school course works that are understandable and close to the modern teenager.


Author(s):  
E. Boyarshinova

This paper examines the history and current state of literature for teenagers. In modern criticism young-adult genre stands out in literature for adolescents. An introductory excursion into the history of the concept of “young adults” and literature for this category of readers is given. Criticism of such works is considered by video bloggers who place their clips on Youtube platform. It is analyzed whether these responses affect the book market conditions. According to the most conservative estimates, more than half of the literature published by major publishers is Young-adult books. They are read not only by teenagers, but also by adults who want to immerse themselves in their youth. The theme of Young-adult literature is serious and multifaceted. It attracted both professional authors, whose works become real literary events, and young, non-professional authors. The study of these works is important from the point of view of studying the sociology of teenage life, to understand what young people live, what problems are reflected in such works, albeit in a crooked mirror.


Author(s):  
Kasey L. Garrison ◽  
Pat Carmichael ◽  
Katy Manck

At the 2017 IASL Annual Conference, the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Special Interest Group (CYAL SIG) discussed the creation of “Authentic Voices,” a curated list of titles, authors, illustrators, and publishers identified by IASL members as sharing authentic voices from indigenous peoples around the world. “Authentic Voices” is envisioned to be a mirror for readers from these groups, a window for readers outside of these cultures, and a sliding glass door to promote engagement with all (Sims Bishop, 1990). This paper describes the need for such a list, important diversity movements and trends in children’s and young adult literature including #weneeddiversebooks and #ownvoices, and some exemplars to be included on the list.


Author(s):  
Gabriela Sotto Mayor

Os paratextos no contexto do livro ilustrado de literatura infantojuvenil (LIJ) são, muitas vezes, meramente decorativos, ao contrário do que se espera desses elementos no livro-álbum. No entanto, exemplos há em que excedem com frequência essa função e assumem papéis importantes no sistema de comunicação. Cada vez mais se verifica, mesmo no livro ilustrado, a utilização destes elementos (como as capas/contracapas, guardas, páginas de rosto) para além do simples embelezamento, fruto da contribuição consciente do ilustrador. Assim, na esteira de que todas as partes do livro merecem especial dedicação, o foco de atenção deste artigo é a folha de rosto, elemento paratextual que ainda não tinha sido examinado em profundidade sob o ponto de vista gráfico nem merecera estudos aprofundando a sua importância comunicativa. Como parte integrante de um estudo mais abrangente, este artigo, de carácter qualitativo, toma como corpus os livros de literatura infantojuvenil que, entre 2000 e 2009, inclusive, receberam o prémio máximo, menções especiais e recomendações no Prémio Nacional de Ilustração. As folhas de rosto confirmaram-se como veículos semânticos, avançando informações relacionadas com a caracterização das personagens, com o esclarecimento da temática ou com a antecipação do desenvolvimento narrativo, entre outras. Paratexts in the context of children’s and young adult literature (CYAL) are often purely decorative, however, in the world of picturebooks it is increasingly common to introduce illustrated elements, which often contribute to the visual narrative and thus a reader’s construction of meaning. It's increasingly more frequent, even in an illustrated book to see paratexts (such as the covers / back covers, endpapers, title pages) being used beyond simple beautification, as a conscious result of the illustrator contribution.Recognizing that all parts of an illustrated book deserve special dedication, the focus of this article is the title page, paratextual element that had not been examined in depth in a graphical point of view or deserved studies deepening their communicative importance. As part of a broader study, this article shares results from the qualitative analysis of a corpus containing books distinguished with the highest prize, special mentions and recommendations from the jury of the Portuguese National Illustration Prize, between 2000 and 2009.Title pages were confirmed as semantic vehicles, advancing information related to characters' features, with the clarification of the theme or the anticipation of narrative development, among others.


2021 ◽  
pp. 3-29
Author(s):  
Marilisa Jiménez García

This chapter places the book’s scholarly conversation in a framework of postcolonial, decolonial, critical race, American Studies, Latinx/Puerto Rican Studies, and children’s literature scholarship. The chapter elaborates on the role of youth, both as objects and participants, and youth literature in formation of Latinx studies, particularly in the formation of the historical and current ethnic studies movements and the history of Latinx literature in relationship to a “canon” of children’s and young adult literature.


Author(s):  
Derritt Mason

This book considers the recent surge in queer young adult literature publishing and argues that this explosion of queer representation has prompted new forms of longstanding cultural anxieties about adolescent sexuality. In particular, critics of queer texts for young people seem concerned with the following questions: what makes for a good “coming out” story? Will increased queer representation in popular culture teach adolescents the right lessons, and help queer youth live better, happier lives? What if these stories harm young people instead of helping them? Although these concerns spring from a particular contemporary moment, Mason illustrates how the history of adolescence is itself a history of anxiety, and how young adult literature emerged, in part, as a way of managing various cultural and social anxieties. Mason suggests that “queer YA” is usefully understood as a body of trans-media texts with blurry boundaries, one that coheres around affect—specifically, anxiety—instead of content. To clarify this point, Mason draws on criticism about a range of texts for and about queer adolescents, including an assortment of young adult books; Caper in the Castro, the first-ever queer video game; online fan communities; and popular television series Glee and Big Mouth. Themes that generate the most anxiety about adolescent culture, Mason argues—queer visibility, risk-taking, HIV/AIDS, dystopia and horror, the promise that “It Gets Better” and the threat that it might not—challenge us to rethink how we read and engage with young people’s media.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-315
Author(s):  
Alexandra Lykissas

Fairy tales have a long history of providing educational morals for young women, particularly children. The lessons from older fairy tales have long influenced the metanarratives regarding how women should act in our culture and contemporary versions are no different. Contemporary adaptations of these fairy tales, however, have moved the genre beyond restrictive metanarratives and are now offering new solutions to 21st-century problems like authoritarian rulers. In Marissa Meyers’ Lunar Chronicle series (2012–2015), the characters interact and work together to overcome the villain. This collaborative fairy tale is a new type of fairy tale adaptation in which the characters work together instead of focusing on their individual happily-ever-afters. My article uses postmodern and feminist literary theories along with close-reading literary analysis to examine how this young adult series shows how young adult literature has become political and is able to address adult problems in ways that are easier to process for younger readers. I focus on how the series uses the character of Levana to examine how authoritarian rulers maintain control over the populace, in order to show how the characters then work together to overthrow Levana to free the people from her oppression. This series uses collaboration to show the reader how to resolve possible problems within their own lives. Working in community then becomes as a solution for young adults who may feel disenfranchised or lonely in our increasingly divisive world. Cooperation also becomes a transgressive move against the tendency to become segregated from those around us.


Diagnostics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 381
Author(s):  
Adam Torbicki

Human pulmonary circulation is as full of mysteries and surprises as is the history of attempts to uncover and understand them. The Special Issue of Diagnostics, appearing after 2020 immobilized the world, give us an opportunity, space and momentum to remind to our medical community at least the main milestones which mark the progress that was made before our times. This review’s aim is to remind about pioneers and their ideas which now are considered as if they were always with us—which is not the case…


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