The Poetic Power of Ordinary Speech: E. B. White’s Children’s Stories

2018 ◽  
pp. 146-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Rustin ◽  
Michael Rustin
Keyword(s):  
Children's Stories

Childhood and the Classics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Murnaghan ◽  
Deborah H. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Nathaniel Hawthorne ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
The United States ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Charles Kingsley ◽  
Special Relation ◽  
Literary Responses ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Children's Stories

This book explores the childhood reception of classical antiquity in Britain and the United States over a century-long period beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, with a focus on two genres of children’s literature– the myth collection and the historical novel—and on adults’ literary responses to their own childhood encounters with antiquity. The book recognizes the fundamental role in writing for children of adults’ ideas about what children want or need, but also attends to the ways in which child readers make such works their own. The authors first trace the tradition of myths retold as children’s stories (and as especially suited to children) from Nathaniel Hawthorne and Charles Kingsley to Roger Lancelyn Green and Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire, treating both writers and illustrators. They then turn to historical fiction, particularly to the roles of nationality and of gender in the construction of the ancient world for modern children. They conclude with an investigation of the connections between childhood and antiquity made by writers for adults, including James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Naomi Mitchison, and H.D., and with a reading of H.D.’s novella The Hedgehog as a text on the border between children’s and adult literature that thematizes both the child’s special relation to myth and the adult’s stake in children’s relationship to the classics. An epilogue offers a brief overview of recent trends, which reflect both growing uncertainty about the appeal of antiquity to modern children and an ongoing conviction that the classical past is of perennial interest.

“Careful the Spell You Cast”

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Francis
Keyword(s):  
Sudden Death ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Moral Maturity ◽  
Happy Ending ◽  
The World ◽  
Children's Stories

WithInto the Woodswe enter an enchanted landscape that is beset, however, by lengthening shadows. The show, which starts as an ingenious retelling of some familiar children’s stories, darkens in tone as the characters face up to difficult decisions and sudden death. In this show Sondheim and Lapine do not just retell fairy tales; instead they examine why we tell stories and how they can be used to bring the listener to moral maturity, which means—and this is a recurring theme in Sondheim’s work—accepting the necessity of choice and learning not to rely on the world to provide you with a happy ending.

Similar use of intonation structure in early implanted children and hearing children: The case of Italian

2021 ◽  
pp. 014272372098605
Author(s):  
Paola Zanchi ◽  
Laura Zampini ◽  
Luca Pancani ◽  
Roberta Berici ◽  
Mariapaola D’Imperio
Keyword(s):  
Chronological Age ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Generation Task ◽  
Story Generation ◽  
Italian Children ◽  
Children's Stories ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
First Time

This work presents an analysis of the intonation competence in a group of Italian children with cochlear implant (CI). Early cochlear implantation plays a crucial role in language development for children who were born deaf in that it favours the acquisition of complex aspects of language, such as the intonation structure. A story-generation task, the Narrative Competence Task, was used to elicit children’s stories. Narrations produced by 8 early implanted children and by 16 children with typically hearing (TH) (8 one-to-one matched considering the chronological age, TH-CA, and 8 considering the hearing age, TH-HA) were analysed considering intonation features (pitch accent distribution, edge tones and inner breaks). Results show that children with CI produce intonation patterns that are similar to those of both TH-CA and TH-HA control groups. Few significant differences were found only between children with CI and children matched for TH-HA in the use of rising edge tones. These results are discussed in light of the role of cognitive development in using prosody and intonation and the importance of early CI implantation. This study shows for the first time that intonation use of early implanted children is not different from that of typically developing children with the same chronological age.

Children's Stories.—(III.)

1894 ◽  
Vol 40 (24) ◽  
pp. 408-408
Author(s):  
Kate L. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Children's Stories

scholarly journals Analysis of Component of Aggression in the Stories of Elementary School Aggressive Children

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 187
Author(s):  
Fateme Chamandar ◽  
D. Susan Jabbari
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Overt Aggression ◽  
School Students ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Aggression Questionnaire ◽  
Children's Stories ◽  
Aggressive Children

The purpose of this study is the content analysis of children’s stories based on the components of aggression. Participants are 66 elementary school students (16 girls and 50 boys) selected from fourth and fifth grades, using the Relational and Overt Aggression Questionnaire; completed by the teachers. Draw a Story Test (Silver, 2005) is administered to select aggressive children who narrates stories based on their drawn pictures in response to DAS pictures. DAS Test consists of a series of figures which children respond by drawing a picture and telling a story related to the picture. This provides us with the information about their self image and emotional content. After deciding the components of aggression based on theories of Crick et al. (1997), and Crick and Dodge (1996), the stories are analyzed using the quantitative content analysis technique. The results reveals that the narrated stories of aggressive children have engagement ratio of 1.62, which means more than 50% of children showed aggressive components. The highest frequency of aggression in their stories is related to murdering, killing and hurting others.

scholarly journals Release the Dragon: The Role of Popular Culture in Children's Stories

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Urbach ◽  
Angela Eckhoff
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Children's Stories
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