Author: Patricia LynchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Grey Goose of Kilnevin
Author: Patricia LynchThe Grey Goose of Kilnevin
Author: Patricia LynchIrish Children’s Literature and the Poetics of Memory
Author: Rebecca LongPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350167274
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Focusing on the mythological narratives that influence Irish children's literature, this book examines the connections between landscape, time and identity, positing that myth and the language of myth offer authors and readers the opportunity to engage with Ireland's culture and heritage. It explores the recurring patterns of Irish mythological narratives that influence literature produced for children in Ireland between the nineteenth and the twenty-first centuries. A selection of children's books published between 1892, when there was an escalation of the cultural pursuit of Irish independence and 2016, which marked the centenary of the Easter 1916 rebellion against English rule, are discussed with the aim of demonstrating the development of a pattern of retrieving, re-telling, remembering and re-imagining myths in Irish children's literature. In doing so, it examines the reciprocity that exists between imagination, memory, and childhood experiences in this body of work.
With All My Love
Author: Patricia ScanlanPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476704511
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
The Number One bestselling phenomenon moves to Simon & Schuster with a heartwarming novel of mothers and daughters, secrets and lies.
Who's who in Children's Books
Author: Margery FisherPublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
In alfabetische volgorde worden de belangrijke figuren van ongeveer 900 kinderboeken uit heden en verleden op originele wijze geanalyseerd. Niet opgenomen zijn figuren uit bakerrijmpjes, mythen en sprookjes.
Circus of Dreams
Author: John WalshPublisher: Constable
ISBN: 1472133463
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms of setting, subject matter and style, challenging - and almost eclipsing - the Establishment writers of the 1950s. It began with two names - Martin Amis and Ian McEwan - and became a flood: Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Graham Swift, Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson and Pat Barker among them. The rise of the newcomers coincided with astonishing changes in the way books were published - and the ways in which readers bought them and interacted with their authors. Suddenly, authors of serious fiction were like rock stars, fashionable, sexy creatures, shrewdly marketed and feted in public. The yearly bunfight of the Booker Prize became a matter of keen public interest. Tim Waterstone established the first of a chain of revolutionary bookshops. London publishing houses became the playground of exciting, visionary entrepreneurs who introduced new forms of fiction - magical realist, feminist, post-colonial, gay - to modern readers. Independent houses began to spend ostentatious sums on author advances and glamorous book launches. It was nothing short of a watershed in literary culture. And its climax was the issuing of a death sentence by a fundamentalist leader whose hostility to Western ideas of free speech made him, literally, the world's most lethal critic. Through this exciting, hectic period, the journalist and author John Walsh played many parts: literary editor, reviewer, interviewer, prize judge and TV pundit. He met and interviewed numerous literary stars, attended the best launch parties and digested all the gossip and scandal of the time. In Circus of Dreams he reports on what he found, first with wide-eyed delight and then with a keen eye on what drove this glorious era. The result is a unique hybrid of personal memoir, oral history, literary investigation and elegy for a golden age.
The Grey Goose of Kilnevin
Author: Patricia LynchPublisher:
ISBN: 9780900068782
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Ireland of the Welcomes
Author: Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1626
Book Description
Children's Literature Collections
Author: Keith O'SullivanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137597577
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book provides scholars, both national and international, with a basis for advanced research in children’s literature in collections. Examining books for children published across five centuries, gathered from the collections in Dublin, this unique volume advances causes in collecting, librarianship, education, and children’s literature studies more generally. It facilitates processes of discovery and recovery that present various pathways for researchers with diverse interests in children’s books to engage with collections. From book histories, through bookselling, information on collectors, and histories of education to close text analyses, it is evident that there are various approaches to researching collections. In this volume, three dominant approaches emerge: history and canonicity, author and text, ideals and institutions. Through its focus on varied materials, from fiction to textbooks, this volume illuminates how cities can articulate a vision of children's literature through particular collections and institutional practices.