Language and ideology in children's fiction
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Language and ideology in children's fiction
（Language in social life series）
Longman, 1992
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Includes bibliography (p. 291-301) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780582070622
Description
An authoritative analysis of narratives written for children, focusing on the ideologies pervading texts and the ways in which creative literature represents the individual both as subject and as agent. Uses a wide range of international examples of particular types of children's books: old and new fairy tales, fantasy and historical fiction and poetry.
Table of Contents
General Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Examining ideology in children's fiction
1. Ideology, discourse and narrative fiction
2. Readers and subject positions in children's fiction
3. Not by words alone: language, intertextuality, society
4. Ideology, carnival and interrogative texts
5. Primary scenes: the family and picture books
6. Contemplating otherness: ideology and historical fiction
7. Words of power: fantasy and realism as linguistically constituted modes
Bibliography
Index
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ISBN 9780582070639
Description
Contemporary discussions of literature have paid increasing attention to the ideologies pervading texts and to the ways in which creative literature represents the individual both as subject and as agent. "Language and Ideology in Children's Fiction" examines these matters in narratives written for children, with a special focus on language, since meanings are primarily constituted in language. "Language and Ideology in Children's Fiction" examines various fictional modes, including picture books and historical, realistic and fantastic fictions, ranging from first books up to books for adolescents and drawing examples from Britain, the USA, Australia and New Zealand. It explores the ways in which children's fiction develops relationships between the ideology of text and the position of the individual human subject both as character within narrative and as implied reader. In order to do this, John Stephens has developed an approach to fiction which links narrative theory and critical linguistics with analysis of ideology and subjectivity in an original way which discloses how fictions work variosuly to constrain or liberate audience responses.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - examining ideology in children's fiction
- ideology, discourse and narrative fiction
- readers and subject positions in children's fiction
- not by words alone - language, intertextuality, society
- ideology, carnival and interrogative texts
- primary scenes - the family and picture books
- contemplating otherness - ideology and historical fiction
- words of power - fantasy and realism as linguistically constituted modes.
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