Maps and Mapping in Children's Literature
Landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes
Published on 14. August 2017
Book
Hardback
267 pages
978-90-272-0161-4 (ISBN)
Description
Maps and Mapping in Children's Literature is the first comprehensive study that investigates the representation of maps in children's books as well as the impact of mapping on the depiction of landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes in children's literature. The chapters in this volume pursue a comparative approach as they represent a wide spectrum of diverse genres and national children's literatures by examining a wealth of children's books from Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Norway, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the USA. The theoretical and methodological approaches range from literary studies, developmental psychology, maps and geography literacy, ecocriticism, historical contextualization with both new historicist and political-historical leanings, and intermediality to materialist cartographies, cultural studies, island studies, and genre studies. By this, this volume aims at embedding children's literature in a broader field of literary and cultural studies, thus situating children's literature research within a general context of literary theory.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
650 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-0161-4 (9789027201614)
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Content
1. Table of figures; 2. Maps and mapping in children's literature (by Goga, Nina); 3. Part 1. About mapping: Learning to orientate oneself; 4. A cognitive-developmental perspective on maps in children's literature (by Liben, Lynn S.); 5. Mapping the new citizen - Pedagogy of cartophobia: Philanthropic geographies in the late Enlightenment (by Merveldt, Nikola von); 6. A subtle cartography: Navigating the past in children's fiction (by Grafton, Janet); 7. Metaphorical maps in picturebooks (by Kummerling-Meibauer, Bettina); 8. Part 2. Literary shaping of real cityscapes; 9. Mapping a city - Berlin in a contemporary detective novel (by Lowe, Corina); 10. "New York just like I pictured it - skyscrapers and everything" (by Gutierrez, Anna Katrina); 11. Itineraries and maps: Walking as a means of building mobile cartographies in Peter Sis' Madlenka and The Three Golden Keys (by Juan Cantavella, Anna); 12. Bruno Munari's visual mapping of the city of Milan: A historical analysis of the picturebook Nella nebbia di Milano (by Campagnaro, Marnie); 13. Part 3. Fictional seascapes and landscapes; 14. "An island made of water quite surrounded by earth": Mapping out the seascape in nonsense literature (by Holownia, Olga); 15. Connecting worlds: Mapping space-time in three fictional islands (by Nikolajeva, Maria); 16. Mapping illusions: Between the child's fantasy world of Lev Kassil's Schwambrania and the geography of a fledgling Soviet state (by Mikhaylova, Olga); 17. Mapping Middle Earth: A Tolkienian legacy (by Sundmark, Bjorn); 18. Landscapes of growth, faith, and doubt: Mixing and mapping fantasy geography and contemporary political issues (by Goga, Nina); 19. About the editors and contributors; 20. Subject index; 21. Name index