Children's literature studies : a research handbook /
edited by M.O. Grenby and Kimberley Reynolds.
- Basingstoke New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- xii, 234 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-227) and index.
Introduction / Basic children's literature research skills / Children's literature archives, collections and resources. Using research libraries, archives and collections ; Case study : working in the British Library / Using manuscripts to research children's literature / Case study : working with the Seven Stories archive / Finding secondary material / Virtual texts. Practical advice for researchers / A practical case study : Little Red Riding Hood / Analysing visual texts : tools and terminologies / Case study : The island by Armin Greder / Historical research. Researching historical children's literature ; Text and context / Histories, politics and children's literature / Research and theory. Introduction ; Child-oriented criticism / Reader response / Comparative children's literature / Gender / Multiculturalism and post-colonialism / Psychological approaches to children's literature ; Postmodernism / Changing forms and formats. Textual transformations : the case of Robinson Crusoe / Film adaptation : the case of The secret garden / Afterword / Kimberley Reynolds -- M.O. Grenby -- Alison Bailey ; Ruth Connolly ; Nolan Dalrymple ; Lucy Pearson -- Sandra L. Beckett ; Sandra L. Beckett ; Rosemary Ross Johnston ; Rosemary Ross Johnston -- M.O. Grenby ; David Rudd -- Kimberley Reynolds ; Rosemary Ross Johnston ; Emer O'Sullivan ; Rosemary Ross Johnston ; Clare Bradford ; Charles Butler -- Andrew O'Malley ; Charles Butler -- Kimberley Reynolds.
Children's literature is a rapidly expanding field of research which presents students and researchers with a number of practical and intellectual challenges. This research handbook is the first devoted to the specialist skills and complexities of studying children's literature at university level. Bringing together the expertise of leading international scholars, it combines practical advice with in-depth discussion of critical approaches. Wide-ranging in approach, Children's Literature Studies: A Research Handbook. Offers a step-by-step guide to devising, starting and carrying out a research project (such as a dissertation or thesis), and advice on what kinds of research it is possible and profitable to undertake. Examines visual texts such as picturebooks, films, computer games and other 'transformed' texts, as well as more traditional modes of writing for children.