The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature

Author: M. O. Grenby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139828045
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325

Book Description
Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling and Philip Pullman, the Companion illuminates acknowledged classics and many more neglected works. Its unique structure means that equal consideration can be given to both texts and contexts. Some chapters analyse key themes and major genres, including humour, poetry, school stories, and picture books. Others explore the sociological dimensions of children's literature and the impact of publishing practices. Written by leading scholars from around the world, this Companion will be essential reading for all students and scholars of children's literature, offering original readings and new research that reflects the latest developments in the field.

The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen

Author: Deborah Cartmell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827553
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 389

Book Description
This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, genre and adaptations for children. There are also case studies, such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the nineteenth-century novel and modernism, which allow the reader to place adaptations of the work of writers within a wider context. An interview with Andrew Davies, whose work includes Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Bleak House (2005), reveals the practical choices and challenges that face the professional writer and adaptor. The Companion as a whole provides an extensive survey of an increasingly popular field of study.

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food

Author: J. Michelle Coghlan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108427367
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
This Companion rethinks food in literature from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to contemporary food blogs, and recovers cookbooks as literary texts.

The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

Author: Edward James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107493730
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).

The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis

Author: Robert MacSwain
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139828320
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
A distinguished academic, influential Christian apologist, and best-selling author of children's literature, C. S. Lewis is a controversial and enigmatic figure who continues to fascinate, fifty years after his death. This Companion is a comprehensive single-volume study written by an international team of scholars to survey Lewis's career as a literary historian, popular theologian, and creative writer. Twenty-one expert voices from the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Princeton University, and Wheaton College, among many other places of learning, analyze Lewis's work from theological, philosophical, and literary perspectives. Some chapters consider his professional contribution to fields such as critical theory and intellectual history, while others assess his views on issues including moral knowledge, gender, prayer, war, love, suffering, and Scripture. The final chapters investigate his work as a writer of fiction and poetry. Original in its approach and unique in its scope, this Companion shows that C. S. Lewis was much more than merely the man behind Narnia.

The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic

Author: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107117143
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.

The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling

Author: Howard J. Booth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521199727
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
An overview of Kipling's work, his career and postcolonial views on his often controversial position on imperialism.

The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin

Author: Michele Elam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316240096
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
This Companion offers fresh insight into the art and politics of James Baldwin, one of the most important writers and provocative cultural critics of the twentieth century. Black, gay, and gifted, he was hailed as a 'spokesman for the race', although he personally, and controversially, eschewed titles and classifications of all kinds. Individual essays examine his classic novels and nonfiction as well as his work across lesser-examined domains: poetry, music, theatre, sermon, photo-text, children's literature, public media, comedy, and artistic collaboration. In doing so, The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin captures the power and influence of his work during the civil rights era as well as his relevance in the 'post-race' transnational twenty-first century, when his prescient questioning of the boundaries of race, sex, love, leadership, and country assume new urgency.

The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment

Author: Sarah Ensor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108841902
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
Offers an overview of American environmental literature across genres and time periods, introducing readers to a range of ecocritical methodologies.

Keywords for Children’s Literature

Author: Philip Nel
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814758541
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
49 original essays on the essential terms and concepts in children's literature