Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature articles from May 2007

Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature archives from May 2007

Editorial.(Editorial)
May 1, 2007... We commence this editorial with two announcements. The first is that Professor John Stephens (Macquarie University) has been awarded the 11th International Brothers Grimm Award. This prestigious biennial Japanese award is given to a scholar who...

Spirits, miracles and clauses: economy, patriarchy and childhood in popular Christmas texts.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2007... The meanings and practices associated with the celebration of Christmas occupy a notable place in the study of cultural and social histories, where there is particular emphasis on the tensions between Christmas and capital (Clark 1995). As a...

An insecure base? Nerves, violence and step-parents in Norwegian children's literature.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2007... Central issues represented in four recent Norwegian books for children are children's resistance to step-parents, children's attempts to cope with family violence, and inverted relationships where children take responsibility for mentally...

(Re)constructing masculinity: representations of men and masculinity in Australian Young Adult literature.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2007... In Masculinities and Identities, David Buchbinder suggests that, socially, the term 'masculinity' is used in such a way that its meaning is 'immutable and permanent in an effort to codify, contain and render fixed a wide spectrum of the...

Pedagogy and other Unfortunate Events: cheerful nihilism in popular children's books.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2007... Teaching the difference between right and wrong has long been a pedagogical function ascribed to and demonstrated in children's books. Childhood itself is dominated by educational institutions, practices and theories; even the process of ageing...

'Biting the hand that feeds': consumerism, ideology, and recent animated film for children.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2007... Animated film produced for children is a burgeoning industry. Since the days of the Disney monopoly, when feature length animated films were painstakingly hand drawn by a vast team of animation craftsmen, to the present time where technicians...

'If I've arksed youse boys once, I've arksed youse boys a thousand times!': Translation strategies in the German translation of Phillip Gwynne's Deadly, Unna?(Critical essay)
May 1, 2007... The primary focus of work in the area of translation studies is to observe the continuum in which a translation takes place; the textual and extratextual constraints imposed on the translator (Bassnet & Lefevere 1998, pp. 123-4) when creating a...