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Theories and Practices in Children's and Young Adult Literature

Theories and Practices in Children's and Young Adult Literature

Publié le par Thomas Parisot

Special issue of Children's Literature Association Quarterly: Narrative

Theories and Practices in Children's and Young Adult Literature (Spring 2003)

Guest editors Mike Cadden and Andrea Schwenke Wyile invite papers that explore the narrative peculiarities, innovations, and/or conventions in children's and/or young adult literature. Comparisons to adult literature are welcome. We are especially interested in irony/parody, focalization, and narration, but all narratological issues and approaches are welcome. Possible questions to explore include: Does narrative theory offer us a way to talk about the kinds of narrative structure or styles of narration present in children's and young adult literature? If not, what's missing? Do these genres explore the same narrative terrain as adult literature? What do the practices of children's literature have to offer narrative theory? What does narrative theory have to offer the study of the unique genres of children's and young adult literature?

Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2002 (e-mail submissions welcome)

Send papers and inquiries to:

Mike Cadden
Dept. of English
Missouri Western State College
St. Joseph, MO 64505
cadden@mwsc.edu

and

Andrea Schwenke Wyile
English Department
Acadia University
Wolfville, NS B0P 1X0
Canada
andrea.schwenke.wyile@acadiau.ca