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Language, Gender and Children's Fiction

Jane Sunderland

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Description:This is an original, scholarly yet accessible contribution to the field of children's fiction. It focuses on gender in relation to children's fiction and the role that language plays in this relationship. Girls' and boys' reading itself is looked at, as well as the books that they encounter - including the Harry Potter series, Louis Sachar's prize-winning Holes, fairy tales and school reading schemes.The book treats fiction as fiction, using as its guiding principles the multimodality of much children's fiction; that fiction is almost always dialogic; that the feminist movement has had considerable influence on textual representations of women, men, boys and girls and that language (including what the characters say, and how, and what is said about them) is a key to the different readings of fictional texts.This will be a valuable resource for researchers in and students of linguistics, language studies and English literature.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Language, Gender and Children's Fiction. To get started finding Language, Gender and Children's Fiction, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 259

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Continuum

Release: —

ISBN: 0826446132

Description: This is an original, scholarly yet accessible contribution to the field of children's fiction. It focuses on gender in relation to children's fiction and the role that language plays in this relationship. Girls' and boys' reading itself is looked at, as well as the books that they encounter - including the Harry Potter series, Louis Sachar's prize-winning Holes, fairy tales and school reading schemes.The book treats fiction as fiction, using as its guiding principles the multimodality of much children's fiction; that fiction is almost always dialogic; that the feminist movement has had considerable influence on textual representations of women, men, boys and girls and that language (including what the characters say, and how, and what is said about them) is a key to the different readings of fictional texts.This will be a valuable resource for researchers in and students of linguistics, language studies and English literature.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Language, Gender and Children's Fiction. To get started finding Language, Gender and Children's Fiction, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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