The author discusses the growing popularity of picture-books and gives a critical overview of the problems of the definition of the genre. He concentrates on the two recent works of Iwona Chmielewska which address the issues of the Holocaust, representing different approaches to the genre, experimenting with the book as a material and visual object...
Published in Human Affairs
Children’s literature provides a critical method of socialization and familiarization with gender roles, providing examples, boundaries, and limitations for gender identity construction. While extensive research has been done on how children’s literature depicts both traditional and non-traditional gender roles, very little research has been publis...
L’article se propose de partager une pratique d’écriture créative menée pendant plusieurs années auprès d’étudiants de Master MEEF 1er degré, futurs professeurs des écoles devant enseigner, en plus de toutes les disciplines scolaires, la langue anglaise. L’écriture de poèmes et notamment de limericks, ainsi que des ateliers d’écriture à partir d’al...
Ce texte issu de deux entretiens avec Michel Manson retrace son parcours d’historien de l’enfance. Il explique que, malgré les travaux de Philippe Ariès, les enfants restaient encore, au commencement de sa carrière dans les années 1970, singulièrement absents des préoccupations historiques. De l’Antiquité à nos jours, sont considérées les trois gra...
L’arbre-monde est une conception cosmologique que l’on retrouve dans les mythologies les plus diverses, dont la plus célèbre est l’Yggdrasil scandinave. Dans l’illustration et la littérature de jeunesse contemporaine, l’arbre-monde permet particulièrement bien de rendre visible par métonymie l’unité et la fragilité de la biosphère. Il offre une plu...
Magistrsko delo obravnava prikaz holokavsta v leposlovju, poudarek pa je namenjen reprezentaciji holokavsta v romanih, otroških zgodbah in stripih. Delo se najprej osredotoči na razvoj literature o holokavstu od druge svetovne vojne dalje, potem pa se posveti razmerju med zgodovino in leposlovjem in morebitnim izzivom reprezentacije zgodovinskih do...
The article discusses the problem of the physical appearance of older people in the context of the stereotype that exists about old age and shows it in the context of intergenerational relations. The dynamics of socio cultural changes that we create and experience have made us live in a time in which the body has become the main subject of social n...
Given the centrality of London as a setting in English literature, interpretations and imaginations of the literary city have continually been re-written to incorporate new social norms. As the city expanded, concerns arose around the movement of women and children within the urban environment. These concerns around move- ment can also be found in ...
Published in Cognitive Linguistics
Iconicity is a fundamental property of spoken and signed languages. However, quantitative analysis of sound-meaning association in Chinese has not been extensively developed, and little is known about the impact of sound symbolism in children’s literature. As sound symbolism is supposed to be a universal cognitive phenomenon, this research seeks to...
This article documents work with pre/in service teachers who are university students across three universities in three regions of the US, across multiple courses. Given our shared concern about the narrowing of space for imaginative literacy practices in schools, we focus on our collective use of open-ended, arts-based pedagogies as a way to chal...
