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  • Time for Childhoods

    Young Poets and Questions of Agency

    by Rachel Conrad ...
    Series series Childhoods: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Youth
    Poems written by children are not typically part of the literary canon. Because of cultural biases that frame young people as intellectually and artistically immature, these works are often excluded or dismissed as juvenilia. Rachel Conrad contends that youth-composed poems should be read as literary works in their own right—works that are deserving of greater respect in literary culture.Time for ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Literary Cultures and Twentieth-Century Childhoods

    Edited by Rachel Conrad, L. Brown Kennedy ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of essays offers innovative methodological and disciplinary approaches to the intersection of Anglophone literary cultures with children and childhoods across the twentieth century. In two acts of re-centering, the volume focuses both on the multiplicity of childhoods and literary cultures and on child agency. Looking at classic texts for young audiences and at less widely-read and ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

  • Producing Children

    Critical Studies in Childhood Creativity

    by Peter C. Kunze, Victoria Ford Smith, Katharine Slater, Rachel Conrad, Brianna Anderson, Brigitte Fielder, Maggie E. Morris Davis, Cristina Rhodes, Ivy Linton Stabell0, Marah Gubar1, Trevor Boffone2 ...
    Series series Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
    Producing Children imagines the possibility, indeed the inevitability, of a creative relation between children as producers and consumers by revising the long-established, hierarchical relation between adults and children. The chapters in this collection reveal that studying child-produced culture complicates our received understandings of children’s culture as culture by adults, for children, ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

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    by Celena Kusch ...
    Series series The Basics
    Literary Analysis: The Basics is an insightful introduction to analysing a wide range of literary forms. Providing a clear outline of the methodologies employed in twenty-first century literary analysis, it introduces readers to the genres, canons, terms, issues, critical approaches, and contexts that affect the analysis of any text. It addresses such questions as:What counts as literature?Is ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Writing Creative Writing

    Essays from the Field

    Edited by Rishma Dunlop, Daniel Scott Tysdal, Priscila Uppal ...
    Essential and engaging essays about the joys and challenges of creative writing and teaching creative writing by a host of Canada’s leading writers.Writing Creative Writing is filled with thoughtful and entertaining essays on the joys and challenges of creative writing, the complexities of the creative writing classroom, the place of writing programs in the twenty-first century, and exciting ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children's and Young Adult Literature

    by Professor Karen Coats ...
    From Maria Edgeworth, Dr Seuss and Lewis Carroll to Sherman Alexie, Sharon Flake, and Gene Luen Yang, this is a comprehensive introduction to studying the infinitely varied worlds of literature for children and young adults.Exploring a diverse range of writing, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children's and Young Adult Literature includes:- Chapters covering key genres and forms from fiction, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Creative Writing

    Edited by Graeme Harper ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    A COMPANION TO CREATIVE WRITINGA Companion to Creative Writing is a comprehensive collection covering myriad aspects of the practice and profession of creative writing in the contemporary world. The book features contributions from an international cast of creative writers, publishers and editors, critics, translators, literary prize judges, and many other top professionals. Chapters not only ... Read more

    $223.99 CAD

  • Theory for Beginners

    Children’s Literature as Critical Thought

    by Kenneth B. Kidd ...
    Since its inception in the 1970s, the Philosophy for Children movement (P4C) has affirmed children’s literature as important philosophical work. Theory, meanwhile, has invested in children’s classics, especially Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, and has also developed a literature for beginners that resembles children’s literature in significant ways. Offering a novel take on this phenomenon, Theory ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature

    Edited by Shelby Wolf, Karen Coats, Christine Jenkins, Patricia Enciso ...
    This landmark volume is the first to bring together leading scholarship on children’s and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education, English, and Library and Information Science. Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach, it describes and analyzes the different aspects of literary reading, texts, and contexts to illuminate how the book is transformed within and ... Read more

    $274.82 CAD

  • The Program Era

    Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing

    by Mark McGurl ...
    In The Program Era, Mark McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, asserting that it can be properly understood only in relation to the rise of mass higher education and the creative writing program. McGurl asks both how the patronage of the university has reorganized American literature and—even more important—how the increasing intimacy of writing and schooling ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • Stylish Academic Writing

    by Helen Sword ...
    Elegant ideas deserve elegant expression. Sword dispels the myth that you can’t get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions or eager to write for a larger audience, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books enjoyable to read—and to write. ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

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  • A Sentimental Education

    by Hannah McGregor ...
    How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In A Sentimental Education, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a way of life.Moving between memoir and theory, these essays consider the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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