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  • The Nation in Children's Literature

    Nations of Childhood

    Edited by Kit Kelen, Bjorn Sundmark ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    This book explores the meaning of nation or nationalism in children’s literature and how it constructs and represents different national experiences. The contributors discuss diverse aspects of children’s literature and film from interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches, ranging from the short story and novel to science fiction and fantasy from a range of locations including Canada, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Child Autonomy and Child Governance in Children's Literature

    Where Children Rule

    Edited by Christopher Kelen, Bjorn Sundmark ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    This book explores representations of child autonomy and self-governance in children’s literature.The idea of child rule and child realms is central to children’s literature, and childhood is frequently represented as a state of being, with children seen as aliens in need of passports to Adultland (and vice versa). In a sense all children’s literature depends on the idea that children are ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Translating and Transmediating Children’s Literature

    Edited by Anna Kérchy, Björn Sundmark ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    From Struwwelpeter to Peter Rabbit, from Alice to Bilbo—this collection of essays shows how the classics of children’s literature have been transformed across languages, genres, and diverse media forms. This book argues that translation regularly involves transmediation—the telling of a story across media and vice versa—and that transmediation is a specific form of translation. Beyond the classic ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

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    Translation and the Meaning of Everything

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  • Theory of Mind and Literature

    Edited by Paula Leverage, Howard Mancing, Richard Schweickert ...
    Theory of Mind is what enables us to "put ourselves in another's shoes." It is mindreading, empathy, creative imagination of another's perspective: in short, it is simultaneously a highly sophisticated ability and a very basic necessity for human communication. Theory of Mind is central to such commercial endeavors as market research and product development, but it is also just as important in ... Read more

    $29.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cinema of Michael Haneke

    Europe Utopia

    Edited by Ben McCann, David Sorfa ...
    Series series Directors' Cuts
    Michael Haneke is one of the most important directors working in Europe today, with films such as Funny Games (1997), Code Unknown (2000), and Hidden (2005) interrogating modern ethical dilemmas with forensic clarity and merciless insight. Haneke's films frequently implicate both the protagonists and the audience in the making of their misfortunes, yet even in the barren nihilism of The Seventh ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Children's Literature in Translation

    Challenges and Strategies

    by Jan Van Coillie, Walter P. Verschueren ...
    Children's classics from Alice in Wonderland to the works of Astrid Lindgren, Roald Dahl, J.K. Rowling and Philip Pullman are now generally recognized as literary achievements that from a translator's point of view are no less demanding than 'serious' (adult) literature. This volume attempts to explore the various challenges posed by the translation of children's literature and at the same time ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Visual Studies

    A Skeptical Introduction

    by James Elkins ...
    In his latest book, James Elkins offers a road map through the field of visual studies, describing its major concerns and its principal theoretical sources. Then, with the skill and insight that have marked his successful books on art and visuality, Elkins takes the reader down a side road where visual studies can become a more interesting place. Why look only at the same handful of theorists? Why ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Archaeologies of Presence

    Edited by Gabriella Giannachi, Nick Kaye, Michael Shanks ...
    Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. Drawing together carefully commissioned contributions by leading international scholars and artists, this radical new work poses a number of essential questions:What are the principle signifiers of theatrical ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Digital Art and Meaning

    Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations

    by Roberto Simanowski ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting a given piece and explaining how it operates, while scholars and critics remain unsure about how to interpret and evaluate them. This is where Roberto Simanowski intervenes, demonstrating how such ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Why Fairy Tales Stick

    The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre

    by Jack Zipes ...
    In his latest book, fairy tales expert Jack Zipes explores the question of why some fairy tales "work" and others don't, why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture and staying there. Why, in other words, fairy tales "stick." Long an advocate of the fairy tale as a serious genre with wide social and cultural ramifications, Jack Zipes here makes his strongest case ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Storyworlds across Media

    Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology

    Edited by Marie-Laure Ryan, Prof. Jan-Noël Thon ...
    Series series Frontiers of Narrative
    The proliferation of media and their ever-increasing role in our daily life has produced a strong sense that understanding media—everything from oral storytelling, literary narrative, newspapers, and comics to radio, film, TV, and video games—is key to understanding the dynamics of culture and society. Storyworlds across Media explores how media, old and new, give birth to various types of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD