The Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature
Author: Stella Lees
Publisher:
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9780195535921
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stella Lees
Publisher:
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9780195535921
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Daniel Hahn
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 678
ISBN-13: 0199695148
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books. A fascinating reference guide to the world of children's literature, this volume covers every genre from fairy tales to chapbooks; school stories to science fiction; comics to children's hymns
Author: Stella Lees
Publisher: Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Arranged alphabetically, The Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature contains 1600 entries covering authors, publishers, illustrators, famous characters, events, institutions, and awards--from Ned Kelly and the Eureka Stockade to Australian comics and the work of Evelyn Goode. The book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in children's literature or Australian culture.
Author: Peter Hunt
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 934
ISBN-13: 0415088569
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Encyclopedia offers comprehensive and international coverage of children's literature from a number of perspectives - theory and critical approaches, types and genres, context, applications and individual country essays.
Author: Bernice E. Cullinan
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 930
ISBN-13: 9780826417787
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides articles covering children's literature from around the world as well as biographical and critical reviews of authors including Avi, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, and Anno Mitsumasa.
Author: James C. Docherty
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13: 0810876345
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The last continent to be claimed by Europeans, Australia began to be settled by the British in 1788 in the form of a jail for its convicts. While British culture has had the largest influence on the country and its presence can be seen everywhere, the British were not Australia's original populace. The first inhabitants of Australia, the Aborigines, are believed to have migrated from Southeast Asia into northern Australia as early as 60,000 years ago. This distinctive blend of vastly different cultures contributed to the ease with which Australia has become one of the world's most successful immigrant nations. The A to Z of Australia relates the history of this unique and beautiful land, which is home to an amazing range of flora and fauna, a climate that ranges from tropical forests to arid deserts, and the largest single collection of coral reefs and islands in the world. Through a detailed chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and cross-referenced dictionary entries on some of the more significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets, author James Docherty provides a much needed single volume reference on Australia, from its most unpromising of beginnings as a British jail to the liberal, tolerant, democracy it is today.
Author: Craig Munro
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Published: 2006-07
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 0702242152
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Annotation " ... It is highly recommended to anyone who thinks they have a serious interest in the book ... or would like to discover to discover something of the complexity of the well-springs of the Australian psyche." Biblionews Paper Empires explores Australian book production and consumption from 1946 to the present day, using wide-ranging research, oral history and memoir to explore the worlds of book publishing, selling and reading. After 1945, Australian publishing went from a handful of fledgling businesses to the billion dollar industry of today with thousands of new titles each year and a vast array of imported books. Publishing's postwar expansion began with the baby boom and the increased demand for school texts, with independent houses blossoming during the 1960s and 70s followed by the current era dominated by global conglomerates.
Author: Maurice Saxby
Publisher: Macmillan Education AU
Published: 1997-10-15
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780732945206
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Books in the Life of a Child explores the value of books and reading in the stimulation of children's imagination and their fundamental importance in the development of language and true literacy. It examines not only the vast range of children's books available but also how to introduce young people to the joys of reading in the home, the school and in the community. The book has been written as a resource for all adults, especially teachers, student teachers, librarians and parents, and those who care about the value of literature for children. It is a comprehensive and critical guide, with chapters on the history of children's literature and an analysis of its many forms and genres, from poetry, fairytale, myth, legend and fantasy, through realistic and historical fiction, to humour, pulp fiction and information books.
Author: Astrid Erll
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-07-08
Total Pages: 600
ISBN-13: 3110652307
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The collection showcases new research in the field of cultural and historical narratology. Starting from the premise of the ‘semantisation of narrative forms’ (A. Nünning), it explores the cultural situatedness and historical transformations of narrative, with contributors developing new perspectives on key concepts of cultural and historical narratology, such as unreliable narration and multiperspectivity. The volume introduces original approaches to the study of narrative in culture, highlighting its pivotal role for attention, memory, and resilience studies, and for the imagination of crises, the Anthropocene, and the Post-Apocalypse. Addressing both fictional and non-fictional narratives, individual essays analyze the narrative-making and unmaking of Europe, Brexit, and the Postcolonial. Finally, the collection features new research on narrative in media culture, looking at the narrative logic of graphic novels, picture books, and newsmedia.