UID:
almafu_9959231160702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (279 pages) :
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illustrations, maps.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Serie:
Children's Literature, Culture, and Cognition, volume 7
Inhalt:
The first comprehensive study that investigates the representation of maps in children's books as well as the impact of mapping on the depiction of landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes in children's literature.
Anmerkung:
Intro -- Maps and Mapping in Children's Literature -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Table of figures -- Maps and mapping in children's literature -- Introduction -- Research on maps and mapping in children's literature -- Aims and structure of the present volume -- References -- Part 1. About mapping -- 1. A subtle cartography -- Foundations of map understanding -- Geography: Cartographic foundations -- Cognitive development: Representational foundations -- Cognitive development: Spatial foundations -- Summary -- Map foci across perspectives -- The perspective of geography -- The perspective of children's literature -- Comparing perspectives -- A cognitive-developmental perspective: Where next? -- References -- 2. Mapping the new citizen - Pedagogy of cartophobia -- Pedagogy of cartophobia -- From topos to topography: Campe's geographical writings -- The geographic card game: Useful play -- "Here is" - Bringing the world back home -- Performing the map -- References -- 3. A subtle cartography -- Ecocriticism -- Geographic literacy -- Personal cartographies -- Ecocriticism: Where is nature? -- Nature and transformation -- The nature of the green places -- Ecocritical navigation -- Critical nostalgia -- Mapping the past -- References -- 4. Metaphorical maps in picturebooks -- What is a metaphorical map? -- Relating maps and metaphors -- Metaphorical maps in descriptive picturebooks -- What can children learn from metaphorical maps? -- References -- Part 2. Literary shaping of real cityscapes -- 5. Mapping a city - Berlin in a contemporary detective novel -- Introduction -- Place, space, and children's literature -- Overcoming obstacles -- Rico follows in Emil's footsteps -- Rico's home is his castle -- Mastering the next step -- Leaving the comfort zone -- Mapping a city - Concluding remarks -- References.
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6. "New York just like I pictured it - skyscrapers and everything" -- A cognitive map of young love in New York City -- "The real wild" and "the center of the world": Manhattan as spectacle -- Mapping possibilities for growth onto real world locations -- Cross-linking storyworlds: Intertexts and intermedia -- A specific experience of space and time -- References -- 7. Itineraries and maps -- Introduction -- The importance of the journey in the poetics of Peter Sís -- Walking as map-making in two stories by Peter Sís -- 'The Three Golden Keys', or the city as a mental map -- 'Madlenka', or walking as map-building -- 'Madlenka' and 'The Three Golden Keys': Mapping the memories of Peter Sís -- References -- 8. Bruno Munari's visual mapping of the city of Milan -- Bruno Munari and the futuristic heritage -- Munari's innovative children's books -- The structure of the picturebook 'The Circus in the Mist' -- Munari's visual mapping of the city of Milan -- Engendering new aesthetic dimensions -- References -- Part 3. Fictional seascapes and landscapes -- 9. "An island made of water quite surrounded by earth" -- Nonsense geography: Seascapes and soundscapes -- Lear's limericks -- Imprecise nonsense geography and soundscape -- Carroll: Maps as concepts -- Emptiness (re)imagined and a new nonsense seascape -- Lear's realm re-illustrated and mapped -- The infinite eclecticism of Zamonia -- "Navigation was always a difficult art" -- References -- 10. Connecting worlds -- Islands and islandness -- Islands, cartography, and literature -- Islands in children's literature -- Gullstruck Island -- Kensuke's Kingdom -- Midwinterblood -- References -- 11. Mapping illusions -- Contextualizing Kassil's mapping -- Authorial mapping in 'Schwambrania': The first map of an imaginary state -- The second map of Schwambrania -- Maps of Schwambrania: Leaving aside child's fantasy.
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References -- 12. Mapping Middle Earth -- Introduction -- The map iconotext -- Maps in travel tales and adventure stories -- The Hobbit: The map of Wilderland and Thror's map -- The three maps of 'The Lord of the Rings' -- In the Tolkien tradition: A Song of Ice and Fire -- The Chamber of the Painted Table -- Dynamic maps: From Middle Earth to Westeros -- References -- 13. Landscapes of growth, faith, and doubt -- The fantasy world -- Traveling between crime and fantasy -- Mapped movement -- The true traveler -- Acknowledgements -- References -- About the editors and contributors -- Name index -- Subject index.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 90-272-0161-7
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 90-272-6546-1
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
