UID:
edocfu_9959240455102883
Format:
1 online resource (268 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-91264-X
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9786612912641
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1-4411-8298-5
Content:
This is an original, scholarly yet accessible contribution to the field of children's fiction. It focuses on gender in relation to children's fiction and the role that language plays in this relationship. Girls' and boys' reading itself is looked at, as well as the books that they encounter - including the Harry Potter series, Louis Sachar's prizewinning Holes , fairy tales and school reading schemes. The book treats fiction as fiction, using as its guiding principles the multimodality of much children's fiction; that fiction is almost always dialogic; that the feminist movement has had consid
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction -- Language and gender: issues and applications -- Content analysis: the early days -- The importance of language and of linguistic analysis of fiction -- Happily ever after? -- More than fifty years of reading schemes -- Stories about two-mum and two-dad families (written with Mark McGlashan) -- Miss Katherine shot the sheriff: the literary affordance of achronological intertextuality -- Hermione, Harry and gender relations at Hogwarts -- Conclusion.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4411-3818-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8264-4613-2
Language:
English
