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Red Riding Hood for All Ages
A global study of modern adaptations for readers of all ages of Little Red Riding Hood. Red Riding Hood for All Ages investigates the modern recasting of one of the world's most beloved and frequently told tales. Author Sandra L. Beckett examines an international selection of contemporary fiction for children, adolescents, and adults to find a wide range of narrative and interpretive perspectives in the tale and its revisions. Beckett shows how authors and illustrators from around the globe have renewed the age-old tale in a range of multilayered, sophisticated, and complex textual and visual Red Riding Hood narratives. With a child protagonist who confronts grown-up issues of sexuality, vio...
The Child in French and Francophone Literature
From the contents: Sandra BECKETT: Babes in the woods: today's riding hoods go to granny's. - Lewis SEIFERT: Madame Le Prince de Beaumont and the infantilization of the fairy tale. - Michael O'RILEY: La Bete est morte!': Mending images and narratives of ethnicity and national identity in post-World War II France. - Eileen HOFT-MARCH: Child Survivors and Narratives of Hope: Georges Perec's W ou le souvenir d'enfance'. - Alioune SOW: L'enfance metisse ou l'enfance entre les eaux: Le chercheur d'Afriques' de Henri Lopes. - Cheryl TOMAN: Writing Childhood: Reflection of a nation in a village voice in Marie-Claire Matip's Ngond'. - Julie BAKER: The childhood of the epic hero: representation of the child protagonist in the Old French Enfances' texts. - Mary EKMAN: Destinataire et/ou heritier du texte': figuring the child in early modern French memoirs."
Challenging and Controversial Picturebooks
It is often assumed that picturebooks are for very young readers because of their emphasis on the illustrations and their scarcity of text; however, there are increasing numbers of picturebooks where the age of the implied reader is questionable. These are picturebooks whose controversial subject matter and unconventional, often unsettling style of illustration challenge the reader, pushing them to question and probe deeper to understand what the book is about. In addition to the book challenging the reader, the reader often challenges the book in an attempt to understand what is being said. These increasingly popular picturebooks work on many different levels; they are truly polysemic and w...
Recycling Red Riding Hood
Sandra Beckett's book explores the contemporary retelling of the Red Riding Hood tale in Western children's literature.
Revisioning Red Riding Hood Around the World
This unique anthology contributes to cross-cultural exchange and facilitates comparative study of the tale for readers interested in fairy-tale studies, cultural studies, and literary history.
Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde
Children’s Literature and the Avant-Garde is the first study that investigates the intricate influence of the avant-garde movements on children’s literature in different countries from the beginning of the 20th century until the present. Examining a wide range of children’s books from Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the USA, the individual chapters explore the historical as well as the cultural and political aspects that determine the exceptional character of avant-garde children’s books. Drawing on studies in children’s literature research, art history, and cultural studies, this volume provides comprehensive insights into the close relationships between avant-garde children’s literature, images of childhood, and contemporary ideas of education. Addressing topics such as the impact of exhibitions, the significance of the Bauhaus, and the influence of poster art and graphic design, the book illustrates the broad range of issues associated with avant-garde children’s books. More than 60 full-color illustrations demonstrate the impressive variety of design in avant-garde picturebooks and children’s books.
L'infini des étoiles
Une femme rencontre un astrophysicien, un être de feu pris dans les rets étoilés. Elle se métamorphose en petite fille pour avoir l’entière liberté et la fraîcheur de lui poser toutes sortes de questions élémentaires. Ils se donnent rendez-vous sur une petite île sauvage. Tandis qu’ils la traversent, le scientifique définit l’espace et l’univers avec des chiffres astronomiques, pendant qu'elle observe la terre sous ses pas avec sa vision personnelle, subjective et poétique, souvent en contradiction avec les descriptions et les connaissances du savant. L’infini des étoiles est donc une réflexion sur les extrêmes entre l’infiniment grand et l’infiniment petit. Mais...
Les contes
De l’épopée antique à la moderne fantasy, en passant par la chanson de geste et les multiples formes prises par le conte, ce Dossier Universalis dont les articles sont empruntés à l’Encyclopaedia Universalis dit l’essentiel sur une famille de genres et d’œuvres littéraires qui font la part belle à l’imagination et cultivent le merveilleux. Au sommaire : Homère, Virgile, Shakespeare, Perrault, les frères Grimm, Andersen, les Mille et Une Nuits, le Mahābhārata.
