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Children's Literature and Childhood Discourses: Exploring Identity through Fiction
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Children's Literature and Childhood Discourses: Exploring Identity through Fiction
Current price: $130.00
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Children's Literature and Childhood Discourses: Exploring Identity through Fiction
Current price: $130.00
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Connecting classic children's texts such as
with contemporary fiction including
, the book innovatively brings together perspectives from corpus linguistics, stylistics, cognitive linguistics, literary and cultural studies, and human geography. It explores approaches to experiencing fiction, as well as methods for the study of literary texts. Childhood discourses are investigated through the materiality of texts, the spaces that literature takes up in libraries, the cultural history of fiction moulded through performances, as well as reading environments that shape childhood experiences, such as fashion and urban spaces.
emphasizes the crucial link between fictional stories and real life.