Maria Nikolajeva's From Mythic to Linear: Time in Children's Literature PDF

By Maria Nikolajeva

Now on hand in paperback! during this appreciably new method of textual content typology, Maria Nikolajeva examines the depiction of time in literature for kids. Nikolajeva identifies a continuum of texts starting from those who depict non-linear time, standard of archaic, or legendary, inspiration, to those who show linearity, regular of latest mainstream literature. the writer argues that literature is a deconstruction, a displacement, of fantasy, and that it depicts a symbolic coming-of-age procedure instead of a strictly representational mirrored image of a concrete "reality." The texts are labeled through the measure to which the coming-of-age procedure is comprehensive; the circulate is from an preliminary situation of fundamental concord (Arcadia, Paradise, Utopia) via diverse phases towards both a profitable or a failed passage.

From Mythic to Linear is a large examine, encompassing a few kid's novels from diversified epochs and nations: Scandinavian, British, American, Canadian, Australian, South African, and East ecu. The overseas personality contributes a greater wisdom of kid's literature from diverse elements of the world—widening the horizons of kid's literature examine too frequently restricted to 1 specific kingdom.

Nikolajeva's new angle permits her to ignore the conventional, and a few might argue out of date, department of kid's novels into realism and fable.

With its new angle and large overseas scope, From Mythic to Linear could be of curiosity to all these drawn to kid's literature and in comparative literature normally. contains bibliography and footnotes.

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