Fundamental Concepts of Children’s Literature Research : Literary and Sociological Approaches (Paperback)

Series Editor’s Foreword

Introduction

Part I: Literary Communication with Children and Young People

1. Children’s Literary Communication

2. Different Forms of Children’s Literary Messages

3. Children’s Literature as Literature for Mediators

4. Children’s Literature as Twofold Communication

5. Children’s Literature as Reading Material for Adults

Part II: Children’s Literary Distribution and Evaluation Systems

6. Children’s Literary Action Systems

7. The Market for Children’s Books and Media

8. Children’s Books and Media as an Action System in Public Libraries

9. "School Reading" as a Selection and Distribution System

10. The "children’s book" pedagogic action system

11. The "children’s public literary forum" Action System

12. Historical Change in Distribution and Evaluation Systems for Children’s Literature.

13. Children’s Literary Polysystems and their Providers

Part III: Semiotics of Children’s and Young Adult Literature

14. Children’s Literary Symbol Systems

15. Fundamental Children’s Literary Norms

16. Children’s Literary Concepts

17. Children’s Literary Discourse

Part IV: Children’s Literature as Literature Suitable for Children and Young People

18. Child Suitability: Accommodation and Assimilation

19. Forms of Child Suitability: Forms of Accommodation

20. Child Suitability as a Basis for Textual Analysis

21. External and Internal Suitability

Notes

Index