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Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults
Moving stories
Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults: Moving stories takes up key issues in affect studies while putting forward new approaches and ways of thinking about the intricate entanglements of emotion, affect, and story in relation to the functions, processes, and influences of texts designed for youth. With an emphasis on national literatures and international scholarship, it examines a variety of storytelling forms, formats, genres, and media crafted for readers ranging from the very young to the newly adult. Layering recent cognitive approaches to emotion, affect studies, and feminist perspectives on emotion, it investigates not only what texts for children and young adults have to say about emotion but also how such texts try to move their readers. In this, the chapters draw attention to the ways narrative literary texts address, elicit, shape, and/or embody emotion.
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 13] 2023. x, 242 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 January 2023
Published online on 1 January 2023
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- List of figures | pp. vii–x
- IntroductionKaren Coats and Gretchen Papazian | pp. 1–17
- Chapter 1. Shades of feeling: Brightness, dramatic irony, and risk in A Perfect Day and Grandpa GreenMargrete Lamond | pp. 18–41
- Chapter 2. The sublimity of darkness and its affective transmission and subduing in picturebooksSusanne C. Ylönen and Marleena Mustola | pp. 42–61
- Chapter 3. Tengo Miedo: Evolving representations of fear in ColombiaValeria M. De La Vega Fernández | pp. 62–82
- Chapter 4. Literalizing emotions in Disney and Pixar: Frozen and Inside Out challenge emotional hierarchiesKellie Deys | pp. 83–103
- Chapter 5. The angry caregiver: Gendered emotion in the Penderwicks series and the One Crazy Summer trilogyMary Jeanette Moran | pp. 104–129
- Chapter 6. Sad girls: Melancholy and adolescence in Skating the Edge and Touching Earth LightlyRobyn Dennison | pp. 130–151
- Chapter 7. The cultural politics of confidence in Chetan Bhagat’s select fiction: Language and nation in twenty-first century IndiaSakshi Dogra | pp. 152–169
- Chapter 8. The affective construction of Chinese child citizenship in Little Friend, 1945–1949Lidong Xiang | pp. 170–192
- Chapter 9. Taking the reluctance out of reluctant reading: Frustration, shame, and curiosity in literacy narrativesNaomi Lesley | pp. 193–216
- Chapter 10. Emotion and the work of decolonization: The case of Pīsim Finds Her MiskanawMargaret Dumas, Mavis Reimer and Doris Wolf | pp. 217–234
- Contributors
- Index | pp. 239–242
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