Elina Druker

List of John Benjamins publications in which Elina Druker is involved.

Book series

Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition

Edited by Elina Druker, Vanessa Joosen and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer

ISSN 2212-9006

Titles

Photography in Children's Literature

Edited by Elina Druker and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer

Photography in Children’s Literature is the first international study that examines the wide array of artistic techniques, topics, and genres used within photographic books for children. Covering a time period from the 1870s to the 1980s, the collection offers multifaceted insights into changing… read more

[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 17] 2023. xv, 306 pp.

Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde

Edited by Elina Druker and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer

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,… read more

[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 5] 2015. xii, 295 pp.

Druker, Elina 2023 Chapter 8. In and out of focus: Anna Riwkin’s photojournalism and photographic picturebooks Photography in Children's Literature, Druker, Elina and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (eds.), pp. 189–209 | Chapter

Anna Riwkin was a Russian-Swedish photographer who contributed significantly to the growing use of photographs in children’s picturebooks during the second half of the twentieth century. This chapter investigates the photographic techniques and genres in Riwkin’s works for children. Using a… read more

Druker, Elina and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer 2023 Introduction: Photography in children’s literature Photography in Children's Literature, Druker, Elina and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (eds.), pp. 1–19 | Chapter

Druker, Elina 2015 Chapter 2. Einar Nerman – From the picturebook page to the avant-garde stage Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde, Druker, Elina and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (eds.), pp. 45–64 | Article

This chapter analyzes recurring motifs and techniques in the Swedish artist Einar Nerman’s picturebooks Crow’s Dream (1911) and Knight Finn Komfusenfej (1923). By comparing Nerman’s books for children with his caricatures, dance and theatre productions during the 1910s and 1920s, an interaction… read more

Druker, Elina and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer 2015 Introduction: Children’s literature and the avant-garde Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde, Druker, Elina and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article