How does reading fiction affect young people? How can they transfer fictional experience into real life? Why do they care about fictional characters? How does fiction enhance young people's sense of self-hood? Supported by cognitive psychology and brain research, this ground-breaking book is the… read more
This chapter, based on a crossdisciplinary framework of cultural geography and children’s literature theory, discusses three children’s novels set on islands, all of which operate within ambiguous fictional worlds and use ambiguous narrative perspective. The issues of belonging/not belonging,… read more
This article pays tribute to one of Roger Sell’s most prominent research areas, communication and pragmatics in literature. In literature for young readers especially, language is used as an instrument of power, both in communication between the implied author (adult) and the implied reader… read more
