Sara Pankenier Weld
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sara Pankenier Weld is involved.
Book series
Title
An Ecology of the Russian Avant-Garde Picturebook
Sara Pankenier Weld
An Ecology of the Russian Avant-Garde Picturebook takes a new approach to interpreting 1920s and 1930s picturebooks by prominent Russian writers, artists, and intellectuals by examining them within the ecological environment that, first, made them possible and, then, led to their demise. It argues… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 9] 2018. xiv, 236 pp.
Articles
2023 Chapter 4. Catherine the Great’s writings for children in transnational context Transnational Books for Children 1750-1900: Producers, consumers, encounters, Appel, Charlotte, Nina Christensen and M.O. Grenby (eds.), pp. 89–108 | Chapter
When Russian Empress Catherine the Great (1729–1796) wrote allegorical fairy tales and educational materials for her grandsons, as well as an audience of Russian children, she actively partook in transnational traditions, finding inspiration and models in genres that fluidly crossed geographical… read more
2015 Chapter 5. The square as regal infant: The avant-garde infantile in early Soviet picturebooks Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde, Druker, Elina and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (eds.), pp. 113–136 | Article
This chapter focuses on geometric regions that serve as shared “picture primitives” in Russian avant-garde art and early Soviet picturebooks for children to highlight the interrelatedness between the infantile art of the avant-garde and avant-garde work that actually involves an infantile audience.… read more



