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From Tongue To Text: A New Reading Of Children'S Poetry

by Debbie (University Of Cambridge, Uk) Pullinger
language: english
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC, May of 2017 ‧
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"The connection between childhood and poetry runs deep. And yet, poetry written for children has been neglected by criticism and resists prevailing theories of children's literature. Drawing on Walter Ong's theory of orality and on Iain McGilChrist's work on brain function, this book develops a new theoretical framework for the study of children's poetry. From Tongue to Text argues that the poem is a multimodal form that exists in the borderlands between the world of experience and the world of language and between orality and literacy -- places that children themselves inhabit. Engaging with a wide range of poetry from nursery rhymes and Christina Rossetti to Michael Rosen and Carol Ann Duffy, Debbie Pullinger demonstrates how these 'tactful' works are shaped by the dynamics of orality and textuality. "--

From Tongue To Text: A New Reading Of Children'S Poetry

by Debbie (University Of Cambridge, Uk) Pullinger

Property Description
ISBN: 9781474222327
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Release Date: May of 2017
Language: English
Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Format: Book
Collection: Bloomsbury Perspectives On Children'S Literature
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Poetry
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9781474222327