Voices Off Texts, Contexts and Readers

Name: Voices Off Texts, Contexts and Readers
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ISBN: 9780304335787

ISBN-10: 0304335789

ISBN-13: 9780304335787

Edition: 1996

Authors: Morag Styles, Eve Beame, Victor Watson

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Voices Off is a companion volume to the popular After Alice & The Prose & the Passion, all of which are devoted to children's literature. The essays bring together a knowledge of, & concern for, children & their reading.

Book details

List price: $130.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Morag Styles is Reader in Children's Literature at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

List of Contributors	p. vii
Introduction: Innocent Children and Unstable Literature	p. 1
The Voices of Children	p. 17
'Real' Stories or 'Pretty' Stories: A Question of Criteria	p. 19
'You're Not Wasting Your Money on That!'--a Bookseller's View	p. 35
Is a Series Reader a Serious Reader?	p. 44
Revenge of the Teenage Horrors: Pleasure, Quality and Canonicity in (and out of) Popular Series Fiction	p. 56
Voices from the Past	p. 73
Parents and Children: The Changing Relationship of the Generations, as Reflected in Fiction for Children and Young People	p. 77
Aesop for Children: Power and Morality	p. 92
'Every Child May Joy to Hear': Poetry for Children from John Bunyan to Michael Rosen	p. 107
'What's a Cultural Heritage When It's at Home?': Playing with Shakespeare in the Primary School	p. 128
The Way We Were	p. 139
Classroom Voices	p. 153
Reading Picture Books ... How To?	p. 157
'That One Horse': Making and Reading Stories across Cultures	p. 177
'What the Wind Behind You': Language Development through Drama Activities at Key Stage 1	p. 187
'But Ingrid Will Have Dessert': Letter Writing as Part of a Nourishing Literary Diet	p. 198
Voices Off	p. 217
Voices Off: Reading Wordless Picture Books	p. 219
Small Portable Galleries: The Picture Books of Satoshi Kitamura	p. 235
Voices on Stage	p. 248
Encountering the Different	p. 264
Voices of Authority	p. 279
The Masks of the Narrator	p. 281
Lost Boys?: Violence and Imperialism in Popular Constructions of Masculinity	p. 291
Mind the Gap: Critical Literacy as a Dangerous Underground Movement	p. 310
Index	p. 330
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