Literature of Questions - Nonfiction for the Critical Child

Joe Sutliff Sanders is professor of English at Kansas State University. He is author of Disciplining Girls: Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story and editor of The Comics of Hergé: When the Lines Are Not So Clear.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Introduction: The Literary Study of Children’s Nonfiction
1. Beyond Authority: Questioning the Literature of Facts 
2. Voice and the Seamless Narrative of Knowledge
3. Nonfiction’s Unfinished Characters: The People Who Are Wrong, Flawed, and Incomplete
4. Inquiry at and in the Margins: How Peritexts Encourage Critical Reading
5. Seeing Photographs: Breaking the Authority of Nonfiction’s Favorite Medium
6. The Pursuit of Reliability in Almost Astronauts
7. The Empathy of Critical Engagement: Emotion and Sentimentality in Children’s Nonfiction
Conclusion: Critical Engagement’s Moral Imperative
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Joe Sutliff Sanders is professor of English at Kansas State University. He is author of Disciplining Girls: Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story and editor of The Comics of Hergé: When the Lines Are Not So Clear.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sanders, Joe Sutliff Sanders
• Verlag: University Of Minnesota Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781517903015
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-0301-5
• Seiten: 264
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft