Aesthetics of Children''s Poetry - A Study of Children''s Verse in English

List of contents

PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction
Katherine Wakely-Mulroney and Louise Joy
PART II FORM
2 Rhythm
Derek Attridge
3 Free Play Revisited: the Poetics of Repetition in Blake’s Songs of Innocence
Corinna Russell
4 Play
James Williams
5 Poetry in Prose: Lewis Carroll’s Sylvie and Bruno Books
Katherine Wakely-Mulroney
6 The Rational Gothic: The Case of Ann Taylor’s "The Hand-Post"
Donelle Ruwe
PART III EMBODIMENT
7 The Laughing Child: Children’s Poetry and the Comic Mode
Louise Joy
8 "We may not know, we cannot tell": Religion and Reserve in Victorian Children’s Poetics
Kirstie Blair
9 Nursery Rhymes: Poetry, Language, and the Body
Debbie Pullinger
10 "That Terrible Bugaboo": The Role of Music in Poetry for Children
Michael Heyman
11 Cognitive Poetics and The Aesthetics of Children’s Poetry: A Primer of Possibilities
Karen Coats
12 Inner Animals: Nature in Ted Hughes’s Poems for Children
David Whitley
PART IV TASTE
13 Children, Poetry, and the Eighteenth-Century School Anthology
Andrew O’Malley
14 Selection
Andrea Immel
15 Anthologies
Seth Lerer
Index

About the author

Katherine Wakely-Mulroney is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Louise Joy is a Fellow and College Lecturer in English at Homerton College, Cambridge, UK.

Summary

Focusing on the literary, aesthetic, theoretical, and philosophical dimensions of children's poetry from the eighteenth century to the present, this collection encompasses central figures like Watts, Carroll, Rossetti, Milne, and Duffy, reasserting the literary significance of landmark but often marginalized authors from the past three centuries

Product details

• Authors: Louise Joy, Katherine Wakely-Mulroney, Katherine Joy Wakely-Mulroney
• Assisted by: Louise Joy (Editor), Katherine Wakely-Mulroney (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.11.2017
• EAN: 9781472438317
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-3831-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present; Ashgate Studies in Childhood,; Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general