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This book offers case studies analyzing a full array of genres in children’s literature, from picture books to young adult novels. This volume’s contributions interrogate how children’s literature is a powerful yet under examined space of rhetorical discourse that influences one of the most impressionable segments of our population.
List of contents
1.Bedtime Rhetoric
John H. Saunders
2.TSZ, TSZ, TSZ to Industrial 'Cap'italism: A Marxist Analysis of Caps for Sale
Christopher J. Oldenburg
3.Pigs and Wolves: The Rhetorical Construction of a Traditional Tale and a Contemporary Pastiche
Mary Elizabeth Bezanson and Deborah Lee Norland
4.The Cat in the Hat: The Complexity of a Simple Tale
John H. Saunders
5.Mommy and Daddy Were Married, and Other Creation Myths in Children's Books About Sex
Brett L. Lunceford
6."Good Readers" in Narnia: C. S. Lewis's Rhetoric of Invitation
Joshua D. Hill
7."Why Do You Hurt These Children?": The Rhetoric of "Risky Stories" in Children's Literature
Lauren Lemley
8.Subversive Identification and the Coincidentia Oppositorum in Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea
Michael Warren Tumolo and Jennifer Beidendorf
9.The Multi-Gaze Perspective of Harry Potter
Lauren Rose Camacci
10.Conclusion
John H. Saunders
About the author
John H. Saunders is visiting assistant professor at the University of Central Arkansas.
Summary
This book offers case studies analyzing a full array of genres in children's literature, from picture books to young adult novels. This volume's contributions interrogate how children's literature is a powerful yet under examined space of rhetorical discourse that influences one of the most impressionable segments of our population.
