From Tongue to Text: A New Reading of Children's Poetry

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.>

About the author

Debbie Pullinger has worked in educational publishing for over 15 years and is a freelance writer. She is the author of several published resources for literacy, and is a parent.

Debbie Pullinger is Research Associate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Debbie Pullinger, Debbie (University of Cambridge Pullinger
• Assisted by: Lisa Sainsbury (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781350092198
• ISBN: 978-1-350-09219-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Chi; Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature; Bloomsbury Perspectives on Chi; Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies