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Informationen zum Autor Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Wroclaw. She has published among others on utopianism in children’s literature and participatory approaches in children’s literature studies. She is Director of the Center for Young People’s Literature and Culture at the Institute of English Studies (University of Wroclaw). Irena Barbara Kalla is Associate Professor at the University of Wroclaw, Dutch Studies. She has published on Dutch and Flemish literature, including Huisbeelden in de moderne Nederlandstalige poëzie (2012) and Minoes, Minnie, Minu en andere katse streken (with J. Van Coillie, 2017). She is Coordinator of the Centre for Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature at the University of Wroclaw. Klappentext Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children's Literature offers multifaceted reflection on interdependences between children and adults as they engage in play in literary texts and in real life. This volume brings together international children's literature scholars who each look at children's texts as key vehicles of intergenerational play reflecting ideologies of childhood and as objects with which children and adults interact physically, emotionally, and cognitively. Each chapter applies a distinct theoretical approach to selected children's texts, including individual and social play, constructive play, or play deprivation. This collection of essays constitutes a timely voice in the current discussion about the importance of children's play and adults' contribution to it vis-à-vis the increasing limitations of opportunities for children's playful time in contemporary societies. Zusammenfassung Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children’s Literature offers multifaceted reflection on interdependences between children and adults as they engage in play in literary texts and in real life.. Inhaltsverzeichnis Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, University of Wroclaw with Irena Barbara Kalla , University of Wroclaw Introduction: The Playground of Children’s Literature Part One: Social and Political Contexts of Play Chapter 1 Birgitte Beck Pristed (Aarhus University, Denmark) The ABC of Late Soviet Wastepaper for Pioneers and Their Parents Chapter 2 Jan Van Coillie (KU Leuven, Belgium) How Delightful is a Child at Play? Play in Children’s Literature in Flanders during the Nineteenth Century: A Systemic Approach Chapter 3 Sarah Hoem Iversen (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway) ‘When you have said your les-sons well, then you shall go out to play’: Play, Gender, and the Child Addressee in Nineteenth-century Children’s Dictionaries Chapter 4 Yoo Kyung Sung (University of New Mexico, USA) Transnationalism and Play in Mexican Children’s Childhood and Multicultural Children’s Literature in the United States Chapter 5 Sally Sims Stokes (Catholic University of America, USA) Requiem for a Rabbit Scut: The Playful Encounter in Streatfeild and Hutton’s Harlequinade Chapter 6 Blanka Grzegorczyk (University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University, UK) Girls, Boys, Bombs, Toys: Terror and Play in Contemporary Children’s Fiction Part Two: Constructs of Children’s Agency in Play Representations of Childhood and Play Chapter 7 Elliot Schreiber (Vassar College, USA) Branching out from the Family Tree: Fairy Tales, Imaginative Play, and Intergenerational Relations in Works by the Brothers Grimm, Ludwig Tieck, and Hans Christian Andersen Chapter 8 Ilaria Filograsso (University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy) Language Play in Adult-Child Relationships: Gianni Rodari’s Pedagogical and Literary Concepts Chapter 9 Elisabeth L. Nelson (Univer...
