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Theorising Oliver Jeffers' Picturebooks: From How to Catch a Star to Now examines semiotic, affective and metafictive storytelling in Oliver Jeffers' postmodern picturebooks from a multi-theoretical approach. This volume provides fresh insight into Jeffers' iconotextual narratives through textual and visual analysis, exploring how his multimodal texts construct childhood and evoke emotional resonances. The book deconstructs the postmodernity of these narratives, highlighting Jeffers' contemporary methods of storytelling through an exploration of the texts' metafictive and self-reflective elements. From
How to Catch a Star (2004) to
Where to Hide a Star (2024), this book journeys through the mindscapes of Jeffers' design and analyses the nuances of metafictive storytelling from a postmodern perspective.
Sommario
1. From
How to Catch a Star to Now
The importance of Oliver Jeffers as an Irish author in the picturebook canon
Oliver Jeffers' picturebook career... so far
A multi-theoretical approach to Oliver Jeffers' picturebooks
2. Theorising Visual Aesthetics
What is a picturebook?
Reading the Visual
3. Exploring Semiotics and Curiosities
Semiotic curiosities in "The Boy" series
Semiotics of child cognition in
StuckCurious semiotics in "The Hueys" series
4. Affective Spaces and Mindscapes
Space, Place and Non-Place in
The Heart and the BottleAffective (mis)Understandings and Cognitive Development in
This Moose Belongs to MeAffective Semiotics in Jeffers' Picturebooks
5. Embodied Metafiction
Blurring Textual Boundaries
Playfulness as Form
Intertextuality, Interpictoriality, and Self-Referentiality
Postmodern Picturebooks and Metafictional Synergy
6. Pedagogical Perspectives
Pedagogical Approaches for using Picturebooks in Primary School Contexts
Exploring Thematic Content and Deep-Dialogic Reading through
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet EarthEngaging with Multimodality and Aesthetic (Visual) Reading through
The Great Paper CaperLearning through Metafiction and Metacognition
Epilogue: Where to Next?
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Jade Dillon-Craig is Associate Professor of Children's Literature and Young Learners at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. She is the co-editor of
Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature (Routledge, 2023) and has published several book chapters and articles related to children's literature,
Alice studies, fairy tales and visual texts for young readers. She is editor of the
Children's Literature in English Language Education journal and a founding board member of the Association for Research on Children's Literature in English in Norway
. Originally from Co. Limerick in Ireland, Jade now resides in Trondheim, Norway with her husband, Marcus, and their ragdoll cat, Mona.
