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GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature

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  • Profile picture of Jervette Ward

    Jervette Ward started the topic CFPs — MLA LLC African American 2021 Panels – Toronto in the discussion Group logo of GS Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureGS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago

    LLC African American Forum
    Call for Papers for MLA 2021 in Toronto
     

    Theories of Black Women Intellectualism in the Nineteenth Century

    Inviting talks on diverse iterations of intellectual thought amongst C19th Black women thinkers; Intellectual productions beyond the usual confines of the slave narrative or sentimental novel. 250 word…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Patrick McEvoy-Halston

    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The (True) Lord of the Rings in the group Group logo of GS Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureGS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago

    The critic, as guide, is here in the penultimate of a four-part series on “Lord of the Rings,” suggested to be, if not Sarumon himself (Sarumon’s voice is used), certainly someone who could readily imagine him as someone who could have been presented in the text as a flat-out ally, if he himself wasn’t relegated to being the reader’s guardian and…[Read more]

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    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited A Reader’s Guide to the Two Towers in the group Group logo of GS Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureGS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago

    This essay serves as a guardian, as a true friend of the reader, encouraging them to recognize that if they identify with the hobbits in this book, to be wary of the text trains the reader to become someone who would mistake their actual proud moments of self-decision, self-realization… of bravery, of the genuine kind, for something evil or bad,…[Read more]

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    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Lord of the Rings: the anti-adventure in the group Group logo of GS Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureGS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago

    Argues that J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is an adventure in reverse, an “argument” for “your” regression. Rather than play with your ability to maybe succeed in threatening environments, it confirms your worst suspicions about yourself, lending you in mood to cling to others in a master-slave relationship, so long as they’ll agree to…[Read more]

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    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Reader’s Guide to Fellowship of the Ring in the group Group logo of GS Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureGS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago

    Delineates how much of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Fellowship of the Ring” is about preparing Frodo especially so that if caught out alone, he’d never dare venture a decent listen to anyone who might attempt to sway him to consider the due fate for the Ring, other than according to Gandalf’s specifications. Positions the text as one that bates the reader…[Read more]

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    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Alexander the Large in the group Group logo of GS Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureGS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago

    Explores a particular passage of Anthony Burgess’s “Clockwork Orange,” illuminating how it shows the text draws our admiration for Alex.

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    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Securing their Worth in the group Group logo of GS Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureGS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months ago

    Compares how “Treasure Island” and “Charlotte’s Web” demonstrate how protagonist avatars for ourselves establish they truly matter to “parents” who pretend to value them but whose true lack of interest in them as individuals can’t be mistaken. Argues for seeing stories as recognizing the problem of “not being seen” by parents, and as them as…[Read more]

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    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Not Meat in the group Group logo of GS Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureGS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months ago

    Explores a passage of Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves.” Delineates how Carter makes play with such things as the dialogue between the subconsciously experienced meanings of actual words ostensibly serving as only overt alphabetic components within words, to dramatize the fitfulness of the protagonist’s emergence at the finish of the story…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Patrick McEvoy-Halston

    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Not Meat in the group Group logo of GS Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureGS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months ago

    Explores a passage of Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves.” Delineates how Carter makes play with such things as the dialogue between the subconsciously experienced meanings of actual words ostensibly serving as only overt alphabetic components within words, to dramatize the fitfulness of the protagonist’s emergence at the finish of the story…[Read more]

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    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Greedy For Your Hurt in the group Group logo of GS Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureGS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months ago

    Explores the ability of the narrator to be honest with the difficulties — not displace, repress, elide/evade concerns — they had in their mother-child relationship, in several works of literature, including Cocteau’s “Les Enfants Terribles,” Alice Munro’s “Lives of Girls and Women.” and Andrea Ashworth’s “Once in a House on Fire.”

  • Profile picture of Lisa Zunshine

    Lisa Zunshine deposited What Mary Poppins Knew: Theory of Mind, Children’s Literature, History in the group Group logo of GS Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureGS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months ago

    Drawing on research in developmental psychology, rhetorical narratology, and cultural history, as well as on digital data mining, this essay seeks to broaden the interdisciplinary and interpretive range of cognitive literary studies.

  • Profile picture of Melek Ortabasi

    Melek Ortabasi started the topic The Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur is now online! in the discussion Group logo of GS Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureChildren’s Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months ago

    Announcement on behalf of Dr. Ute Dettmar:

    The inaugural issue of the new Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (Yearbook of the German Children’s Literature Research Society (GKJF)) is now online, It succeeds the print annual journal Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (1995-2015) in a fundamentally revised form. As…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Melek Ortabasi

    Melek Ortabasi posted an update in the group Group logo of GS Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureGS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months ago

    Announcement on behalf of Dr. Ute Dettmar:

    The inaugural issue of the new Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (Yearbook of the German Children’s Literature Research Society (GKJF)) is now online, It succeeds the print annual journal Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (1995-2015) in a fundamentally revised form. As…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Jan Christopher Susina

    Jan Christopher Susina posted an update in the group Group logo of GS Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureGS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months ago

    Information on the Business Meeting of the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum at 2018 MLA Conference

    The meeting will be held Friday, January 5, from 1:45 to 3 pm in Madison 4 at the Sheraton New York Times Square.

    The open meeting will begin shortly after Session 298 is completed. The assigned room for the business meeting is snug, but…[Read more]

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    Jan Christopher Susina posted an update in the group Group logo of GS Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureGS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months ago

    Children’s and Young Adult Literature Sessions at the 2018 MLA Conference

    18: Calling Dumbledore’s Army: Activist Children’s Literature

    Thursday, January 04, 2018, 12:00 PM – 01:15 PM. Hilton: Clinton
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    Philip Nel, Kansas State U
    Presentations

    Agents of Change: Pupils, Parents, and Publishers Moving toward Enlightenment in Denma…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Amanda M. Smith

    Amanda M. Smith started the topic Chiricú Journal – Latinx Literature & Politics Issue – Extended Deadline: Dec 15 in the discussion Group logo of GS Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureChildren’s Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months ago

    Chiricú Journal announces a deadline extension for submissions for our upcoming issue on Latinx literature and politics. Submissions by December 15 to chiricu.indiana.edu For questions, contact chiricu@indiana.edu
    Chiricú Journal is a new, cutting-edge, peer-reviewed journal in Latinx studies launched by the Indiana University Press in Fall 201…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Anastasia Salter

    Anastasia Salter deposited Principles of Visual Language Syllabus in the group Group logo of GS Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureGS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago

    This course focuses on developing visual language literacy and theoretical frameworks through analyzing and creating a range of narrative media. We will examine a range of visual scholarly and creative works, starting with sequential art and moving into time-based and interactive media.

    Students will:
    1. Learn “close reading” strategies for…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Melek Ortabasi

    Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFP: Yearbook of the German Children’s Literature Research Society in the discussion Group logo of GS Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureChildren’s Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago

    <h1>Call for Papers for the Yearbook of the German Children’s Literature Research Society (Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung/GKJF) 2018</h1>
    The second volume[1] of the open access, peer-reviewed Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung/GKJF takes the upcoming 50<sup>th</sup> ann…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Donald Haase

    Donald Haase deposited Kiss and Tell: Orality, Narrative, and the Power of Words in “Sleeping Beauty” in the group Group logo of GS Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureGS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 5 years ago

    Scholarship on the Sleeping Beauty tale has gone largely unappreciated. Underlying the story’s obvious themes and motifs—birth, death/sleep, rebirth—and complicating its gender dynamic is a preoccupation with orality and telling that gives the story a significant self-reflective dimension. This article examines how the tale reflects on story…[Read more]

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    Donald Haase deposited Children, War, and the Imaginative Space of Fairy Tales in the group Group logo of GS Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureGS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 5 years ago

    Explores how children of war and adults reflecting on their violent wartime childhoods have had recourse to the space of fairy tales to interpret their traumatic physical environments and their emotional lives within them. To that end, the article (1) considers the nature of time and space in the classic fairy tale; (2) establishes how the…[Read more]

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