ISBN10: 0198119984, ISBN13: 9780198119982, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. Children's Literature: Criticism and the Fictional Child is an original and lucid study of the figure of the `child' as it is presented in the rapidly expanding field of the criticism of children's literature. The book argues that in fact, this same body of criticism - through often contradictory versions of the `child' - revels the realm of `childhood' as one constructed by the adult reader. Karin Lesnik-Oberstein demonstrates that boththis criticism and the texts it studies are underpinned by the narratives of the liberal arts' educational ideals and their attendant socio-political and personal ideologies. The author places literarydiscussion into the current wider debates about childhood in psychology and psychotherapy. This lively polemic represents a significant re-thinking of `childhood' and approaches to children's literature. A study of the figure of the child represented in the criticism of children's literature. The book argues that literary criticism reveals the realm of `childhood' as one constructed by the adult reader, underpinned by the narratives of the liberal arts' educational ideals. Debates about childhood in psychology and psychotherapy are considered. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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