Rereading Childhood Books: A Poetics - Paperback
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Rereading Childhood Books: A Poetics - Paperback
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by Alison Waller (Author), Lisa Sainsbury (Editor)
2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title and shortlisted for the ESSE book awards 2020, for Literatures in the English Language
Childhood books play a special role in reading histories, providing touchstones for our future tastes and giving shape to our ongoing identities. Bringing the latest work in Memory Studies to bear on writers' memoirs, autobiographical accounts of reading, and interviews with readers, Rereading Childhood Books explores how adults remember, revisit, and sometimes forget, these significant books. Asking what it means to return to familiar works by well-known authors such as Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis and Enid Blyton, as well as popular and ephemeral material not often considered as part of the canon, Alison Waller develops a poetics of rereading and presents a new model for understanding lifelong reading. As such she reconceives the history of children's literature through the shared and individual experiences of the readers who carry these books with them throughout their lives.Author Biography
Alison Waller is Senior Lecturer at the University of Roehampton, UK. She is the author of Constructions of Adolescence in Fantastic Realism (2009).
Number of Pages: 248
Dimensions: 0.52 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN
Publication Date: August 20, 2020
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