Children's Literature

Criticism and the Fictional Child

By: Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

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Hardcover | 5 May 1994

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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 both this 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 literary discussion 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.

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`This book is exhaustively researched and meticulously documented' Junior Bookshelf 'This compact book is the contribution of an Oxford don to the rapidly expanding field of criticsm in children's literature.' Frank Warren. School Library `a book which is on the whole both scholarly and thought-provoking' Critical Survey

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Issues in Children's Literature Criticism	p. 1
On Knowing the Child: Stories of Origin and Hierarchical Systems	p. 37
On Knowing the Child: Stories of Origin and the Education-Amusement Divide	p. 69
On Knowing the Child: The Terms of Children's Literature Criticism	p. 100
On Not Knowing the Child: Children's Literature Criticism and Adult Literary Theory	p. 131
The Reading Child and Other Children: The Psychoanalytic Child and Psychoanalytic Space	p. 165
A Consideration of some Theoretical Issues in Psychotherapy	p. 165
On Ways of Hearing and Seeing Patients in some Cases of Child Psychotherapy	p. 195
Bibliography	p. 226
Index	p. 239
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