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From tongue to text : a new reading of children's poetry /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pullinger, Debbie (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Series:Bloomsbury perspectives on children's literature.
Subjects:
Children's poetry > History and criticism.
Poetry and children.
Children > Books and reading.
Orality in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Children's poetry: the problem child
  • Mind and body
  • 1. Tact
  • The hidden child
  • Not narrative
  • In our right minds?
  • The infancy of language
  • The language of infancy
  • The crossing
  • The container
  • Tactful language
  • 2. Tongue
  • Ear and voice
  • Orality and vocality
  • And another thing
  • Making lists
  • Again and again
  • Here and now
  • All join in!
  • Live and in performance
  • 3. Text
  • Hand and eye
  • From performance to page
  • From A to Z
  • The poetics of the page
  • The distances of text
  • The child and the text Conclusion: Orality and textuality
  • Criticism and children's poetry.