Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Pullinger, Debbie

Publication

• London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Description

xviii, 261 pages; 25 cm

Summary

• "The connection between childhood and poetry runs deep. And yet, poetry written for children has been neglected by criticism and resists prevailing theories of children's literature. Drawing on Walter Ong's theory of orality and on Iain McGilChrist's work on brain function, this book develops a new theoretical framework for the study of children's poetry. From Tongue to Text argues that the poem is a multimodal form that exists in the borderlands between the world of experience and the world of language and between orality and literacy -- places that children themselves inhabit. Engaging with a wide range of poetry from nursery rhymes and Christina Rossetti to Michael Rosen and Carol Ann Duffy, Debbie Pullinger demonstrates how these 'tactful' works are shaped by the dynamics of orality and textuality."--
• "Reading poems by such writers as A.A. Milne, Michael Rosen and Carol Ann Duffy, this book explores the neglected genre of children's poetry to develop a new theory of the form"--

Series Statement

Bloomsbury perspectives on children's literature

Uniform Title

Bloomsbury perspectives on children's literature.

Subject

• Children's poetry > History and criticism
• Poetry and children
• Children > Books and reading
• Orality in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 18-4836

ISBN

• 9781474222327
• 1474222323

LCCN

• 2016046733
• 40027150437

OCLC

960833612

Author

Pullinger, Debbie, author.

Title

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

Publisher

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Bloomsbury perspectives on children's literature

Bloomsbury perspectives on children's literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Standard Identifier

40027150437

Research Call Number

JFE 18-4836