TY - JOUR

T1 - Imagology Meets Children's Literature

AU - O'Sullivan, Emer

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PY - 2011/7/1

Y1 - 2011/7/1

N2 - Since the 1970s, children's literature research has developed a number of approaches, from simple ideological criticism to more sophisticated applications of postcolonial theory, to analyse how, and to what end, members of other national, cultural, racial and ethnic groups are represented in texts for children. However, a field of study within comparative literature, imagology, which specifically addresses the cultural construction and literary representation of national characters in literature, has not yet made much impact. This review article will present its origins and methods of investigation as well as sketch areas in children's literature of imagological interest, which have been or are still waiting to be productively addressed, to show what the domain can gain from this approach.

AB - Since the 1970s, children's literature research has developed a number of approaches, from simple ideological criticism to more sophisticated applications of postcolonial theory, to analyse how, and to what end, members of other national, cultural, racial and ethnic groups are represented in texts for children. However, a field of study within comparative literature, imagology, which specifically addresses the cultural construction and literary representation of national characters in literature, has not yet made much impact. This review article will present its origins and methods of investigation as well as sketch areas in children's literature of imagological interest, which have been or are still waiting to be productively addressed, to show what the domain can gain from this approach.

KW - English

KW - Imagology

KW - Literature studies

KW - children's literature

KW - Imagology

KW - comparative literature

KW - Construction of national character

KW - Discourse

KW - Image studies

KW - Imagology

KW - Topography

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U2 - 10.3366/ircl.2011.0003

DO - 10.3366/ircl.2011.0003

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 4

SP - 1

EP - 14

JO - International Research in Children's Literature

JF - International Research in Children's Literature

SN - 1755-6198

IS - 1

ER -