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Adult authors, young readers, and shared experiences.

Lindsey Geybels — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:52:04 +0000

Children’s literature is often marked by an imbalance in age, as adult authors write for young readers. For this article, Vanessa Joosen interviewed seven children’s and young adult authors – Aidan Chambers, Guus Kuijer, Jacqueline Wilson, Anne Fine, David Almond, Joke Van Leeuwen, and Bart Moeyaert – to investigate how they negotiate and reflect on… Continue reading Adult authors, young readers, and shared experiences.

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What readers make of age, decline and wisdom

Lindsey Geybels — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:15:24 +0000

In children’s literature, young readers come into contact with fictional representations of their own age, as well as other ages. How those age representations in literature are experienced by readers – both young and old – and how readers use those interpretations to shape and make sense of their own age and the age of… Continue reading What readers make of age, decline and wisdom

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Different aspects of age in the oeuvre of David Almond

Lindsey Geybels — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 11:59:34 +0000

In recent decades, age studies has started to emerge as a new approach to study children’s literature. This book is co-authored by several members of the CAFYR team and builds on that scholarship but also significantly extends it by exploring age in various aspects of children’s literature: the age of the author, the characters, the… Continue reading Different aspects of age in the oeuvre of David Almond

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Intergenerational friendship or desire?

Lindsey Geybels — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 11:50:22 +0000

Diana Wynne Jones’s Fire and Hemlock (1984) and Ali Smith’s Autumn (2016) are two British novels that evoke an intense friendship between a girl and an older man. In this article, Vanessa Joosen explores their experimental narrative forms which include a complex chronology, unreliable narrator, dream scenes, gaps, and a rich intertextual network to frame an intergenerational friendship that… Continue reading Intergenerational friendship or desire?

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No country for old women

Lindsey Geybels — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 13:14:44 +0000

In this essay, Michelle Anya Anjirbag uses Neil Gaiman’s Stardust, The Sleeper and the Spindle, and ‘Chivalry’ to examine the intersection of age and gender in his fairy-tale appropriations to consider how fantasy can reiterate stereotypical representations of older women. By drawing on the age studies work of Sylvia Henneberg and Susan Pickard to consider ageism… Continue reading No country for old women

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Becoming wiser over time

Lindsey Geybels — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:16:47 +0000

In this article, Leander Duthoy discusses how child and adult readers of children’s literature use the concepts of innocence and wisdom as age norms to reflect both on their own age and the age of fictional characters. He gathered data through semi-structured interviews and focus-group discussions with readers aged nine to seventy-five. In these conversations,… Continue reading Becoming wiser over time

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