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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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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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Shuffling and sighing

Lindsey Geybels — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 08:31:50 +0000

Children’s literature is traditionally seen as a carrier of various ideologies as well as an important factor in children’s socialisation, for example in terms of the representation of age. A children’s book that portrays older characters as frail people with old-fashioned habits will influence the young reader’s perception of older people in their own environment,… Continue reading Shuffling and sighing

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You have to set the story you know aside

Frauke Pauwels — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 14:17:48 +0000

As with other twenty-first-century rewritings of fairytales, Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron complicates the classic ‘Cinderella’ fairytale narrative popularized by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm for new audiences, queering and race-bending the tale in its decidedly feminist revision of the story. However, as we argue here, the novel also provides an interesting intervention in the… Continue reading You have to set the story you know aside

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But, grandma, why did you (not) grow stronger?

Frauke Pauwels — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 14:11:49 +0000

Many fairy tale adaptations play with the storylines and the values and norms of traditional fairy tales. Some of these fairy tales have stood at the centre of literary studies, such as Wolf (1990) by Gillian Cross, an award-winning rewriting of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. Feminist perspectives have strongly influenced the fairy-tale rewritings of the… Continue reading But, grandma, why did you (not) grow stronger?

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Too childish for children? A digital inquiry into children’s literature

Frauke Pauwels — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 14:03:43 +0000

Age determines the form and content of children’s books in many ways. People havexed ideas about what is suitable for a particular age and what is not, and digital tools can help to map and ask questions about such age norms on a large scale. For this project, the computer ‘read’ 32 Dutch-language children’s books… Continue reading Too childish for children? A digital inquiry into children’s literature

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