Serialization, Commercialization and the Children?s Classics - Webster, Amy; - Prospero Internetes Könyváruház

Serialization, Commercialization and the Children?s Classics: British Series from the 20th Century
 
A termék adatai:

ISBN13:9781350434103
ISBN10:1350434108
Kötéstípus:Keménykötés
Terjedelem: oldal
Méret:234x156 mm
Nyelv:angol
Illusztrációk: 37 bw illus
700
Témakör:

Serialization, Commercialization and the Children?s Classics

British Series from the 20th Century
 
Kiadó: Bloomsbury Academic
Megjelenés dátuma:
Kötetek száma: Hardback
 
Normál ár:

Kiadói listaár:
GBP 85.00
Becsült forint ár:
44 625 Ft (42 500 Ft + 5% áfa)
Miért becsült?
 
Az Ön ára:

38 824 (36 975 Ft + 5% áfa )
Kedvezmény(ek): 13% (kb. 5 801 Ft)
A kedvezmény csak az 'Értesítés a kedvenc témákról' hírlevelünk címzettjeinek rendeléseire érvényes.
Kattintson ide a feliratkozáshoz
 
Beszerezhetőség:

Még nem jelent meg, de rendelhető. A megjelenéstől számított néhány héten belül megérkezik.
 
  példányt

 
Hosszú leírás:
An exploration of the serialization of children's classics by contemporary publishers, this book digs into the impact of the practice and provides new ways of reading the corpus of British children's literature from the 20th century. Amy Webster demonstrates how publishers select texts for their series, which texts they omit, which outliers are sometimes included and how a core group of works from the golden age of children's literature emerged. The text also examines how texts are abridged and transformed from publisher to publisher through close readings of The Wind in the Willows and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; and how the repackaging of works within a series highlight issues and choices tied to key paratextual elements. Analysing data through distant reading and close reading of series from Ladybird, Longman, Puffin and Walker Illustrated editions, this book sheds light on how modern classics series are marked by variation and instability but also a reductive homogeneity.

Through her use of quantitative and text-focused research, Webster reveals how commercial motivations have created a gulf between the canonical concepts of the classic and how the term functions as a marketing tool in British children's publishing. With notions of what counts as a classic compromised and complicated, this book leads the call for a critical approach towards both the term 'classic' and to reading children's classics that acknowledges how they are tied to the commercial enterprises of the children's book business.
Tartalomjegyzék:
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction

Chapter 1: Probing the problem of 'the classic'

Complexities and critiques of the classic
The classic in children's literature
Classics and canons
Prizing and reading practices
Serialising children's classics: A room of not so familiar friends
Studying British series of children's classics at a distance and up close
Compiling the data set
Precursors to the classic series

Chapter 2: Presence

Analysing the data set
Core classics and copyright
Non-recurring titles
The move towards homogenisation
Variation in series of modern classics
Trends in authorship

Chapter 3: Pruning

Adapting children's classics
Analysing abridgement: Counting words and reading contraction
A case study of a children's classic
Ladybird: Series of classics for younger readers
Longman: The children's classics as a reading scheme

Chapter 4: Product

Repackaging children's classics
The publisher's peritext
A Ladybird story
Puffin's 'complete and unabridged' classics
Walker's Illustrated Classics: 'The classics have never looked so good'

Conclusion: The commercial dimension of the children's classics

References

Appendix
Appendix A: Accessing the dataset online
Appendix B: Series of classics and modern classics listed chronologically by start publishing date
Appendix C: Books in series listed numerically by book ID
Appendix D: Authors in series listed numerically by author ID
Appendix E: Series that books appear in listed numerically by Book ID

Index