Transcending Boundaries: Writing for a Dual Audience of Children and Adults

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Sandra L. Beckett
Psychology Press, 1999 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 286 pages

Transcending Boundaries: Writing for a Dual Audience of Children and Adults is a collection of essays on twentieth-century authors who cross the borders between adult and children's literature and appeal to both audiences. This collection of fourteen essays by scholars from eight countries constitutes the first book devoted to the art of crosswriting the child and adult in twentieth-century international literature. Sandra Beckett explores the multifaceted nature of crossover literature and the diverse ways in which writers cross the borders to address a dual readership of children and adults. It considers classics such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Pinocchio, with particular emphasis on post-World War II literature. The essays in Transcending Boundaries clearly suggest that crossover literature is a major, widespread trend that appears to be sharply on the rise.

 

Contents

Authors Do It
3
Childrens Adult Human ?
63
The Double Attribution of Texts for Children
83
Dual Audience in Picturebooks
99
All Readers Texts and Intertexts
111
Part III
127
Crossing Borders from Africa to America
149
The Holocaust Memoirs
167
Part V
199
Carl Sandburg
215
Postmodernism Is Over Something
239
Selected Bibliography
255
Yourcenar Marguerite NotreDame des Hirondelles Illus Georges Lemoine
263
Index
273
About the Editor and Contributors
283
Copyright

Realism Voice
183

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About the author (1999)

Sandra L. Beckett is Professor of French at Brock University. She is the author of Red Riding Hood for All Ages: A Fairy Tale Icon in Cross-Cultural Contexts (forthcoming), Recycling Red Riding Hood, and De grands romanciers Ã(c)crivent pour les enfants. She is the editor of Transcending Boundaries: Writing for a Dual Audience of Children and Adults and Reflections of Change: Childrenâ (TM)s Literature Since 1945, and the co-editor of Beyond Babar: The European Tradition in Childrenâ (TM)s Literature.