Comparing children's literature.

Autor/in	O'Sullivan, Emer
Titel	Comparing children's literature.
Quelle	In: German as a foreign language, (2002) 2, S. 33-56 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anmerkungen; Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch; deutsche Zitate
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1470-9570
Schlagwörter	Kultur; Empirische Forschung; Gesellschaft; Stereotyp; Kognition; Nationalcharakter; Geschlechtsspezifischer Unterschied; Kinderliteratur; Europa; Gesellschaft; Kind; Kognition; Stereotyp; Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Kinderliteratur; Kultur; Nationalcharakter; Empirische Forschung; Kind; Deutsch als Fremdsprache; Vergleichende Analyse; Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Interkultureller Vergleich; Europa
Abstract	What is the connection between Christoph Hein's "Das Wildpferd hinter dem Kachelofen" and A.A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh"? An intertextuality which transcends linguistic, cultural and temporal boundaries and offers a dialogue of diverse images of childhood. It is also a rich example of a phenomenon in children's literature of interest from a comparative point of view. The article introduces the nascent field of Comparative Children's Literary Studies which merges and adapts questions and issues of Comparative Literature and Children's Literature Studies. Drawing on examples from European children's literatures and theories it sketches eight constituent areas of the field - general theory of children's literature, contact and transfer studies, comparative poetics of children's literature, intertextuality studies, image studies, comparative genre studies, comparative historiography of children's literature and comparative history of children's literature studies - and gives a brief description of what they encompass. Two aspects are dealt with in more detail: image studies with special focus on the issue of gender and national stereotypes, and contact and transfer studies; a brief account of the history of the translation and reception of "Alice in Wonderland" in Germany reveals much about the influence of norms and traditions of the target literature on the approaches adopted by translators. What emerges is an impression of just how rich the seam of children's literature is for research in comparative literary and cultural studies. (Verlag, adapt.).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2023/1