The Mighty Child: Time and Power in Children's Literature

by Clémentine Beauvais

The Mighty Child offers an existentialist approach to the theorization and criticism of children's literature, nuancing the academic claim that children's literature, specifically defined as 'didactic', alienates childhood from adulthood and disempowers its implied child reader. This volume recentres the theoretical debate around the constructions of time and power which characterize conceptions of childhood and adulthood in children's literature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027201587
• ISBN13: 9789027201584
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.