Postmodern Picturebooks: Play, Parody, and Self-Referentiality

by Sipe; Lawrence R.

• ISBN13: 9780415962100
• ISBN10: 0415962102
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Over the past 15 years, there has been a pronounced trend toward a particular type of picturebook that many would label "postmodern." Postmodern picturebooks have stretched our conventional notion of what constitutes a picturebook, as well as what it means to be an engaged reader of these texts. The international researchers and scholars included in this compelling collection of work critically examine and discuss postmodern picturebooks, and reflect upon their unique contributions to both the field of children#xE2;#xAC;"s literature and to the development of new literacies for child, adolescent, and adult readers.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Postmodernism and Picturebooks	p. 1
What is a Picturebook, Anyway?: The Evolution of Form and Substance Through the Postmodern Era and Beyond	p. 9
The Artist and the Postmodern Picturebook	p. 22
Radical Change Theory, Postmodernism, and Contemporary Picturebooks	p. 41
Play and Playfulness in Postmodern Picturebooks	p. 55
Postmodern Picturebooks and the Transmodern Self	p. 75
"They are Always Surprised at What People Throw Away": Glocal Postmodernism in Australian Picturebooks	p. 89
Postmodern Picturebooks and the Material Conditions of Reading	p. 103
The Paradox of Space in Postmodern Picturebooks	p. 117
Imagination and Multimodality: Reading, Picturebooks, and Anxieties About Childhood	p. 130
Postmodern Picturebook as Artefact: Developing Tools for an Archaeological Dig	p. 147
Lauren Child: Utterly and Absolutely Exceptionordinarily	p. 164
Would I Lie to You?: Metalepsis and Modal Disruption in Some "True" Fairy Tales	p. 180
"It Doesn't Say How?": Third Graders' Collaborative Sense-Making from Postmodern Picturebooks	p. 193
The Voices Behind the Pictures: Children Responding to Postmodern Picturebooks	p. 207
First Graders Interpret David Wiesner's The Three Pigs: A Case Study	p. 223
Ed Vere's The Getaway: Starring a Postmodern Cheese Thief	p. 238
Contributors	p. 257
Index	p. 261
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