02282cam a22003014a 4500 100907s2011 nyu b 001 0 eng 9780415877893 041587789X 9780203830833 0203830830 SDU PR8825 I68 2011 Irish children's literature and culture : new perspectives on contemporary writing / edited by Valerie Coghlan and Keith O'Sullivan. New York : Routledge, 2011. 213 p. Children's literature and culture HKBU library YT2025 M09 "Irish Children's Literature and Culture looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with major genres, forms, and issues, including the gothic, the speculative, picturebooks, ethnicity, and globalization. It contextualizes modern Irish children's literature in relation to Irish mythology and earlier writings, as well as in relation to Irish writing for adults, thereby demonstrating the complexity of this fascinating area. What constitutes a "national literature" is rarely straightforward, and it is especially complex when discussing writing for young people in an Irish context. Until recently, there was only a slight body of work that could be classified as "Irish children's literature" in comparison with Ireland's contribution to adult literature in the twentieth century. The contributors to the volume examine a range of texts in relation to contemporary literary and cultural theory, and children's literature internationally, raising provocative questions about the future of the topic. Irish Children's Literature and Culture is essential reading for those interested in Irish literature, culture, sociology, childhood, and children's literature"-- English literature Irish authors History and criticism. 203196 Children's literature, English History and criticism. Children Books and reading Ireland. 205622 Ireland In literature. Coghlan, Valerie. 205623 O'Sullivan, Keith, 1974- 205624 = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 107560 107560 0 0 lcc 0 PR8825 I68 02011 0 CGB 281965 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-09-15 2 0 PR8825 I68 2011 1000373471 2025-09-15 00:00:00 C.1 2025-09-15 GBE