This article explores the relationship between literature, childhoods, and youth in the educational sphere during the Popular Unity administration (UP... [more]
This essay reflects on the paradox of how the twenty-first-century opening up of comparative literature to non-Western literatures under the aegis of ... [more]
This article examines the responses of eight sixth grade students discussing four realistic fiction Hispanic-American multicultural stories with universal themes by Gary Soto in peer-led literature discussion groups. The results indicate the importance of
Elsie Dinsmore, the first book in a late 19th century children's series, is unique because it bad not been adapted, just reprinted, until 1999. It is also unique in the setting, the mythic Southern plantation life of the 1850s. The 1999 edition ameliorat
This article grew out of a class I taught, in 2003, for graduate students of Persian Literature. In the course, I used classical and modern Persian texts and their English translations. This approach revealed many semantic subtleties, structural oddities,
This article explores the relationship between the Sephardic coplas admonitivas and the literature of moral written in Castilian in the Middle Ages, both by Christians and Jews. It intends to give evidence of the existence of a relationship between the tw
Language and dialect choice are frequently thematized in creole literature, notably in Alfred Parepou's 1885 Guianese novel Atipa. The concept of the basilect has accordingly played an important role in creole writing, critical thinking, and polemic. Giv
In this article I question whether or not African American young adult literature serves as a primer for, and a version of, African American adult literature. Using the Black Aesthetic as my literary theory and the Coretta Scott King Award as the young ad
Part of the value of stories is moral, in that understanding them, and the characters within them, is one way in which we seek to make moral sense of life. Arguably, it has become quite common to use stories in order to make moral sense of business life.
The Portuguese communities of the United States have been producing a steady flow of creative works both in Portuguese and in English. Usually, these works are considered part of American literature if written in English and of Portuguese literature if wr
This article provides a rationale for using literature in the classroom to explore conceptions of curriculum and teaching. We discuss a number of exemplars from children's and young adult fiction, both mainstream and less well known; offer a taxonomy for
We should do what unites. The burdening multiplication of definitions of art and literature which accumulantes postmodern thinking makes urgent a reflection about the common aspects and criteria of art and thus about the criteria allowing a definition of
We examine the patterns of optionality that are characteristic of the acquisition of two Mandarin Chinese sentence-final temporal/aspectual markers: inchoative le and progressive ne. What we observe is a productive and systematic pattern of optionality (t
Since Asperger's Syndrome was formally recognised in 1994, several novels featuring characters with the syndrome have appeared. Bill Greenwell's article discusses these books in providing a context for a closer consideration of the British publishing se
The extraordinary nursery library produced by Jane Johnson (circa 1742-1747), entirely in the private domain with no thought of publication, holds pride of place in the Lilly Library's collection of early children's books at the University of Indiana, U
This article comprises two sustained responses to Sonya Hartnett's award-winning novel, Thursday's Child. Both essays explore multiple readings of a complex and intriguing text. Set in the Great Depression in Australia, the novel is seen as at once real
C. Walter Hodges first came to prominence as the author/illustrator of Columbus Sails in 1939, which the 'Junior Bookshelf' hailed as 'The best book never to have been awarded the Carnegie Medal'. Widely acclaimed for the treatment of its subject matt