Bibliographies - Critical

BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF CRITICAL STUDIES
Critical and literary analysis

These titles address particular literary and critical elements on the study of Children's Literature, such as the use of language or form, the perspectives of postmodernism or narrative, the nature of analysis and response and so on. Related bibliographies on this site include Psychoanalytical Studies, Young Adult Literature, Gender and Race, Culture and National Identity

The call number is to the text held in the Heyward Library.

Geoff Bull & Michèle Anstey (ed.), Crossing the boundaries, Frenchs Forest, N.S.W. : Pearson Education Australia, c2002
hmc 809.89282 CROS

Michael Cart, From romance to realism : 50 years of growth and change in young adult literature, New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1996
hmc 028.535 CART

Susan Clancy with David Gilbey (ed.), Something to crow about : new perspectives in literature for young people, Wagga Wagga, N.S.W. : Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, 1999
hmc 028.535 CLAN

Bernice Cullinan & Lee Galda, Cullinan and Galda's Literature and the Child, 5th ed., Belmon CA : Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2002
hq 028.55 CULL

Sheila A. Egoff (ed.), Only connect : readings on children's literature, Toronto ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996
hmc 028.5 ONLY

Sheila A. Egoff, Thursday's child : trends and patterns in contemporary children's literature, Chicago, Ill. : American Library Association, 1981
hmc 028.5 EGOF

Paul Heins (ed.), Crosscurrents of criticism : Horn Book essays, 1968-1977, Boston : Horn Book, 1977
hmc 028.5 19

Margery Hourihan, Deconstructing the hero : literary theory and children's literature, London ; New York : Routledge, 1997
hmc 809.9352 HOUR

Peter Hunt (ed.), Children's literature : the development of criticism, London ; New York : Routledge, 1990
hmc 028.5 CHIL

Peter Hunt (ed.), Literature for children : contemporary criticism, London ; New York : Routledge, 1992
hmc 028.5 LITE

Peter Hunt (ed.), Understanding children's literature : key essays from the International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, London ; New York : Routledge, 1999
hmc 809.89282 UNDE

Murray Knowles and Kirsten Malmkjær, Language and control in children's literature, London ; New York : Routledge, 1996
hmc 820.99282 KNOW

Rebecca J. Lukens, A critical handbook of children's literature, 7th ed., Boston : Allyn & Bacon, 2002
hmc 809.89282 LUKE

Jill P. May, Children's literature and critical theory : reading and writing for understanding, New York : Oxford University Press, 1995
hmc 028.5 MAY

James Holt McGavran (ed.), Literature and the child : romantic continuations, postmodern contestations, Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1999
hmc 820.99282 LITE

Roderick McGillis, The nimble reader : literary theory and children's literature, New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International, c1996
hmc 809.89282 MACG

Maria Nikolajeva, Children's literature comes of age : toward a new aesthetic, New York : Garland Pub., 1996
hmc 809.89282 NIKO

Maureen Nimon and John Foster, The adolescent novel : Australian perspectives , Wagga Wagga, N.S.W. : Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, 1997
hmc A823. 0099283 NIMO

Perry Nodelman, The pleasures of children's literature, White Plains, N.Y. : Longman, c1996
hmc 809.89282 NODE

Lissa Paul, Reading otherways, Stroud UK : Thimble Press, 1998
hmc 801.95082 PAUL

Alan C. Purves, Experiencing children's literature, Glenview, Ill : Scott, Foresman, c1984
hmc 028.5 PURV

Jacqueline Rose, The case of Peter Pan, or, The impossibility of children's fiction, Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993
hmc 823.912 BARR/R

Margaret Rustin and Michael Rustin, Narratives of love & loss : studies in modern children's fiction, London ; New York : Verso, 1987
hmc 809.89282 RUST

Lance Salway (ed.), A peculiar gift : nineteenth century writings on books for children, Harmondsworth : Kestrel Books, 1976
hmc 028.5 PECU

John Stephens and Ken Watson (ed.), From Picturebook to literary theory, Rozelle NSW : St Clair Press, 1994
hmc 801.95 FROM

John Stephens, Language and ideology in children's fiction, Harlow, Essex, England ; New York : Longman, 1992
hmc 028.5 STEP

John Stephens and Robyn McCallum, Retelling stories, framing culture : traditional story and metanarratives in children's literature, New York : Garland Pub., 1998
hmc 809.89282 STEP

Deborah Cogan Thacker and Jean Webb, Introducing children's literature : from romanticism to post-modernism, London : Routledge, 2002
hmc 809.89282 THAC

Nicholas Tucker, The child and the book : a psychological and literary exploration, Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990
hmc 028.5 TUCK

Kay E. Vandergrift, Children's literature : theory, research, and teaching, Englewood, Colo : Libraries Unlimited, 1990
hmc 028.5 VAND

Barbara Wall, The narrator's voice : the dilemma of children's fiction, Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1991
hmc 028.5 WALL

Carol J. Winters and Gary Schmidt, Edging the boundaries of children's literature, Boston : Allyn & Bacon, 2001
hmc 809.89282 WINT

Jack David Zipes, Sticks and stones : the troublesome success of children's literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter, New York ; London : Routledge, 2001
hmc 809.89282 ZIPE

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