Zohar Shavit,
Poetics of Children's Literature,
The University of Georgia Press,
Athens and London, 1986 ©

Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgementsxiii
 
      PART ONE:   STATE OF THE SYSTEM
1. The Notion of Childhood
   and Texts for the Child		 3
2. The Self-Image of Children's Literature33
 
      PART TWO:   SOLUTIONS
3. The Ambivalent Status of Texts63
4. Adults and Children
    in Non-Canonized Children's Literature		93
5. Translation of Children's Literature111
 
      PART THREE:   SYSTEM AND HISTORY
6. The Model of Develpment
    of Canonized Children's Literature		133
7. Stratification of a System158
 
Conclusion177
Bibliography181