To India and Lithuania through Soviet Picture Books
To India and Lithuania through Soviet Picture Books
Author(s): Hanna PaulouskayaSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, Lithuanian Literature, Russian Literature, Other Language Literature, Book-Review, Philology, Translation Studies, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: book art; childhood; children’s literature; Giedrė Jankevičiūtė; India; Lithuania; Lithuanian literature; picture book; Russian literature; Soviet literature; Soviet Union; V. Geetha
Summary/Abstract: Jankevičiūtė, G., & Geetha, V. (2017). Another history of the children’s picture book: From Soviet Lithuania to India. Chennai: Tara Books. The review article discusses a book by Giedrė Jankevičiūtė and V. Geetha, Another History of the Children’s Picture Book: From Soviet Lithuania to India (2017). It describes the content of the monograph in the context of studies on picture books, especially those of Russia, Lithuania, and the Soviet Union, on the history of childhood and Russian literature. The main merit of the volume, in the opinion of the reviewer, is the choice of Indian and Lithuanian book art for comparison, which is made from the perspectives of the history of literature, art, societies, and understanding of childhood.
Journal: Dzieciństwo. Literatura i Kultura
- Issue Year: 1/2019
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 242-250
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English