Literatura dla dzieci i młodzieży. T. 5
Literature for children and young people. Vol. 5

Contributor(s): Katarzyna Tałuć (Editor)
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: literature for children and young people; books for children and young people; the reading canon; the theme of the Second World War; taboo subjects; gender; novels for girls
Summary/Abstract: Vol. 5 Literatures for children and young people includes a discussion of the contemporary phenomena which represent the sphere of the culture of books for children and young people, whose presence may be observed with varying intensity in the period 1989-2015. The book is divided into four parts. The first one discusses the following: the construction of reading lists intended for young readers, the subject associated with the Second World War in books for young people, upsetting subject matter i.e. death. There is also reflection about texts which are associated with the book and the themes which initiate the reader into the so-called gender. The following problems are discussed: the relations of the novels intended for girls and women, the ways of the construction of fantasy characters in contemporary fairy tales. The authors manifested an interest in the following fields: the realisation of the genre-related premises of horror in the literature intended for young readers; texts which engage themes associated with adventures and travel; religious books. The first part of the book is concluded by remarks devoted to the functioning of the book and its reception in the most familiar milieu – at home and subsequently at school, during the process of education.A similar complex of problems is devoted to publishing, the ways of the existence of new forms of expression intended for young readers, which include inter alia the possibilities of new media, including the Internet. There is a discussion of the problems associated with the functioning of series, comic books by Polish authors and the so-called convergence books on the publishing market. The transformations which were experienced by periodicals intended for young readers were also discussed.The third part of Vol. 5 Literatures for children and young people contains a treatment of the translations into Polish of texts of foreign writers who write for children and young people. There is also a presentation of the current state of research in the literature for non-adult readers, and, finally, the problems of non-professional criticism, whose frequent manifestations include superficial reviews of books for children and young people.The final part of the volume is constituted by articles devoted to the form of work with a non-adult reader. There is a discussion of the functioning of modern libraries, transformed into mediatheques; the activities whose purpose is to popularise readership, but also in the extra-library context. There is also a focus on bibliotherapeutical problems. Thus the means of utilising literary texts which enable children to come to terms with their fears, i.e. the fear experienced during the process of falling asleep.Due to the wide range of problems which are engaged, Vol. 5 Literatures for children and young people is intended, similarly as in the case of the previous volumes in the series, to everyone – students, employees of the academia, librarians, the employees of other cultural institutions – who are interested in books for children and young people, the market of such publications, and the institutions which popularise such publications.

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