CFP: Narrative Theory and Children's/Young Adult Literature (7/15/02; journal issue)

From: Mike Cadden (cadden@mwsc.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 08 2002 - 13:54:07 EST

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    Special issue of Children's Literature Association Quarterly: Narrative
    Theories and Practices in Children's and Young Adult Literature (Spring 2003)

    Guest editors Mike Cadden and Andrea Schwenke Wyile invite papers that
    explore the narrative peculiarities, innovations, and/or conventions in
    children's and/or young adult literature. Comparisons to adult literature
    are welcome. We are especially interested in irony/parody, focalization,
    and narration, but all narratological issues and approaches are welcome.
    Possible questions to explore include: Does narrative theory offer us a way
    to talk about the kinds of narrative structure or styles of narration
    present in children's and young adult literature? If not, what's missing?
    Do these genres explore the same narrative terrain as adult literature?
    What do the practices of children's literature have to offer narrative
    theory? What does narrative theory have to offer the study of the unique
    genres of children's and young adult literature?

    Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2002 (e-mail submissions welcome)
    Send papers and inquiries to:
    Mike Cadden
    Dept. of English
    Missouri Western State College
    St. Joseph, MO 64505
    cadden@mwsc.edu
    and
    Andrea Schwenke Wyile
    English Department
    Acadia University
    Wolfville, NS B0P 1X0
    Canada
    andrea.schwenke.wyile.acadiau.ca

    ____________________________
    Dr. Mike Cadden
    Associate Professor of English
    Missouri Western State College
    4525 Downs Dr.
    St. Joseph, MO 64507
    Office: (816) 271-4576
    Fax: (816) 271-4543
    URL: http://www.mwsc.edu/~engdept/faculty/cadden.html

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