Bøger af Emer O'Sullivan

Nedslag i Børnelitteraturen 3 er den tredie artikelsamling udgivet i Center for Børnelitteraturs skriftserie.  Bogen indeholder følgende artikler: Tom Jørgensen: Børnelitteraturen i skolebiblioteket - Et kulturdidaktisk perspektiv Henriette Romme Thomsen: Er det for børn? - En undersøgelse af børns holdning til og vurdering af Louis Jensens 'Hundrede historier' Emer O'Sullivan: Komparative studier i børnelitteratur Karín Lesnik-Oberstein: Definitioner på børnelitteratur og barndom Lars Bøgeholt Pedersen: Home sweet home - Harry Potter-bøgernes succes set i et kulturanalytisk perspektiv Anette Øster Steffensen: Sunde og gode bøger for ungdommen - Mathilde Groos' fortællinger 1885-1901 Nina Christensen: Indgangsvinkler til analyse af billedbøger.  Formålet med udgivelsen af årbogen Nedslag i børnelitteraturforskningen er at præsentere en større, fagligt funderet og interesseret offentlighed for den nyeste nationale og internationale børnelitteraturforskning. Det er således hensigten at vise udviklingen og bredden i den danske børnelitteraturforskning, men også gennem oversættelser at introducere markante udenlandske forskere.

Historical Ditionary of Children's Literature, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about children's literature.

Emer O'Sullivan traces the history of children's literature studies, from the enthusiastic internationalism of the post-war period - which set out from the idea of a world republic of childhood - to modern comparative criticism.

Childrens literature comes from a number of different sources-folklore (folk- and fairy tales), books originally for adults and subsequently adapted for children, and material authored specifically for them-and its audience ranges from infants through middle graders to young adults (readers from about 12 to 18 years old). Its forms include picturebooks, pop-up books, anthologies, novels, merchandising tie-ins, novelizations, and multimedia texts, and its genres include adventure stories, drama, science fiction, poetry, and information books. The Historical Dictionary of Childrens Literature relates the history of childrens literature through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, books, and genres. Some of the most legendary names in all of literature are covered in this important reference, including Hans Christian Anderson, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, Beatrix Potter, J.K. Rowling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jules Verne, and E.B. White.

''Emer O''Sullivan has made an indispensable contribution to Wildean literature . Compelling, informative and fascinating'' Stephen Fry Oscar Wilde''s father - scientist, surgeon, archaeologist, writer - was one of the most eminent men of his generation. His mother - poet, journalist, translator - hosted an influential salon at 1 Merrion Square. Together they were one of Victorian Ireland''s most dazzling and enlightened couples. When, in 1864, Sir William Wilde was accused of sexually assaulting a female patient, it sent shock waves through Dublin society. After his death some ten years later, Jane attempted to re-establish the family in London, where Oscar burst irrepressibly upon the scene, only to fall in a trial as public as his father''s. A remarkable and perceptive account, The Fall of the House of Wilde is a major repositioning of our first modern celebrity, a man whose fall from grace marked the end of fin de siècle decadence.