...Lisa Zunshine In this article I explore the possibility of a dialogue between cultural studies and cognitive science by proposing a “cognitive” reading of Anna Laetitia Barbauld's 1781 book Hymns in Prose for Children . Literary critics have pointed out that the tacitly catechistic mode...

...Gillian Gane Much postcolonial literature depends on unacknowledged processes of translation working like the “radio” in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children that magically renders all Indian languages intelligible to the children of midnight. It is surprisingly difficult to determine what...

.... This article reads the sterility dystopia—a subgenre of science fiction where a global inability to have children results in aging populations and societal collapse—as registering the anxiety that arises at the intersection of age and the environment. Taking The Children of Men as a case study, I suggest...

..., I examine different forms of “actual” play among author, censor, and reader, on the one hand, and rhetorical game playing in the narrative, on the other. More specifically, the essay analyzes children's games in the text to suggest that games become an Aesopian mechanism for addressing the Stalinist...

... structure event memory and co-construct the narratives that children use for self and moral identities. The bioemotional landscape formed by experience influences the narratives that shape the life course. Initially, this occurs nonverbally through touch and emotional response; later, it occurs through...

...Ernst van Alphen In discussions of second- and third-generation Holocaust literature and testimony, it is an accepted idea that the trauma of Holocaust survivors is often transmitted from the first to the second and later generations. This article analyzes the “problems” of survivors' children...

...Adam Lively In this article I discuss the importance for narrative theory of the concept, drawn from developmental psychology, of “joint attention.” In the first part, I explain the basic concept and its significance for the emergence of narrative in young children. In the second part, I draw out...

... “reproductive futurism” to describe the tendency to define political value in terms of a future “for the children” and insisting that the power of queer critique inheres in its opposition to this narrative and therefore to politics as we know it. This assertion inspired extensive debate on relationships between...

... to the children’s books Where the Wild Things Are and The Gruffalo and the comic “The Baba Yaga” (from the Hellboy series): they all undergo a process of analysis and metacognitive reflection. Validating the tool as an analytic and an educational measure depends on its ability to guide the reader toward...

... and Hemlock , given that it is addressed to young readers and there is concern that children's books could be used for grooming. Controversially, both novels locate the desire in the young girl rather than the old man and explore the agency and moments of disempowerment that the female characters experience...

..., and Patricia M. Greenfield, 1 -67 (New York: Wiley). Cahill, Susan 1994 Writing Women's Lives:An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (New York: Harper Perennial). Cantor, Joanne 1998 ”Mommy, I'm Scared”: How TV and Movies Frighten Children and What...

... technology in inclusive universal designs for learning. She is currently leading a national interdisciplinary research project on reading success for dyslexic children. Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen is associate professor in aesthetics and culture at Aarhus University. She is editor of the international...

... 1985 “Young Children's Comprehension of Metaphoric Language.” Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development , Toronto , April . Chestnut Eleanor K. Markman Ellen M. 2014 “Children's Inferences Based on Figure and Ground Thematic Roles...

.... At stake is Wordsworth’s attitude toward Bell’s Madras sys- tem, an educational system that was, Hickey tells us, rst devel- oped at Egmore, near Madras, to educate the ‘half-caste’ male children of the European militaryTheBell system...

... , ELH ( English Language History ), SEL ( Studies in English Literature ), and Textual Practice . He is currently working on a second book project, titled “The Ageing of Empire: Colonizing Care from Young England to Young India.” Vanessa Joosen is professor of English literature and children's...

... on Aggression,” in Handbook of Children and the Media , edited by Dorothy G. Singer and Jerome L. Singer, 223 -54 (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage). Gerrig, Richard J. 1993 Experiencing Narrative Worlds (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press). Green, Melanie, and Timothy Brock 2000 “The Role...

... Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder ,” Autism Research 7 : 677 – 86 . Haakonssen Knud Wood Paul , eds. 2012 “ Dugald Stewart: His Development in Scottish and European Context ,” special issue, of History of European Ideas 38 , no 1 : 1 – 178 . Indurkhya...

... of English at the School of Foreign Languages, Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. His research interests are narrative theory, children's literature, and eighteenth-century English literature. His recent publications are “Currency's Reversed Marginal Role in Children's Literature: Loans...

... and Aesthetic Emotions,” American Psychologist 6 : 1545 -46. Wolf, Shelby A., and Shirley B. Heath 1992 The Braid of Literature: Children's Worlds of Reading (Cambridge: Harvard University Press). Zillmann, Dolf 1991 “Empathy: Affect from Bearing Witness to the Emotions of Others,” in Responding...

... to articulate the relationship between “children” and “future” without falling into the sorts of banalities according to which children “embody”—even “are”—the future. It is precisely such habitual slippages which the texts I examine here set out to expose and call into question. The child as bearer...