Publisher's Synopsis
For a long time, researchers even assumed that children's and youth literature was self-explanatory and did not require any literary analysis. Accordingly, the focus has so far been on content, materials, educational strategies and 'messages'. This volume is based on different premises: Even children's and youth literature uses linguistically coded techniques in its forms and structures. Children's and young people's novels are based on narrative concepts that form the basis of reading comprehension: the question of what and how of storytelling is therefore indispensable for scientific studies on children's and young people's literature when it is read as literature. Based on this understanding, this volume transfers recent positions in narratology to the analysis of children's and youth literature. Workshop talks with Jutta Richter and Benno Pludra complete the volume. They give an insight into the creative process and show how intensely authors think about the what and how of the literary representation.
