Consumable Reading and Children's Literature
Food, taste and material interactions
| Koç University, Istanbul
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ISBN 9789027257703 | EUR 99.00
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Consumable Reading and Children's Literature explores how multisensory experiences enhance early childhood literacy practices through material and sensory interactions. Embodied engagements that focus on the gustatory experience and, in particular, the sense of taste are investigated by studying food-related narratives. Children’s literature and different reading scenarios involving consumable objects, packages, tableware and utensils are scrutinized. Surfaces, the underlying mechanisms that support children’s literature, are considered in connection to emerging media and groundbreaking technologies. The interdisciplinary nature of this work draws on material and surface science, human-computer interaction, arts and food studies. As innovation and everyday materials meet, the potential of hybrid narratives mimicking synesthesia emerges with discussions on cross-modal learning. This monograph will inspire the interest of not only students, teachers, scholars of children’s literature and child development but also researchers and practitioners across various artistic and scientific disciplines.
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 12] Expected June 2022. xvii, 255 pp. + index
Publishing status: In production
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | pp. ix–xi
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Table of figures | pp. xiii–xvii
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Introduction. Consumable reading and children’s literature: Food, taste, and material interactions | pp. 1–22
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Chapter 1. The role of materials and materiality in picturebooks | pp. 23–36
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Chapter 2. The potential of surfaces for early literacy | pp. 37–50
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Chapter 3. Food-related reading | pp. 51–74
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Chapter 4. Literacy and synesthesia | pp. 75–86
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Chapter 5. Packaging supporting literacy | pp. 87–112
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Chapter 6. Consumer goods and packages in children’s literature | pp. 113–136
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Chapter 7. Plates and pages: Exploring how tableware can facilitate emergent literacy | pp. 137–164
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Chapter 8. Children’s literature focusing on the plates and eating utensils | pp. 165–178
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Chapter 9. Honing emergent literacy via food: Edible reading | pp. 179–202
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Chapter 10. Reading on fluid surfaces: From soups in narratives to interacting in a fluid narrative space | pp. 203–218
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Conclusion | pp. 219–228
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Bibliography | pp. 229–254
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Index | p. 255
Subjects & Metadata
Literature & Literary Studies
BIC Subject: DSY – Children's literature studies: general
BISAC Subject: LIT009000 – LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2022012545