Nina Christensen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nina Christensen is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2212-9006
Titles
Children’s Literature Across Media: Concepts and perspectives of transmedia narratives
Edited by Nina Christensen, Ute Dettmar and Sarah Mygind
This volume presents interdisciplinary research on children’s texts and media, transmedia storytelling and transmediality across production, artefacts, and reception.Based in international, interdisciplinary research, the chapters explore a wide range of transmedia narrative phenomena. They… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 21] 2026. ix, 231 pp. + index
Transnational Books for Children 1750-1900: Producers, consumers, encounters
Edited by Charlotte Appel, Nina Christensen and M.O. Grenby
This is the first study to take a comprehensive look at transnational children’s literature in the period before 1900. The chapters examine what we mean by ‘children’s literature’ in this period, as well as what we mean by ‘transnational’ in the context of children’s culture. They investigate who… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 15] 2023. xv, 388 pp.
2026 Introduction: Transmedia and intermediality studies and texts for and by children and young adults Children’s Literature Across Media: Concepts and perspectives of transmedia narratives, Christensen, Nina, Ute Dettmar and Sarah Mygind (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Chapter
Phenomena and practices of transmedia storytelling have been a central research interest in various disciplines for several years. As Matthew Freeman and Renira Gambarato state in their introduction to the Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies (2019): “The transmedia phenomenon has led to… read more
2023 Introduction Transnational Books for Children 1750-1900: Producers, consumers, encounters, Appel, Charlotte, Nina Christensen and M.O. Grenby (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Chapter
2023 Chapter 8. Playful reading: Transnational interactions between books, toys, and other media in Northern Europe around 1830 Transnational Books for Children 1750-1900: Producers, consumers, encounters, Appel, Charlotte, Nina Christensen and M.O. Grenby (eds.), pp. 176–197 | Chapter
This chapter concerns the transnational character of children’s literary culture across media and genres in Danish and German homes around 1830. Furthermore, it addresses the interaction between reading and playing in and around books. German author Karl Blumauer’s Der kleine Robert und sein… read more
2015 Chapter 7. Rupture. Ideological, aesthetic, and educational transformations in Danish picturebooks around 1933 Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde, Druker, Elina and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (eds.), pp. 171–188 | Article
This chapter discusses the sources of influence on progressive Danish picturebooks from the 1930s and 1940s. The impact of Russian avant-garde books is described, followed by a discussion of the terms ‘Modernism’ and ‘avant-garde’. Four picturebooks are analyzed with a focus on new elements related… read more