Reading For Learning: Cognitive Approaches To Children's Literature (children's Literature, Culture, And Cognition)
by Maria Nikolajeva /
2014 / English / PDF
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How does reading fiction affect young people? How can they transfer
fictional experience into real life? Why do they care about
fictional characters? How does fiction enhance young people's sense
of self-hood? Supported by cognitive psychology and brain research,
this ground-breaking book is the first study of young readers'
cognitive and emotional engagement with fiction. It explores how
fiction stimulates perception, attention, imagination and other
cognitive activity, and opens radically new ways of thinking about
literature for young readers. Examining a wide range of texts for a
young audience, from picturebooks to young adult novels, the
combination of cognitive criticism and children’s literature theory
also offers significant insights for literary studies beyond the
scope of children’s fiction. An important milestone in cognitive
criticism, the book provides convincing evidence that reading
fiction is indispensable for young people’s intellectual, emotional
and social maturation.
How does reading fiction affect young people? How can they transfer
fictional experience into real life? Why do they care about
fictional characters? How does fiction enhance young people's sense
of self-hood? Supported by cognitive psychology and brain research,
this ground-breaking book is the first study of young readers'
cognitive and emotional engagement with fiction. It explores how
fiction stimulates perception, attention, imagination and other
cognitive activity, and opens radically new ways of thinking about
literature for young readers. Examining a wide range of texts for a
young audience, from picturebooks to young adult novels, the
combination of cognitive criticism and children’s literature theory
also offers significant insights for literary studies beyond the
scope of children’s fiction. An important milestone in cognitive
criticism, the book provides convincing evidence that reading
fiction is indispensable for young people’s intellectual, emotional
and social maturation.
