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FINAL Current Developments at the Intersection of British Children ONLINE VERSION
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Introduction: Fantasy for British Children today Anyone who has read a challenging work of fantasy before and submerged into its world(s) is bound to retain something of its charm, special qualities and the emotions it evoked. Usually, this kind of literature is first encountered in our early childhood, when we come across fairy tales and other stories involving magic. Not without reason are children known for their curiosity and vivid imagination; and with the help of these books they can playfully test game against reality. At first, anything seems possible to the small child because it has not yet learned to distinguish between fiction and the real world. With increasing experience, however, the child begins to differentiate between things possible and impossible until it fully separates the two worlds. Compared to adults, children are generally said to be more spontaneous as far as their willingness to believe is concerned. This is mainly due to young persons’ relative impartiality and openness towards new things and the much shorter temporal distance to realms of unlimited possibilities. Small wonder that books with fantastic elements belong to the favourite reading matter of children. As these books, discovered and cherished in our childhood, have made deep impressions on us, as adults we assign them a special status often retained for later life. Who cannot name their favourites as a child, and who does not enjoy returning to them? The fluctuation of readerly esteem of fantasy is mirrored in children’s literature, albeit with smaller amplitude. Here too, fantasy undergoes cyclical stages between minimum and maximum public attention and reception, yet it does not slip into a subliminal status. At the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century the genre’s sinusoidal oscillations have reached another climax. Not only does the present boom of fantasy encompass already established classics, but above all an unprecedented number of new, high- quality publications bound to influence coming generations of children and parents. Never before was fantasy for British children more topical or varied than today, with thousands of publications each year contributing to the continuous development of a vast literary and increasingly popular public landscape. This enormous increase of fantasy’s popularity is accompanied by a simultaneous distinct change in the composition of its readership. Download 1.22 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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