The Playful Antiquarian » Articles http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain. -- Louisa May Alcott Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:54:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Children’s Literature in Education 37.2 (June 2006) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2006/07/28/childrens-literature-in-education-372-june-2006/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2006/07/28/childrens-literature-in-education-372-june-2006/#comments Fri, 28 Jul 2006 06:33:58 +0000 vernica http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2006/07/28/childrens-literature-in-education-37 Asian children’s literature seems to be a popular topic in the professional literature this year. The June 2006 issue of Children’s Literature in Education continues this trend:

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2006/07/28/childrens-literature-in-education-372-june-2006/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ The Looking Glass 10.2 (Apr. 2006) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2006/05/15/the-looking-glass-102-apr-2006/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2006/05/15/the-looking-glass-102-apr-2006/#comments Mon, 15 May 2006 12:50:45 +0000 vernica http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2006/05/15/the-looking-glass-102-apr-2006/ The April 2006 issue of The Looking Glass is a special issue on Japanese children’s literature. It contains the following articles:

There is also an article on Philip Pullman: Elaborately Wound: Philip Pullman’s Marlowean Muse / Lisa M. Miller

This issue was the one that I hoped to submit an article to but did not have time to draft something before the submission deadline. The articles that were submitted and selected are much better than anything I could have written, though.

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2006/05/15/the-looking-glass-102-apr-2006/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ The Lion and the Unicorn 30.2 (Apr. 2006) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2006/05/15/the-lion-and-the-unicorn-302-apr-2006/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2006/05/15/the-lion-and-the-unicorn-302-apr-2006/#comments Mon, 15 May 2006 12:50:06 +0000 vernica http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2006/05/15/the-lion-and-the-unicorn-302-apr-200 The April 2006 issue of The Lion and the Unicorn is a special issue on Asian American Children’s Literature edited by Dolores de Manuel and Rocío G. Davis. This issue features the following articles:

This issue also includes book reviews for the following books:

These articles are available online to Project Muse subscribers only. Check your local library for access to print or electronic copies.

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2006/05/15/the-lion-and-the-unicorn-302-apr-2006/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Kerlan Collection Newsletter, Winter 2006 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2006/01/06/kerlan-collection-newsletter-winter-2006/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2006/01/06/kerlan-collection-newsletter-winter-2006/#comments Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 vernica http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2006/01/06/kerlan-collection-newsletter-winter- Speaking of the Children’s Literature Research Collections at the University of Minnesota, the Winter 2006 issue of the Kerlan Collection Newsletter [PDF] is online.

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2006/01/06/kerlan-collection-newsletter-winter-2006/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 30.2 (Fall 2005) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/11/07/bookshelf-childrens-literature-association-quarterly-302-fall-2005/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/11/07/bookshelf-childrens-literature-association-quarterly-302-fall-2005/#comments Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 vernica http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/11/07/bookshelf-childrens-literature-assoc The fall 2005 issue of the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, guest edited by Donnarae MacCann and Katharine Capshaw Smith, focuses on African and Caribbean children’s literature. Contents include:

  • Children’s Literature after Apartheid: Examining ‘Hidden Histories’ of South Africa’s Past / Jochen Petzold
  • Sowing the Seeds of Knowledge in Children’s Literature: Sociocultural Values in J.O. de Graft Hanson’s The Golden Oware Counters / Mahoumbah Klobah
  • From Orature to Literature in Jamaican and Trinidadian Children’s Folk Traditions / Cynthia James
  • The Diasporic Griot: James Berry and His Fiction for the Young / Mawuena Kossi Logan
  • Splintered Families, Enduring Connections: An Interview with Edwidge Danticat / Katharine Capshaw Smith

A Project Muse subscription is required for online full-text access.

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/11/07/bookshelf-childrens-literature-association-quarterly-302-fall-2005/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ The Lion and the Unicorn 29.3 (Sept. 2005) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/10/11/bookshelf-the-lion-and-the-unicorn-293-sept-2005/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/10/11/bookshelf-the-lion-and-the-unicorn-293-sept-2005/#comments Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 vernica http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/10/11/bookshelf-the-lion-and-the-unicorn-2 Here is a peek at the September 2005 issue of The Lion and the Unicorn:

  • Sociological Speculations on the Professions of Children’s Literature / Suman Gupta
  • First Pictures, Early Concepts: Early Concept Books / Bettina K�mmerling-Meibauer & J�rg Meibauer
  • Judging a Book by Its Cover: Publishing Trends in Young Adult Literature / Cat Yampbell
  • Rereading Fifties Teen Romance: Reflections on Janet Lambert / Anne Booth Thompson
  • The Liberty Tree and the Whomping Willow: Political Justice, Magical Science, and Harry Potter / Noel Chevalier
  • Psychic Transformation and the Regeneration of Language in Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn / Sue Matheson

The complete table of contents with abstracts is available at the Project Muse website (linked above), but to read the full articles online, you (or your institution) must have a subscription.

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/10/11/bookshelf-the-lion-and-the-unicorn-293-sept-2005/feed/ 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ The joy of hand-set type http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/02/12/the-joy-of-hand-set-type/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/02/12/the-joy-of-hand-set-type/#comments Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 vernica http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/02/12/the-joy-of-hand-set-type/ The January 2005 issue of The Lion and the Unicorn is a special issue, titled “Handmade Literacies”. I have not read most of the articles in this issue, since I have been busy with required reading for my preservation management and history of the book courses this semester. However, I did read the short essay “Why I Like to Set Type by Hand” by master printer Barbara Henry. Henry’s essay reminded me of all the reasons why I love hand-press period books — the poetic vocabulary of printing, the meditative nature of the process, and the connection to the history of printed word. Unfortunately, the full-text is available online to subscribers only, but you can read an excerpt at the Project MUSE site.

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/02/12/the-joy-of-hand-set-type/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ The Looking Glass, January 2005 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/01/01/the-looking-glass-january-2005/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/01/01/the-looking-glass-january-2005/#comments Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 vernica http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/01/01/the-looking-glass-january-2005/ The latest issue of the children’s literature journal The Looking Glass is available online. This issue includes the following articles, as well as announcements and articles on technology and digitization:

  • Juan Anguera, alias Flanagan: Ironic Hard-boiled Hero / Louise Salstad
  • Transcending the Boundaries in David Wiesner’s The Three Pigs: Taking an askew view of words and images in picturebooks / Brian Hornberg
  • Making Sense of Nonsense: An Examination of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth as Allegories of Children’s Learning / Maryn Brown
  • Charlotte’s “Text”: A Note on the Etymology of Web / J.T. Barbarese
  • Real-izing Fantasy: The Double-Sided Mirror of Magical Realism and “the other side of reality” in Robin McKinley’s Spindle End / Evelyn Perry
]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/01/01/the-looking-glass-january-2005/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Babar and His Critics http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2004/12/24/babar-and-his-critics/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2004/12/24/babar-and-his-critics/#comments Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 vernica http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2004/12/24/babar-and-his-critics/ “Royal Family“, an article by Alison Lurie in the December 16th issue of the New York Review of Books, examines the history of the Babar book series and its critics.

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2004/12/24/babar-and-his-critics/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ JM Barrie, the du Maurier family, and Peter Pan (a continuation on a theme) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2004/01/06/jm-barrie-the-du-maurier-family-and-peter-pan-a-continuation-on-a-t/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2004/01/06/jm-barrie-the-du-maurier-family-and-peter-pan-a-continuation-on-a-t/#comments Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2004/01/06/jm-barrie-the-du-maurier-family-and- Hi, all! I am back. I have been back for a few days now, but with so much to write about, I did not know where to begin.

Continuing the children’s literature theme that I began in December and expanding on the earlier Peter Pan story (and my even earlier Peter Pan nightmare), I decided to to start with this month’s Archives Hub collection of the month: “‘Second star to the right and keep on flying’: a celebration of Peter Pan and the du Maurier family”.

I look forward to my monthly “Collections of the Month” e-mail announcement–in a weird, special collections library assistant way. I wish that U.S. repositories had a similar site . . . preferably with an RSS feed . . . sigh . . . [Update/correction: That last comment was not at all about Archives Hub, which does have an RSS feed; it was a sigh about the fact that U.S. archivists and special collections librarians tend to be technical late adopters. Innovation is a good thing sometimes :-).]

More posts are on the way, including my thoughts on the Harvard Magazine article, possible weblog and reading-themed resolutions, and some highlights from my completely blog-free and relatively book-free time in North Carolina.

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