'Children's Literature: 1500-2000'

St. Patrick's College , Drumcondra (DCU)

May 2003

 

Papers Presented:

 

Ann Alston

‘Colonialisation of food: Apple Pie or Turkish Delight?'

 

Sandra L Beckett

‘“Artists” Books for a Cross Audience'

 

Anne-Marie Bird

‘Inhabiting the Liminal Space: Adolescence and the Postmodern Condition in some Chambers and Burgess novels'

 

Margaret Burke

‘National Identity in Patricia Lynch's Writing'

 

Sebastien Chapleau

‘A Theory without a Centre: Developing Childist Criticism'

 

Anne De Vries

‘Just a Mother Singing to her Child?'

 

Robert Dunbar

‘Rebuilding Castle Blair: a reading of Shaw's 1878 children's novel'

 

Carole Dunbar

‘The Wild Irish Girl in selected novels of De Horne Vaizey and Meade'

 

Mary Flynn

‘The Talbot Press and its contribution to Children's Literature'

 

Declan Kiberd

‘School Stories'

 

Howard Hollands & Victoria de Rijke

‘Motifs and Motives in Velthuijs's Picturebooks'

 

Lindsay Myers

‘Influence of post-war Italian socio-politics on the structure of Italian children's fantasy 1945-1955'

 

Ciara Ni Bhroin

‘Forging a National Identity; Heroism in the Adventure Stories of Eilis Dillon: A Postcolonial Perspective'

 

Aine Nic Gabhann

‘The Voyeur'

 

Jane O'Hanlon

‘Fantasy as a Gendered Genre: The Hero in the 21st Century'

 

Emer O'Sullivan

‘Distin(c)t Voices: The language of Irish children's literature in translation'

 

Amanda Piesse

‘What did Renaissance children read?'

 

Kimberley Reynolds

‘Alchemy and Alco Pops: Adolescent Agency in Young Adult Fiction'

 

David Rudd

‘The Golliwogg: Genealogy of a non-PC icon'

 

Debbie Thacker

‘Robert Frost and Edward Thomas: Poets' Stories'

 

Padraic Whyte

‘Wars of Independence : The construction of Irish histories in the work of Gerard Whelan and Siobhan Parkinson'