This volume offers a wide variety of theoretical and critical reflections on the ways that different aspects of time and memory are deployed in literature and media for children and young adults that are related to historically and regionally contingent concepts of childhood: from picturebooks to cross-over and young adult novels, from classic children's literature to adaptations of fairy-tales, and from musical adaptations to films. The interface of the two concepts in question is explored through a range of diverse writers, texts, and cultural traditions across the 19th to 21st centuries.The collection addresses key topics in modern critical theory and children's literature criticism, such as the imaginative reconstruction of the past, the depiction of time and time objects in picturebooks, the notions of traumatic memory and post-memory in literature. It also considers how texts work as sites of memory by referring to and thus revisiting, challenging or reinterpreting older genres.
Tzina Kalogirou is Professor of Modern Greek Literature and Literature Teaching at the Department of Pedagogy and Primary Education in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She has authored works (books, edited books, articles) on studies on literature and children's literature, literature teaching and response, theory of literature, interart poetics, etc. She is co-editor-in-chief of the international Journal of Literary Education and supervisor-in-chief of the New National Curriculum for the Teaching of Literature in the Middle Level in Greece. Her latest academic book as an editor is The Silver School Bag. Creative teaching approaches for the Literary Classroom (2024).Dorota Michuka, is Associate Professor in the Institute of Polish Studies, University of Wrocaw, Poland; literary scholar and historian; Head of Department of Polish Language Education; member of Polish Scientific Academy; member of the International Research Society for Children's Literature; ex-lecturer at the University of Tampere, Finland (2000-2005); and a fellow of universities in the USA, the Netherlands and Germany. She has published 200 articles on children's literature and education and edited 18 books. She is the editor-in-chief of the international journal Filoteknos, which covers Children's Literature, Cultural Mediation, and Anthropology of Childhood.
