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Children's texts are highly responsive to social change and to global politics, and are implicated in shaping the values of children and young people. New World Orders shows how texts for children and young people have responded to the cultural, economic and political movements of the last fifteen years. With a focus on international children's texts produced between 1988 and 2006, the authors discuss how utopian and dystopian tropes are pressed into service to project possible futures to child readers. The book considers what these texts have to say about globalization, neocolonialism, environmental issues, pressures on families and communities, and the idea of the posthuman. This fascinating volume is the first thorough study of how children's books imagine and propose possible worlds and societies.

Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- ideologie --- politiek --- jeugdliteratuur --- Children --- Children's stories, English --- Utopias in literature. --- Utopias in motion pictures. --- Books and reading --- History and criticism. --- Powieść angielska dla młodzieży --- Dzieci --- Utopie --- historia i krytyka. --- książki i czytanie --- w literaturze. --- Littérature pour la jeunesse

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First critical edition of Burmeister's newly discovered Aulularia Joannes Burmeister of Lüneburg (1576–1638) was among the greatest Neo-Latin poets of the German Baroque. His masterpieces, now mostly lost, are Christian ‘inversions’ of the Classical Roman comedies of Plautus. With only minimal changes in language and none in meter, each transforms Plautus’s pagan plays into comedies based on biblical themes. Fascinating in their own right, they also bring back to attention forgotten genres of Renaissance literature. This volume offers the first critical edition of the newly discovered Aulularia (1629), which exists in a sole copy, and the fragments of Mater-Virgo (1621), which adapts Plautus’s Amphitryo to show the Nativity of Jesus. The introduction offers reconstructions of Susanna (based on Casina) and Asinaria (1625), Burmeister's two lost or unpublished inversions of Plautus. Fontaine also provides the only biography of Burmeister based on archival sources, along with discussions of his inimitable Latinity and the perilous context of war and witch-burning in which Burmeister wrote. Burmeister's inversions bear witness to the special talent of his age for the creative reworking of Classical literature, such as Monteverdi's Poppea or Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, as well as to his tumultuous times, with his views on military abuses in the Thirty Years' War prefiguring those of Grimmelshausen's Simplicius Simplicissimus.

Neo-Latin literature --- Latin drama, Medieval and modern --- History and criticism. --- Burmeister, Joannes, --- Plautus, Titus Maccius, --- adaptacje --- historia i krytyka. --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- Latin drama [Medieval and modern ] --- History and criticism --- Latin drama --- Latin literature --- Medieval and modern --- Plautus, Titus Maccius --- Burmeister, Johann, --- Plauto, Tito Maccio --- Plavt, Tit Makt︠s︡iĭ --- Plautus, M. Accius --- Plautus --- Plaute --- Plautus, M. Attius --- Plautus, Marcus Actius --- Plautus, Marcus Accius --- Plautus, Marcus Attius --- Plauto, Marco Accio --- Plautos, Titos Makkios --- פלאוטוס --- Joannes Burmeister --- Autobiography --- Burmeister, Joannes --- Latin drama, Medieval and modern - History and criticism.

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The modernist period saw a revolution in fictional practice, most famously in the work of novelists such as Joyce and Woolf. Dominic Head shows that the short story, with its particular stress on literary artifice, was a central site for modernist innovation. Working against a conventional approach and towards a more rigourous and sophisticated theory of the genre, using a framework drawn from Althusser and Bakhtin, he examines the short story's range of formal effects, such as the disunifying function of ellipsis and ambiguity. Separate chapters on Joyce, Woolf and Katherine Mansfield highlight their strategies of formal dissonance, involving a conflict of voices within the narrative. Finally, Dominic Head's challenging conclusion takes the implications of his study into the age of postmodernism.

Modernism (Literature) --- -Short stories, English --- -Short story --- English fiction --- -Short stories --- Short story --- Story, Short --- English short stories --- History and criticism --- Nowele angielskie --- historia i krytyka. --- Short stories, English --- Short stories --- Authorship --- Fiction --- English literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- 20th century --- Short stories [English ] --- Great Britain --- English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism. --- Short stories, English - History and criticism. --- Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain. --- Short story. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- SHORT STORIES, ENGLISH --- HISTORY AND CRITICISM --- JOYCE (JAMES), 1882-1941 --- WOOLF (VIRGINIA), 1882-1941 --- LEWIS (WYNDHAM), 1882-1957 --- MANSFIELD (KATHLEEN BEAUCHAMP, DITE KATHERINE), 1888-1923 --- LOWRY (MALCOLM), 1909-1957