Bums, Poos and Wees: Carnivalesque Spaces in the Picture Books of Early Childhood. Or, Has Literature Gone to the Dogs?

Autor/in	McKenzie, John
Titel	Bums, Poos and Wees: Carnivalesque Spaces in the Picture Books of Early Childhood. Or, Has Literature Gone to the Dogs?
Quelle	In: English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 4 (2005) 1, S.81-94 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1175-8708
Schlagwörter	Childrens Literature; Picture Books; Humor; Young Children; Human Body; Animals + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Picture book; Bilderbuch; Humoristische Darstellung; Frühe Kindheit; Menschlicher Körper; Animal; Tier; Tiere
Abstract	Adults often express concern about the increasing production of books with scatological humour despite the evidence of the popularity of such literature with children. This article explores a range of recently published picture books where the anthropomorphic dog is subject to children's laughter. Bakhtin's theory of the carnivalesque is identified as a useful construct to use in order to understand the nature of this humour and indeed, the theory can provide a rationale for the possible use of scatology in early childhood settings. The dialogic nature of the picture book (image versus narrative) provides a useful structure to exploit carnivalesque humour. However, the paper recognises that providing a carnivalesque space in the classroom is a problematic business that challenges how adults perceive both the nature of children's literature and the adult as the agent of control within the early childhood centre. (Contains 2 footnotes and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Wilf Malcolm Institute for Educational Research, University of Waikato. PB 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand. Tel: +64-7-858-5171; Fax: +64-7-838-4712; e-mail: wmier@waikato.ac.nz; Web site: http://education.waikato.ac.nz/research/journal/index.php?id=1
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Update	2017/4/10