From Tongue to Text : a New Reading of Children's Poetry.

FC -- Half title -- Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature -- Title -- Copyright -- Quote -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Children's poetry: The problem child -- Mind and body -- 1 Tact -- The hidden child -- Not narrative -- In our right minds? -- The infancy of language -- The language of infancy -- The crossing -- The container -- Tactful language -- Tact and tactility -- 2 Tongue -- Ear and voice -- Orality and vocality -- And another thing -- Making lists -- Again and again -- Here and now -- All join in! -- Live and in performance -- 3 Text -- Hand and eye -- From performance to page -- From A to Z -- The poetics of the page -- The distances of text -- The child and the text -- Conclusion -- Orality and textuality -- Criticism and reading children's poetry -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

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