The sense of "Before-us": Landscape and the Making of Mindscapes in Recent Australian Children's Books

Johnston, RR

The sense of "Before-us": Landscape and the Making of Mindscapes in Recent Australian Children's Books

Johnston, RR

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Publisher:: Canadian Children's Press
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Canadian Children's Literature, 2002, 104 (NA), pp. 22 - 46
Issue Date:: 2002-01

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dc.contributor.author	Johnston, RR https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0520-5377	en_US
dc.date.issued	2002-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Canadian Children's Literature, 2002, 104 (NA), pp. 22 - 46	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0319-0080	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/26143
dc.description.abstract	Referring to four recent Australian children's books, this paper argues that children's literature contributes to a phenomenology of landscape. Using Bakhtinian theory as a starting point and developing an idea of the "visual chronotope" to describe the relationship of people and events to time and space in the pictures of picturebooks, it notes that the construction of time-space in narrative is ideologically encoded. It proposes that there is a characteristic interplay in picturebooks between "present" and what Bakhtin called "great time," and that this interplay emerges out of the relationship between verbal and visual chronotopes. The Australian texts studied here suggest a significant metaphysical relationship with the bush/desert/wild place of Australian landscapes.	en_US
dc.publisher	Canadian Children's Press	en_US
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dc.title	The sense of "Before-us": Landscape and the Making of Mindscapes in Recent Australian Children's Books	en_US
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Abstract:

Referring to four recent Australian children's books, this paper argues that children's literature contributes to a phenomenology of landscape. Using Bakhtinian theory as a starting point and developing an idea of the "visual chronotope" to describe the relationship of people and events to time and space in the pictures of picturebooks, it notes that the construction of time-space in narrative is ideologically encoded. It proposes that there is a characteristic interplay in picturebooks between "present" and what Bakhtin called "great time," and that this interplay emerges out of the relationship between verbal and visual chronotopes. The Australian texts studied here suggest a significant metaphysical relationship with the bush/desert/wild place of Australian landscapes.

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