Unit:
Department of Early Childhood EducationLibrary of the School of Education
Author:
Paschalidou Eleni
Dissertation committee:
Αγγελική Γιαννικοπούλου, Καθηγήτρια Τ.Ε.Α.Π.Η, Ε.Κ.Π.Α. (επιβλέπουσα)
Μελπομένη Κανατσούλη, Καθηγήτρια Τ.Ε.Π.Α.Ε., Α.Π.Θ.
Αναστασία Οικονομίδου, Αν. Καθηγήτρια Π.Τ.Δ.Ε., Δ.Π.Θ.
Δημήτρης Πολίτης, Αν. Καθηγητής ΤΕΕΑΠΗ, Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών.
Γεωργία Καλογήρου, Καθηγήτρια Π.Τ.Δ.Ε, Ε.Κ.Π.Α.
Τριαντάφυλλος Κωτόπουλος, Καθηγητής Π.Τ.Ν, Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Μακεδονίας.
Τασούλα Τσιλιμένη, Καθηγήτρια Π.Τ.Π.Ε, Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας.
Original Title:
Η μεταμυθοπλασία στο εικονογραφημένο βιβλίο χωρίς λόγια (wordless picturebook) και η πρόσληψή της από παιδιά προσχολικής ηλικίας
Translated title:
Metafiction in wordless picturebooks and its perception by preschool children
Summary:
In the last decades we often find in picturebooks metafictional devices, in both written and visual texts, that create ambiguity and indeterminacy and make them even more complex and sophisticated. These self-referential and self-conscious texts require the active participation of the reader, who is called upon to decode them and solve the problems created by the metafictional narrative. Wordless picturebooks are visual narratives in which their images bear the weight of the narrative. Some of the most demanding wordless books use metafictional devices in a playful way, to undermine the relationship between narrative and reality and to present the book as a construction. In the present dissertation we study how children aged 4-6 years understand and respond to metafiction in wordless picturebooks, especially to the devices of metalepsis, the disruptions in time and space, mise en abyme, intervisuality/intertextuality and the design experimentations. We conclude that preschool children are able to deal with the ambiguity and indeterminacy of metafictional devices in wordless picturebooks and they are able to construct the meanings and messages of these sophisticated narratives. The playful nature of metafictional texts makes them particularly attractive to preschoolers who show interest, actively participate and enjoy the constant violations of literary conventions and norms of reality.
Main subject category:
Language – Literature
Keywords:
metafiction, wordless picturebooks
Number of references:
650
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