The aim of the paper is to analyse the translations of the chosen novels of Terry Deary’s Horrible Histories series into Lithuanian and to find out the main problems in children’s and youth literature translations. The present paper intends to address a pertinent issue related to the process of translation. The issue that dominates the field of translation is the lack of attention towards the analysis and criticism of translation. Little research has been done in order to analyse the translations from the English into Lithuanian language with the pursuit of improving their quality. In addition, even less is known about the analysis of children’s and youth literature translations. The most prominent problems in Terry Deary's "Horrible Histories" translations are the following: Age Level and Appropriate Vocabulary Choice, SL and TL Linguistics and Cultural Context Adaptation, Equivalence and Fluency, Wordplay and Puns, Intertextuality, Text and Image Relationship, and Translatability of Proper Names. These problems mainly originate from the systematic differences of the English and Lithuanian languages, the clash of two diverse cultural realias and especially the usage of the... [to full text] / Darbo tikslas - išanalizuoti pasirinktų Terry Deary knygų vertimus iš anglų kalbos ir išsiaiškinti pagrindines vaikų ir jaunimo literatūros vertimo problemas. Dėmesys skiriamas vertimo proceso problematikai.Viena svarbiausių problemų, dominuojančių vertimo srityje yra tai, kad labai mažai dėmesio skiriama vertimų iš anglų į lietuvių kalbą analizei, kuri padėtų pagerinti vertimų kokybę. Dar mažiau yra žinoma apie vaikų ir jaunimo literatūros vertimų analizę. Svarbiausios problemos, dominuojančios Terry Deary "Kraupiosios istorijos" serijoje, yra šios: Skaitytojų amžius ir tinkamas žodynas, originalo ir vertimų lingvistika bei kultūrinio konteksto pritaikymas, ekvivalentiškumas ir sklandumas, žodžių žaismas, intertekstualumas, teksto ir iliustracijų ryšys, tikrinių vardų vertimas. Šios problemos kyla dėl sistematinių anglų ir lietuvių kalbų skirtumų, skirtingų kultūrinių realijų ir, ypač, dėl šnekamosios kalbos originaluose.

AD/HD is a prevalent medical diagnosis given to 3-7% of children in British Columbia. Since the diagnosis’ inception in 1902, children’s behaviour has been described in similar ways, but labels to define it have continuously changed, reflecting the diagnosis’ mutability and connection to shifting discourses of normativity. An analysis of moments in the text of 13 children’s self-help books illuminates that the process books refer to as correction is actually a disciplinary process exercised in children’s social relations, which guide them to act according to socially constructed notions of normative behaviour. I draw two conclusions from my research: (a) the correction of AD/HD-diagnosed children is a political process supported by a complex network of power relations and (b) diagnosed children’s lives are emmeshed in practices of disciplinary power that establish, and maintain, their state of being normalised.

This thesis provides an examination and analysis of the social contexts of children's response to fiction in order to contribute to a theoretical perspective of literary response as a continuous process. The absence of a consideration of the way that readers are socially constructed renders any conception of literary response incomplete, and a discussion of textual, psychoanalytic and cultural theories of response reveals a gap which Children's Literature must fill. The marginalisation of Children's Literature within literary discourses silences children as readers by denying the recognition of literary engagement inherent in early experiences with fiction. In addition, an investigation of the meta-discourse which surrounds Children's Literature, through criticism, education and provision, demonstrates the way that adult mediations between children and fiction frequently interrupt an innate desire for an authoritative position for the reader within the text, replacing dynamic creative engagement with static modes of reading. In particular, an analysis of the position of children's books, including the processes for editing, selection and marketing, makes it clear, for the first time, that the social contexts of children's fiction, from jacket design to library selection, influence the construction of readers. A new method of empirical research, based on psychoanalysis, phenomenography and Chambers's 'Tell Me' approach to booktalk, provides evidence of the interplay of desire and control in the social construction of readers and reinforces the need for shared discourses. This method is illustrated by the Book Choice Study, consisting of seven individual case studies with children, their parents and teachers, which reveals the importance of an individual's reading history in the promotion of either dynamic or static modes of reading. The study shows that children who engage in a shared discourse about fiction are more likely to participate in a 'literary' engagement than those who experience a divided discourse, confirming the need for a construction of response that includes children and their books.

When European childrens literature is adapted to North American film, parts of the stories are removed and changed in the hopes of producing something that will be considered acceptable in the target culture. Much of what is educational and cultural in the stories to begin with is removed through the process of adaptation leaving the finished product devoid of its originality and cultural authenticity. These oversimplified stories are what children in North America grow up with and believe to be original. This thesis examines the adaptation of the following classic childrens stories to film: Charles Perraults Bluebeard (1697); Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871); and Carlo Collodis Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1883).

This study examines the portrayal of gender in Australian Children’s Book Council award and honour books in the Younger Reader and Older Reader categories over the years 1981-1993. Its purpose is to discover whether the books portray females and males in equally positive ways, which both reflect their changing roles in our society and provide models for gender construction to young readers. This is done by means of a qualitative analysis of the text from selected books, supported by a quantitative analysis in the form of frequency counts of gender representations. Relevant Government policies and feminist ideologies which have influenced them are reviewed, and compared with the study’s findings to ascertain how far the CBC books’ gender portrayals are in line with current education policies and research. The findings suggest a review of CBC judging criteria, and highlight the need for a critical literacy approach in classroom literacy teaching. Recommendations for the broadening of research in literature are made.

The thesis focuses on representations of Indigeneity by non-Indigenous writers and in particular the author's practice in the writing of a children's novel, in which the relationship between non-Indigenous and Indigenous characters is represented as part of a colonial and post-colonial, contemporary world. The exegesis takes an experimental approach to representing theory in a fictocritical, multi-genre form.

Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2007. / Title from screen (viewed on April 22, 2008). Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Johnathan R. Eller, William F. Touponce, Marianne S. Wokeck. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-82).

Thesis (M.A. (Hons)) -- University of Western Sydney, 2002. / "Doctor of Philosophy (Literature), 2002, University of Western Sydney" Bibliography: leaves 339 - 370.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007. / Adviser: Elizabeth Hearne. UMI Cat. no.: 3269982. Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-442)

Thesis (D. Phil.)--University of Oxford, 2008. / Supervisors: Dr Fiona Stafford, Dr Jo McDonagh. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 324-352).