From Tongue to Text: A New Reading of

The connection between childhood and poetry runs deep. And yet, poetry written for children has been neglected by criticism and resists prevailing theories of children's literature. Drawing on Walter Ong's theory of orality and on Iain McGilChrist's work on brain function, this book develops a new theoretical framework for the study of children's poetry. From Tongue to Text argues that the poem is a multimodal form that exists in the borderlands between the world of experience and the world of language and between orality and literacy – places that children themselves inhabit. Engaging with a wide range of poetry from nursery rhymes and Christina Rossetti to Michael Rosen and Carol Ann Duffy, Debbie Pullinger demonstrates how these 'tactful' works are shaped by the dynamics of orality and textuality.

Debbie Pullinger is Research Associate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Introduction
Children's Poetry: the problem child
Mind and Body
Part One: Tact
The Hidden Child
Not Narrative
In our right minds?
The infancy of language
The language of infancy
The crossing
The container
Tactful language
Part Two: 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
Part Three: 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
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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

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