Maria Nikolajeva
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Swedish writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Maria Nikolajeva is a Swedish literary critic and academic, specialising in children's literature. Since 2008, she has been Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge. She has also been Director of Cambridge's Centre for Children's Literature since 2010. She previously taught at Stockholm University and Åbo Akademi University.
Maria Nikolajeva's Published Works
Published Works
- How Picturebooks Work (2000) (406)
- The Dynamics of Picturebook Communication (2000) (192)
- Children's Literature Comes of Age: Toward a New Aesthetic (1996) (149)
- Power, Voice and Subjectivity in Literature for Young Readers (2009) (114)
- Reading for Learning: Cognitive approaches to children's literature (2014) (100)
- The rhetoric of character in children's literature (2002) (89)
- Aesthetic Approaches to Children's Literature: An Introduction (2005) (87)
- Fairy Tale and Fantasy: From Archaic to Postmodern (2003) (69)
- Reading Other People’s Minds Through Word and Image (2012) (67)
- Picturebooks and Emotional Literacy (2013) (60)
- From Mythic to Linear: Time in Children's Literature (1991) (54)
- The Magic Code: The Use of Magical Patterns in Fantasy for Children (1988) (54)
- Re-conceptualising picturebook theory in the digital age (2015) (47)
- Exit Children's Literature? (1998) (44)
- Recent Trends in Children's Literature Research: Return to the Body (2016) (32)
- Verbal and Visual Literacy: The Role of Picturebooks in the Reading Experience of Young Children (2003) (32)
- Aspects and issues in the history of children's literature (1995) (29)
- Literacy, competence and meaning‐making: a human sciences approach (2010) (28)
- Play and Playfulness in Postmodern Picturebooks (2010) (25)
- Interpretative Codes and Implied Readers of Children’s Picturebooks (2010) (25)
- Guilt, Empathy and the Ethical Potential of Children's Literature (2012) (23)
- Beyond the Grammar of Story, or How Can Children's Literature Criticism Benefit from Narrative Theory? (2009) (23)
- Theory, post-theory, and aetonormative theory (2009) (23)
- Place-related identity, texts, and transcultural meanings (2012) (22)
- Place-Related Identities Through Texts: From Interdisciplinary Theory to Research Agenda (2011) (22)
- Devils, Demons, Familiars, Friends: Toward a Semiotics of Literary Cats (2009) (21)
- My Place: Exploring children's place-related identities through reading and writing (2014) (17)
- Memory of the Present: Empathy and Identity in Young Adult Fiction (2019) (16)
- Fairy Tales in Society's Service (2002) (15)
- Translating children’s literature (2016) (15)
- Contemporary Adolescent Literature and Culture: The Emergent Adult (2012) (14)
- 5. The verbal and the visual: The picturebook as a medium (2002) (13)
- Three Walks Through Fictional Fens: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Gaffer Samson’s Luck (2010) (12)
- Imprints of the Mind: The Depiction of Consciousness in Children's Fiction (2009) (12)
- The development of children's fantasy (2012) (11)
- Harry Potter and the Secrets of Children’s Literature (2008) (11)
- The Changing Aesthetics of Character in Children's Fiction (2001) (11)
- “Must We to Bed Indeed?” Beds as Cultural Signifiers in Picturebooks for Children (2011) (10)
- Russian Children's Literature Before and After Perestroika (2009) (10)
- Reading Other People’s Minds Through Word and Image (2012) (10)
- Translation and Crosscultural Reception (2010) (10)
- “Did you Feel as if you Hated People?”: Emotional Literacy Through Fiction (2013) (10)
- Word and Picture (2006) (10)
- Beyond Babar : the European tradition in children's literature (2006) (9)
- What is it Like to be a Child? Childness in the Age of Neuroscience (2019) (9)
- Comparative Children’s Literature: What is There to Compare? (2008) (9)
- Emotions in picturebooks (2017) (8)
- What Do We Translate When We Translate Children's Literature (2006) (8)
- “The Penguin Looked Sad”: Picturebooks, Empathy and Theory of Mind (2014) (7)
- "A Dream of Complete Idleness": Depiction of Labor in Children's Fiction (2002) (6)
- Tamed Imagination: A Re-reading of Heidi (2009) (5)
- 33. Emotion ekphrasis: representation of emotions in children’s picturebooks (2014) (5)
- Emotions and Ethics : Implications for Children’s Literature (2017) (4)
- The Insignificance of Time: Red Shift (2009) (3)
- 6. Growing up: The dilemma of children’s literature (2002) (3)
- Voicing Identity: the Dilemma of Narrative Perspective in Twenty-first Century Young Adult Fiction (2014) (3)
- adult Heroism and role Models in the Harry Potter novels (2016) (3)
- A Misunderstood Tragedy : Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking (2006) (3)
- Introduction: Time of Turmoil (2016) (2)
- 5. The verbal and the visual (2002) (2)
- HOW FANTASY IS MADE: PATTERNS AND STRUCTURES IN "THE NEVERENDING STORY" BY MICHAEL ENDE (2016) (2)
- Children's Literature (2012) (2)
- CHILDREN’S LITERATURE COMING OF AGE? BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION (2015) (1)
- Aesthetic Approach to Children's Literature (2005) (1)
- What is it Like to be a Child? Childness in the Age of Neuroscience (2019) (1)
- AFTERWORD:: THE CASE OF THE EVIL (STEP) MOTHER, OR THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF INTERGENERATIONAL SOLIDARITY (2021) (1)
- The Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature (2017) (1)
- The Child As Self-Deceiver: Narrative Strategies in Katherine Paterson's and Patricia MacLachlan's Novels (1997) (1)
- Othering Gender: New Masculinities, New Femininities (2009) (1)
- Astrid Lindgren: Famous and unknown (2007) (1)
- Stages of Transformation: Folklore Elements in Children's Novels (1994) (1)
- When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean : Power and (mis)communication in literature for young readers (2009) (1)
- Time and Totalitarianism (2009) (1)
- Two National Heroes: Jacob Two-Two and Pippi Longstocking (2007) (1)
- Mimesis and Modality (2013) (1)
- Narrative theory and children’s literature (2018) (1)
- Chapter 8. The ethics of address and the ethics of response (2014) (0)
- Time and Movement (2013) (0)
- Similar but separate: national features in Scandinavian children's literature (1999) (0)
- The Changing Aesthetics of Character in Children’s Literature (2006) (0)
- Chapter 5. Knowledge of self (2014) (0)
- "I Spy Rumpelstiltskin": Playing Games with the Reader in The Witch's Boy (2011) (0)
- Winner of the author award: Ana María Machado: The power of language (2000) (0)
- What can we learn from narratology (2001) (0)
- Stages of hansformation: folklore elements in chilhen's novels (2007) (0)
- Haven’t you ever felt like there has to be more? Identity, space and embodied cognition in young adult fiction (2017) (0)
- Entranced by Story: Brain, Tale and Teller from Infancy to Old Age by Hugh Crago, and: Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction: A Cognitive Reading by Marek C. Oziewicz (review) (2016) (0)
- Life was simpler long ago, or Books for proud Canadians of all ages (2007) (0)
- Children’s Literature: Subject, Voice and Power : The Grimm Award Acceptance Speech (2006) (0)
- Introduction to Special Issue on Tove Jansson (2014) (0)
- Reading fiction is Good for Children’s Cognitive, Emotional, and Social Development1 (2019) (0)
- Othering the Future: Stereotypes of Dystopia (2009) (0)
- METAFICTION IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE (2015) (0)
- The child in early Russian fantasy / L’enfant dans la littérature “fantastique” russe du début du ΧΙΧè siècle. (1985) (0)
- ALMA: A Swedish Award to World Children's Literature (2009) (0)
- WORLD LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN (2015) (0)
- Russian Children's Literature and Culture (review) (2009) (0)
- She is the author of Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature (UP of Mississippi, 2013) and the co-editor, with Miranda Green-Barteet and Amy L. Montz, of Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction (2016) (0)
- What is theory, and why and how we could, or should, use it (2006) (0)
- Edith Nesbit - The Maker of Modem Fairy Tales (2016) (0)
- INTERTEXTUALITY IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE (2015) (0)
- FROM EPIC TO POLYPHONY (2015) (0)
- Othering the Visual: Power Structures in Picturebooks (2009) (0)
- 10 TH International Brothers Grimm Award to Be Presented to Professor MARIA NIKOLAJEVA (2006) (0)
- CHRONOTOPE IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE (2015) (0)
- On the edge of childhood (1997) (0)
- The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2005. : More to Philip Pullman than ”His Dark Materials” (2005) (0)
- Girls Take Over in Swedish Young Adult Fiction (2006) (0)
- A Typological Approach to the Study of The Root Cellar (2008) (0)
- ‘By the Will of the Pike’: The transformation of a Russian national character (2017) (0)
- Othering the Voice: Crossvocalization and Performance (2009) (0)
- HOW FANTASY IS MADE (2016) (0)
- Chapter 10. Connecting worlds: Mapping space-time in three fictional islands (2017) (0)
- Othering the Genre: Fantasy and Realism (2009) (0)
- Chapter 4. Creative mind-reading (2014) (0)
- THE HISTORY OF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE FROM A SEMIOTIC PERSPECTIVE (2015) (0)
- What is cognitive criticism and what's in it for children's literature research? (2014) (0)
- Chapter 6. Memory of the present (2014) (0)
- torrent Description of the book Reading for Learning : Cognitive approaches to children ' s literature (2019) (0)
- 6. Growing up (2002) (0)
- . Toward a Theory of Literary Characters in Children’s Fiction (2005) (0)
- Toward a genuine narrative voice (2004) (0)
- Chapter 3. Knowledge of other people (2014) (0)
- New Masculinities, New Femininities : Swedish Young Adult Fiction towards the Twenty-first Century (2006) (0)
- The Astrid Lindgren memorial award 2005 (2005) (0)
- Introduction: Why Does Pippi Sleep with Her Feet on the Pillow? (2009) (0)
- Word and Image (2006) (0)
- How to read a children's book and why (2014) (0)
- Exploring empathy and ethics in tales about three brothers (2014) (0)
- Chapter 2. Three possible worlds (2014) (0)
- Visible, audible and sentient (2017) (0)
- Chapter 1. Knowledge of the world (2014) (0)
- Chapter 7. Ethical knowledge (2014) (0)
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