Children's Writer Research Articles

CHARACTONYMS IN MODERN ENGLISH CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Statement of the problem. The objectives of this study include determining the role of the use of charactonymsin multi-genre texts for children written by English classical and modern authors. The first task was to identify the charactonyms in the works of fiction of three English children's writers. The second task is the etymological and lexico-semantic analysis of the charactonyms in the children's works of art under study in order to obtain information about whether the character is positive or negative. The third task of the study was to identify the functions of charactonyms in the works analyzed. Results. The article presents the charactonyms of the characters selected by a continuous sampling method from the works written by English children's writers of different time periods. Further, the etymological analysis of the charactonyms and their decoding in the analyzed works written by R. Dahl, J. K. Rowling and F. Simon and the role of the charactonyms in those works are defined. Conclusion. The study revealed 11 functions of charactonyms in the analyzed works of fiction for children of three British authors. Identifying, comic, style-forming, allusive, genre-forming, onomatopoeic functions were identified, as well as functions characterizing appearance, occupations or professions, behavior, speech and describing character.

Paruyr Sevak to the children

As a result of studying the theme “Paruyr Sevak to the children”, we have come to a number of conclusions: Naturally, Paruyr Sevak cannot be considered a children's writer in the dictionary meaning of the word, but we can't help but record that he gave a new path of progress to pediatrics with his collection of children's poems "Your Acquaintances" . The collection taught children's writers of his generation and those who appeared in subsequent decades masterful lessons in presenting the themes and motifs of folklore to child readers in a new way. With his children's poems Paruyr Sevak shows that one should be guided by taking into consideration the features of the readers' age and psychological development and not to burden children's poems with inappropriately used comparisons, metaphors, and adverbs. In this sense, it can be concluded that the poet offered the children's poets not only a content, but also a form-structural, and a linguistic guide to the children's poem, which was very useful for the children's poets. With the poems of his collection of "Your Acquaintances" P. Sevak teaches child readers important lessons they will need for whole their life. He does not give advice to the readers, but criticizes the flawed traits and characteristics of human character in simple and accessible artistic ways, leaving the conclusions to the readers. The "heroes" of his children's poems are representatives of the animal world, whom the poet humanizes in a unique way, endows them with flawed and appreciable qualities and traits that are characteristic of a human character. P. Sevak's children's poems stand out for their high performance skills, uncomplicated narrative style, appropriate use of comparisons, metaphors, adverbs, and musicality. The poet does not give advice and admonitions to child readers, but talks with them about representatives of the animal world giving appropariate answers to their interesting "why"-s and "how"-s.

LINGUAL STYLISTIC FEATURES OF F. BERNETT’S NOVELS AS A REFLECTION OF THE WRITER’S IDIOSTYLE.

The article is focused on the study of linguo-stylistic features of the Anglo-American writer Frances Burnett idiostyle based on the novels "A little Princess" and "The Secret Garden". In the course of the study, it was defined that flourishing of children's literature in the XIXth - 1st part of the XXth century was due to a number of cultural factors that contributed to the emergence of a large number of authors whose work from the point of view of ideological, thematic and linguistic aspects was focused on children. No less important in this process was the establishment of traditions of home reading and the desire of adults to form aesthetic tastes in their children. Being both a representative of the neo-romantic trend and a children's writer, Frances Burnett rethinks traditional, even fairy-tale plots and builds a world whose image has a symbolic meaning (e.g. a garden for Mary, a boarding house for Sarah). A characteristic feature of F. Burnett's novels is the depiction of the world of childhood, realized through portrait characteristics that convey the characters' external and internal world, descriptions of landscapes and interiors that reproduce various emotional states. It was found out that to realize her own ideas, the writer uses epithets, in particular, to emphasize the specific features of the characters and to raise the emotional tension. The use of metaphors makes it possible to decorate the text with vivid pictures of nature and make images poetic, while thanks to comparisons and repetitions, the author reveals psychological states and focuses on strong emotions. The paper draws the conclusion that specific linguo-stylistic means belong to specific features of Frances Burnett's idiostyle, which make her work stand out among a large number of other authors and make it popular in the genre of children's literature. Keywords: children’s literature; idiostyle; individual style; linguostilistic means; epithet; simile; psychological portrait.

Between the Universal and the Local: Representations of Current Events in Lea Goldberg's Writings for Children during the British Mandate

Lea Goldberg played a pivotal role in the children literature arena during the Yishuv period. Beginning in 1936, only a year after her immigration to Mandatory Palestine, Goldberg served as associate-editor for Davar Leyeladim, the leading Hebrew children’s weekly, published by the official newspaper of the Histadrut (the General Federation of Labor). Additionally, over 500 hundred of her works for children, including poems, stories, translations, essays, literary criticism for young readers, and even comic strips were published in the magazine. It was a tumultuous era. The Arab Revolt (1936–1939), the outbreak of WWII and the publication of the MacDonald White Paper of 1939 all exerted a direct impact on the Jewish communities in Palestine and abroad. These political and national crises of the day also greatly affected the educational and literary fields. Though most pieces in Davar Leyeladim touched on current events, Goldberg declared her unflagging commitment to aesthetic and humanistic universal values even in those anguished times. The poets’ role, she claimed, is to remind their readers what is important and beautiful in the world. Her writings for children epitomized this approach at first, but gradually changed as the war in Europe intensified. The article explores Goldberg’s unique treatment of current events in her writings for children, and her efforts to reconcile Labor Zionist ideals and aspirations with her own aesthetic convictions. The conflicts and contradictions between local and universal ideals engendered some of her most fascinating works for children that have not as yet assumed center stage in scholarly research.

A taste for all things Byzantine: Byzantium in the collections of Antonis Benakis

‘His pockets were always full of treasures. What marvellous things you could find in them! Nails, marbles, pebbles, sponges, twine, maybe a chewed piece of gum, and always that crystal triangle piece from the church chandelier that would shine brilliantly when held up to the sun.’ With these words, Penelope Delta, the famous children's writer and sister of Antonis Benakis, painted a portrait of her brother as a child in her much-loved book Trelantonis (Crazy Antonis). In this book, dedicated to the childhood adventures of the Benaki family siblings, and set in the cosmopolitan yet conservative colonial environment of the upper middle-class Greeks of late nineteenth-century Alexandria, Antonis was always the protagonist. (Fig. 1)

A Review on Antecedents and Consequences of Leisure Reading and Writing in Children

It is desirable that children engage in reading and writing beyond school. What is known about various individual and environmental variables that may be related to children’s leisure reading and writing? And how strong is existing evidence? Our scoping review aims at mapping research on leisure reading and writing in first- to fourth-graders. Using content analysis, we extracted 135 research findings, among them only 6 on leisure writing. In most findings, leisure reading and writing were considered as consequences of variables like reading competence, motivation, and attitudes. Considerably fewer findings included leisure reading and writing as antecedents. We discuss the need for more longitudinal and experimental studies and a stronger focus on the connection between leisure reading and writing.

小学生の発達性読み書き障害児と通常学級在籍児のカタカナ非語書取の分析

小学生の発達性読み書き障害児と通常学級在籍児のカタカナ非語書取の分析

АЛЕКСАНДРА БОСТРОМ – ДЕТСКИЙ ПИСАТЕЛЬ

Тhe article attempts to indicate the place and significance of A.L. Bostrom as a children's writer of the late XIXth – early XXth centuries, and for the first time outlined ways to analyze the writer's works intended for children's reading, which inscribe a significant page in the history of children's literature in the region. Here we consider the poetics of her two books, which can be described as a book for girls "Two little Worlds", where the formation of the psychology and character of a little girl takes place under the influence of a change in the socio-cultural context; and a book for boys “How Yura gets to know the life of animals”, where the main element is the popularization and practical application of scientific knowledge about nature. In the process of studying regional literature, the need to popularize forgotten names became obvious, which includes the name of the writer A.L. Bostrom. Her work at one time met the needs for high-quality prose for children, and, most importantly, it was an example of a special, female "useful" writing for children. The manner of narration, the image of a woman as the first mentor of a small child, to some extent, should have served as a model for the behavior of enlightened parents.

Русинская тематика в работах Е.Н. Водовозовой

Elizaveta Nikolaevna Vodovozova (nee Tsevlovskaya, second marriage surname - Semevskaya; born August 5(17), 1844; died March 23, 1923), a graduate of Smolny Institute, was a Russian children's writer, memoirist, and a most prominent researcher and educator of her time. In the late 1860s, together with her husband Vasily Vodovozov, she went to Europe to learn the methods of family education and raising children in public institutions. Her journalistic debut “What Stops a Woman from Becoming Independent?” was a response to Nikolay Chernyshevsky's novel What Is To Be Done? The essay was published under a pseudonym in the magazine Biblioteka Dlya Chteniya in September 1863. Vodovozova authored the most popular pre-revolutionary book for parents Mental and Moral Education of Children from the First Manifestation of Consciousness to School Age (St. Petersburg, 1871), which was re-issued seven times in pre-1917 Russia (7th ed. St. Petersburg, 1913). In this book, Vodovozova proposed to base preschool education on folk songs, games, and fairy tales. She supplemented her educational program with the manual Russian Folk Songs for One Voice and Active Games for Children (St. Petersburg, 1871). In the 1870s, Vodovozova actively published in the pedagogical journals Detskoe Chtenie, Narodnaya Shkola, and Golos Uchitelya. In 1880, she published a collection of children's stories For Leisure. In her memoirs, Vodovozova described the life and works of Konstantin Ushinsky, Vasily Vodovozov, Vasily Semevsky and other educators. Her autobiographical novel At the Dawn of Life (St. Petersburg, 1911), like other memoirs, had several reissues. Later, the novel was adopted for children and published as The Story of a Childhood to be actively published in pre-revolutionary and Soviet Russia. According to Vodovozova, her magnum opus aimed at dissiminating ethnographic knowledge among young people was the three-volume The Life of the Peoples of Europe. Narratives in Geography (St. Petersburg, 1875-1883). Having revised and abridged this work, she published it as a ten-volume low-price series How People of Different Nations Live (St. Petersburg, 1894-1901), illustrated by Viktor Vasnetsov and other famous artists. In the third volume “The Life of European Nations”, she told about the history of the Rusins of Galician Rus, the national revival, the current situation, the folk and literary language, religion, traditional material and spiritual culture. The ninth volume “How people live in the world” also describes the Galician Rusins, their history, religion, education, organizations, and folk culture. The writer tried to understand the reasons for the difficult material situation of the Rusin peasants.

Коллекция детских писем 1899-1936 гг. в архиве А. М. Горького Института мировой литературы им. А. М. Горького Российской академии наук

The article is devoted to the review of one of the sections of the A. M. Gorky Archive of the A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (AG IMLI RAN). The section contains a large collection of children's letters addressed to the “great proletarian writer.” The archive stores letters from children dating from 1899 to 1936. There are about 3000 children’s letters in the collection. Systematic and information methods have been used to study the collection; based on the principle of comprehensive study of documents, they have permitted to consider documents as elements of one system and to study the content. Source analysis has made it possible to study the internal and external features of documents and also helped to develop the basis for their classification and systematization within the archival collection. Typological and historical-functional research methods have made it possible to classify letters and consider them in the changing socio-cultural contexts. The collection of children's letters at the AG IMLI RAN is diverse and extensive. Most of it has not been subjected to detailed scientific analysis. The relevance of the research topic is due to the need for detailed consideration and comprehensive understanding of the materials of the collection. Scientific and practical significance of the research lies in the possibility of using its results in a variety of scientific aspects: historical, biographical, source studies, textual, literary, cultural, etc. The reason for the study is insufficient knowledge of the collection of children's letters stored in the archive, which are of scientific interest. The purpose of the study is to describe and to study the collection of children's letters to M. Gorky, to introduce interesting material into scientific use and to provide its preliminary analysis. When using typological analysis, three groups of letters have been identified: individual, collective, and those from adults. The same method has made it possible to divide letters by social, age, geographical principle. The genre-thematic analysis has helped to divide the letters into subgroups united by common formal, substantive, and functional features: letters of request, letters of thanks, letters containing reviews, letters containing feedback on Gorky's artistic and journalistic works, letters with reports, letters of greeting, letters of invitation, letters of complaint. The archive also contains drawings, illustrations, postcards, photographs of children, and children's writings (poems, fairy tales, short stories, plays). Content analysis of the materials allows us to conclude that children's letters contribute to the study of social history, literary process, and epistolary heritage of the first half of the 20th century; they are able to provide new information for those who study the history of pedagogy, textual criticism, literary criticism. Systematic analysis of the collection allows us to consider children's letters in the historical and literary context of the era. Drawing on the analysis of archival documents, the conclusion is made that Gorky initiated the correspondence and stimulated children's writing. The letters demonstrate that the writer was perceived by his young contemporaries as assistant and defender, his works and public activities were of great educational value. Some letters in the collection contain Gorky’s notes, showing his attitude to the text. Children's letters supplement the knowledge of the personality of M. Gorky and his addressees. An important result of the comprehensive study of the archival material is discovery of information opportunities and source studies potential of the collection of children's letters in the AG IMLI RAN.

Особливості поетики творів для дітей Ніни Шмурікової

The article has been analyzed the creative heritage of Podilia writer for chil-dren of diff erent ages. Particular attention has been paid to artistic text arrange-ment. There have been considered the texts of diff erent genres and subject mat-ters, artistic means, and approaches with the characters characterized.Children’s literature at the present stage has reached a high level of devel-opment. A lot of writers from the Khmelnytskyi region wrote for children and about children: Mykola Balema, Vasyl Horbatyuk, Mykola Magera, Oksana Radushynska, Hryhoriy Hrapach, Nina Shmurikova, etc. The works have been included in reading books, literature collections, and school textbooks. Nina Shmurikova worked productively in children’s literature, who has writ-ten more than 20 books for children.She wrote for children of preschool and primary school age in the genre of poetry and fairy tales about animals, love for them, good attitude. The young-est readers can «get acquainted» with the variety of colors that surround man in nature. N. Shmurikova also writes about plants: in the collection «Colorful Wonderland» the poet introduces the reader to a fl ower in her poems, sometimes little known («Rudbeckia», «Chornushka», «Lyutin», etc.). In his works, the poet mentions the seasons and natural phenomena. Although the author writes for a certain age group, she raises the theme of patriotism, love for Ukraine, native land, using Ukrainian national and national symbols. Poems about school and school life occupy an equally important place in the poet’s work.N. Shmurikova is one of the best representatives of children’s literature in the Khmelnytskyi region. Her work is highly valued not only by readers but also by society and the state.

TAKING CARE OF LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN

Review of the monograph by Zaitsev T. I., Razin Yu. N. The artistic world of poetry and prose by the Udmurt children's writer G. A. Khodyrev: Monograph. Izhevsk: Publishing Center “Udmurt University”, 2019. 218 p.

سیکولوجـیة الشخصــیة فــی المونــودراما المسرحـــیة للأطفــــال (نصوص الکاتب علی خلیفة أنموذجًا)

الملخص : هذه الدراسة في سيکولوجية الشخصية في المونودراما المسرحية للأطفال، وقامت على انتقاء نماذج من مسرحيات کاتب الأطفال (علي خليفة)، وقد توجه بها إلى الأطفال. وتناولت هذه الدراسة نماذج منتقاة من مسرحياته، وهذه المسرحيات هي على النحو الآتي: متحف السندباد – سندريلا حائرا– العفريت الظريف – الأراجوز وحيدا– بلياتشو ع المعاش وجاءت أهداف الدراسة موضحة مدى أهمية مسرح المونودراما کنمط مسرحي حديث، وقد أجابت عن سؤال: هل مسرح المونودراما متناغم مع روح العصر؟ .وقد قامت الباحثة بتوضيح بعض ما يقدمه مسرح المونودراما من أهداف وقيم تربوية. وقد توصلت الدراسة إلى أن مسرح المونودراما متوافق ومتناغم مع روح العصر، وأنه من الممکن أن نطبق منهج التحليل النفسي للأدب على المسرحيات المونودرامية، وفى النهاية توصلت الباحثة إلى أن مسرحيات (علي خليفة) [النصوص المنتقاة] ينطبق عليها قواعد المسرح المونودرامي من الناحية الفنية، وأن نصوصه ترکز على الشخصية أکثر من الترکيز على الحدث، وأن شخوصه وأبطاله يتسمون بقدر کبير من الإيجابية، وتحمل المسؤولية . الکلمات المفتاحية : السيکولوجية- الشخصية المسرحية – المونودراما – الأفکار العقلانية – النرجسية – التحليل النفسى – الکاتب على خليفة . Abstract This study is in the psychology of personality in children's theatrical monodrama and has based on the selection of models from the plays of the children's writer (Ali Khalifa). It has been directed to children. This study has dealt with selected models of his plays, and these plays are as following: The Sinbad Museum - Cinderella Confused - The Wry Sprite - The Argus Wahid – Bliachu (Joker) on the Annuity, using the psychoanalytical approach of literature on monodrama theater figures (Ali Khalifa's texts as a model) to achieve the study objectives that lie in clarifying the importance of the monodrama theater as a modern theatrical style, and also clarifying some of goals and educational values ​​that the monodrama presents. Finally the research has reached results and recommendations written down in the conclusion, including that: the plays of Ali Khalifa (the chosen texts) apply the rules of the monodrama theater technically, and his texts focus on personality rather than the event. Also his characters and heroes are very positive, and take responsibility Keywords: psychological – Monodrama –Theatrical Personality – Rational thoughts – Narcissism – Psycho analysis – Writer Ali Khalifa.

Book Review of 'The Voice of Nature in Ted Hughes's Writing for Children: Correcting Culture's Error'

Book review of The Voice of Nature in Ted Hughes's Writing for Children: Correcting Culture's Error.

Classism Hate Speech in Katherine Mansfield's Short Story ‘The Doll’s House’: A Pragmatic Study

Hate speech (henceforth HS) has recently spread and become an important issue. This type of speech in children's writings has a particular formulation and specific objectives that the authors intend to convey. Thus, the study aims at examining qualitatively and quantitatively the classism HS and its pragmatic functions via identifying the speech acts used to express classism HS, the implicature instigated as well as impoliteness. Since pragmatics is the study of language in context, which is greatly related to the situations and speaker’s intention, this study depends on pragmatic theoriespeech acts, impoliteness and conversational implicature) to analyze the data which are taken from Katherine Mansfield's short story (The Doll’s House). The data has been analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. It is qualitative, as it is dedicated to describe HS phenomenon that is found in the selected short story, depending on an eclectic model. Regarding the quantitative analysis, the researchers have used SPSS 23 program to determine the frequencies and percentages of the strategies that are intended to be measured. The study has concluded that HS has multiple dimensions that are difficult to interpret outside the context of speech. It can be conveyed by many strategies, both explicit and covert. Further, the simplest form of HS involves an insult in addition to other functions, such as disapproval and humiliation.

The role of folklore within the worldview and creative individuality of the Crimean Tatar children's writers

The study of interrelation between folklore and literature is one of the most relevant trends in literary studies. Folk poetic symbols as the genetic memory of the nation infiltrate consciousness not only as artistic material, but also as a emotions that awaken the writer’s imagination, giving rise to various associations. The subject of this research is the creative activity of folklore is in the works of the Crimean Tatar children's writers. Examination of the folklore-mythological context, determination of the peculiarities of transformation of folklore motifs in a literary reveals the creative laboratory, allowing determining the specificities of personal reflection of the writer, as well as tracing the psychological patterns of the creative process, and the evolution of artistic thinking overall. The scientific novelty is defined by the absence within Russian literary studies of monographic and significant critical works on determination of the folklore-mythological context, transformation, functionality, and interpretation of folklore elements in works of the writers. The conclusion is made that folklore as part of the culture of a particular nation, is an organic element of the artistic world of the Crimean Tatar writers, such as E. Amit and T. Khalilov. The novel by E. Amit presents the new comprehension of myths, paroemias, and legends. An example of interaction of the mythological views and modern perspective in the novel “Last Chance” is the folk legend on the “happy and unhappy stars”. It also encompasses such ancient forms of folklore as cursing and benevolence, as well as the elements that take roots in the ancient taboos, the period of totemism. In the psychological prose by T. Khalilov, an important role is played by the symbolism of birds and plants. The ancient legend of the winged horse Duldul organically intertwines with the author's creative idea without losing its specificity.

БАШТАЛГЫЧ КЛАССТАРДА БАЛДАР ЖАЗУУЧУЛАРЫНЫН ЧЫГАРМАЛАРЫН ЭТНОПЕДАГОГИКАЛЫК НЕГИЗДЕ ОКУТУУНУН МАТЕРИАЛДАРЫ

This scientific article is devoted to the study of scientific and theoretical literature in 3-4 grades of Kyrgyz schools, a collection of best practices, about methods of conducting scientific research by the method of analysis and synthesis, a pedagogical experiment. The textbooks "Literary Reading" analyzed the presentation of the works of children's writers. It should also be noted that a number of criteria are required to analyze the works of the curriculum and grade 3 textbooks. The textbook for 3rd. grades "Literary reading" (authors A. Toktomatov and B. Subanova) analyzes the presentation of the works of children's writers, and also shows the topics according to which literary texts are divided.

3- КЛАССТА БАЛДАР ЖАЗУУЧУЛАРЫНЫН ЧЫГАРМАЛАРЫН ЭЛДИК ПЕДАГОГИКА МЕНЕН БАЙЛАНЫШТУУ ОКУП-ҮЙРӨНҮҮНҮН ЖОЛДОРУ ЖАНА ЫКМАЛАРЫ

The article examines the diversity of the works of 3rd grade children's writers, their role and significance in the upbringing of children, the absence of special pedagogical ideas in the process of teaching texts, traditions, customs, ethnography of the Kyrgyz people, national mentality and much more. Psychology ideas should arise from the edge only in the learning process. At the beginning of this training, we will talk about the methods by which the ethno- pedagogical knowledge and experience of people found in the work will be available to children at the highest level. In addition to the textbook, the information provided to the students is presented, the methods used in the lesson are shown to deepen the understanding of the text.

Приемы обогащения словарного запаса учащихся при изучении сказок на уроках литературного чтения

The main task of a modern teacher is using new pedagogical technologies to teach primary school students to enrich their vocabulary. The article talks about the importance in the era of globalization of works written for children. The works of Kyrgyz children's writers are rich in ideas of folk pedagogy.

КЫРГЫЗ БАЛДАР АДАБИЯТЫНЫН ЭТНОПЕДАГОГИКАЛЫК МАЗМУНУ

In the works of children's poets, ideas of a deep understanding of the worldview, training, education and development are laid. Children's literature is part of the general literature. Children's writers are age-sensitive authors In children's poems, it is always relevant to talk about the people's pedagogical meaning and content. It is not only children's literature, but also literature that finds the language and soul of children matching to their psychology. From the very beginning, its goal was to educate children, introduce them to the environment, the world in which they live, and teach them life skills. Of these, the folk-pedagogical character of children's literature is especially appreciated. This scientific article examines the educational functions of works written for children, which are our future, and their significance in modern conditions.