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Publication series of the Research Centre for Children's and Young Adult Literature at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
The publication series of the Research Centre for Children's and Young Adult Literature at the University of Oldenburg, founded in 1999, aims to promote interdisciplinary research into children's and young adult literature "that examines aesthetic-literary, media, social, psychological and pedagogical phenomena". As Jens Thiele outlined in the first volume of the publication series, the series also serves to document the "research and teaching activities that arise in connection with the research centre".
The series is edited by Thomas Boyken
Publication series of the Research Centre for Children's and Youth Literature
Michael Ende's Dream Worlds Analyses and background information on the motif of the dream
Fiona Mirzai-Amirabadi
Publication series of the Research Centre for Children's and Young Adult Literature at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, 7
University of Oldenburg Press (UOLP), 2026
ISBN 978-3-8142-2428-2
Abstract
The dream as a key to hidden worlds - a central motif in the work of Michael Ende. This study is the first to examine the representation and function of the dream motif in Ende's fantastic stories. It examines the forms in which the dream appears and works out three central dream variants on the basis of stories such as The Neverending Story, The Dream Eater and Momo. From a narrative-theoretical perspective, it examines how dreams reveal characters' character traits, influence their actions and serve as windows to hidden worlds. At the same time, the work examines the extent to which traditional dream concepts are reflected in the depictions - from Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophical teachings to E. T. A. Hoffmann's stories and C. G. Jung's theory of archetypes. The study shows how Ende takes up and interweaves literary, philosophical and psychological traditions, which he studied throughout his life, in his dream texts. The study thus offers a new insight into Ende's work and provides valuable findings for (dream) research in children's and young adult literature.
A voyage into the depths - Space and psyche in Neal Shusterman's "Compass without North"
Adriana Acquaviti
Oldenburg Research Centre for Children's and Young Adult Literature, 6
BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg 2022
ISBN 978-3-8142-2403-9
Abstract
Spaces play a decisive role in children's and young adult literature. This applies not only to the spaces of the narrative plot, but also to the spaces imagined by the characters. The protagonists of numerous stories create imaginary places that symbolise and spatialise individual personality processes. It is not uncommon for the boundaries between narrated reality and fiction to become blurred - a phenomenon that is not only characteristic of fantasy, but also of the illness of schizophrenia. In the young adult novel Compass Without North, author Neal Shusterman links space and psyche by having the sick protagonist Caden imagine his psychiatric stay as a boat trip. Adriana Acquaviti interprets this fictional world from a psychoanalytical perspective in order to show similarities between literarisation processes and schizophrenic perception of space.
Under the spell of the present
Anne Schüler
Oldenburger Forschungsstelle für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, 5
BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg. 2013
ISBN 978-3-8142-2297-4
Abstract
Literarily constructed images of history and didactic positions in dealing with them are at the centre of Anne Schüler's research. Using the example of representations of adolescence, she shows how strongly these historical novels are "under the spell of the present", i.e. how clearly the literary historical narratives are permeated by contemporary, back-projected values.
Poetry lecture on children's and young adult literature
Ute Dettmar/Mareile Oetken (ed.)
Oldenburger Forschungsstelle für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, 4
BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg 2012
ISBN 978-3-8142-2260-8
Abstract
How do authors come to write children's and young adult literature, what do they associate with writing for children and young people, what topics and perspectives do they deal with and how does this fit in with the ideas that publishers, agents and readers have about children's and young adult literature? These and other questions are explored by the authors who are invited to the Carl von Ossietzky University for three lectures each year. This volume documents the lectures given by Lutz van Dijk (2009), Alexa Hennig von Lange (2010) and Andreas Steinhöfel (2011). The personal approaches and specific narrative styles of these very different authors vividly convey something of the current diversity of literature for children and young people.
Reading Texts – Looking at Pictures: Essays on the Reception of Picture Books
Mareile Oetken (ed.) *
* Oldenburg Research Centre for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, 3
, BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg 2005
ISBN 3-8142-0993-1
Abstract
With the series of lectures ‘Reading Texts – Seeing Images: Approaches to Children’s and Young Adult Literature’ in the winter semester of 2002/03, the Research Centre for Children’s and Young Adult Literature at Carl von Ossietzky University (Ol-FoKi) continued its programme of interdisciplinary lecture and discussion forums, which had been launched in the summer semester of 2000 with the series of lectures ‘Current Research Perspectives on Children’s and Young Adult Media’. The first series of lectures in 2000 focused primarily on the research activities of the centre’s members – academics from various disciplines: art and literary studies, migration studies, pedagogy and intercultural pedagogy, and subject-specific didactics, and their links with OlFoKi. The lectures are documented in the second volume of the series. The focus of the new lecture series is on the question of the conditions underpinning the dense network of relationships between current aesthetic offerings, the impact and perception of children’s and young adult literature. With this third volume of the series, the research centre presents both current academic research approaches and non-academic experiences relating to the reception of children’s and young adult literature.
Interdisciplinary Research into Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Jörg Steitz-Kallenbach (ed.) *
* Oldenburg Research Centre for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, 2
, BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg 2001
ISBN 3-8142-0783-1
Abstract
With *Interdisciplinary Research into Children’s and Young Adult Literature*, the Research Centre for Children’s and Young Adult Literature at the University of Oldenburg (OlFoKi) presents the second volume in its series. The volume brings together the papers from a series of lectures organised by the Research Centre during the summer semester of 2000 on current perspectives in children’s and young adult literature research, supplemented by two further essays. Together, these present an overall picture of interdisciplinary research into children’s and young adult literature, characterised by the following aspects: - children’s and young adult literature in literary socialisation, - the artistic potential of picture books, - children’s and young adult films, - new media, - interculturality in children’s and young adult books, - perspectives on educational work with children’s and young adult books, and so on.
Experiment picture book: Workshop on the artistic redefinition of children's book illustration; Conference proceedings
Jens Thiele (ed.)
Oldenburger Forschungsstelle für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, 1
BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg 2000
ISBN 3-8142-0661-4
Abstract
This conference volume is the first publication in a new series published by the Research Centre for Children's and Young Adult Literature at the University of Oldenburg (OLFOKI). It documents the results of a conference dedicated to the promotion of experimental illustration. Under the title "Experiment Picture Book", a critical examination of the artistic and economic conditions of illustration in the field of children's and youth literature took place in Oldenburg in November 1997.