The Centre aims to carry out and promote theoretical and field research about topics that are representative of important problematic intersections, which Children’s Literature narrates, reveals and investigates.
- Research keywords
- Research directions
1. Research keywords
- Children’s Literature
- Storytelling
- Metaphor
- Imagery
- Hermeneutics
2. Research directions
- Children’s Literature. Writing for children. Authors. Stories. Figures. Genres. Languages. Codes. Books.
- Childhood, adolescence and youth representations. History of Childhood and of Children’s Literature. Literature.
- Invisibility of childhood and of Children’s Literature. Ambiguous visibilities.
- Theory and History of Children’s and Youth Publishing.
- Outdatedness and inexpressibility of childhood. Children’s alterity.
- What is not Children’s Literature. Control. Stereotype. Simplification.
- Complexity of narrations. Orality-Writing. Theatre. Cinema.
- Studies on imagery. Contexts and texts. Combinations. Incongruous correlations. Metaphors. Symbols. Icons. Themes. Recurrences.
- Visual (illustration, picturebook, silent book, narrative videogames, threshold products…).
- New forms of storytelling (media, cross-media, intertextuality, apps, ebooks, future of books, etc.).
- Reading. The pleasure of reading. Writing. The pleasure of writing. Storytelling. The pleasure of telling.
- Creativity education.