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Theorising Oliver Jeffers' Picturebooks examines semiotic, affective, and metafictive storytelling in Oliver Jeffers' postmodern picturebooks from a multi-theoretical approach. This volume provides fresh insight into Jeffers' iconotextual narratives through textual and visual analysis, exploring how his multimodal texts construct childhood and evoke emotional resonances. The book deconstructs the postmodernity of these narratives, highlighting Jeffers' contemporary methods of storytelling through an exploration of the texts' metafictive and self-reflective elements. From How to Catch a Star (2004) to Where to Hide a Star (2024), this book journeys through the mindscapes of Jeffers' design and analyses the nuances of metafictive storytelling from a postmodern perspective.
Contents
1. From How to Catch a Star to Now
The importance of Oliver Jeffers as an Irish author in the picturebook canon
Oliver Jeffers' picturebook career... so far
A multi-theoretical approach to Oliver Jeffers' picturebooks
2. Theorising Visual Aesthetics
What is a picturebook?
Reading the Visual
3. Exploring Semiotics and Curiosities
Semiotic curiosities in "The Boy" series
Semiotics of child cognition in Stuck
Curious semiotics in "The Hueys" series
4. Affective Spaces and Mindscapes
Space, Place and Non-Place in The Heart and the Bottle
Affective (mis)Understandings and Cognitive Growth in This Moose Belongs to Me
Affective Semiotics in Jeffers' Picturebooks
5. Embodied Metafiction
Blurring Textual Boundaries
Playfulness as Form
Intertextuality, Interpictoriality, and Self-Referentiality
Postmodern Picturebooks and Metafictional Synergy
6. Pedagogical Perspectives
Pedagogical Approaches for using Picturebooks in Primary School Contexts
Exploring Thematic Content and Deep-Dialogic Reading through Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
Engaging with Multimodality and Aesthetic (Visual) Reading through The Great Paper Caper
Learning through Metafiction and Metacognition
Epilogue: Where to Next?
