Vol. 6 No. 2 (2014)

The main focus of the 6th volume of “Children’s Readings” is on the evaluation of children’s literature as a territory of conflicts of a different kind. The authors of the articles attempted to address the following questions: What was the nature of institutional conflicts at different stages of children’s literature development? Who are/were formal and informal participants of this process, and what is/was the nature of their conflicts? Several articles address the nature of interactions between traditional and innovative forms employed by children’s literature; the authors revisit such traditional binary oppositions as dream versus reality, love versus hatred, “us” versus “them”, and past versus present. Among the important issues tackled by this volume’s participants are the aesthetic shifts within multiple genres of children’s literature, innovations in critical vocabulary employed in children’s literary criticism today, and changing gender and plurality concepts within different narrative forms.