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SUMMARY:The Language of Julia Donaldson: Rhetoric\, style and cognition - 
 Michael Burke \, Utrecht University 
DTSTART:20190523T160000Z
DTEND:20190523T173000Z
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CONTACT:Ann Waterman
DESCRIPTION:Julia Donaldson has been a highly successful children’s auth
 or over the past twenty-five years. She has published more than 100 books 
 and many of her works have been translated from English into other languag
 es. In 2011 she received an MBE for services to literature and she was the
  Children's Laureate from 2011-2013. She has received honorary degrees fro
 m Bristol University in 2011 and from Glasgow University in 2012. In addit
 ion to being a writer of children’s books\, Donaldson is also a playwrig
 ht and a performer. She has worked closely over the years on many of her s
 tories with children’s book illustrator Axel Scheffler. The number of bo
 oks they have sold together runs into the millions. A pertinent question t
 herefore that this study will address is just what it is that young listen
 ers (and perhaps readers) are drawn to in the stories of Julia Donaldson? 
 Is it just the plotlines\, the characters and the illustrations or might s
 omething else also play an important role\, for example\, the style\, the 
 rhythm and rhyme\, the narrative and the rhetorical arrangement in general
 . Moreover\, might the embodied cognition that underpins these literary an
 d linguistic phenomena\, triggered by both text and images - also tell us 
 something about what might draw young listeners (and perhaps readers) to t
 he works of Julia Donaldson? This question is what this study sets out to 
 investigate by means of rhetorical\, stylistic and cognitive poetic analys
 is.\n\nMichael Burke is Professor of Rhetoric at Utrecht University where 
 he is currently also the Dean of the Honour College. He also teaches modul
 es in classical rhetoric\, argumentation analysis\, literary stylistics an
 d cognitive poetics at University College Roosevelt in Middelburg\, a libe
 ral arts and sciences honours college of Utrecht University. His publicati
 ons include Literary Reading \n\n\n
LOCATION:MAB 104\, Mary Allan Building\, Homerton College\, Hills Road\, C
 ambridge CB2 8PQ
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