Poetological and value variations of two genres of contemporary poetry for children: instructive poetry and nonfiction poetry (and their didactic use) Cover Image

Poetologické a hodnotové variácie dvoch žánrov súčasnej poézie pre deti: inštruktívna poézia a poézia faktu (a ich didaktické využitie)
Poetological and value variations of two genres of contemporary poetry for children: instructive poetry and nonfiction poetry (and their didactic use)

Author(s): Dávid Dziak
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Education, Poetry, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Ostravská univerzita
Keywords: contemporary poetry for children; instructive poetry for children; nonfiction poetry for children; child recipient; didactics of literary education

Summary/Abstract: Based on the latest balance evaluations of poetry for children and youth, it can be concluded that the number of books of instructive poetry and nonfiction poetry for children is currently increasing. These genre variants, in our opinion, reflect the needs of contemporary society, i.e. to raise and educate the current generation in an information-saturated world (which is fulfilled by poetry of fact or nonfiction poetry) with questionable moral models (which is fulfilled by instructive poetry). This resulted in a research gap, namely to characterize instructive and nonfiction poetry for children and their poetological and value variations. The research method is qualitative content analysis, interpretation and evaluation of selected literary works. The author of instructive poetry deliberately works with a formative function in order to shape the recipient’s personality, and the author of nonfiction poetry deliberately works with an informative function in order to change the knowledge of the recipient. At the end of the study, we also present specific didactic activities for the mentioned genre variants and a table summarizing the common and different features of instructive poetry and nonfiction poetry for children.

  • Issue Year: 14/2024
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 18-32
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Slovak
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