Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 17، number In Volume 11، February 2025 ، issue Number 105

Conceptualization and Territory-Research of Comparative Children’s and Young Adult Literature (In the shadow of Interdisciplinary Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Comparative Literature)

Sara Zabihi , Mohammad Ali Khazaneh (Author in Charge), Reza Cheraghi

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Before receiving the independent nature in the academic and scientific context, Children’s and Young Adult Literature was a Defeated discourse in front of the literature that faces adult audiences. Adults refuse the possibility and acceptance of literature specific to children as an independent knowledge and they consider adult literature to be dominant over Children’s and Young Adult Literature. the exploration of new angles of this field became prominent with transition of changes and transformations to the independence of knowledg. Children’s and Young Adult Literature with its special audience-study, in Interdisciplinary relationship with comparative literature, makes Comparative Children’s and Young Adult Literature. The newness of this field in the global arena shows the lack of resources and the necessity of theoretical research. This research deals with the condition of this field and its territory.

METHODOLOGY: The Comparative Children’s and Young Adult Literature, in various theoretical topics that lead to the formation of the framework and understanding of this knowledge, has a Interdisciplinary and Transtextual relationship with comparative literature, it can be studied in independent researches. An interdisciplinary approach and intertextual and comparative analysis with a descriptive method of content analysis and analysis of theoretical sources is considered.

FINDINGS: In this study, the concept of Comparative Children’s and Young Adult Literature in the academic context of Iran, Interdisciplinary and the formulation of the Territoriy of Researchs of this field are built in the intertextual and comparative shadow of comparative literature and the proposed fields of O’Sullivan, to reduce the theoretical void of Conceptology, Problem-Creating and Territory-Research of this nascent field for future researches.

CONCLUSION: In another research, the researchers looked at the fixed, variable and semi-variable indexs of this knowledge to help the research in this field in Problem-Analysis and Problem-Creating. Considering the situation of the Comparative Children’s and Young Adult Literature in the university and its scope of research, it is important that researchers consider the special nature and scope of research in this field compared to the comparative literature of adults.

Keyword
Children’s and Young Adult Literature , Comparative literature , Comparative Children’s and Young Adult Literature , Interdisciplinary , Territoriy of Research.

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