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- Title
Rhythm and Musicality in Baby Books.
- Authors
Boulaire, Cécile
- Abstract
Reading aloud a picturebook to a baby is an auditory experience, mainly melodic and rhythmic, which unfolds over time. The psychiatrist Daniel Stern speaks in this respect of a "pre-narrative envelope" (Stern 1992). This article proposes to reflect on picturebooks in terms of rhythm, and to identify a typology of picturebooks according to the type of rhythmic experience they offer to the baby. The article will be illustrated by testimonies taken from concrete experience of reading aloud to babies in in two hospital departments: a neonatal unit for premature babies and perinatal psychiatric unit. It aims to link this question of the rhythm of the reading aloud experience to literary theory; in particular to Deleuze's and Meschonnic's theories of rhythm.
- Subjects
BABY books; RHYTHM; ORAL reading; PICTURE books for children; NEONATAL intensive care; LITERARY theory; STERN, Daniel N., 1934-2012
- Publication
Children's Literature in Education, 2023, Vol 54, Issue 3, p312
- ISSN
0045-6713
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10583-023-09528-w