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Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults: Moving stories takes up key issues in affect studies while putting forward new approaches and ways of thinking about the intricate entanglements of emotion, affect, and story in relation to the functions, processes, and influences of texts designed for youth. Intro -- Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Introduction -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 1. Shades of feeling. Brightness, dramatic irony, and risk in A Perfect Day and Grandpa Green -- Introduction -- Universals and light -- Brightness on a need-to-know basis -- Brightness, emotion, and narrative mood -- Relative brightness -- Relative brightness and dramatic irony: Lane Smith's A Perfect Day -- Risk and relative brightness: Lane Smith's Grandpa Green -- Conclusion -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 2. The sublimity of darkness and its affective transmission and subduing in picturebooks -- Introduction: Darkness, affect, and the sublime -- Transmitting the sublime: The darkness of the universe -- Gothic darkness and the affective transmission of fear -- Darkness aestheticized through light colors, anthropomorphism, cuteness, adventure narratives, and humor -- Being brave and staying safe: Darkness in the context of risk, protection and agency -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 3. Tengo Miedo. Evolving representations of fear in Colombia -- Introduction -- Tengo Miedo, two versions -- Ivar Da Coll and Colombia's picturebook publishing industry -- Tengo Miedo (1989), a picturebook of innocent fears -- Tengo Miedo (2012), a reimagined picturebook -- Two picturebooks with the same name: An analysis -- Conclusion -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 4. Literalizing emotions in Disney and Pixar. Frozen and Inside Out challenge emotional hierarchies -- Introduction -- 'With a smile and a song': Disney's treatment of female emotion in early films -- Frozen: Challenging emotional interiority -- Inside out: Challenging 'bad' emotions.
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