| Description |
xviii, 234 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Children's literature and culture |
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Children's literature and culture.
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| Contents |
History as human relationship -- Freud, Shakespeare, and Hamlet as children's literature -- The Brothers Grimm, the black pedagogy, and the roots of fascist culture -- Victorian imperialism and the golden age of children's literature -- Walt Disney, ideological transposition, and the child -- Maurice Sendak and the detachment child -- The etiology of consumerism |
| Summary |
Tracing the historical roots of Western culture's stories of childhood, this book looks at those texts in which the child is subjugated to the adult. Going back 400 years, it looks at Hamlet, the Brothers Grimm and Walt Disney cartoons |
| Analysis |
Literary studies & criticism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-229) and index |
| Subject |
Children and adults.
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Children -- Social conditions.
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Parent and child.
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| LC no. |
00039338 |
| ISBN |
0415979668 |
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0815335245 |
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9780415979665 |
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9780815335245 |
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