| Description |
xvii, 201 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Children's literature and culture ; v. 22 |
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Children's literature and culture ; 22
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| Contents |
Theoretical Introduction: The feminine in Children's Literature -- Lacan and the Subject -- The Speaking Subject: "other" and "Other" -- The Psycho-Dynamics of Text/Reader Relations -- Literary Transference -- The Textual Unconscious -- The feminine Fantastic -- Writing the Subject in Children's Literature: l'ecriture feminine -- Theoretical Introduction to the Chapter -- The Tricksters -- The feminine in Metafictional Mode -- Desire in Writing -- The feminine Fantastic -- The feminine Carnivalesque -- The Incest Taboo -- The Gaze -- The feminine Intertextual Space -- The Elemental feminine -- L'ecriture feminine -- The Other Side of Silence -- Language, Madness and The feminine -- Fictional Selves/Self as Fiction -- The-Name-of-The-Father -- The feminine and Abjection -- L'ecriture feminine -- Reading the Mother in Children's Literature: le parler femme -- Theoretical Introduction to the Chapter -- Pictures in the Dark -- Abjection and Return -- Women's Time -- Semiotizing the Symbolic -- Body Language -- The Tricksters and The Other Side of Silence -- Monstrous Mothers -- The Maternal feminine -- Dangerous Spaces -- Speaking the Body -- The Changeover -- The Looking Glass from the Other Side -- The feminine Imaginary and the Witch -- Discourse of le parler femme -- The feminine Postmodern Subject in Children's Literature -- Theoretical Introduction to the Chapter -- Memory -- The feminine Postmodern Landscapes -- Wolf -- Fragmented Subjectivity -- Cultural Nostalgia -- The Hyperreal |
| Summary |
This text aims to extend the range of critical engagement with children's fiction by exploring the feminine subject in paradigm texts by Margaret Mahy and Gillian Cross |
| Analysis |
Literary studies & criticism |
| Notes |
Foreword by series editor, Jack Zipes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-192) and index |
| Subject |
Children's literature -- History and criticism.
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Children -- Books and reading.
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Feminist literary criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Author |
Zipes, Jack, 1937-
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| LC no. |
2002024915 |
| ISBN |
0415929962 |
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9780415929967 |
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9780415654470 |
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0415654475 |
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