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1 online resource |
| Series |
Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 31 |
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Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 31.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction: The Root of It All; Theory of Literature and Life; On Culture; On Wildness; On Civilization; On Colonization; On Literature; On the Structure of the Book; 1 Epistemologies of Chaos and the Orderly Unknowledge of Literacy; I Read therefore I Am: a Biographical Perspective; Meeting Dunno and Friends; Into the Moominvalley; Winnie-ther-Pooh as Other; About the Authors; A Note on Illustrations; I Read Therefore I Am: A Sociological Perspective; Language as Grammar of Ordered Reality; Literacy as a Tool of Domestication |
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First there was Dunno, then there were Rosenhan and FoucaultSomalis and Swedes as Fiction and Reality of Winnie-the-Pooh's Immigration Policies; Taming Children's Inner Landscape and Other Wild Things; The Metanarrative of Literacy and Crime in the Hundred-Acre Wood; Wild Stories, Wild Justices in Moominland; On Cosmogonies in Science and Art; 2 Genealogical Narratives of Wilderness and Domestication: Identifying the Ontologies of Genesis and Genetics in Children's Literature; The Ontological Roots of Knowledge; Tiptoe Lightly among the Trees; On Monsters, Wilderness, and Love |
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Questions of Choice: Discerning the TruthPerils and Traps of Civilization; Constructing Identity; Honey Like Chocolate; A Town in the Forest; Negotiating the Frontiers in the Wilderness of Folklore and Science; Transformation and Recognition; Transformation and Kinship in Sunny City; Do Children Dream of Cyborg Love?; 3 In the End: Anthropological Narratives in Fiction and Life; The Lulling Whisperer; Anne's Choice; Not Everyone Opts to Join Alice and Go Down The White Rabbit Hole; Up and Down the Drain; Into Moominland; References; Index |
| Summary |
This study of children's literature as knowledge, culture, and social foundation bridges the gap between science and literature and examines the interconnectedness of fiction and reality as a two-way road. The book investigates how the civilized narrative orders experience by means of segregation, domestication, breeding, and extermination, arguing instead that the stories and narratives of wilderness project chaos and infinite possibilities for experiencing the world through a diverse community of life. AbdelRahim engages these narratives in a dialogue with each other and traces their express |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Children's literature -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Children's Literature.
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Children's literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135104603 |
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1135104603 |
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0203073649 |
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9780203073643 |
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