David Rudd

Reading the Child in Children's Literature (eBook, PDF)

An Heretical Approach

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Rudd explores and challenges the critical representation of the child in children's literature, looking at the child's positioning from a psychoanalytically informed perspective. He shows students how to work productively with theory, combining conceptual analysis with close-textual readings of key texts in a sophisticated yet readable manner.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137322364
• Artikelnr.: 43456859

Autorenporträt

David Rudd is Professor of Children's Literature at the University of Bolton, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- Note on the Text.- Introduction: An Energetics of Children's Literature.- PART I: THE IMAGINARY.- 1. Many Happy Returns: To Freud, to Rose, the Child and its Literature.- 2. Peter Pan and the Riddle of Existence.- PART II: THE SYMBOLIC.- 3. Holes and Pores: Slipping Between the Cracks of Social Criticism.- 4. Hiding in the Light: Perry Nodelman and the Hidden Adult.- PART III: THE REAL.- 5. Home Sweet Home and the Uncanny: Freud, Alice and the Curious Child.- PART IV: RSI.- 6. Fantasy and Realism Contained: From Fortunatus' Cap to the Mobius Strip.- 7. The Children's Book Not Suitable for Children?.- Coda.- Notes.- Glossary.- Bibliography.- Index.