Stories and society : children's literature in its social context / edited by Dennis Butts.
Contributor(s): Butts, Dennis
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BookSeries: Insights.Publisher: London : MacMillan, 1992Description: xvi, 143 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0333522478 ; 033352246X .Subject(s): Children's stories, English -- History and criticism | Children's stories, American -- History and criticism | Literature and society -- Great Britain | Literature and society -- United States | Children's stories -- Social aspects | Social problems in literatureDDC classification: 823.0099282 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 823.0099282 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00085515 | ||
| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 823.0099282 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00085516 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Children's literature is increasingly exposed to critical debate in England and America. There are indeed a number of histories and surveys of children's literature, but few works exist which discuss the contexts, ideologies and narrative structures of children's stories in a serious and detailed manner, or examine particular case-histories to see how the different forces interact. This is what this collection of essays attempts to do. The topics range from Little Women to Winnie the Pooh and from story forms such as 'The Adventure Story' to 'Fantasy'.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-135) and index.
The School Story / Jeffrey Richards -- Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War: Paranoia and Paradox / Perry Nodelman -- Home and Family: English and American Ideals in the Nineteenth Century / Gillian Avery -- 'The most beautiful things in all the world'? Families in Little Women / Elizabeth Lennox Keyser -- The Adventure Story / Dennis Butts -- Social Class and Educational Adventures: Jan Needle and the Biography of a Value / Fred Inglis -- Fantasy / C. W. Sullivan III -- Winnie-the-Pooh and Domestic Fantasy / Peter Hunt -- The Dorothys of Oz: A Heroine's Unmaking / Mark I. West.