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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Kenneth B. KiddPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm ISBN: 9780816675821ISBN 10: 0816675821 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 22 November 2011 Audience: General/trade , Children/juvenile , Professional and scholarly , General , Children / Juvenile Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Reopening the Case of Peter Pan 1. Kids, Fairy Tales, and the Uses of Enchantment 2. Child Analysis, Play, and the Golden Age of Pooh 3. Three Case Histories: Alice, Peter Pan, and Oz 4. Maurice Sendak and Picturebook Psychology 5. “A Case History of Us All”: The Adolescent Novel before and after Salinger 6. T Is for Trauma: The Children’s Literature of Atrocity Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsThis canny and original study is far more searching, wide-ranging, and fun than its modest title suggests. Kenneth B. Kidd not only analyzes but somehow evokes for us the way the child and stories told about her drift through our dreams, literature, and culture, giving form to our finest aspirations and darkest nightmares. An essential, generous, deeply-informed book. --James Kincaid, University of Southern California <p> This canny and original study is far more searching, wide-ranging, and fun than its modest title suggests. Kenneth B. Kidd not only analyzes but somehow evokes for us the way the child and stories told about her drift through our dreams, literature, and culture, giving form to our finest aspirations and darkest nightmares. An essential, generous, deeply-informed book. --James Kincaid, University of Southern California Author InformationKenneth B. Kidd is associate professor of English and associate director of the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture at the University of Florida. He is the author of Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale (Minnesota, 2004). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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