Stories and Society: Children’s Literature in its Social Context

Stories and Society: Children’s Literature in its Social Context
ISBN-10
1349221112
ISBN-13
9781349221110
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
143
Language
English
Published
1992-07-01
Publisher
Springer
Author
Dennis Butts

Description

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'.

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