Sticks and Stones
The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 25 January 2002
- ISBN 9780415938808
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages228 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 420 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 Illustrations, color 0
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Short description:
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Have children ever really had a literature of their own? In Sticks and Stones , Jack Zipes explores children's literature, from the grissly moralism of Slovenly Peter to the hugely successful Harry Potter books, and argues that despite common assumptions about children's books, our investment in children is paradoxically curtailing their freedom and creativity. Sticks and Stones is a forthright and engaging book by someone who cares deeply about what and how children read.
"If [Zipes'] scholarship could be spread over several curricule vitae, the breadth and quality of it could certainly bring tenure to three or four scholars." -- Donald R. Hettinga
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 The Cultural Homogenization of American Children; Chapter 2 Do You Know What We Are Doing to Your Books?; Chapter 3 Why Children's Literature Does Not Exist; Chapter 4 The Value of Evaluating the Value of Children's Literature; Chapter 5 Wanda Gág's Americanization of the Grimms' Fairy Tales; Chapter 6 The Contamination of the Fairy Tale; Chapter 7 The Wisdom and Folly of Storytelling; Chapter 8 The Perverse Delight of Shockheaded Peter; Chapter 9 The Phenomenon of Harry Potter, or Why All the Talk?;
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