Kenneth B. Kidd

Theory for Beginners: Children's Literature as Critical Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

Theory for Beginners explores how philosophy and theory draw on children's literature while also coming to resemble such in their strategies for cultivating the child and/or the beginner. Topics include the Philosophy for Children (P4C) movement, graphic guides such as Freud for Beginners, and children's literature and/as queer theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780823289592
• ISBN-10: 0823289591
• Artikelnr.: 60142064

Autorenporträt

Kenneth B. Kidd is Professor of English at the University of Florida. He is the author of Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale and Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children's Literature. He is also co-editor (with Derritt Mason) of Queer as Camp: Essays on Summer, Style, and Sexuality (Fordham).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Children's Literature Otherwise 1
1. Philosophy for Children 25
2. Theory for Beginners 58
3. Literature for Minors 92
Acknowledgments 135
Notes 137
Works Cited 163
Index 185