Giorgia Grilli

Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Mary Poppins that many people know of today--a stern, but sweet, loveable, and reassuring British nanny--is a far cry from the character created by Pamela Lyndon Travers in the 1930's. Instead, this is the Mary Poppins reinvented by Disney in the eponymous movie. This book sheds light on the original Mary Poppins, Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins is the only full-length study that covers all the Mary Poppins books, exposing just how subversive the pre-Disney Mary Poppins character truly was. Drawing important parallels between the character and the life of her creator, who worked as a governess herself, Grilli reveals the ways in which Mary Poppins came to unsettle the rigid and rigorous rules of Victorian and Edwardian society that most governesses embodied, taught, and passed on to their charges.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135868017
• Artikelnr.: 39909700

Autorenporträt

Giorgia Grilli teaches children's literature at the University of Bologna. She has published four books on children's literature in Italian.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Neil Gaiman Preface 1. The Strangely Familiar Mary Poppins
The Mary Poppins Books
The Narrative Structure
Mary Poppins' Ambiguity
The Wonderful Real World 2. Pamela Lyndon Travers 3. Thematic Continuity of Mary Poppins
Liminal Figures and the Threshold
The Shaman
The Dandy
The Trickster
Dyonisus and the Bacchae
Liberated Bodies: The Dance
Italo Calvino and the Concept of Lightness
The Primitive Vision of the World: The Maternal Right
A Child
Like Vision of the World: The Pre
oedipal Phase
The Path of Desire
Mary Poppins and Husserl: Intentional Consciousness 4. The Governess at the Door
The Governess As Institution
The Advent of the Governess: a) The Law of Order (The Unspoiled Children) b) The Threat of Disorder (The Stolen Children)
The Governess and the Mother: Aspects of Victorian
Edwardian Sexuality
Manners
Teratology and the Governess
The Governess as Bulwark of Bourgeios Values
The Governess as Threshold Figure
Inevitable Contradictions
Fortunate Contradictions Endnotes Bibliography Index