The Natural History of Make-Believe: A Guide to the Principal Works of Britain, Europe, and AmericaOxford University Press, 22/02/1996 - 400 páginas The Man in the Moon has dropped down to earth for a visit. Over the hedge, a rabbit in trousers is having a pipe with his evening paper. Elsewhere, Alice is passing through a looking glass, Dorothy riding a tornado to Oz, and Jack climbing a beanstalk to heaven. To enter the world of children's literature is to journey to a realm where the miraculous and the mundane exist side by side, a world that is at once recognizable and real--and enchanted. Many books have probed the myths and meanings of children's stories, but Goldthwaite's Natural History is the first exclusively to survey the magic that lies at the heart of the literature. From the dish that ran away with the spoon to the antics of Brer Rabbit and Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat, Goldthwaite celebrates the craft, the invention, and the inspired silliness that fix these tales in our minds from childhood and leave us in a state of wondering to know how these things can be. Covering the three centuries from the fairy tales of Charles Perrault to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, he gathers together all the major imaginative works of America, Britain, and Europe to show how the nursery rhyme, the fairy tale, and the beast fable have evolved into modern nonsense verse and fantasy. Throughout, he sheds important new light on such stock characters as the fool and the fairy godmother and on the sources of authors as diverse as Carlo Collodi, Lewis Carroll, and Beatrix Potter. His bold claims will inspire some readers and outrage others. He hails Pinocchio, for example, as the greatest of all children's books, but he views C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia as a parable that is not only murderously misogynistic, but deeply blasphemous as well. Fresh, incisive, and utterly original, this rich literary history will be required reading for anyone who cares about children's books and their enduring influence on how we come to see the world. |
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2 A Faculty for the Muses I | 45 |
3 A Tutor Recants | 74 |
4 A Faculty for the Muses II | 170 |
5 A Faculty for the Muses III | 201 |
6 The Black Rabbit | 251 |
7 Sis Beatrix | 287 |
8 The Green Pastures | 318 |
Wisdom Justified of All Her Children | 351 |
Notes | 361 |
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Adventures Alice Liddell Alice's Andersen appears beast fable Beatrix Potter become Brer Fox Brer Rabbit Brer Wolf C. S. Lewis called century character Cheshire Cat child children's books children's literature children's story Christian Collodi comic course Dodgson dream Duchess fairy tale famous fantasy garden girls godmother happen Harris hero imagination Jabberwocky King Kingsley Kingsley's Kipling Knave Lear Lewis Carroll Liddell Little Black Sambo little boy Little Red Riding live look Looking-Glass MacDonald make-believe mind Miss Meadows Mother Goose muse Narnia narrative never night nonsense North Wind nursery rhyme parable perhaps Perrault Peter Rabbit Pinocchio play Queen reader Red Riding Hood Sambo scene seems Snark Songs storyteller tell Tennyson thought Tolkien true turn tutor Uncle Remus verse voice Water Babies Wild Things woman wonder Wonderland writing
Passagens conhecidas
Página 4 - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: 25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer...
Página 2 - Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, .which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
Referências a este livro
Pinocchio Goes Postmodern: Perils of a Puppet in the United States Richard Wunderlich,Thomas J. Morrissey Pré-visualização limitada - 2002 |
Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language Janet Brennan Croft,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III Pré-visualização limitada - 2007 |