Children's play in literature: investigating the strengths and the subversions of the playing child

While we owe much to twentieth and twenty-first century researchers' careful studies of children's linguistic and dramatic play, authors of literature, especially children's literature, have matched and even anticipated these researchers in revealing play's power--authors well aw...

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Weitere Verfasser: Kelley, Joyce E. (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Routledge 2019
Schriftenreihe:Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
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Zusammenfassung:While we owe much to twentieth and twenty-first century researchers' careful studies of children's linguistic and dramatic play, authors of literature, especially children's literature, have matched and even anticipated these researchers in revealing play's power--authors well aware of the way children use play to experiment with their position in the world. This volume explores the work of authors of literature as well as film, both those who write for children and those who use children as their central characters, who explore the empowering and subversive potentials of children at play. Play gives children imaginative agency over limited lives and allows for experimentation with established social roles; play's disruptive potential also may prove dangerous not only for children but for the society that restricts them. These collected essays by established and emerging scholars investigate children's play depicted in three centuries of writing, from Wordsworth's The Prelude to Shailja Patel's Migritude, considering a variety of authors from various countries, including Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Gertrude Stein, Katherine Mansfield, Henry James, Louise Clarke Pyrnelle, Elizabeth Bowen, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lucy Maud Montgomery, J.D. Salinger, Orson Scott Card, Binyavanga Wainaina, and Steven Speilberg
Beschreibung:1 online resource (271 pages)
ISBN:9781351334525
1351334522
9781351334518
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9780203702833
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