Format:
220 Seiten
ISBN:
9781496834119
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9781496834102
Series Statement:
Children's Literature Association series
Content:
Introduction / Jennifer Harrison -- How Pooh sticks...and comes unstuck: Derrida in the Hundred Acre Wood / David Rudd -- Winnie: troubling the idealization of the bear as childhood innocent / Donna Varga -- Always playing: the spectral nostalgia of cinematic Pooh / Zoe Jaques -- Latecomers to the Hundred Acre Wood: the tension between nostalgia and updating in Return to the Hundred Acre Wood and The Best Bear in All the World / Niall Nance-Carroll -- The curious disappearance of Christopher Robin: a new understanding of narratives in The Many Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh in Hong Kong Disneyland / Tsang Chun Ngai, Jonathan -- Bringing Winnie home: The World of Pooh in a Canadian context / Megan De Roover -- Reading Winnie-the-Pooh in Croatian primary schools / Nada Kujundžić and Ivana Milković -- Brains and fluff: classification, colonialism, and childhood in A. A. Milne's Pooh books / Sarah E. Jackson -- Seeing past cuteness: searching for the posthuman in Milne's Pooh books / Perry Nodelman -- "There's always Pooh and me": the reality of Edward Bear in a posthuman world / Tim Wadham -- Pooh, poohing, and other verbal time bombs / Nicholas Tucker.
Content:
"Contributions by Megan De Roover, Jennifer Harrison, Sarah Jackson, Zoe Jaques, Nada Kujundžić, Ivana Milković, Niall Nance-Carroll, Perry Nodelman, David Rudd, Jonathan Chun Ngai Tsang, Nicholas Tucker, Donna Varga, and Tim Wadham One hundred years ago, disparate events culminated in one of the most momentous happenings in the history of children's literature. Christopher Robin Milne was born to A. A. Milne and his wife; Edward Bear, a lovable stuffed toy, arrived on the market; and a living, young bear named Winnie settled in at the London Zoo. The collaboration originally begun by the Milnes, the Shepards, Winnie herself, and the many toys and personalities who fed into the Pooh legend continued to evolve throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to become a global phenomenon. Yet even a brief examination of this sensation reveals that Pooh and his adventures were from the onset marked by a rich complexity behind a seeming simplicity and innocence. This volume, after a decades-long lull in concentrated Pooh scholarship, seeks to highlight the plurality of perspectives, modes, and interpretations these tales afford, especially after the Disney Corporation scooped its paws into the honeypot in the 1950s. Positioning Pooh: Edward Bear after One Hundred Years argues the doings of Pooh remain relevant for readers in a posthuman, information-centric, media-saturated, globalized age. Pooh's forays destabilize social certainties on all levels-linguistic, ontological, legal, narrative, political, and so on. Through essays that focus on geography, language, narrative, characterization, history, politics, economics, and a host of other social and cultural phenomena, contributors to this volume explore how the stories open up discourses about identity, ethics, social relations, and notions of belonging. This first volume to offer multiple perspectives from multiple authors on the Winnie-the-Pooh books in a single collection focuses on and develops approaches that bring this classic of children's literature into the current era. Essays included not only are of relevance to scholars with an interest in Pooh, Milne, and the "golden age" of children's literature, but also showcase the development of children's literature scholarship in step with exciting modern developments in literary theory"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781496834126
Language:
English
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