Children's Play in Literature
Investigating the Strengths and the Subversions of the Playing Child
Herausgeber: Kelley, Joyce E
Children's Play in Literature
Investigating the Strengths and the Subversions of the Playing Child
Herausgeber: Kelley, Joyce E
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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.
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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.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: CRC Press
- Seitenzahl: 288
- Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2020
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
- Gewicht: 386g
- ISBN-13: 9780367666156
- ISBN-10: 0367666154
- Artikelnr.: 60007514
- Verlag: CRC Press
- Seitenzahl: 288
- Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2020
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
- Gewicht: 386g
- ISBN-13: 9780367666156
- ISBN-10: 0367666154
- Artikelnr.: 60007514
Joyce E. Kelley received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. She is currently an Associate Professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery where she received a distinguished teaching award in 2013. She has published articles in The Journal of Narrative Theory, Children's Literature, Victorians, The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts, and Politics, Identity, Mobility in Travel Writing. Her monograph Excursions into Modernism: Women Writers, Travel, and the Body appeared from Ashgate in 2015.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Permissions
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Caution-Children at Play: Investigations of Children's Play in Theory and
Literature (Joyce E. Kelley)
1 "Fits of Vulgar Joy": Spontaneous Play in Book 1 of Wordworth's The
Prelude (1805) (Alison W. Powell)
2 Playing at Work and Working at Play in Mark Twain's Writings (Alan
Gribben and Sarah Fredericks)
3 "Mammy, can't you tell us sump'n' to play?": Children's Play as the Locus
for Imaginative Imitation and Cultural Exchange in the Plantation Novels of
Louise Clarke Pyrnelle (Joyce E. Kelley)
4 Words with Kids at Play: Sculpting Truth and Forging Childhood Friendship
in Henry James's What Maisie Knew and Elizabeth Bowen's The House in Paris
(Jericho Williams)
5 Idylls of Play: L. M. Montgomery's Child-Worlds (Caroline E. Jones)
6 Katherine Mansfield's Children at Play (Janka Kascakova)
7 The Buttons of the World are Round: Gertrude Stein's Toys (Michael Opest)
8 Playing Pioneer: Childhood, Artistry, and Play in the Little House
Series (Anna Lockhart)
9 "I'm ready to play now, you guys!": J. D. Salinger, Steven Spielberg, and
the Healing Power of Children's Play (Andy Clinton)
10 Free Play and the Prescriptive Endgames of Orson Scott Card (Tim Bryant)
11 Children's Play and Mental Illness in Children's Literature and Film
(Ian Wojcik-Andrews)
12 "The trampoline of letters and words": Juvenile Linguistic Play in the
Memoirs of Binyavanga Wainaina and Shailja Patel (Dorothy Wolfe
Giannakouros)
Notes on Contributors
Index
List of Figures
Permissions
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Caution-Children at Play: Investigations of Children's Play in Theory and
Literature (Joyce E. Kelley)
1 "Fits of Vulgar Joy": Spontaneous Play in Book 1 of Wordworth's The
Prelude (1805) (Alison W. Powell)
2 Playing at Work and Working at Play in Mark Twain's Writings (Alan
Gribben and Sarah Fredericks)
3 "Mammy, can't you tell us sump'n' to play?": Children's Play as the Locus
for Imaginative Imitation and Cultural Exchange in the Plantation Novels of
Louise Clarke Pyrnelle (Joyce E. Kelley)
4 Words with Kids at Play: Sculpting Truth and Forging Childhood Friendship
in Henry James's What Maisie Knew and Elizabeth Bowen's The House in Paris
(Jericho Williams)
5 Idylls of Play: L. M. Montgomery's Child-Worlds (Caroline E. Jones)
6 Katherine Mansfield's Children at Play (Janka Kascakova)
7 The Buttons of the World are Round: Gertrude Stein's Toys (Michael Opest)
8 Playing Pioneer: Childhood, Artistry, and Play in the Little House
Series (Anna Lockhart)
9 "I'm ready to play now, you guys!": J. D. Salinger, Steven Spielberg, and
the Healing Power of Children's Play (Andy Clinton)
10 Free Play and the Prescriptive Endgames of Orson Scott Card (Tim Bryant)
11 Children's Play and Mental Illness in Children's Literature and Film
(Ian Wojcik-Andrews)
12 "The trampoline of letters and words": Juvenile Linguistic Play in the
Memoirs of Binyavanga Wainaina and Shailja Patel (Dorothy Wolfe
Giannakouros)
Notes on Contributors
Index
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Permissions
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Caution-Children at Play: Investigations of Children's Play in Theory and
Literature (Joyce E. Kelley)
1 "Fits of Vulgar Joy": Spontaneous Play in Book 1 of Wordworth's The
Prelude (1805) (Alison W. Powell)
2 Playing at Work and Working at Play in Mark Twain's Writings (Alan
Gribben and Sarah Fredericks)
3 "Mammy, can't you tell us sump'n' to play?": Children's Play as the Locus
for Imaginative Imitation and Cultural Exchange in the Plantation Novels of
Louise Clarke Pyrnelle (Joyce E. Kelley)
4 Words with Kids at Play: Sculpting Truth and Forging Childhood Friendship
in Henry James's What Maisie Knew and Elizabeth Bowen's The House in Paris
(Jericho Williams)
5 Idylls of Play: L. M. Montgomery's Child-Worlds (Caroline E. Jones)
6 Katherine Mansfield's Children at Play (Janka Kascakova)
7 The Buttons of the World are Round: Gertrude Stein's Toys (Michael Opest)
8 Playing Pioneer: Childhood, Artistry, and Play in the Little House
Series (Anna Lockhart)
9 "I'm ready to play now, you guys!": J. D. Salinger, Steven Spielberg, and
the Healing Power of Children's Play (Andy Clinton)
10 Free Play and the Prescriptive Endgames of Orson Scott Card (Tim Bryant)
11 Children's Play and Mental Illness in Children's Literature and Film
(Ian Wojcik-Andrews)
12 "The trampoline of letters and words": Juvenile Linguistic Play in the
Memoirs of Binyavanga Wainaina and Shailja Patel (Dorothy Wolfe
Giannakouros)
Notes on Contributors
Index
List of Figures
Permissions
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Caution-Children at Play: Investigations of Children's Play in Theory and
Literature (Joyce E. Kelley)
1 "Fits of Vulgar Joy": Spontaneous Play in Book 1 of Wordworth's The
Prelude (1805) (Alison W. Powell)
2 Playing at Work and Working at Play in Mark Twain's Writings (Alan
Gribben and Sarah Fredericks)
3 "Mammy, can't you tell us sump'n' to play?": Children's Play as the Locus
for Imaginative Imitation and Cultural Exchange in the Plantation Novels of
Louise Clarke Pyrnelle (Joyce E. Kelley)
4 Words with Kids at Play: Sculpting Truth and Forging Childhood Friendship
in Henry James's What Maisie Knew and Elizabeth Bowen's The House in Paris
(Jericho Williams)
5 Idylls of Play: L. M. Montgomery's Child-Worlds (Caroline E. Jones)
6 Katherine Mansfield's Children at Play (Janka Kascakova)
7 The Buttons of the World are Round: Gertrude Stein's Toys (Michael Opest)
8 Playing Pioneer: Childhood, Artistry, and Play in the Little House
Series (Anna Lockhart)
9 "I'm ready to play now, you guys!": J. D. Salinger, Steven Spielberg, and
the Healing Power of Children's Play (Andy Clinton)
10 Free Play and the Prescriptive Endgames of Orson Scott Card (Tim Bryant)
11 Children's Play and Mental Illness in Children's Literature and Film
(Ian Wojcik-Andrews)
12 "The trampoline of letters and words": Juvenile Linguistic Play in the
Memoirs of Binyavanga Wainaina and Shailja Patel (Dorothy Wolfe
Giannakouros)
Notes on Contributors
Index