Philosophy in children's literature

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    • Costello, Peter R.

書誌事項

Philosophy in children's literature

edited by Peter R. Costello

Lexington Books, c2012

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book allows philosophers, literary theorists, and education specialists to come together to offer a series of readings on works of children's literature. Each of their readings is focused on pairing a particular, popular picture book or a chapter book with philosophical texts or themes. The book has three sections-the first, on picturebooks; the second, on chapter books; and the third, on two sets of paired readings of two very popular picturebooks. By means of its three sections, the book sets forth as its goal to show how philosophy can be helpful in reappraising books aimed at children from early childhood on. Particularly in the third section, the book emphasizes how philosophy can help to multiply the type of interpretative stances that are possible when readers listen again to what they thought they knew so well. The kinds of questions this book raises are the following: How are children's books already anticipating or articulating philosophical problems and discussions? How does children's literature work by means of philosophical puzzles or language games? What do children's books reveal about the existential situation the child reader faces? In posing and answering these kinds of questions, the readings within the book thus intersect with recent, developing scholarship in children's literature studies as well as in the psychology and philosophy of childhood.

目次

Part I. Picturebooks Chapter 1: Heidegger, Winnicott, and The Velveteen Rabbit: Anxiety, Toys, and the Drama of Metaphysics Kirsten Jacobson Chapter 2: Slave Morality in The Rainbow Fish Claudia Mills Chapter 3: Absolutely Positively Feeling that Way and More: Paradoxes of Fiction and Judith Viorst's Alexander stories Dina Mendonca Chapter 4: Are You My Mother? Finding the Self in (M)others Licia Carlson Chapter 5: Horton Hears Badiou!: Ethics and an Understanding of Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! Carl F. Miller Chapter 6: Mapping Chris Van Allsburg's The Mysteries of Harris Burdick Kelly Jones Chapter 7: Silverstein's Missing Pieces: Lessons in Love and Incompleteness Matthew F. Pierlott Chapter 8: Is Arthur's Anger Reasonable? Karin Murris Chapter 9: Gift-Giving, Waiting, and Walking-The (Non-)Reciprocal, (Im-)Possible Apprenticeship of Frog and Toad Peter Costello Part II. Chapter Books Chapter 10: Word Play, Language-Games, and Unfair Labels in Beverly Cleary's Ramona the Pest Aaron A. Schiller and Denise H. B. Schiller Chapter 11: The things that are not among the things there are to do: Harriet the Spy and Maurice Blanchot's Passivity Oona Eisenstadt Chapter 12: Intelligence and Utopia in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Sarah O'Brien Conly Chapter 13: The Cricket in Times Square: Crickets, Compassion, and the Good Life Court Lewis Chapter 14: Pollyanna, Moral Sainthood, and Childhood Ideals Claire M. Brown Part III. Multiple Avenues of Criticism Chapter 15: The Giving Tree and Environmental Philosophy: Listening to Deep Ecology, Feminism and Trees Ellen Miller Chapter 16: The Giving Tree, Women, and the Great Society Milena Radeva Chapter 17: King of the Wild Things: Children and the Passionate Attachments of the Anthropological Machine Tyson E. Lewis Chapter 18: Lovingly Impolite Lindsay Lerman

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