Relentless Progress
The Reconfiguration of Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, and Storytelling
List Price: $34.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-99064-6
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 12/05/2008
- Pages: 208
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Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. The Reconfiguration of Children and Children’s Literature in the Culture Industry
2. Misreading Children and the Fate of the Book
3. Why Fantasy Matters Too Much
4. The Multicultural Contradictions of International Children’s Literature: Three Complaints and Three Wishes
5. What Makes a Repulsive Frog So Appealing: Applying Memetics to Folk and Fairy Tales
6. And Nobody Lived Happily Ever After: The Feminist Fairy Tale after Forty Years of Fighting for Survival
7. Storytelling as Spectacle in the Globalized World
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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