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Animality and Children's Literature and Film (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)
Amy Ratelle
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Description for Animality and Children's Literature and Film (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)
Hardcover. Examining culturally significant works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, Animality and Children's Literature and Film argues that Western philosophy's objective to establish a notion of an exclusively human subjectivity is continually countered in the very texts that ostensibly work to this end. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 171 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 143 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
Examining culturally significant works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, Animality and Children's Literature and Film argues that Western philosophy's objective to establish a notion of an exclusively human subjectivity is continually countered in the very texts that ostensibly work to this end.
Examining culturally significant works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, Animality and Children's Literature and Film argues that Western philosophy's objective to establish a notion of an exclusively human subjectivity is continually countered in the very texts that ostensibly work to this end.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
Number of Pages
171
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137373151
SKU
V9781137373151
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Ref
99-15
About Amy Ratelle
Amy Ratelle is currently the Research Coordinator for the Semaphore Research Cluster on Mobile and Pervasive Computing, at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is also a Co-Investigator at Ryerson University's Children's Literature Archive. She has degrees in Film Studies from Ryerson University (BFA), and Carleton University (MA).
Reviews for Animality and Children's Literature and Film (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)
“Ratelle’s book is the first comprehensive study of animals and the ways in which their narrative construction can offer revealing insights into human life and society. … A significant achievement of Animality and Children’s Literature and Film is that it sheds much-needed light on a topic that has so far evaded critical attention and will hopefully pave the way for ... Read more