Pinocchio Goes Postmodern
Subtitle: Perils of a Puppet in the United States (Children's Literature and Culture (Routledge (Firm)), 20,)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780815338963
Subjects: Children's literature studies: general; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; 20th century; Children's Literature - General; Avventure di Pinocchio; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Italian; Literature: Classics; Collodi, Carlo,; Literary Criticism & Collections / Children's Literature; United States; Adaptations; 1826-1890; 1826-1890.; Books and reading; Children; Translations into English
First sentence: Whenever I teach Pinocchio or The Wizard of Oz, students tell me that they have a very hard time getting past the images and icons of the film versions from which most of them first learned of these stories.