Talking Animals in Children's Fiction
Subtitle: A Critical Study
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Mar 11, 2015
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780786478781
Description: "Talking-animal tales have conveyed anticruelty messages since the 18th-century beginnings of children's literature. Beginning with the ideas of literary theorist Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, this book examines ways in which animal characters gain an aura of authority through using language and then participate in reversals of power"--
Notes: Source title: Talking Animals in Children's Fiction: A Critical Study